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I sanded off all the details on the front seat to turn it into a 210 one. And here it is with the piping installed. There is still work to be done on the seat.

Thanks! Anyways, here's yesterday's progress I've shaved the V emblems off the front and back of the car. Yes, I'm aware that a Six cylinder car would not have a Chevrolet script on the back, I'll just say that the man who bought the car had it installed to make the car look more expensive and to have the front and back match each other I've shaved down the crossmember to allow the six cylinder to fit better I've also hacked up the chassis to remove the exhaust on the left side Lastly, I have cobbled together an engine. The six is from the '50 Chevy truck and the transmission is what came with this kit, I'm not sure this is accurate to what a 6 cylinder '57 Chevy would have had but I'm at least satisfied with it

Alright! This is one that I'm excited about. The idea behind this project is to build to '57 Chevys, one as it had left the dealership and the other representing the same car after being built into a gasser in the mid-to-late 1960's. The stock car, I want to build as a 210, or as close to it that I can make from a Bel Air, however, for the sake of a story, I'll just say that the car was bought by a man for his wife and he was close to the manager of a Chevy Dealer so he could get some of the Bel Air trim on his wife's 210. ANYWAY Here's the suspension, removed from the trees and ready to have it's chrome stripped I have filled the weird slot that AMT put in the firewall for some reason and cut the radiator out of the body so that I could flip it around, as would be correct for a 6 cylinder car. Here's the slot And this is the radiator support with the radiator flipped around

Alright! This project is done! Anyway, here's what happened... The dashboard fell into a container I was using to hold brake fluid for stripping, so I had to repaint that... which was honestly a good thing. Here's the interior assembled, yes. I'm aware that the steering wheel is broken, I accidentally glued it too far out and when I removed it to reinsert it properly, it broke. Gate painted... a little sloppier than I would have liked but it's the best I could do The engine bay, some things are missing but I couldn't be bothered with getting the heater box to fit, especially since I realized that it didn't have a peg or anything to fit into on the firewall until after I had painted the body. Lastly, some shots of it completed Overall, I think it came out nice enough to display but it isn't as neat as I would have ideally liked. Granted, the trim that I chose to do on it required a lot of hand painting and that is not really my forte.

No, I did not give up on this build, I HAVE been working on it. The body is pretty much done, only needing the chrome done. I know that the paint isn't perfect but considering that this is only a slump-buster, I think it looks pretty good. I decided on a two-tone yellow/white paint scheme.

Could the Revell GMC Plow kit be of any use?

You're welcome!

Important disclaimer, this is just what I have seen in my experience, don't take this as gospel, I have not had any problems with Rustoleum's 2X paint but at the same time, I decant my paints to go through an airbrush.

Your project looks cool. These 1:1 Beetle Vans look to use cut up Beetle Fenders, I think anyways. The only suggestion I can think of is maybe cutting a section out of the Ford body so that the roof can lay flat and line up better with the Volkswagen roof.

Now that I think about it, could I combine the chassis and interior of Revell's 49 Merc' with the Body of AMT's Mercury? I think I read something about doing that, but I don't remember what it would entail.

Granted, I haven't done anything like this but this one person on YouTube I occasionally watch will paint statues and the like, but he isn't a professional and he makes painting look less intimidating. As for dry brushing, dry brushing is when you dip the brush in paint, wipe off most of it and then lightly brush it against the surface to bring out the details.

One thing that I'd like to see from revell with the 49 Merc' tooling (if it were up to me, of course) is a stock bodied Mercury, unchopped and all that. That way, it could be built as a resto-rod or even be chopped by the individual. Personally, I don't really care for the chop job on the Revell Mercury as I think it looks kinda weird

Alright, thanks! I'll look into that

Thanks! The only thing that I was concerned about was the suspension being too high, making it look like a modern gasser-replica as opposed to how those cars actually were.

Ah, got it, Thanks Understood, got it. Thanks

Lately, I have been looking into gassers and looking at pictures of real cars is one thing but what I want to know is how others have built models of gassers. The thing that I have been thinking about is how exactly to do the front suspension and axle. So with that, if anyone wants to join in, you're more than welcome!

How bad is that Camaro? My brother got that one to convert into a 76, what are we in for?

You're welcome! Although I just looked it up and that kit is of a 4x4, I don't know if that's something you'd want or not.

I think we've all had kits that for whatever reason, they just don't fit together as well as they should or the parts are so malformed that it just adds to the list of things to do. This isn't to say that all of these kits are awful or that you shouldn't buy them. Rather, I'd just like to see some honest feedback and criticism. Consider it a sort of "buyer beware" thing. To start us off, I'd like to introduce AMT's 88 Mustang GT I built this release over the summer to try out my airbrush and let me tell you, it was surprisingly difficult to put together. From my memory, the way that the front suspension was designed, there were supposed to be pegs to put the pieces together yet there was only the holes, I had to make the pegs. Another thing was that the end of the drive shaft was somehow too big for the hole in the end of the transmission and was splitting the glue seam. Also, my kit doesn't actually fit together properly. It's fine sitting in a display case but if I were to pick it up, the chassis would just fall out of the body. It's put together properly, I swear. I really wouldn't recommend this kit except as a parts donor, but if you just want a Fox Body Mustang, I'd probably suggest the Revell '90.

I was gonna say, I think I've seen people use the chassis from the AMT Jimmy. I think anyways

Looks good. Are you going to keep the promo style chassis or go to a more realistic one?

I really hate this video. Not that I doubt the vast improvements in safety and engineering that have happened over time, believe me I don't. The thing that I dislike about it is that it is not a fair representative for cars of the 50s. The X-frame cars were questioned at the time for being questionably safe. I think the results of the experiment would have been more useful if they crashed, let's say a '59 Ford into an '09 Taurus as those two would be better representatives of their times as opposed to picking the outlier and acting like it represents the majority. Also, a comment on one of Curbside Classic's posts regarding the X-frame cars says (if this guy is telling the truth) that the '59 used in the test was structurally sound. This doesn't change much as all the test really proved was that the X-frames were a terrible design.

Ah, thanks

What did you use to glue and prep the pill bottles for paint?

So, this is the project that I ran away from the Volkswagen Jolly to build. Anyways, yet another Ollies kit and this one I'm building box stock. Due to the fact that I didn't post my progress (up until this point), I'll just post the progress with labeled days. (That may or may not be truly accurate) Day 1: I had to glue a shim into the chassis to allow the front axle bit to fit in Here's the engine assembled. You can also see where I drilled holes for plug wires, even if I decided not to install them. Looking at the body, you can tell how rough the molding was on it. I'm not sure if this is technically short-shot but it's not really noticeable enough for me to care to fix it. Day 2: Threw some grey primer onto the body to see how rough the molding lines really were Day 3: Painted the engine and the various parts under the hood Day 4: I put down a coat of white paint... but the red plastic creeped through. I bought a can of shellac so I know what to do after stripping all the body parts. Day 5: Chassis painted as well as the exhaust pipes Interior and Dash painted (although I'm not done with them) I think they look pretty terrible right now but so is painting with a brush (for me). They definitely need to be cleaned up