FoMoCo66

Your from the U.K. right? He is using a site called Imgur, a free image hosting service, I use it for posting on other forums that dont have image hosting. Imgur has blocked access to all U.K. users because of some "internet safety" fine. You can get around it with a VPN.

Glad to see your finnishing this, I finnished mine this past summer. Your mods are super clean cant wait for the color!

Im from the Midwest, so seeing this in-n-out truck in Denver was cool!

We're in the Denver area for a family wedding and had time to kill before having lunch at Casa Bonita. I decided to stop at a local hobby shop, Colpar's Hobby Town in Arrora Colorado. An absolutely amazing store, for context, back home all I have access to is a hobby lobby and a severely understocked hobby shop. So the variety of paints, scratchbuilding supplys, and kits was amazing, I was like a kid in a candyshop. This is what I got, they had both the model a truck and sedan, same series, same price, same condition. I went with the truck, would have gotten both but there's not enough room in my bags.

Looking real good there man!

This is supposed to be in general automotive talk, waiting for mods to move.

I raided hobby lobby of the rest of the evergreen stock I potentially might need. Also got some cool testors bottles and jewelers wire, just should have gotten a couple different sizes of the wire.

This thing is looking good, that engine color is almost spot on my friend. Also that weathering is amazing!

I really like listening to all the car themed songs from the early 60s, one of my favorites is "Competition Coupe" by the Astronaut's released in 1964. In the song it describes a Bitchin' 34 Ford coupe, saying how it would beat a flat head powered 32 ford. Just something about it makes me want to build a car based on it. First off, here's the song. It's not well documented so I couldn't find any lyrics. Link: https://youtu.be/zVmGzXfI9z4?si=H-deWb7nAuwVijDP The first thing you hear them claim is that the car has “Lightweight wheels in both front and rear”. This means that it probably has some sort of halibrand or other magnesium/ aluminum rim. If I were to build this car I would definitely go with a halibrand style wheel. They also say “she'll do 140 in 11 or 2”, I take this as doing 140 mph with an 11-12 second quarter mile. That's not bad. Anybody else will have to fact check if that was possible with this build. Next they say “I run an overhead chevy that's equipped to kill with a blower about the size of your flathead mill”. This means they were most likely running a blown small block or w head chevy, personally I would go with the 409 because it's cooler. The blower would probably be a GM style 671 blower sence their comparing it to the size of an entire flathead Ford. Another thing that catches your attention is the statement “She won't even start without nitro sue”. This leads me to believe that the car can be set-up to run on nitro or only runs nitro, so a moon tank would be appropriate. After that the song pretty much repeats. I actually was really inspired by this song and did a moch-up, the rear wheel combo might not be the best, pie crust slicks and smaller window slot mags. I also threw a couple speed parts on a built up amt 57 Chevy 409.

I agree 100% with this, by far my favorite hood for any Ford. I actually cut the teardrop off a 64 tbolt and grafted it onto an amt 63 galaxie hood for an ongoing 63 build, on the real car they are essentially the same piece of sheet metal.

Diddo, planning on doing that with my 64 from the cal drag combo, most of the parts are laid out and ready. If you went this rout it would be super realistic and you could even put a pro street back half on it, It just wouldn't be the best for a super crazy build. If you want that I would go with the Lincoln kit.

Thanks for all the comments guys! Means a lot. This is a small update, but an update at that. First off, I didnt really love the headers in this kit so naturally, I made my own. This also required me to rework the exhaust ports on the cylinder head. So I filled in the notches with some styrene then covered it with a very thin pice of styrene. Then after some sculpting, drilling, and primer it looks like this. Here's the result of the fenderwell headers, they dump on the ground instead of out the side like on the kit. Also went with a flat white for the headers, I thought it started in the 70s, looking at some period gassers and photos, aperently not. Looks like Im good for my early 60s erra build. I also got a lot of the engine components in some paint. I did a cool technique for cast aluminum. Learned this from the Luka Cee YouTube channel, spray the part in primer, than mist some silver over it, lastly some flat clear. Here they all are drying on the paint stand. Thanks for looking! Elliot Hamm

Looking really good! I agree, BMF can be intimidating .

Earlier this week I complained about how my suggestion Playlist on Amazon Music was broken and not playing any music I listen to. Well, I have been trying it every day and today is the day that it is fixed. Looks like it self healed.

I swear im not starting this one yet, got to finish some others first. Im just playing around. And yes, thats my work bench snack in the background 😋.