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Jeff, I'd love to see mine mixed in with your amazing Caddy collection! I also did this one, Modelhaus '49, and a radical custom of the old Monogram Brougham:

Other than weathering, I think this one's finished:

Man that's gorgeous!

I did mine years ago, so I know it's not accurate, but it still looks better than what the kit offers. First I removed all the blank areas, then fitted "stuff" to improve the look. Since then I've purchased the Pocher Aventador, so now I've learned all about what's accurate and what isn't, still at our model club, there are no Lambo experts, (except Dave MacDonald), my 1/24th version went over well!

Great start, interesting thread, I'll be following, I've always loved those Fords for mild customs.

If I could find another body, I'd make it into the pickup, wouldn't be too difficult using a kit bed with scratch built rear fenders. Although I'd have to go through most of the same stuff I did on this one. I'd love to have the pickup to match. I guess I'd have to have another glass of wine too! LOL

I love it! I'd do the frame body colour, but white is also cool, forget gold! Just my opinion, of course, paint whatever colour you favor but it's a great looking hot rod!

I really like this project! I've been dreaming of doing a '56 Ford for years! Still haven't started one, so looking at yours is fun for me, thank you for posting!

Very cool build, love the family camping "stuff" inside! What'll be on the roof?

I chose the 'Cuda, I don't do stock either! Great kit, what I used from it!

Gorgeous! I love those Caddy models, hope you don't mind seeing a few I built:

Cool project, and looking great so far!

Here's the chassis all together, still need to weather it:

The roof is chopped and the rear is shortened both in front of and behind the rear wheel opening, this allows the roof to align with the wheel opening in a pleasing manner, much like the un-altered original, only better!

On the issue of large scale, I wish everyone would settle on just one large scale for all new kit releases, 1/12th would be my preference. All model cars should be 1/24-1/25th, or 1/12th in my opinion. I do love 1/8th, but it's expensive, and large! 1/16th is good but there's not a great selection of great models available now, I have a lot of them but the detail is disappointing on most, no better than 1/24th, and usually not even as good. What I love building includes a lot of "kit bashing" but in the larger scales, well, you can't mix 1/18th parts with 1/16th models, or 1/12th with 1/8th, and so on, like you can with 1/24th and 1/25th. 3D printers are making all scale parts available, but those too are quite expensive, I wish there were more kits in the same scale! Anyway, I am happy with the stuff that is available, I was just "venting", it's all good, really, Cheers!

Here's those parts painted, I messed up on the driver's lower, but it's hidden by the seat, so it doesn't need to be repaired. Here's those parts with the chassis and floor together. I cut three strips for each side below the window trim along each side to simulate the bare rear of the interior, of course they got painted to match. Sun visors and an inside mirror are there as well.

Have to scratch build some interior for this thing, so here goes. First inner door panels and rear window surrounds. I had to cut nail file boards to fit inside so I could smooth out the resin. Sheet styrene is cut to fit and styrene strips wrapped around the door windows, then vent posts and door cards added. Dashboard shape was created with styrene, and an inner tailgate also styrene sheet with strips:

That's some fine work man, and you know I love a Countach! Can't wait to see it as you keep progressing, so please keep posting progress pictures! Ciao!

Go for it, I'd like to see some variations on stock.

So, the wheels are Monogram Land Rover resin copies from Scenes Unlimited but I drilled them out and used Fireball Modelworks resin tires, they're for his excellent F-250 conversion of Mobius 4X4 kit. He also sold me some Warn Free-Wheeling front hubs.

I took a flathead straight six from a '41 Plymouth and began making it closer to the Hurricane Six from Kaiser! Cut off the bellhousing and added that, tranny, and transfer case from Hasagawa Military Jeep. Front and read axles are also from the Hasagawa kit. It all fits with a few mods, wheelbacks and rear shocks are from parts box. I made my own driveshafts, thicker than the kit ones.

I cut the seat off, and cut it into pieces, kept the front floor but made a new section for under the seat, more correct with lower part that the door opens into. On the real ones there are tool boxes built into that recess under the seat, opening out and only accessible when the doors are open. Made up a couple of shifter, transmission, and one for 2WD-4WD, and one for Hi-Lo range transfercase, a couple of pedals, and the spare wheel and tire. That seat looks way cooler now too, Tamiya Greman grey! Body color is Duplicolor, the closest I could find to an original color, it's green but with some blue tint.

I stared making a basic frame from a Jeepster and some styrene, tried something for the first time, very thin styrene to cover the joints, seemed to work okay.

The floor pan includes somewhat of a frame, but that had to go, so did the area where an engine will reside, and the front seat area should be lower, so it had to go as well. Once I had the floor cut up, I separated the inner front fenders and attached those to the body.

First I had to remove a lot of resin from the engine bay, and open up the grille and headlights.