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I made the front door cards from styrene, pretty simple. I made the arm rests from 3 pieces each, they'll get "tweaked" a bit before actual paint. So here's the basic interior in grey primer, probably going to be all white with purple carpet (flocking). Haven't started the dashboard yet.

I made rear side panels. You can see where I cut the floor to bring it back to level.

The tub was quite warped. I cut a vee groove where the front seat will cover and glued a wedge then secured it with these side pieces.

Started the '56 Ford interior, 9 pictures: 1: Here's the kit seats. 2: I want a simple rolled and pleated custom interior, so I cut out the stock upholstery. 3: Here's the "rolls and pleats". 4: I also eliminated that dip in the seat back top. 5: Then I thinned the package tray so my added styrene wouldn't stick up too far. 6: Here's how the package tray lines up with the rear seat now. 7: For the front seat I added styrene to the center because I was going to cut down the middle of the seat back. 8: Looks much better with the seat back separated. 9: Here's just a look with both seats together, not glued in of course. I still have to modify the rear sides and door panels, prime, paint and flock, before I can glue the seats in. Cheers!

Cool project! I do like both, but the cross-ram really does it for me.

I just wanted to show Pat, "landman" what can be done with just kit parts. I did a lot more, but this is HIS thread, I don't want to post too much of MY stuff on it.

That's very nicely integrated! And it IS a LOOOOONG roof! LOL Looks great so far, and I'm sure you'll make it look so cool!

I cut these parts out and ended up with a pretty decent frame! Easy to do.

So much better! Great tip Greg!

Definitely the look I'm going for, vintage, mild custom street car and I'm trying to use as much of the original AMT kit as I can. Lately I've done the same with an old AMT '49 Ford, and '49 Merc. Those old kits were actually pretty good! With a bit of finesse they look very good! Here's my Merc, in case you missed it, nosed & decked & shaved (no door handles) :

Total coolness! I'm loving this step by step fabrication!

WOW! Radical man, I love it!!

Steve, I never saw those Pegasus with wide whites, but I still like my tire choice more. I've finally got the scratch built skirts looking good. Paint is "in progress"

Not sure, some Revell kit probably. I mixed these acrylics together to match the body colour, painted the edges to simulate full wheel covers over purple rims.

Okay, for the wheel/tire combo, I found these Pegasus wheel covers on narrow whites, they're 15s but I want to use the wheel covers on 14" wide whites, so......... I rolled up some 600 grit and carefully made the plastic whitewall insert fit the Pegasus wheel covers, which are in fact the whole wheel from Pegasus. I had to cut out some rubber for them to fit the tires, but the plastic whitewall insert hides the sloppy cut on the face. I was more careful on the backs of the tires. The wheels were too wide also so I cut them down to the tire width I'm using. Here's how they look and there are "flippers, spinners, or crossbars" to go on the centers after they're installed. (still in the plastic bag in the first picture)

Thanks David, it IS the kit supplied engine, just fixed up a bit. Using as much of the old kit as I can, finally decided on wheels and tires, not from the kit! I have to make the wheels fit the tires, and I'll post that process up in a bit, maybe tomorrow, BBQ @4 and it's 3:30 here now!

Working on the AMT kit Y block, didn't like the oil filter, so I made one from sprue. Made up a triple carb intake and added a few wires, lines and linkages. Good enough for mostly old kit parts.

Wow, I love that gasser, great build! Both of those are nicely done!

That's cool! Having fun with models, I love it! You wouldn't do it to a real '69 Camaro, but it's a model, meant to be fun!

Nice work, looks great!

Still working on this old kit, want to use as much of the original as I can, but I made a few improvements to some old parts. Of course I de-chromed the generator, rad and fan. I spent 5 minutes improving the fan belt and pulleys. I replaced the front springs with some wound thin solder. I sprayed the floor pan white but I'm just brush painting the molded on stuff. I made a driveshaft hoop, just to complete the partial molded on cross member. Going to use the stock rear suspension too, but I've gotta lower that, the front was easy.

Wow Greg, that looks great and I love the way you motor through missing or misaligned parts! The rear cover looks excellent and your grille is genius! Cheers!

Good idea, but I've already made these, and I do like making my own stuff, so I'll stick with them. It's all about having fun, and scratch building to me is so much fun!

Here's how they look installed, the gaps weren't consistant, so I'm trying to fix that, they won't be removed now though, super glued on! I'll fill and re-scribe them.

As promised, pictures of fender skirts. I'm certainly not happy with them yet, and they didn't turn out exactly as I envisioned. But I'll continue tweaking them and learn to like them although I was hoping they'd look more stock. I made them too tall, so they're down lower than I hoped, but I think it'll give a bit of a tail dragger look to my vintage mild custom, street cruiser.