OldNYJim

I LOVE that headlight beam - I was stuck on a design for one that I'm building and this helped me figure it out! Thanks for posting!

Brilliant! Thanks Tim!

What's the Altoids tin for?

I've never built one before - but I've been collecting some different 32 kits for a series of builds that I've been thinking of and this seemed a fun one to start with!

Thanks James! Slow progress here - I've been waiting for the weather to be half decent to lay some paint down. Managed to get three mist coats on the body and grilleshell today, let it sit for three or four hours, sanded out a few imperfections and then laid down a thicker coat...doesn't look too bad so far! I'll let the lacquer harden for 24 hours, smooth it down one more time and then put some hi-gloss clear over the top to make it all shiny and pretty It looks prety orange-peely on the roof there but that's the texture on the moulded in fabric roof - the rest looks pretty shiny so far! Fingers crossed it dries that shiny!

Ohhh, that looks GREAT! I love it, looks great with a couple of slices taken out!

A couple of small updates, seeing as I didn't get chance to get any paint laid down today...made some simple pipes... They need a little filler to hide the kinks (solid bar would have been better but I didnt have any), and after a couple of days of thinking I worked out a solution to adding a taillight to the rear. I didnt want to put them on the bodywork, so I modified the kit license plate / single light and affixed a pin so it can mount to the bottom of the frame right at the rear Hopefully I'll get chance to lay some paint down tomorrow - the engine block needs a couple more coats of clear to get it as glossy as I'd like, and the body and grille are ready to go having painted the inside of the body over the weekend, cleared it and carefully masked it back up again. More progress soon!

This is an old post, but what's that build Dale? Looks STUNNING!

Having seen your MG build Graham, I would think you'd be able to do what I'm doing here easily! The only non-kit parts so far are the wheels, and everything else is made from styrene sheet or bar mostly. No special tools, just a hobby knife and a scriber. You can do it!

Got the door pockets made, inspired by the ones on a stock 32 Theyre kinda hard to see with the seats in place, but I figure they would be on the 1:1 too Whilst I was working on the tub I added some laminated styrene strips to the outside to fill a gap that's visible beween the frame and body when viewed from underneath And I laid down some red on the block - I want to clear over it I think to get it really shiny Now to find some taillights so I can figure out where I'll mount them on the body and get the body ready for primer!

Made some more progress on this build in the past week - lots of little bits and pieces, but I'm excited to get close to paint so I can start laying some colour down on this thing! First up, I shaved all this funky detail off the firewall and made it nice and smooth and attached it to the body so I could get that sanded and ready for primer The molded-in detail on the interior tub is pretty minimal to say the least, so I sanded it off... ...and started adding some detail to make it look a little better. I'm going for a relatively simple design along the lines of the stock 32 door cards which had a cool 'pouch' build into them which I need to fabricate Peg City over here putting the seats and rear axle together. These little mini pegs are SUPER useful - theyre just the right size to hold the two axle halves together perfectly and keep it aligned whilst I glue it Whilst they were drying I worked on getting the framerails nice and smooth - there was a small plastic stub on the drivers side to mount the steering box, but to make sanding easier I removed that and replaced it with a little piece of aluminum rod. I still need to fill that little low spot right behind it before I can prime the chassis and paint it, although it's nearly invisible when the body is in place Last up, I used the same metal tube to make some plug wire sleeves like the car would have had from the factory and got holes drilled for plug wires so that the engine's ready for some color Ohhh, and the paint arrived too - we're going with a nice bright Tamiya Italian Red, probably with a tan interior (maybe basball mitt color), and a red engine with some chrome detail to break up all the color. More progress as I make it!

What type of clear is that? Looks AMAZING after youve polished it!

I wondered about finding a Lego man with a similar helmet on too, but same thing - it might be a bit too big...what scale are Legomen's heads?

I wondered about using one of those - would it be WAY too big though? Anyone got one sitting aroundwho could give me an idea of size at all? Thanks for the replies guys!

