Street Rod

Thanks for sharing this. That silver will be perfect for some projects I have in mind.

Looks just like your real truck! Great job on the short bed.

Liking this one a lot, clean and stylish. I’ll have to agree with everyone else, kudos for keeping the straight six.

Very cool, great weathering!

Turned out very well in spite of issues you mentioned.

Beautifully done! Looks very stately in this color combo.

Great work,there! I agree, foil work will make this a standout car.

Great job on this one! I have this kit on the shelf waiting it’s turn.

Beautiful Alfa! Great paint work with lots of details and just the right amount of weathering.

Very good! Great paint and decals.

Great job on the conversion! I like the color and the wheels give it a sporty look. Like the maroon car also, they compliment each other very well.

Lookin’ cool!

Looks good! Clean paint and decal work.

After seeing your Evil Iron trike and your mention of this build, I looked it up. All I can say is, Wow! The paint work looks just like you would expect a dragon to look like. Two thumbs up!

Beautiful, looks like a real trike! Great paint work and lots of details, I really like the fade on the paint. I want to build one of these myself.

Looks good so far! I’m going to follow your build as I want to build one of these myself. The HOK Brandywine will look good on it, I also like the sugar sugar nail polish on black, I’ll file that one away for future reference.

Looks good! Very clean build.

Great job on this one! Very neatly done with lots of details all around.

Looks great! I like the color choice and you put in a lot of good details.

Great looking build!

Excellent! Fantastic work on all the details, this looks just like the real car.

Beautiful build! Love the color and all the foil work is excellent. Lots of great details.

Great looking Monte. Color fits the car perfectly, very neat build with good details.

Ok, here we go! I haven’t built a model since about 1990 so this will be my first time out of the gate in many years. I had a couple of these kits back in the day, and, like several of the kits in my stash, I wanted to build them again and try to build them much better than I did then or even just get them built, lol. I picked kind of a “blah” kit to start off with. This first post on this thread is just some pictures of the initial dry assembly. Some things I see right off, looks like the rear axle needs to move back about a 1/16” to center the wheels in the wheel wells which won’t be a big deal. The engine looks like it’s going to sit low in the engine bay, I’ll have to see more about that as I go. I think the front inner fenders are incorrect for this body style, (maybe previous generation truck), but I’ll be leaving that alone. The firewall and inner fenders need some fillers added to close up some gaps. This kit is a study as far as details go. Some areas like the dash and door panels have pretty good detail, under the hood and on the body they were trying, but elsewhere, especially underneath, is the “kinda blah” part. Thus I’ll probably not spend a lot of time on this area, just paint it black. This will be a good kit to start honing my building skills, though. If anyone has built this kit and know of anything else I should watch for feel free to chime in. I’ll have the first progress update in a few days, hope y’all will check in.

I got them on eBay, I don’t know how to post a link but here’s a screenshot of the listing I bought from: Since I haven’t tried these out yet, I went down to the bench and tried one of the finer grits on the parting line on some scrap sprue. It seems to do a good job smoothing the lines down, but as you can see in the second picture, it clogs up the file pretty quickly and doesn’t wipe clean on my pants leg like a regular sanding stick or sand paper would. These may not work out very well, I’ll have to do some more testing with them over the weekend. At least it’s not an expensive loss if they don’t work out.