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I didn’t know that, thanks for sharing. I’ll have to look into that further for inspiration ?

I agree, shoot the white first and then the green. I have one of these I plan to do shortly and I'm going with a two-tone also. Are you going to do the gold inside the molding?

That's pretty much what I had in mind. I'm glad someone else thinks the way I do. ? Oh, I locked all my 41 Plymouth stuff up in the attic. And it's not coming out ever again....?

These days I wouldn't feed Boar's Head to my dogs.? No matter how much they beg.?

YUP? Disclaimer: This post is in no way an endorsement for Rice Chex or General Foods products. No monies were exchanged for the mention of this product. However if General Mills would like to make a contribution for this mention please send it to the "AMT 1941 Plymouth Capital Improvement" Go-Fund-Me page.

Since I have them out might as well use them. There is n LS engine hidden in there somewhere.

I keep hoping for an easier, not gong to say easy, project. But looks more and more like this is not it as I keep finding more mods to do. Got a front bench seat from Hart Resin Parts. Which is on the left below next to the kit rear seat. It will still need a lot of work to make it look like the factory seat as the shape is wrong and the upholstery pattern is wrong. I shouldn't say wrong, different? I can understand why Hart went with the matching pattern but their seat is a split bench with an armrest. So it will need some work to make it correct. As for the pattern I have copied a patch from the above seat with the intention of scaling it down and printing that section of material to lay over the seat and hopefully making a presentable looking seat. Unless anyone else has a better idea????

You want wimpy, how about these? Do you like the pretty colors? Knowing my luck I would glue them to one of my kits? And I'm staying away from that cutting edge, had an x-acto roll off the work bench the other night. Amazing how they always stick straight into the floor. Lucky for me it "missed by that much". Jim, you know how that usually goes. ?

No dear, he’s talking about clothes pins being all alike, he’s not talking about you. ?

I have newer clothes pins but wifey won't let me use them. ?

I actually have a resin 48 Plymouth body I was thinking of putting on the 48 Ford chassis. Someone mentioned that in one of our 41 Plymouth threads and it looks like it would fit well. That's a project for another day...

Took care of a few last details, at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it, and with that I will call it done. Have to stop somewhere and I think this is as good a place as any. Put the wipers on, went with the wipers from the 48 Ford kit as I think they look better then the photo etched ones I put on the coupe. Also did a little doodle-ling on the front grill emblem to make it look like something. A few dabs of paint over some BMF and it looks fine from 20'. The emblem AMT molded in was so faint it disappeared under the first coat of primer which is why you don't see many builds WITH and emblem. And we say goodbye to the dynamic duo... The END??? I hope so.?

Thanks Carl, I'll take you for a ride when it's done.?

Worked a bit more on the body. For some reason the lower door seam on both sides was buggered up. Filled the seam with styrene goop so I can later re-scribe it. Also wanted to add back the trim around the front sculpture as I want to do a two-tone and will chrome the trim. Laid down some .030 half round on the passenger side. Only had enough half round to do the one side, so will have to wait for some more to come in so I can do the other side.? But I should have listened to myself earlier about re-enforcing the seams. As I was re-scribing the door bottoms the drivers side seam came apart.? So while the vision below might remind you of Edward Scissorhands, what you are actually looking at it is backers being glued in place to firm up this 60 year old body. I'm talking about the car, not me.? And so we wait for the glue to dry and reinforcements to arrive. See ya later.?‍♂️

The weather of late has not been suitable for painting as most mornings the day has started out at 99% humidity. So for now the body sits waiting in primer. In the meantime some other bits got the attention. Working out the dash I cut out the section with the rally gauges and filled the void with a flat piece of .030 styrene. Also removed the extra pedal. Then the dash inlay was applied. If you look at the pic posted previously of the inlay you will see a half moon on the bottom favoring the right side. This is a cutout for the steering column. As this is meant for the 75-76 Dart kit it has one obvious difference on the Duster. The steering wheels on the two cars are not in the same place. The steering wheel should be pretty much centered with the speedometer on the Duster, but you can see that is not where the cutout is. I needed to paint in the missing section on the inlay to make it look presentable. Luckily it's hard to see. I also wanted to add a gear lever as this was a column shift automatic car. It came out a little bigger then I wanted but I was trying to keep it proportionate to the turn signal lever. I actually think the turn signal lever is about the right size for the gear shift lever. But I couldn't very well make them the same size. It will just have to do. Speaking of shift levers another minor inconvenience is the hump on the interior floor for the shifter. That needs to go. I cut out the hump and filled the hole with a couple of flat pieces of scrap. Patched it up with some styrene goop and now I'm waiting for it to fully cure. Hopefully the weather clears soon. In the meantime think I'm going to go build a slant six. See ya....

