Quiet Eric

Got the fender to door gap tuned up pretty well. Bodywork on the front clip looks good. Added the seam lines on the top for the vinyl roof. Needs a little more work but might be in paint this weekend.

A little hard to photograph, but on the model is with, loose wheel is without. Realized the bumper would be a better example, picture added.

My first 3d printed kit, of course there will be some deviations.

It might not make them look aged, but I usually hit all kit supplied chrome pieces with a light coat of Tamiya Smoke. It gives them a deeper, more realistic look.

Looks great! Good color choice. I too recently got my first 3d printed model and am excited to see how it goes.

Great looking hot rod and you nailed it on the wheels.

Thanks for the info! I've been using Fusion 360 for a while and have plenty left to learn but this would be a good reason to do so.

Thank you for removing the bananas!

Got initial bodywork done on the front end using superglue as filler. Fit the headlight/grill assembly (they always fit horrible on this kit out of the box) and finished carving away the original hood scoop and filling in the front area, then added the base of the new scoop. Filled in the sides of the cowl and firewall, removed the molded in door handles, did some cleanup on the body and added trim for the vinyl top. The fender to door gap is going to need a lot more work. I also got the hinge adapted to the front clip and have it functional. First round of primer this morning. Gotta sort out the engine soon.

Very cool!! I built the Perat 3w years ago, but with steelies. I love that car so much. Very nice work on the Gary Meador Tudor.

I am fascinated with the idea of finding good enough pictures of a subject and sending them off to someone else to design the print. Looks like that worked out very well here. I love the subject matter and the commitment! I'm excited to see the finished product.

Thanks! Yeah...I cut the hood open on the provided scribe lines and didn't figure out how bad that was going to look until it was all done. But I figure that's how a kid would have built it when the kit first came out and I'm sure they still thought it was cool!

One of my favorite '57's, and my favorite version of that car! Nice build.

Currently (and hopefully for a long while) it's this '24 Maverick XLT EcoBoost lease return I picked up in February with about 7,600 miles on it. It's a pretty good little almost-truck as I like to call it. But prior to that I drove this XBox for a year and a half...I see they're pretty popular vehicles here! It was bought new by my grandparents and handed down to me. I ruined it with lowering springs and wheels/tires. It was a great car but I needed something with a bed.

Nailed it!

Turned out really well, and I love the style. Nice build!

I just finished an out-of-box build of the Revell '66 Malibu kit, but as soon as I started it I decided I wanted to build the same kinda thing, but with a '67 GTO. I got to work on it this morning. So far I've cut the nose off of the GTO, glued the hood shut, started shaving the factory scoop and began fitting the snorkel scoop. I trimmed the firewall and chassis from the Chevelle (both were much wider than the GTO) and fit them in place. I also trimmed some off the front of the floor/frame section so the rear wheels would line up with the quarter panels. I had to cheat a little with the front axle, placing it a little farther forward on the front springs to get those wheels centered in the fender. It's not quite "right" but I'm not shooting for accuracy. The wheels are Aoshima "American SS" and they are perfect for this with the wide front wheels. The next round of work will be filling in the cowl, bodyworking the nose, and fitting the Pontiac engine. Haven't decided if it'll have a tunnel ram or a supercharger. This will be getting side pipes like the Malibu too. It's going to be '67 Regimental Red with a black vinyl top.

I don't know if this should be under drag racing builds or not, but since it's really more of a street car, here it is. I've been in and out of building for the last few years but wanted to get the juices flowing again. I think this might have been the first model kit I ever built when I was a kid. I thought it would be fun to build it again with a little more attention to detail. Nothing fancy, everything out of the box. I did a little bodywork on the hood to blend in the scoop stuff. Didn't manage to get all of the scratches out though, oh well. Tamiya black over wet sanded primer with no clear. The decals gave me a lot of trouble even with microsol but it's good enough. Trim is done with Molotow though I think I need some fresh markers. I hit the kit chrome parts with Tamiya Smoke. I used Revell's chrome spray for the first time on the headers and sidepipes and I am IMPRESSED! Shot over Tamiya gloss black with no polishing in between. The tires are from the parts box, scuffed and hit with dull coat. The interior is too bright of a red but its what I had. I could have done better but think I did the kit justice in regards to its simplicity. Guess I forgot to paint the inside of the tailpipes but that's a quick job. I've got plans to do a '67 GTO in this same style using another of these kits to get there, that'll be fun! Thanks for looking.

Excellent build Ferby! You have nailed the look.

Early Chevy II/Novas aren't my favorite cars, but I knew the Mobius '65 gasser kit would be great to use for other buids. I wanted to do an Olds version and it took a while but I picked up a decent built '62. The last time I worked on this project was in '22 but I am planning to get back to it soon. The wheeelbase was pretty darn close. Took a little bit of work on the wheel tubs and I might have had to take some off the sides of the floor pan to fit between the rockers. I carved some of the Cutlass interior floor away around the transmission tunnel and it fit too. I thought about cutting the interior tub apart to use the side panels and seats but that is more work than I wanted. I will likely cut the stock seats out, flatten the floor there, and use some racing buckets instead. The hood was missing from the Cutlass, but the Nova hood is a pretty close match. It will take some filling on the back edge and front corners, but close enough for a racecar. The engine is a blown Olds 394 from I think a willys kit, but I can't remember exactly. The next steps will be replacing the core support and radiator with something more realistic, stripping the old paint to start bodywork, and "rechroming" the bumpers.

So cool!!

Very cool project!

I made a little more progress on this one a few years ago...some stuff in primer. I actually tried painting the body too but had some poor results and had to start over. I think it's still in a basecoat, with pearl yellow being the end goal.

Been a while since I posted, but it's been a while since I've been building too. I built this a couple years ago hoping it would be a "slump buster" but it didn't work. Just too busy with other stuff and a lack of motivation otherwise. But I have started building again and have one about to come off the bench soon, so thought I'd catch up. Nothing special at all and as far as I recall, built out-of-box save for maybe tires and stance adjustment. Paint would have been whatever I had around that was the right color. It's pretty sloppy but makes me happy to see in the display case.

Thanks all! Had equal amounts of free time and motivation today to tackle the back half. I didn’t intend to do this but found it to be the best way. More room for a proper 4-link. Will add a fuel cell between the rails. Also roughed in the dripped spindles so the front is at least “rolling” now.