Mr. Metallic

Jeez, this was a blast from the past. Thanks for bringing it up.

Great build. Where is the intake setup from?

The 55-56 Vics have a special place in my heart since my dad owned a custom 55 while I was growing up, and we went to several of the national Crown Vic club meetings. Glad to see you are able to get back to the bench, love your work.

The widely available AMT 53 Ford pickup will give you the frame you need.

The "gold plating" is just yellow tinted paint applied over the chrome. I have successfully removed it with a short soak in 91% alcohol.

Any of those Model Master paints the Metallizers? I'd be interested

Jay this thing is killer. I don't get to come around here as often as I used to, but when I do it's nice to have some detailed hot rod and kustom action to check out. You nailed the stance and body mods on this. Looking forward to color.

Engine is looking good, and I love the stance on this thing. Lets see some color!

Very well done mods, but we've come to expect nothing less from your bench. Keep it rolling.

Are the air dams/flares molded in or seperate?

You're still waiting on that slow boat?

Scorpion? Excellent!

The "stock" (chopped) windshield may be in the box, but cowl has been smoothed to fit the Duvall style windshield, so there's no place to attach the "stock" one

Can't believe there's still comments coming 4 months into 2025 in a thread about expected releases for 2024 when there's a perfectly good thread for 2025 floating around 😄

Thanks for sharing. So the Nomad kit includes the gasser front end parts?

Could someone post some pics of the contents of the Atlantis release? On the fence about getting it just for the decals but curious if there’s other cool parts

Once tooling is in China, it doesn't leave. This has been a "policy" for at least a couple decades now. So anything that is there will remain there, regardless of the tariff situation. But we should probably get back on topic so it that this doesn't get political and locked down.

There's plenty of people and equipment in the US to support injection molding. There is tons of plastic injection molding being done in the US. I speak from experience. The thing is will it be any cheaper than the imported product for our hobby once you factor in the higher labor costs here?

I'm currently distracted by a couple other projects, so progress on this is slow. I did get the exhaust location finalized via pins into the block. Test fit the Rep+Min intake as well. I did get the few other bits and pieces of the suspension nailed down, nothing really picture worthy. Hoping to begin painting this weekend.

Always nice to see one of these bodies being built. I've only seen a few actually make it to completion.

Cool hot rod Richard. But it belongs in the finished area. maybe the admins will move it for you.

This is looking really good James. I love the wheel/tire combo and Poncho. Any thoughts on color yet? And yes, inquiring minds want to know about the 3W. Looks older, like possibly Mill City or Ron Cash?

Figured I'd drop this recently completed restoration in here. I obtained a small group of models from my father in law shortly before he passed away 6 years ago. All were builtups from his young adulthood in the late 60's/early 70's. They had not survived their storage well, and it took me some time sorting through them all to see if any were complete. The easiest one was a 71 Mustang that I was able to buff out and give to his son the Christmas after he passed. I sorted the rest as best I could and they have been sitting in a tote ever since. Fast forward to recently when I developed an affinity for the series of "gasser" AWB kits from AMT, many of which have now been reissued (most recently the 64 Olds convertible Streaker). When I remembered that one of my father in laws builds was a Mustang from that series I decided to dig it out and restore it. Here is what I started with. Note the racing stripe made from flocking for some reason along with other flocked details. Due to a few issues with what I started with I decided to build it as if he was still here and I was going to give it to him all shiny and new like the day he built it. So I sourced new chrome bits for the body and injector stacks, but kept his engine wiring (done with thread) and the unique interior carpeting. I even used Testors enamels for the body to keep the old school feel.

Drag City Casting is still in business, but I don't believe he carries any of his dad's product line. @Riser70 you've come to the right place looking for information on the hobby. If you are under the assumption that resin kits you've seen produced by F+F are 3D printed that is simply not the case. They are resin copies of a physical master, so there are no files to buy. And any F+F product will probably bring a pretty penny since they have been out of production a long time and are of high quality. However, if you mean F+F like Fast and Furious that is a completely different matter.

Looks like variations on those words may cause the issue as well? I typed up my post and got the Oops message. After i read through this thread I saw that I had the word "selected" in my post, put a space in the middle of the word and then it allowed me to post.