dino246gt

This is a very unlikely source of wheels but here I am, using 4 of the Hispano Suiza kit rims with 2 parts box tires on the front and the Heller tires on the rear! Just a mock up to verify the stance, I like it! Plan is for knock offs.

WOW! You are a great modeler! I love how you make kit parts into better parts, that's awesome. This will be a fine AMT built, better than AMT could've imagined! (there's no such person as AMT, but I hope you know what I mean)

Looks like a great project! I have an old rust-free door out in the barn if you need one? LOL

It bugged me that the roof was so flat, so I scored the paint and built up a slight bow with scrap styrene and putty. This was the most difficult part of the build so far and it isn't quite there yet but will be worth the extra effort. I hope!

Unfortunately that Revell rear end was not wide enough to clear the Orange Crate body. I cut off those ends and drilled for some metal rod. I used Plastruct tube over the metal rod, loaded with super glue and got the correct width. Started adding brake lines and finned Buick drums.

This is just a little "how to" or "must do" that I'm sure most of you already know. Hollow backs are filled with styrene filed to fit and drenched in extra thin glue then pushed hard in. After dried, cut off and sanded to shape. So easy and so much better.

Just checking the stance:

Almost all kits, 1/25th included suffer from this! Cheers!

Welcome to the madness Robert! The more the merrier! (that's a weird old saying, probably from around 1932))

I was skeptical at first but you made it work out beautifully! Well done!

Great tires and wheels, in both scales, 1/12th and 1/16th! Ya gotta get those wheel covers set deeper into the rims though, agree?

Man that engine is fantastic! Can't wait to see the rest of this beauty come together, you da man!

I found that the windshield from a Dodge Sidewinder kit had the correct curvature so I cut it down for my T-Bird "speedster". You might search any kit "glass" to find a better fit and file it to shape, MAYBE even the original kit piece.

Yours looks cool, I also built this one:

I'm using the exhaust from the '32 Ford Roadster (modified re-issue Rat Roaster) kit so I had to notch the body to match the notches in the frame. I'll use the front suspension from that same kit and I've already de-chromed it. Now I see that the older Revell chassis doesn't have any place to attach that suspension! I'll have to make some brackets to go under the frame rails. I made them from styrene the same width as the frame. Looks like everything will work out quite easily, all good.............so far!

That Orange Crate body has these bulges that I don't want, so I cut them off and started making replacement bits. I say I'm "un-crating" this thing, LOL.

Here's those 3D printed valve covers, semi-translucent. I foiled ONLY the tops, then airbrushed Alclad "aluminum" right over them. Then I used a hard Tamiya "Q-tip" and polished only the tops of the fins, got the look I was after. I'll add little photo-etch bold heads after they're installed.

High praise indeed! Not sure I deserve it though, but thank you, I'm glad you like it! It did turn out a lot better than I was expecting. I did it just to go along with these old stock builds:

MRM, those modern seats looks so cool, wow, great idea and execution! Can we say "execution"? LOL I love the look!!

Here's how I made those interior handles and cranks. These are from bent guitar string, tiny round beads from Michael's and small wire insulation. They're not good enough for open cars but in these old coupes, like the '49 Ford (last picture) and '49 Merc, '50 Olds and a few others, they're better than kit door card relief. They go through the holes before any glue, I can position them from outside then super glue them also from outside, then cut off the excess, again from the outside. I brush some Moltow on after.

I have these old school finned valve covers with rounded ends, I like those. The heads have a mounting block that's too long so I used a small grinding burr to make the valve covers fit. The '29 Model A Roadster Revell kit's triple carb intake also needed the mounting block removed. Headers from the '32 Ford Roadster Revell kit won't stay chrome and I've drilled out the ends. Exhaust pipes and mufflers also from that '32 Ford Roadster kit, and I drilled out those ends as well. I'm having so much fun with this thing, even though I still don't know what it'll look like! Building as I go with parts I can find on hand.

AMT's '49 Merc kit is a classic and every modeller should build or probably already has built one. Revell kit is also great, but chopped and somewhat simplified, but I've built that one as well as the cool Woody Wagon from Revell. Here's an old AMT glue bomb that I dis-assembled and re-did. Cheers!

I just added the tiniest bit of weathering to the underside:

Hey Jim, it's just rattle can Tamiya and Mr. Hobby clear, also from the can. I use Novus 2 as a polish. I'm getting better with spray cans! I usually use my airbrush, but this turned out better than I expected.