Anyone ever seen one of these in resin? Or in a kit, even?

At least they did a decent job with the instructions for the parts that you dont get One thing you do get is a couple front axles, and I picked this tube axle arrangement (bottom) over the stock axle (top) as it dropped the front a scale inch or so... I mocked up the kit flathead ready for for some detailing: The new bits in place (I found a correct grille for it in my stash!) And a mockup with the new bits: Off to work on the engine some more and research early Flatheads!

OHHHHHHH, this is going to be cool!

So, I saw this kit on eBay and thought 'oh cool!'. I've always liked 32s, I like oval cars, this kit seemed like a must-buy. Those dirt tyres, the ironwork, those wheels - awesome! Disapointment when it arrived though - its the standard Vicky kit with basically NONE of the cool parts on the box. Not the tyres, the wheels, the ironwork, those cool exhausts...the instruction sheet directs you to use styrene and resin parts to complete the build as on the box. What the.... It's LITERALLY impossible to build to look like the picture out of the box. To add insult to injury, my sealed kit didn't even have a grill shell . Anyway, not to be deterred, I'm going to build it anyway, and make some kinda clean simple 60s showcar/drag car/hot rod out of it. I dug out some parts I had and found a grille shell (not the correct one, but its for a 32 anyway...) and some wheels from an Orange Crate that I picked up for spares (the kit wheels included are pretty terrible) and before I know it we had a battleplan! I'm going with the kit flathead, and it'll be pretty much out of box aside from the missing bits and the stuff that I can't bring myself to use. Add a little detail, use the kit Flathead, focus on my paint skills and have a nice (relatively simple) build. Famous last words...

What a cool build! Cant wait to see more!

Thanks for the nice comments guys! It's kinda slow progress on this one - I'm spending 10x as much time working things out as actually building, but I've got some time off planned soon so I'll spend some more time at the bench. In the meantime, here's another shot of the front end (held together with sewing pins right now for ease of mockup) I'm going to start on hanging the rear end soon... I made a little Moon tank using a pen barrel and some resin hubcaps And I've started collecting parts for the engine, including this cool intake setup from The Parts Box in Australia - I might find some nice machined aluminum stacks to stick out through the hood More progress as I make it!

And another little update - I had to wait for some thin aluminum tube to arrive so I could continue with the front end but it arrived this lunchtime so I got right to work making a couple of bars to finish off the front suspension: It's held together with some micro drill bits right now whilst I wait for some scale fasteners to arrive, but in the meantime I'm going to work on fabricating some front shocks and cleaning up the front end parts gently to remove the flash that you can see in the pics.

A little more progress...only a tiny bit though! Working on the front end still - I need to find some really small gauge hollow aluminum or brass tube to make the top linkage and to fabricate some shocks, but it's starting to come together...

Actually, before I make the link arms for the rear end I wanted to lock the front end down to make sure the wheelbase is exactly right - it'll be easier to move the rear axle a fraction than the front wishbones. I was going to print some wishbones for this, but then I came across this old white metal hot rod front end - from R&D Unique I think? The parts look like this: So I made some little brass brackets to mount the bottom wishbone to the frame, et voila! More to come once I figure it out

Looks GORGEOUS in red! Stunning!

OK, so I took trent's advice and got some Dirt Modeller rod ends (great service - only took maybe 3 days to reach me even right before Christmas), and whilst I was looking at their site I saw these gorgeous PE brass 4 link parts - so I had to have them! I used a centre section of a Revell quickchange rear end and some styrene tube to make a rear axle, shown in progress above, as the original kit axle was too wide of a diametre to easily work with the 4 link parts that I bought. Should work great though! I need to chop the axle to width, once I figure out presciely which wheels I'll be using and the offset so excuse the rough ends, but this should work! Next, to make some link arms! I'll be back in 6 weeks with something finished hopefully