David I find the most common mistake people make with epoxy is they mix it on a piece of paper. This absorbs some of the resin and throws off the mixture. Have to mix on something solid like plastic or metal. I use the inside of an old plastic jar lid. When I run out of room I simply scrape it off the lid with and start again.?

I may have to share it there when I'm done. Yes, mine too. I seem to keep going down these rabbit holes rather then find something easy.

I've been on the fence as to what to do about the suspension. I have everything to go the C1 route as that already goes with the chassis I have. But I've been looking thru my parts boxes to see what type of upgrades I could do as well. I do have a lot of Mustang II's in the attic. Hmmm. I was thinking of doing an LS swap for this so it would probably make more sense to upgrade the underpinnings as well.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.?

Essentially the nose and the top of the front fenders behind the wheel opening including the base of the cowl are from the 64. So a cut was made from the top of the front wheel opening straight back and then over to the cowl. In this shot you can see a shim I added to make the body straight and the length equal on both sides. Also needed to add a small shim to widen the 64 nose a bit to match the width of the 62 body. I should probably reinforce the joints from behind just for good measure.

Thanks guys. I can’t take credit for the mashup but I just couldn’t let it go to waste. Hopefully I can do it justice.

Coming along nicely, can’t wait to see it all together.

Three or four years ago I picked up a number of project kits I had won through an online estate auction. I think I won four different lots each consisting of about eight kits each. Naturally there were things in the lot I wanted and things I didn't. Everything in these lots were from the 60's, so nice vintage stuff. A good portion of it was Corvette kits. Not E.J. Korvette, but Chevy Corvette. Now I'm not a big Vette person, I've built a few. Nothing newer then the 25th anniversary kit, the white version, not the silver. But in this lot of stuff was one thing that peaked my interest. The previous owner has attempted to fuse a 1962 SMP Corvette with an MPC 1964 Corvette. They gave up on the build and the reason was obvious. The two half's did not match up properly and one side of the body was shorter then the other. As many of us do when they buy a lot of stuff is they keep what they want and sell off what they don't. Most of the Corvette stuff was sold off (and yes, it paid for everything I bought) but I saved the 62/64 body as well as the SMP bits to flesh out a complete car. The grill, bumpers, interior, etc.. I also saved the chassis parts from an MPC 1956/57 Corvette. This was an early release from MPC and was quite detailed for it's time. I started working on straightening out the body by cutting it apart and adding a spacer on the one side to make the sides equal in length. That was right after I bought the kits but I only got so far and put the bits into a box and it sat. Until now. This is the basis of what I'm working with. 64 Vette nose and 62 rear. Interior from 62 SMP and chassis from MPC 56/57. I always liked the SMP kit with it's opening trunk. While the interior seems to fit nicely into the body that only lasted until I slid the chassis underneath. I was hoping to save the trunk area of the 62 but that was not to be. Here I stripped the paint off everything, and to my surprise found the chassis was a later issue (brown styrene), so I could begin mock-up The interior tub from the 62 is actually much deeper then the 56/57 There is actually a 1/4" below the bottom of the door panel in the 62 and this makes the chassis sit too low. So we start cutting. Then we have to make a floor for the open chassis frame rails. We will also have to loose the trunk area from the 62 and so the inside of the chassis will have to become the trunk. This means filling in the top of the unfinished rear wheel wells. Now we need to add a tunnel for passage of the driveshaft. I went through my parts boxes but couldn't find anything suitable. Then I remembered finding a pen under the seat of my new to me 1:1 vehicle I bought two weeks ago. I think that will do fine. Tunnel by paper-mate. Also need to add to the back of the chassis so we can fit the whole spare tire. No donuts for this vette. At this point we shall leave the bits to dry and call it a night. Comments, questions and remarks welcome. ?

I actually have this on my to-do list.

Stopped by today and they had a whole lot of nothing.