dino246gt

Looking good, can't wait to see more! I love the real GTC4, but it's just "slightly" out of my price range! Considered the model as well, so very interested to see what you do with it!

Very nice! Still working on it?

Love it! Amazing craftmanship!

WOW, this is some great scratch building! Amazing!!

I had one old exhaust pipe and one un-used one! I opened up the ends in both. I cleaned up the mold lines and sharpened the muffler ends and clamps, then sprayed with Alclad Aluminum over grey primer. But of course they didn't line up with my parts box manifolds, so I made some little pipes to make the transition. A little putty and some sanding and they're together, paint touch-ups to follow.

I soaked the engine in Purple Power, but it remained as is! I filled the axle hole, yeah of course I did, with various sized rods and a bit of putty, it won't even show so, not great, good enough! So I drilled for plugs, mixed up some acrylic paints I had on hand and ended up with this color, not quite right, but I ran out of paints on hand! Oil pan got sanded and I made some sort of exhaust manifolds from parts box headers. Then I added some basic fuel lines and simple linkage

I cut down the center of the front seat back. I thinned the horn ring. I removed the raised details from the dash where I hope I can find decals to fit! Also drilled holes to replace the "knobs" with something more pronounced. I added a turn signal lever and detailed the dash, a bit, good enough for what I want. Made up the door pulls and some detail for the steering wheel. Nothing here is an accurate '49 Ford interior, just my take on a fun model restoration! Cheers!

Looks great!

Wow, that's very cool! Sinister looking! Great chassis mods, perfect stance!

Very nice! A lot of cool scratch building, I like all that. COOL!

I stripped that old paint and primed the body and chassis with Tamiya white primer then mixed some Mr. Color Leveling Thinner with AK RC232 acrylic lacquer and airbrushed it.

Working on the interior, I started to make window cranks, so I bent some wire, added the outer coating from single strand wire for "knobs" and a bead to each one. This is just a shelf model remember? So they're not what I'd use for a contest car, but better than the almost non-existant ones molded to the door panels! I scraped those off, then drilled for the new ones. I also added some .025 styrene strips for more visual depth.

The body did need some cleaning up, plus I re-scribed the trunk and door lines. While I was doing that, I added the line at the bottom of the front fenders to separate them from the rocker panels. After an overnight soak in Purple Power, most of the paint came off, especially on the body!

Love that stance and the wheel/tire combo, sweet so far!

I needed the interior, along with other parts, from the parts car, the grey one in the background is missing a floor! I had to remove the rollbar which left it's mark on the floor. This type of file helped me get in there to get rid of the glue and rollbar bottoms.

I reshaped the glass units, I'll re-use them as this is not going to be a contest model, just one for the shelf. I sanded them with a 2500 sanding sponge to remove paint and glue. Couldn't quite remove the glue that once held a rear view mirror! I'll just glue a new mirror in the same place! After sanding some Novus 2 returned the "glass" to as good as new, if not better!

The first step is to remove the "glass" held in by half a tube of the good old Testor's type of cement! Well that was AFTER I removed the interior, which was also heavily glued in, of course! After some scraping and prying the windows broke loose, although in parts, that's okay though as I was going to cut it into pieces anyway. Then I used the Dremel to grind away the left overs, that old glue really holds! Finally I cut up some nail file emery boards and wet sanded the headliner mostly smooth, removing ejection marks as well.

I'm going to try and build a stock '49 Ford from a bunch of junk I've had for decades! Here's what's in the box, the green one I've have for over 40 years! The black one I bought for parts.

Love those headers!

Beautiful build of that excellent old kit, looks great in stock form!

I also find this interesting and will be excited to see the progress, cool idea!

What colour is that? I mixed my own, and it looks almost the same! I used ONE part green, to 20 parts silver! Matching an Aston Martin colour.

I love this kind of project, so keep us posted as you progress, it looks great already!

Looks really good already, great start!

Wow, that's some awesome work Gregg!