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What a stunning looking build, outstanding work!

Impressive work, very nice details.

That's a beauty. Never take your work home with you... but you can take your home to work with you! Lol

Stunning engine detail, love the colour too.

Nice simple kit, one of my favourites. looking forward to seeing it progress. Somehow I had Chicago PD decals with mine but they were the mid 70's decals so wouldn't have looked right.

Awesome build, I loved this film.

Beautiful interior work, the engine looks great. Love the little details too, nice.

Ah, ok, that's neat! I'm honoured! Never thought any of my builds would be magazine worthy! Cheers, guys? Here's the kit. I remember going into it with little enthusiasm but it turned out to be a little hidden gem by AMT!

Stunning looking car, very nice work.

Very nice build, I love those hubcaps.

Uh? What's "Forum Finds"? I did indeed do a WIP on a '71 T-Bird and posted in Under Glass, but that's about it, I never wrote a full page spread! Was it entered into some sort of competition? Have I won something? Lol!

Beautiful, very nicely done. Love the sleeper look on this!

Probably a Savoy.

That's the idea! I'm hoping to use the 6 in a future curbside;)

That's what I was thinking, black would show every little flaw in my foil! I think you're right regarding the colour, it's called Ford Tonic Blue. Most of the cars that come up in images are late 90's early 2000's Ford Focus

Thanks, Steve. I just used 1000 grit until I started seeing spots of silver. I didn't rub all the way down, even 1000 grit will rip through foil, as soon I started to see silver I turned to a light cutting compound and then polish.

Thanks, Rusty. Yes, I almost started painting it like a framed car, I primed the inner fenders and firewall then realised it's a monocoque construction.

Started this a few days ago to practice my foil under paint method for the badge scripts. Turned out ok but still a long way to go before I get it right. I bought this kit last year after seeing the new release of the '64, they weren't available in the UK at the time but found this older release instead. Very nicely detailed kit and comes with two engines, a slant six and a 426 V-8. I'll be using the V-8 in this build. Colour is Tonic Blue metallic.

I just placed a square piece of foil over the script, pressed it in, then trimmed the foil some more to remove the excess. The paint will cover the outline of the foil edge. This crude sketch I did might explain it better than I can type it! Lol

I remember watching repeats of this series in the UK, I loved it. I think the cars they used were in house designs by the production team. The scale would have been like 1:8 or larger as you'd see the puppets move in the cars sometimes and the detail was pretty darn good. Here's a picture of Lady Penelope's Rolls Royce, it's huge! They might have used 1:25 scale models for static outside shots where the camera pans up to one of the office block windows, but for the action shots I'd say they were using much larger scale vehicles.

It's not too bad for my first effort, well, I did try fup on my '62 Electra a few months back but it was a disaster. It turned black and eventually rubbed it clean off! I know what not to do now at least. Loads of recommendations here I'll be trying, thanks guys. I just need to practice some more and find which tools and method I'm most comfortable with. The fenders not coming out too good on this one is I think because I primed first, then laid the foil down, then removed the foil and primer (as recommended due to the primer filling in the small crevices of the script) which lead to lightly wearing down the script from all the cleaning. The rear light panel is almost perfect, though my camera doesn't show it too well. Regarding the rear light panel, I foiled over bare styrene, primer was then laid and later carefully removed from script before three coats of paint. After a few days, I lightly rubbed the paint off using (an extremely small piece!) of 1000 grit and then polish. As Snake mentioned it could do with some more polishing, but I'm worried it'll start turning black if I rub the script any more. Still lots to learn and I'm pretty chuffed with the results, so definitely on the right track here!

I give the car about three coats of paint, I haven't put lacquer on as it'll polish up ok. The rear panel came out better than the front fenders which are pretty much unreadable, but they look far better than the blobs of Molotow I usually end up doing! After the paint had dried, and cured for at least a few days, I carefully rubbed over the script with 1000 grit and then polished over the whole fender with Autoglym polish.

Turned out looking excellent, despite the fit issues you had. Nicely done.

Very nice build. I like the body colour, and the interior detail is very cleanly done. Nice work.

Sounds like it's working fine. That silver disc is a flywheel which gives the wheels a bit of power by skimming the toy over the carpet a few times and just letting it go.