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Lately I’ve been on this thunderbird kick , why ? I’m not sure , but I just built two and just when I thought I was done with T-birds and move on to something else to build I see this in the trade section here on model cars magazine site, last week Paul Payne posted up a few 1/32 scale builds and parts up for trade, in the pile I see this little bird in pieces among the others and just had to have it, so a message was sent and a deal was made, the bird lands on my doorstep a couple days later, I dig though the parts bag , normally I just toss parts like this aside for future builds but for some reason I had to start this build, the model is a 1962 Aurora issue of a 1960 thunderbird, it was a built and taken apart car with a lot of glue here and there, I started by cleaning up all the parts, then doing some body work and primer, I mixed up a light blue for the body then fogging it in candy blue, on the top a mix of silver and a pearl gold then a 2 k clear coat over everything, painting interior to match , I use a liquid chrome paint to airbrush on the bumpers and hub caps, painted on some white walls, I didn’t use the windshield because it wasn’t in very good shape, may if I locate a nice windshield and rear window I’ll ad em, start to finish about 3 days, I looked up the original box and it says it’s a 1/32 scale , but I just built the 1/32 Amt 1960 thunderbird and it’s a little bigger than the Aurora so I’m not sure who’s correct scale wise, anyway here it is and I’m to building anything other than another Thunderbird!! Thanks for looking!!

Awesome looking build! Sam would have been proud!!

Thanks guys!

Awesome!

Looks very awesome!

Very cool and prefect color!

Old chevys and UFO’s ! Two of my favorite things! Looks very cool!!

Can’t wait Dave ! Hope to see ya there!!

Thanks Koellefornia Kid, I’m a big fan of the whole bellflower custom car style.

Yes espo, that roof is very long , I thought about cutting it down some how and adding a chrome band from side to side to cover the cut.but I didn’t.

Very cool!

Thanks guys!!

Looks pretty good from here, I tried spraying satan black once on some masking tape, it looked pretty close to a real top, but kept peeling up !! Lol , I used 1”and 3/4 tape, but I think the trick is to use 2” tape sprayed satan black.

Looks great, that top looks awesome!

Just finished a deal with Paul Payne , awesome trader ! AAA+++

Thanks Dan !

Great looking build!!

Love this topic ( box art ) box stock ? I’m not sure what you’ll call it but I dig it, those builds are just Awesome Dave, when ever I pick up a model kit I’m thinking of just how I’m I going to build this one ? But now you got me really studying the box art, especially the older kits, because of your builds I’m going to build my own collection of box art cars for the display case, thanks for sharing!

Excellent, looks like a museum piece, very nice build!

Looks awesome!

Looks sweet!! One of my favorite things is to save glue bombs , yours came out nice!

Absolutely beautiful!

All look great!!

Thanks so much guys for the comments!

Thanks guys for the nice comments!! Glad you like it !!