dino246gt

Excellent conversion! I love this type of model building, very cool!

Oh man this is looking fantastic already, nice work, really nice, I'll be following!

Would one of these do for the Blues Bros?

Gorgeous!

I built one as a period mild custom, it definitely IS a '61:

Tim, here's the thread of my build:

I made a rad top from 2 pieces of scrap. I plan to modify and add a Ford expansion tank from the '64 Fairlane kit. I made headlight buckets from baby moons out of a '56 Ford kit, chrome stripped, wire holes drilled and painted gloss black. I wired 2 horns, 2 electric fans and those 2 headlights, the 6 sets of wires I twisted previously. I also made a pair of rad wall to firewall support tubes and painted those black.

pic 1: People always ask me how I do those little wires, I use old speaker wire, the kind you can sort of see through, there's a million tiny wires in there! pic 2: Then I twist them together leaving a bit to paint in colour, in this case I wanted 6 sets of 2, so I twisted them together, length doesn't matter at this point. pic 3: I brush acrylic colours on the ends, whatever I have, not correct by any means, and the paint tends to bubble at first but brushing until semi-smooth is easy. pic 4: Then I paint the twisted part flat black to replicate old school tape. Modern cars have more sophisticated wire covers and connectors, this is for older cars.

I've been on a rebuild kick lately too, I love saving old glue bombs! Here's a '62 I did, was already heavily customized so I had a rough time trying to make it stock, so............... I made a new customized version! Used the Foose Caddy chassis.

Tim W. SoCal said: 1963 Plymouth Belvedere or Savoy I'd love to see that too! I combined a JoHan with a Mobius, wasn't as easy as I thought, window shapes are different on the real cars from the '63 to the '65. I always thought the bodies were the same and only the front was different! I was wrong.

Foil and glass done. Still just a mock up though. Separate door handles installed.

This is the best old picture I have of a friend's Pantera, showing that detail: This yellow one is waiting for replacement glass:

A better question would be "What pickup kits should I avoid?" Most of the kits mentioned here are excellent choices!

Here's my relatively stock build of the Revell Black Widow kit way back when it was first released, great kit!

45 minutes of masking for 45 seconds of airbrushing!

Got the body polished out using Novus 2:

Here's how those seatbelts turned out, interior is pretty much finished!

TIP: This is how I make using photo-etch seatbelt hardware much easier to use. I put tape over the end, then cut leaving a tape pointed end. Now it's easy to push in and pull through, without all the hassle of the ribbon coming unfrayed and hanging up part way in.

That black roadster side view on the bottom of the above post is so awesome, perfection to my eye, love that one!

Working on the dash, added lots of extra details, but I still need to smooth out those pull knobs! Still just a mock-up but it'll look good once it's tweaked and installed!

I fitted pedals, the shifter and a roll cage from the Mobius Nova gasser kit. Fire extinguisher detailed and installed. Passenger seat has Ford lap belts, driver's seat will have black racing harness. I added a decal to the upper roll bar that will probably not be seen!

I did some re-shaping of the '64 Fairlane bucket seats and made stands to raise them slightly off the floor.

I made a plate for the floor shifter, drilled some parts box door handles and glued wire in them, cleaned up a fire extinguisher, drilled out a column mount tach, and sprayed them all chrome.

Okay, so it wasn't that easy, but it sure is essential, the difference is noticeable. It looks like a '62 or '63, not a '60 or '61. I went with a factory color, Acapulco Blue Poly, but nothing else is factory correct!

That's how it's done! Great job!