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Fantastic recipe has produced a delicious delicacy. You are certainly a master chef.

Thanks Bob Thanks Jim Thanks Larry

I bet this would be a winning Custom Clinic entry if there was a current one. Mark Gustavson would love it.

Thanks Roger. It was a pretty straight forward conversion and now I am using the standard front end on the convertible Thanks Carl.

Getting closer to the look I am after - 37 Ford headlights - Radiused wheelwells - Opened up side window area a bit and fit vent windows - Added splitter to windshield

Thanks Tom Thanks Francis - I trimmed the kit grill to just leave the frame and central spine to give me a buck to shape the photo-etched grill and provide a mounting arrangement Thanks Alan - I lucked out with the through the window shot. When I finished the model I took it out to show my wife who was in the garden. I was so impressed with how it looked in the sunshine I took all the photos outside which gave the perfect lighting. Thanks Peter Thanks Chris Thanks David Thanks Ricky

Thanks guys. Here is another view.

SUMMARY Started with Revell ’40 Ford Standard Coupe Street Rod Deluxe front fenders and hood from Revell Convertible Front independent suspension from Revell Willys Street Rod Small block Ford and automatic trans from Revell ’32 Ford 5-W which also supplied wheels, hub caps, rings, tires and stock steering wheel Bumpers from AMT ’40 Ford Sedan Delivery Model Car Garage photo-etched grill Replicas and Miniatures tuck and roll interior Testors Champagne Gold Metallic enamel - I did have problems with this paint in that some of the metallic particles seemed to clump together forming grit. Fortunately it is not overly apparent in the photos.

Great project resulting in a very unique and attractive model.

The ’40 Ford Convertible kit was identified as a Pro-Modeller kit and as such could be built in stock or street rod configuration. Because of my desire to build this model as a traditional custom but get it low, modifications were required to the stock suspension. Up front I did use the dropped I-beam axle assembly but was surprised when I noticed it was narrower than the stock axle. I suppose this was because of the wider tires used for the street-rod version. This turned out to be to my advantage due to the modifications I had to make to use the wide whites and Cadillac Sombrero hubcaps from the Revell ‘49 Mercury which have a pin mount arrangement. In back I flattened the cross member and c-notched the frame. I noticed couple of other interesting things regarding this kit. I the stock rear-end appears to incorporate what looks like maybe a Columbia two-speed differential. I assumed the frame was the same for the ’40 Deluxe Convertible and ’40 Standard Coupe but they differ at the leading edge so some material will need to be trimmed from the Deluxe chassis for it to properly mate with the standard chassis. Sectioning the interior was easier than I thought and only minor trimming was required to fit the floor and inner rear wheelwell assembly.

Thanks guys - Going to post an update regarding chassis and interior

Very well done conversion. Great color choice.

Great concept. Definitely a supercar.

That is one fantastic looking Fairlane. Congratulations on your build.

Wonderful looking vintage racecar. Tuned out very well.

Thanks guy - I am going to glue a bunch of stuff together this morning and also get to work on sectioning and fitting the inner structure. My goal is to try to keep things totally traditional meaning flathead power, transverse springs, drum brakes etc.

You are doing a great job with this project. Looking forward to seeing it under glass.

It looks like a mid-1930's Mercedes to me. I found this photo of a Jo-Han kit that looks similar

I have always been attracted to the look of sectioned, channelled and chopped 39/40 Ford Convertibles. With very little other customization they have a very well proportioned and elegant look like the first generation Lincoln Continentals. The most famous 39/40 customs were built by Valley Customs a 39 for Gary Emory and a 40 for Ralph Jilek. Revell of course never released a ’39 Ford Convertible and Ford never made a 1940 Standard Convertible. I previously used the Deluxe front end from the ’40 Convertible kit to built a ’40 Deluxe Coupe from the Revell Standard kit so now the nose from that kit is being used with the convertible body which will give the look of ’39 Convertible. To complete this masquerade, I will incorporate headlights from the Revell ’37 Ford which are very similar to ’39 headlights. I have had a set back with painting the ’40 Coupe so restarted this project waiting for paint to dry you might say. The Coupe lent its chassis for the photo shoot. There were three ways customizers back in the day built sectioned and channelled 39/40 Fords which can also be done by car modellers. The first and most complex and difficult is to cut a longitudinal section out of the body near the belt line and then the entire body is channelled. The second simpler and easier method is to channel the body and rear fenders the height of the running boards and cut off the bottom of the body and rear fenders by that same amount. The third method is similar to the second but the rear fenders are not channelled rather the body is sunk lower on the fenders with them being attached higher up. In all three methods the hood and cowl have to be similarly sectioned and the cars retained their running boards with methods 2 and 3. With a possible fourth method, the cars were channelled and the rear fenders maybe or maybe not raised but only the hood and cowl were sectioned. I am going with a modified version of method three. For all my cuts I used the width of narrow Tamiya masking tape which including the width of the cuts work out to about 4 scale inches. My first cuts were the cowl side body ahead of the doors and below the belt line. I cut along the forward door line, took a section out of the top and moved the whole thing up. The hood was sectioned at the same height as the body sides. I then cut an equal amount off the bottom of the side body. With the hood taped to the front fenders the whole forward part of the body was glued onto its new location. The forward edge of the rear fenders were glued at the new bottom point of the body sides, at the bottom of the unsectioned rear pan below the trunk and along the body beside the trunk. The roof and windshield frame were also chopped the same amount. I plan to use wide white wall tires with Cadillac Sombrero hubcaps and the wheel wells will be radiused to the arc of the tires.

One of my favourite Ferraris although I have always lusted for Italeri 275 kits.

Very impressive

I like this very much. The Chrysler Corporation certainly had some very stylish cars in the early 1960's

Great color selection. Eventually I want to build and paint both BRG this Tamiya Miata and a Fujimi Lotus Elan for what I think would be an interesting juxtaposition comparison.

WOW Roberto that is quite the project. I like where this is heading and I will be following when your post likely gets moved the Big Boyz section.

Great to see your VW Van WIP. It made me pull out my Revell Samba Bus kit as I forgot it had opening doors all around. In the early 1970's I had a 65 which I will build a model of someday. Although it had a sunroof it was not a 23-window having 12 fewer windows so a lot of filling will be required. It also had a pass through to the cab area. I converted it into a sort of travel van with a hippie vibe. I first got a Hasegawa kit but consider the Revell kit superior in many ways.