OldNYJim

Thanks buddy! I used this same technique before on this one... ...but I’ve got some other ideas to try to develop this technique a little further...we’ll see if it works out!

This thread has you covered:

Nice cleanup job on that 36! I agree, it would be nice if the roof wasn’t a separate part, but you got it handled, it looks like! I shot a bunch of pearls and candies today - getting a Deuce body ready for one of my reverse-masked flame jobs - love how the layering of the metallics, candies and pearls accumulated up on this one: IMG_8909.MP4

Great job Mark - really nicely built, and super clean! I started one of these a while back and even though it was the newest issue the decals cracked and split like crazy so it got returned to the box from whence it came until I get another set (or bought another kit to kitbash with - as you rightly point out this kit looks like a GREAT basis for something else) Nice job!

You got me curious so I did the math, because apparently I have nothing better to do ? A stock Mustang with this engine would hit about 18 to the gallon driven sensibly and the fuel cell I’m using is meant to represent a 16 gallon tank. So, not taking into account weight differences you should have a range of maybe 280 miles, a quarter of which is 70...should be enough left in there to get to the gas station. Of course, this is based on a car being driven SENSIBLY...so yeah, that tank probably needs filling ? Thank you sir! Back in the “waiting for paint to dry” holding pattern for this one...I really need a dehydrator...

Shifter boots are a good idea too! Thanks Mark! Ruh roh ??. That does make sense - I’ve got a few extra little parts that I sprayed with this stuff to practise on...if it’s tricky to polish like you say I’ll figure out a plan B. Luckily, I managed to get a fairly nice gloss out of the can, so it won’t need a tonne of work hopefully anyway...guess we’ll see! I usually leave enamels three weeks before polishing, which normally works ok for me...and three weeks is this Friday, so we’ll see in a few days I guess!

I’m pretty sure this one got finished too - I seem to remember seeing it on the Coffin Corner but I couldn’t find it just now when I searched the forum...

That’s GREAT info, thank you Mike! Wasn’t aware that the new(er) reissue didn’t include that stuff! Considering the older version is still available at decent prices on eBay (this one was $10 or so, I think) that doesn’t give a lot of incentive to pick up the newer police version...unless you want to build the police version of course... Thanks for the tip!

I love it! Did you pick a color yet? I know what I’d choose, but I’m excited to see what you decide on!

Looks great! You got a nice finish out of that Future clear - what’s your technique on that? Airbrush?

Wow, it’s been two months on this one already huh? Because the chassis needs to attach inside the body I’ve been kind of stalled here laying up clear coats on the body to bury all that flake I ‘cleverly’ sprayed on it. Then we moved, which stalled it a few more weeks...but it’s getting closer to being smooth and level and ready for polishing now! Love the shimmer from that flake in the sunlight though - makes it all worth the effort! More soon! IMG_8430.MOV

Got this in a trade yesterday: Been wanting to build a few of these AMT hot rod kits box-stock, but also I can imagine myself saving all the T parts aside from the body and making a frame for it and ending up with an almost-total scratchbuilt/kitbashed effort along the lines of this build by @tim boyd. Then, with the remainder I’d have a T chassis and running gear to build a narrow-bodied board track racer or something out of, which is another project I’ve had in mind for a while now. Of course, I’ll need ANOTHER of these kits then so that I can build the hot rod version of this kit as AMT intended, but there’s no law against buying kits, luckily. Found a cool hobby store nearby to our new place too this week...picked up a few little bits and pieces I needed of paint and glue - they had one lonely bottle of Testors clear enamel left so I grabbed that seeing as it’ll soon be REALLY hard to find - they had good stocks of all kinds of other Testor’s stuff though!

