Bernard Kron

Tasteful handsome design concept featuring seriously ambitious customizing impeccably executed. Bravo!

Superb in every way.

Pretty darned impressive if you ask me. 👌 😎 I'll be carefully working through your parts list to see how you did it.

Beautifully realistic work on those motors, Steve. I think the point you make in the above quote is worth emphasizing. Most techniques involve applying materials that mimic the "real life" events that create it, such as using rust colored weathering powders or dark penetrating washes to imitate grime and grease. Quite often they can be modulated as you apply them and then remove portions of them. The key point is that, more often the not, success in achieving your desired effect has far less to do with how you start, or even what you start front, than it has to do with when you stop, which, ideally, is when you recognize that you have made your goal. This, of course, is more easily said than done. Weathering is a dynamic process with a virtually endless number of ways of achieving it. It's very satisfying when you see that "picture in your mind" repeated in the object you've been working on.

I've used Tamiya Panel Line with good results to imitate bare sheet metal surfaces, For bringing out engraving on aluminum parts it works well but should be quickly wiped away from flat and exterior surfaces while applying it unless you want to darken those areas. Here are some examples:

Beautifully done. The detailing is so clean and precise, and the photography captures it so well, that it fools the eye and looks like a 1/12th scale model. Bravo!

Handsome and elegant ride with a lovely stance and cleanly executed. In other words, Real Sharp! I agree about the fender chrome. It echoes the grill nicely, and, along with the retro color scheme and modern oversized wheels, lends a tough, closely coupled look to this hot rod. 😎👌

Gary is the master of fade paint jobs so he's the ideal person to have done the body. You took it up from there and the result is a really sharp rendition. It shows why this is such a classic kit.😎👌 Also, for me, it's on my list of all-time great parts kits!

Beautifully done.

It's encouraging to at last see the initial stirrings of a Revell USA presence in what has up to now been a Euro-dominated post bankruptcy Revell catalogue.

Great to see you taking this FPP model to another level. It provides both an appreciation for the insight and skill you bring to the basis Fernando provided you, and also an appreciation for the work Pinto himself has done in providing us with such kits.

Great to see you picking this up again. The color is spot on for the period. It's a pleasure to see you having your way with the Revell '29 A roadster which, if properly beaten into submission, can yield properly vintage results, which most definitely will be the case here! As I said in 2020(!) Build On...

Thanks again to you all! I'm not sure I'm right but it seems you might think this is BMF. It's not, it's silver paint and "chrome" metalizing powder as explained in my original post. But I'm glad you dig it! 👍

Thanks to all the past posters and to Charles for seeking out this older build.

Thank you Michael! Much appreciated.

Thanks Pete. Much appreciated.👍

Here's my most recent Deuce coupe, a T.R.o.G style chopped 3-window highboy with a SCoT blown flathead:

Impeccable! Lots pf fine detail improvements, too. Bravo! What's the source of the zoomies? They're just right!

Thanks Adam!

Thanks for this piece of history. I always suspected there was some contemporary piece that AMT modeled those after. Thank you! And thanks to you all for your kind words and for bringing this back from the archives, LOL!

Just a gorgeous model, a perfect balance between detail and realism. Everything scales so well. Bravo!

Thanks Dennis. Deep glossy paint jobs are just another form of weathering, LOL. I'm still reaching for the holy grail of the Clean Build. But in the meantime I'll take the compliment, especially the word "convincing"! 👍 As regards the artillery wheels, the moment I got them I blackened the sidewalls and paired them with the Revellogram '37 Ford truck wheels for a set of big 'n' littles that were just screaming for a build like this. As weathered and worn as this may look this is actually an example of the modern, big-bucks, all-the-right-stuff, "Preservation" style that was the kind of car seen a lot at the Flabob T.R.o.G. meet.

Thanx Mattias! Thank you David. As a confirmed kit-basher looking back across the build and cataloging how I got there is definitely part of the pleasure of doing it. I'm glad you found it useful, too. Thanks Phil. I gotta stop doing Deuces and Model A's and do some other things for a while, LOL. Thanks so much, Matt. As the saying goes, "Stance is everything". Tough was definitely the goal so I'm happy you dig it. Thanks Bill! Thank you Dan. I consider realism a great compliment. It's something that underlies all my modeling, sometimes more successfully than other times... Thanks Pete. I think that the 3-window coupe probably responds to a relatively severe chop better than any other Deuce body style. Especially as a highboy. Thanks David. Glad you like it. Thank you Rusty for those exceedingly kind words. 👍 Thank you Chris. 😎

Here are the final photos of my T.R.o.G. Deuce 3-window, driven to Flabob, headlights taped up, raced and driven home: