Supernurd

The vent window pillars have been added back in. Now on to the headlights. Let's weld in some pie plates and get to work. I may go with the chrome bezels, or may go frenched. Yet to be determined.

Phenomenal. 👍

Looks good with a red roof. 👍

I've roughed in the C pillars. In Gene's tutorial he converts it to a hardtop but shows the process for adding them back in. Most customizers delete the locks and door handles but I'm leaning toward keeping them just to be different. I may keep the stock grille too. And the flathead. I'm more concerned with thinking about what to do about the headlight bezels. The ones in the kit are horrible.

Cool 👍

Incredible. 👍

From here the gaps are filled with sprew. Once filed into shape, the whole area was flooded with CA and sanded out.

Spot on. Has the perfect look. 👍

Super cool. 👍

I like it. 👍

Love the flathead conversation. 👍

With the roof in place the rear window will slide forward also. This gives a nice transition at the base where it meets the Dutchman panel. The window is tacked in place at the rear roof centerline. The angle is then adjusted with pieces of sprew and then tacked into place.

With the roof chopped it will naturally slide forward making the new landing point wider than the original. Gene compensates for this with relief cuts to "flatten" the rear of the roof. In my case I simplified the job by heating the rear corners with a blow dryer and tweaking them to fit. The same was done at the A-pillars. The roof was then tacked into place.

The chop at 3 inches is looking good. Let's roll with it.

The scale auto article seems to have disappeared.

That looks killer! 👍

Winfield uses a sawsall to cut out the rear window and a hacksaw on the A pillars. Let's try a hacksaw on the roof! The rest of the rear window was cut using an xacto knife along the lower crease. The A pillars are cut at the top line, and we can start with a conservative chop on the posts. Better to remove less than too much.

It's hard to find complete information on how to do this so I decided to just go ahead and try it. I looked at Gene Winfield's how to video on YouTube on the real car with great interest. He started with marking off 4 1/2 inches on the posts. I decided to start with scale 3 inches at first and go from there.

That's a beauty 👍

One of the best. 👍

That's nice 👍

I like the grey one is awesome 👍

I like this one 👍

That really is a beautiful model 👍

Where's the cooling system?