You guys would lead me astray and have me channel this thing huh? That’s how simple builds get more complicated ?? In day 7 of messing with this body now - keep doing a little, letting the glue, Bondo or primer setup and then getting it closer the next day for another try and rinse and repeat...definitely getting close now though, once I figure out a nice way to fix the door gaps and get them perfect... Had the urge to paint something today, so picked the wheels as a quick easy project to shoot some color on. Lately I’ve liked Rustoleum’s silver, which is a kinda polished aluminum finish when dry, with some Vallejo natural steel misted over the top for a nice polished steel kind of look. Gave the vents a black wash and I’ll give the lutnugs some attention tomorrow and add valve stems and whatever else I can figure out to do to them: Whilst they’re drying, I spent an hour or two buffing the shine off the tires - I want to mess with textures and finishes a little on this build and see what I can do to add to the realism a little...the front tires are the kit ones but the rears got jettisoned in favor of some Goodyear slicks: Still some more buffing to go on the fronts but my arm got tired ? And final mini project today was getting the frame smooth and prepped for paint and then contemplating how to fix the holes in the airbags that these Revell kits all have. In the interests of TRYING to keep this thing close to how Revell intended I was going to fill the gaps and sand them, but honestly it’s quicker, easier and probably will look better to just slice them off, add pins and make some real rubber bags from o-rings...so that’s what I did ? As you can see, I’m doing a GREAT job of just building what’s there right out of the box so far ??. I’m REALLY trying though - at least, my wife says I’m trying anyway ? Oh, and picked out some colors - I imagined this thing in a nice pearl white with some kind of yellow or gold flames, seeing as I haven’t done a flame-job for a couple of builds: A more interesting update next time, I promise! ?

Does he accept their 40% off coupon though? ? Went scouting for kits again this weekend at our local Ollie’s...not much car stuff to be found aside from the Testor’s metal bodied pre-paints and a Scooby Doo bus: In good news they seem to have the cure for the Corona at our local store, so that’s helpful ???

Couple of cool sightings from sunny Indiana this past week;

Nice! I like it! If there’s ever a build where you can get away with a paint flaw it’s an oval car...?‍♂️?

Love a roundy-roundy racer! I’ll be watching!

Wasn’t that same car also metallic red in one of the movies? Bond certainly liked his Lotuses when he was Roger Moore

I’ve got two hot rod builds on the bench (actually, stashed away in Buddig meat containers) with paint drying before I can do the next steps, so whilst I’m waiting here goes another one. I had the idea of doing a quick box-stock Revell Deuce build to give me a chance to test my ‘modelling basics’ skills...but then that plan went out of the window immediately when I decided to try a roof chop on this thing ? Kit body: I wanted to give it a healthy, but sensible, chop but I also didn’t want one of those little mail-slot rear Windows that you can get if you’re not careful. Marked out the chop with my trusty Ticonderoga pencil: Removed the roof, leaving the rear window intact so I can lower around it: Mocking it back up: Because I didn’t lean the pillars back and do it the ‘easy’ way I have a gap to fill...but a little styrene strip and some filler later and I’m not too far off: I try and use an absolute minimum of filler when I’m doing work like this, but it does help fixing all those chops and gaps nicely. Someday I’ll be good enough not to need the filler ? Some primer and sanding in progress...got a few more rounds of this before I’ll be ready for paint And a quick mock-up to give an idea on how this is gonna look on it’s wheels... Just getting started with this one but I like the look so far! More soon!

Thank you both! @Mr. Metallic - good idea, I should post a thread on this stuff and see what I get back. Meanwhile, a tiny bit more progress on this...added those tiny little decals to the gauge cluster - was pleased to get those in place without losing one (or more). Looks like the speedo needs calibrating! ? Because I chopped the grille shell, I needed to make a new insert (or chop down the kit one, but this seemed more fun...). Cut a frame from some styrene sheet, which I’ll paint and cut a fine mesh to hide behind it. This might get replaced with something else if I don’t like it when it’s done, but we’ll see... And I was going to polish the body today but I spotted a little chip in the color coat on the passenger door and another little mark on one of the fenders...probably a little damage incurred from our cross-country move last month. No biggie, flattened the enamel clear down and touched the affected spots with a little more of the Boyd red to fix them. Not ideal, because I need to re-clear those couple of parts now and wait before polishing them again, but I’d rather do that than have an irritating little flaw that bugs me for the rest of all time... More soon!

Insert joke about the can being out of scale, the ring pull being the wrong kind for that year of can and how it’s drinkable but it needs a LOT of work right out of the box to make an acceptable libation ??

I’m the same! Picked up one just because the box was cool! ?

I saw Eric Ritz, a builder I admire a lot and learn a lot from, say something very similar about how he approaches a build. It really stuck with me! Great tip!

Posted this elsewhere on the site already - but Tamiya kit-box inspired beer ?

Hummingbirds on our new bird feeder ?