carrucha

I went last Friday and picked up "The Gas Man" 1949 Ford coupe. Good deal with the 40% off coupon.

Cool restoration!

Well finished and detailed. Awesome work!

Cool build. Well built and detailed. The body color works well on this truck.

Cool wrecker. The light weathering is spot on.

Good job on the restoration. Nice choice of body color.

Good job. You definitely got the Bellflower custom look down.

Very sharp. Good job.

Cool build. Good job in capturing the look of early hot rods.

Nice start. I look forward to seeing this one finished.

Good job on making a lousy kit look nice. I finished this kit last year and it was fighting me all the way to the finish. It is one of the worst engineered kits I have ever built. Nothing seems to fit well. It seems that MPC slapped together a kit with parts from different Corvette kits. The interior tub is from a 1957 kit, they even include a 1957 Corvette dash. The hardtop is missing the rear quarter windows so I had scratch build that. The chassis is too narrow for the body so the body would keep sliding off the chassis until I glued styrene blocks to the inside of the body to keep it from sliding out. The only good thing about this kit is the box art.

The new grille makes a cool build even better.

I also use a spreadsheet to keep tract of my collection. In addition, I assign each kit a number. Each kit or project then gets a build sheet where I write down the paints and materials used, parts sources and building tips in case I plan on building the same kit again.

Cool lineup!

Very convincing. Good job.

I can't believe I missed this one. Excellent work. It could pass as a real car. The black paint job is flawless.

Cool box art build. Well built and finished.

Good work on the '55 Chevy. Well finished and built. I also take a small breaks from a build when setbacks occur. It really helps.

I transport my models in baseball card boxes with tissue wedged between the model and the sides of the box. Usually the 550 count boxes is big enough for most of my builds.

Cool that you still have them!

If you are going to use Easy Off, be sure to wear eye goggles and to cover up any exposed skin because it burns when it contacts your skin. I found out the hard way.

I have some old builds that I am going to redo because they were built early in my modeling days and they are horrible or they fell apart over the years and need to be redone.

Good job on the replica. Nice to see a traditional 1932 Ford 3-window coupe hot rod.

Looks nice. That gold really pops in the sun.

Cool gasser. Good work, especially on the interior.