dino246gt

In 2007 I thought I'd build a full detail stock Falcon, haven't touched it in 10 years!

Curious but did you add between the door and fender also to lenghten the fender? Yes I did, because the upper fender is separate from the lower fender I lengthened the upper fender at the smallest point, center of the wheel opening, but for the lower fender I did it where the door meets the fender. If you have the kit, you'll see how it makes more sense this way, with the scoops on top of the fenders, and the relationship of the wheel opening to the front for the lower part. I haven't worked on it for some time but I also made some really cool wheels and tires for it by kit bashing various kit parts. I don't have a cool picture of it yet, but I do have this:

Wow that's looking good and it's a lot off work that you're doing, nice to see!

I used the front clip to make a '41` coupe years ago, on Revell's '48 body, so I had this AMT woody body left over. Here it is totally stock, I don't want a 4 door! So I removed the B pillars and tried to scribe the lines back in for future development. I thought that if I removed the roof and "sectioned" it about a scale 3 inches it might look sleeker. Then I removed the other pillars, the roof has been sanded down 1/8th of an inch, approx 3 scale inches but it's not glued back on yet. I'm not sure of where I'll go with this, IF I decide to chop it, now is the time to do that! I do want to make it into a 2 door with modern chassis and interior, wheels etc. All suggestions and wild ideas are encouraged to be posted, please!

That old kit does have some funky proportions and no chassis, no open hood. I lengthened the front and since the body is multi-piece, I chose to add to the fender tops above the wheel opening, but to keep that opening in tact, I lengthened the lower body at the door to fender seam. I opened the hood and hinged it to flip forward, had to lengthen the hood as well, then added the Foose underhood stuff. I cut away the bottom and added the Foose floor pan, so the Foose chassis fits perfectly.

Modelhaus, sadly, they've retired, as well they deserved to, all the best to them!

I also love replica stock, and agree that the kit manufacturers would do great offering us stock kits and let us do our own customizing, but once in awhile, a custom kit is good to have. We need both, stock and modified kits, new tools too please! (and no whining) LOL Here's a resin Caddy I built stock!

For my master cylinder, I used guitar strings, which I use for a lot of brake and fuel lines. They are straight and keep their shape when bent with pliers, as opposed to wire on a spool.

I think GM kept it front engine all these years for the purists who didn't want mid-engine, but as Corvette prices kept creeping up in order to keep the performance up, and so many years have passed so, are there really that many "purists" still buying Corvettes? I think it's older people now and so many of us have bought Ferraris, Lambos, McLarens. and think of Corvettes as ultimate Camaros! It's America's sports car and it should be on par with the world's other "sports cars". Just my opinion. Ciao!

Ooooh, lucky you! Unfortunately for me, there were no Lamborghinis in my birth year! Ford though, yes there was Ford! LOL

Hasagawa?

I know, well I do now! ha ha, that the front needs to be flatter but it's too late and I've hinged the hood with that grill hiding the hinge, so it won't be made more accurate. I'm just not a real sticker for accuracy, just trying to make it look "cool" AND have fun doing what I enjoy most, which can be summed up as cutting, chopping and creating. I've only built one model totally "out of box" and it was difficult for me to restrain from flocking and seat belts or wires, hoses and cables! Following instructions just takes the fun out of it for me!

As far as that Caddy kit goes, I never planned to build it as is, but I bought 2 as soon as they came out, for the kit bashing potential. Here's the chassis, engine and running gear that I'm fitting to the Eldo Brougham kit. I appreciate every new kit even if I'm not interested in the subject, there's always some great parts that I can use for other creations! These pics are from some time ago, I've since repainted that Caddy black, leaving everything else Tamiya AS-5.

All I can say is what everyone else has already said, but I just couldn't pass it up without expressing my appreciation of how much I enjoy looking at it, it's beautiful.

Oh man that one is outstanding, so realistic and just so neat and clean, I just love it.

Gorgeous!

That looks cool.

Here's that grill with some larger headlight lenses, foil and paint. I've mixed some Tamiya racing white with khaki green nail polish for the body color.

Here's the kit grill still on the tree. And opened up. Dechromed and primed. I've glued the interior tub to the body, removed the lower body trim and added the cut line of the front fenders down to form rocker panel lines. I foiled the side marker lights, front turn signals and Scout ll emblems, just to prevent paint from hiding the details. I'll remove that and put fresh foil then clear red and orange for the lenses.

Looks great so far, keep it going!

Not much progress on my Scout, it's just such nice weather, I feel bad sitting inside! But I managed to dirty up the tires! They were looking too new, and now they're maybe too dirty, but I'll tone them down eventually. I don't want to dirty up the whole build, so the tires look wrong all dirty on a clean undercarriage.

Wow that's some pretty cool scratch building! At first I wasn't interested, as it's a die-cast, but as I saw what you are doing, I got interested and now I'm hooked! I want to see more! Excellent skills you have!

You know, I never think of building a vintage car, stock, in bright red, but it really looks good! I love that interior color combo too, nice choices man!

Looks very cool and it's nice to see how your plug wires actually look like plug wires, the way you've routed them. I see so many with wires way too long and sticking up like they're solid or something. Your's are much more realistic looking, great job!

I really HOPE Mobius starts doing these Chevies like their excellent Fords!