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This keeps looking better and better, Bernie. The Archer louvers look really good. I had the same trepidations with their welds and the "less paint is more" method worked there too.

That's an extremely clean and well done build! It just plain looks grand.

Good show! Looks like that works great.

Here's a pic of the frame in the weathering process just to keep the update legal. I intended some salt weathering but the Krylon black I used over it was too heavy as it would not cover areas between the salt. I scraped it some but all those bumps are salt buried in the paint. Since this will be heavy rust, it will look ok when everything else is added. So far just some roof brown dry brushed dabbled on. Now, the hinge pin search has given me quite an education .. and still leaves me wanting to figure out how straight pins are sized. I found some excellent straight pins in my Mother-in-Laws sewing cabinet. They fit snug into the plastic hinges being .034" diameter. The heads were a bit larger than I wanted so I went out looking for the same diameter but with smaller heads. I was confronted at Joann's Fabric with pin sizes given as Tam 17. This was the most common size with others being larger numbers. They seemed to follow gauge sizes with smaller numbers being larger sizes. I tried some tam 17 with small heads and these were considerably smaller than the ones the fit well being only .02" diameter. I had no idea what Tam size would be the .034 pins I had. At home I searched the net for info on straight pin sizes and found no useful information. I got some indication they follow wire gauge sizes but the Tam numbers follow no used gauge standard. My Mother-in-Law worked in the coat factories in Patterson, NJ for many years and these pins were not ordinary. I found nothing on line that would have come to matching the diameter of these monsters. I ended up just smoothing the edges of the heads in the Dremel with a file. They still look good and give the door hinges a nice friction fit. a lot of unique pins: and, a pin in place before cutting to length:

Speaking of '49 Hudsons, (weren't we?), does anyone have any photos of the '49 Hudson Stilleto by Fidel Ascencio that won the 2010 Long Beach Motorama Dean Jefferies Award for Creative Excellence. It seems odd that there's no photo's of an award winner in any coverage I find.

This front cover HAS to be metal ... and I won't take Alclad for an answer!

Impressive work here and a very interesting thread. Please do keep it up!

I just noticed this post and I apologize for the way I work, Skip. Some of us don't worry about WHEN we finish a project as long as we're having fun. Things change and parts fly. Many things switch us between projects. This one WILL come back some time .. when I get the urge. I hate painting, so that's what really stopped this one.

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Neat side story Nick .. and some juicy photos to boot! Back in the 30's a farmer would probably just use some planks for sides. They had WIDE boards back then.

I'm no expert by any means on this, but I was researching a early 60's dragster build and it seemed parachutes were just starting to be used in the very early '60.

There are people here under 60? wow!

I should know better! I corrected my spelling.

I just got a message from a friend in Arizona saying her pipes are frozen! It's 5 degrees there! She is in Bisbee, so must be 15 in Phoenix .. ehheh

Beautiful build! That paint looks fantastic ... reflections look as close to a real car as it gets!

I'd hate to discourage anyone from trying something. The gluing trouble I had with these hinges was related to the small pieces I had to attach the tubes to. With piano hinges I don't see any problems. You'd in effect be gluing long tubes directly to the hood. Many people have made these hinges before.

I can't offer up any tutorials, but it seems there must be some photo etch radiator faces you could find to use. edit: (5 minutes later. ehhe) You got me curious and found this at Hiroboy.com Bummer, it seems to be sold out though. Another possibility at Hobby Link, but says Not Available Yet.

I really like this in that color! I'm am prejudiced though as I had a '59 Impala in the same colors. It looks great overall ... and I don't envy your BMF fingers!

OMG Charlie! THIS is the car I got my drivers license in! My Uncle Jim offered offered to let me use his '56 Chevy cause it was an automatic (I learned to drive on my Dad's VW bus). It was the colors you're using and I will be riveted here watching this come together.

I'm liking this ones looks.

Well, the paint went on well, but my "easy to maintain" Iwata airbrush clogged as usual and in the end It won't even spray pure thinner! There is no other way they show to clean besides what I have done. A small brush in the hole for the paint cup comes out full of blue paint! The cheapo Testors airbrush I had before this didn't cause these troubles. But anyway, PAINT IS ON! I also cast the GMC logo and some door handles using Acrylic fingernail filler per Custom Mike's post It's all at the link if you're interested. The jury is still out as to the smoothness of this material out of the mold. It sure is easy though. These are the pieces right out of the mold before any cleanup. There's two door handles in that big mass . eheh

I got the stuff and tried molding a few small parts. I had to buy the Beauty Secrets liquid as the one pictured on the first page wasn't available. I did add some green dye but it didn't seem to do much . the parts came out as white as the powder. White is good, but I did add more coloring for the next time. The molds I had squish cast using RTV Silicon casting putty. The nails material did not stick to it at all .. nice. I did have a couple plastic stops on the GMC logo mold which it did stick to. Have to use some Vaseline next time. The parts are difficult to make out but will paint to see how they are. There are some door handles and a GMC logo off a front grill. So far they look good, but paint will tell how good the finish is. I did this using a brush same as the body filler tutorial here and pushed the material into the molds with a flat spatula.

We only got maybe 6" and some sleet in Western Massachusetts. Most of the snow must have fallen out in Chicago.

Looking good.

Morning breaks in the Berkshires as Chicago is no more. There's no snow going on here, just sleet .. bah! Looks like my morning McMuffin won't be today. I tried to Goggle CHICAGO and got a "does not exist" error. But, I'm doing some van painting no matter what!