OldNYJim

I can imagine arriving at the show, putting the ‘63 Impala’ down with the other 63 Impalas and wondering why all the others look different ?

Those are maybe the best scale headers I’ve ever seen. Pity the post is nearly a decade old because I’d like to find out more about how those were done! ?

A little more on this one...laid a BUNCH of decals on the engine - Revell really stepped up with the Foose kit! I’ve since cleared all the black parts and they’re nice and smooth and will be ready to install once the paint has dried enough that I won’t put a fingerprint in them ? Meanwhile, a little work on the interior...added some photoetch door handles, seatbelts and so on...nothing too fancy since it’s hard to see in a Coupe anyway, at least when it’s on my shelf ? And finally, a little work on the dash - used some Gopher racing gauges and made some chrome trim rings for the instrument panel...I haven’t mastered making a ring without a visible seam yet but if you put the split part at the top they’re near impossible to see with the dash in the car anyway so no biggie... Oh, and I chromed a bunch of little parts - they’re in the “can’t touch ‘em yet’ stage for a week or so too... More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Haha! Yes sir! Everything seems to fit pretty well from the little mock-up I did with my left-over ‘63 parts...doesn’t seem like AMT went to much effort to change their 63 tooling to 64 tooling, luckily for me. It was listed as “63 or 64” and the photos weren’t too good, so I was hoping it would be a 63, but near enough for what I wanna do with it... I can’t enter it in NNL East’s 63 Impala class...but I’ll have fun building it anyway!

Built an AMT 63 Impala for NNL East earlier in the year but only really used the body, so I had basically an entire kit left over...found this body on eBay for $3 and change and it arrived today. Got a whole new kit to build now! ??

Ohh man, what a cool concept!! LOVE it!

Doesn’t stop one of their sellers listing them though, which happened - just ordered mine! Curious to see if the 5.0 Mustang engine from the Deuce kits will drop in there nicely so I can run a Ford in a Ford...and presumably if it fits without too much trouble then the other engines from the 32s will too! Would be cool to mix and match parts from the two series of kits!

Thanks everyone! MRM: I swear I hadn’t seen yours when I started this - I LOVE it though! WAY cool!!!!! Nice color you chose ???? A little work on the engine next, now that the body’s in clear and drying ready for polishing. I was out of Tamiya Flat Aluminum which I thought would work well to match the finish of the 1:1 aluminum block, but I did have this: Didn’t turn out too bad for a $1 pot of craft paint from the Target clearance section ?: Just starting some assembly on the engine now - first fix was adding an alternator bracket: What IS that little square tank under the alternator anyway? Power steering pump maybe?

Thanks buddy! The orange is a custom mix of Createx pearl yellow and red, the black is Createx flat black (their gloss black is their only color I DON’T like, it never seems to dry here with the humidity) and the clear is Testors clear enamel thinned with lacquer thinner ??

GREAT idea!!! Definitely need to pick up some of these now (soon as everything reopens, anyway ?). Good tip, thanks Rick!

Someone told me I’d painted a Posie’s style paint job...so here I am reading about them! I like the look, I started reading the hot rod mags back in the 90s where monochromatic everything was all the rage...So these look pretty fresh to my eyes even though they were a fad from before the lime-green and bright yellow pro-street whatevers that were popular back then

A little more progress today - added the pinstripe to separate the colors...it looked a little unfinished without it I thought: ...and got the whole lot in clear! Just gotta wait until I can polish it out now ?: Meanwhile I’ve got plenty more to do on this, so more on the interior and mechanical bits as soon as I’ve done it ?

Absolutely beautiful! Love all the detail - it’s going to look really impressive when it’s done ??

Oh wow ?. Beautiful!!

Thank you both!!! A little more progress on this one - I didn’t like the tuck and roll interior that the kit came with...at least not for this build. It’s really cool and looks good, but I wanted a real smooth simple design for the fabric pieces and the interior as a whole. I cut some new interior side panels first up: Then added some simple flat ‘fabric’ panels, nice and clean, nothing show-y: I added a mounting peg for a photoetch door handle, and then whilst those were drying I did some googling for cool street rod steering wheels. You think Revell was inspired by this Boyd wheel when they designed this kit? I cut a little ‘Boyd’ logo horn button for the kit wheel - I know it’s “Boyd’s” on the example above but that sounds dumb to me so now it’s a “Boyd” wheel ?‍♂️? It’s kinda hard to see in that pic, and I had to use a Macro lens on my phone to pick it out, but hopefully a black-wash when it’s done will make it easier to see. Finally, I made a little plate to mount on the floor for the power window switches (which are engraved onto that plate and REALLY hard to photograph ??) and the shifter then made a shift boot - just need to figure out a shiftknob and paint and assemble it all now! More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Thanks buddy! I love Tim’s work so if he likes it that’s a cool bonus! ?. Aside from some of the changes I’ve made because I wanted to (rather than needed to), this Roush engine does fit really well! I’m pleased with how simple it’s been to kitbash it in there. Small update from this morning (literally...) - making these tiny Ford graphics. I had the idea that I wanted it to say Ford on there somewhere, but not a straight Ford logo and figured something that looks like it was signwritten would be cool. That ended up being easier said than done...original plan was to cut a mask and just paint it, but to get it the size I wanted was nearly impossible with the vinyl mask I use because it’s so thin and tears so easily. I tried five or six ways of using the mask but didn’t get anywhere with that, so I got the thinnest vinyl sheet I had and cut them with that instead. Came out ok, eventually ?. I’ll clear over these to protect them (they’re REALLY delicate and I don’t want to spent another two hours making and applying them again) and then I can apply the matching pinstriping I want on there ??? More soon!

Thanks fellas! I saw a two-tone custom Harley in a pearl orange and black and really liked it, so I’m going with that for this one...ran out of my wide Tamiya tape so thank God my wife has a lot of Washi tape ? I’m going to add a little signwriting to it too once the black dries, but that’ll be tomorrow’s adventure and then I can clear it! Someone said on Instagram that it looks Halloween-y, and that made me think of the cop cars they have in Sleepy Hollow, which is only about an hour from us: Whilst I’m waiting to do more on the body, I made a little piece to attach to the Roush air filter that comes in the F100 Foose kit - I noticed from photos that it was missing the little lip under the filter so I cut one real quick on the cutter: I’ll paint that separately and attach it further down the line...and this afternoon’s project is seeing if I can make some new interior panels for this thing to better match what I had in my head: More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Welcome to New York prices ??. Where we live a dollar slice costs $3, so this is about normal ??

Curiosity got the better of me - picked up some Totally Awesome to test out: You know it’s gonna be good if the first item on the list of things it will clean is blood stains ? How well it strips paint still remains to be seen, but it works on chrome ok anyway!

Beautiful paint! Looks great!

Stunning work so far - LOVE builds like this! ? The crackle medium you used on the seats really caught my eye - it worked great!

I like these cars! I’ll be watching!

Works great for me - super fast and all pretty logical! Thanks for all the efforts Dave (and everyone else concerned) ??

Your work is such a joy to watch - it’s looking great!

Thanks buddy! Keeping going!! I wanted a nice pearl orange color for this but all the stores are closed...so I mixed one up: Managed to get pretty close to what I had in mind - and it REALLY pops on the body...more soon! IMG_8551.MP4