OldNYJim

The Michaels in Manhattan (Avenue of the Americas) stocks a few kits and paint and glues...worth a look if you're nearby!

I was always kinda interested in this kit too, but Lord only knows what this thing actually looks like inside the box

I picked up a couple of those kits to build the racecar versions of this kit - as you correctly state they don't feature the parts shown on the box. Would've been cool if they did! Still a good source for this kit though, until we see a reissue!

Awesome! I'm gonna look at these too! Thanks Mike!

Thanks for sharing Kevin! There's some AWESOME builds there. I LOVE this! And this hearse is CRAZY! So many cool builds though! Thanks for posting the pics!

Seeing as how you've started building it, I'll give you $4 right now

Ahh, so Round 2 has the AMT tooling huh? Excellent - I hope they reissue it! Thanks Brett!

Is there a good place to view pics from the show?

I really like the AMT 32 kit - it isn't the most detailed comapred to the Revell Deuce kits, but it's still cool in it's own way! I remember, maybe 10 yers ago, they could be had for peanuts and everyone seemed to be stocking them but not any more. Best I can find is ones like this on eBay for $35 or so. What happened to this line of kits? Did AMT fold and they stopped making them? Is it considered a rare kit now? I kinda wish I'd stocked up when I had chance (and the extra cash)... It seems to be that the Vicky kit is slightly more readily available, and the more detailed buiding options for the chassis of that one are cool, but I DO like the 5 window body

Me too, assuming I could afford it. Very cool!

Who IS Pedro?

How cool! I love it! Great looking build! I need to build a 32 drag car of some sort!

What a great build Mike! I LOVE it! I loved seeing your work getting the resin body made - so inspirational! You should cast and sell a few of those bodies!

What a gorgeous build! I can't wait for these to get rereleased so I can put my own together - yours looks GREAT! Can't wait to see more progress!

A few little uninteresting updates have happened since I last posted - none of them interesting enough to justify a new post, but there's a few now so here goes... Started to fill the hollow rear axle - not sure what to use to fill the centre section - I guess some styrene sheet cut to the correct shape and stacked in there in layers I found an aftremarket three piece air cleaner in my parts box that I preffered to the kit one, so I used a round doodad (also from the parts box) to adapt that to fit onto the SBC that this thing comes with in the kit The stock headlights were too high for my liking so I dug some different ones out of the parts box and mounted them lower ...and filled the original holes with some styrene bar, then sanded smooth And I started work on a scratchbuilt dashboard - the original one is cool but I wanted something smoothed out with maybe a single gauge right behind the steering wheel. I figured it was easier to make a new one than carefully sand and fill the existing one, so I traced the shape of the original, cut it from some sheet and added some bead detail at the bottom. Not sure where to find a single gauge to mount in it yet - I'll have to do some digging Next up, I guess I need to find some primer and see how much bodywork I'll have left to do before paint - more progress as I make it!

I've never built one of these before - I thought the frame was missing at first Carefully Thanks Charley! I'm normally much more about the nostalgic hot rods than a smoothed-out street rod like this, but it's fun to build something outside of my comfort zone a little! Have you got a link to yours! I always enjoy your builds so it'd be cool to see! Thanks Marty! I did think of doing that Robert - I probably won't for this one but I'd love to do a more detailed build of one of these! Good tip! Have you got a link to this build - looks interesting!

Ahhh, that figures!

Interesting! Thanks for the replies guys! I wonder what causes this - something with the solvents in the paint, presumably, but why to they bring that detail back up through a previously smooth surface?

3 or 5 get my vote...

Excuse the long title but I couldn't think how to shorten it and have it still make sense I spent the day sanding louvres off the hood of a 32 that I'm building but I'm bit worried about them ghosting back through the plastic once I paint it. I'll be using Tamiya primer and some kind of automotive lacquer with clear over the top. Any suggestions to make sure they dont reappear as soon as I lay the last coat of paint down?

They're pretty powdery at this point - might take some reshaping to get them usable Just a mini update, seeing as i was replying to the post above anyway...I wanted to lose the top bar of the windshield frame and lay it back a bit. Not a big job, but I'm pleased to have it done! Box stock: After: A real update coming soon, when I've made some real progress!

This is probably my favourite thread on this site right now - what a great build!

Continuing with the bodywork here - I wanted to smooth out the louvres on the hoodsides and the hood, so I spent a few minutes with my favourite new tool - I little diamond file. Makes quick work of smoothing these out! Nice and smooth! The fit isn't as perfect as I'd like, so I'll need to do some tweaking to get them just-so I had to use a little putty on them to smooth out some ejector pin marks on the insides of the panels too, and whilst I was doing that I filled a couple on the chassis, underside of the hood and on the seat too And, so I can start to get the engine assembled and detailed I smoothed out the valve covers too (top: before, bottom: after) Next up, work on chopping down the windscreen and adjusting the frame to suit!

Great pics, thanks for posting those Dave!

Any progress on this one Michael? Can't wait to see more of this one!