JayC

Great looking build! I really like the color. It's builds like these that I really appreciate. I like to see normal cars have attention paid to them. I like the popular cars, too, along with customs, but the everyday cars just really stand out to me.

That is one cool Chevy truck! I really like the color choice.

This thing is going to look really cool when finished. I'm a sucker for duallies!

I read about this. It would sure suck to be the owner. There is now video of the poor car getting pulled out of the drink.

That's a nice, clean build! The color choice makes the car look kind of sinister. Very cool. The engine looks really sharp, too.

Well, this is the only muscle car I have at the moment. A 426 Wedge would count, right?

Great tutorial, Bill! I've bookmarked this thread because by the time I do another car I will probably forget what I read. I'm beginning work on the USS Constitution. That's gonna take me a while. Anyway, the car looks great so far. Seeing the foiling process makes me cringe somewhat. I came to quickly realize foiling is not fun. I've learned, too, that a new #11 X-Acto blade is mandatory. I thought my older blade work work. I botched my first foil that way. It's very maddening to be about halfway done on a narrow piece of trim to have it completely tear due to an old blade! I tried using a cotton ball and don't really care for that. There are too many fibers left behind. I prefer the Q-tip. It wasn't as bad and is more precise. Even though foiling is about as much fun as getting a tooth pulled with no pain reliever, you can't argue with the results. It just looks great.

The car looks great! It looks fast just sittin there.

Thanks, Ed! I often think about what it would have been like to actually have been around when these cars were in their heyday. There are a couple '65 Coronet 500 videos on YouTube and it is a REALLY nice sounding car!

That car is STUNNING! Everything about it is just eye-popping.

Maybe the same guy did do the distributor for this kit. I didn't glue the distributor, so I can replace it later on. The other thing that drives me nuts about the engine is the radiator hose. Everytime I try to stock it into the hole it slides back. I might cut the nub off that, too, so it is more straight. I've seen another Coronet model that does the same thing.

Well, I couldn't resist. I tried to get the engine out of the hood area. That didn't work. It is a REALLY tight fit. I ended up taking the frame off. That was not fun. The damage wasn't too bad, though. Only the radiator suffered casualty. It broke off its snap mount. I really wish this kit was not snap together. I never have luck with those snap things. Anyway, for those that have the kit the part that I was having trouble with was 19. It has to fit into part 8. There is a clearance issue with the engine block. I ended up cutting the nub off 19 and just glued it to 8. 8 is closer to the block now, but there is still a gap. The foil fared ok. It could have been worse. I also did a few minor touch-ups here and there. Here is another pic of the engine.

Very nice job! I really liked this kit. I did one back in 1996 or 1997. I want to do another one if I can find one. I'd like to do a "then & now" comparison with it.

Thanks, George. I will have to have another look at it. Maybe tomorrow. I think I'm going to try and weasel the engine out of the hood. If I can dismount it enough to slide it back some and then remove the radiator it may come out. If that don't work, I just don't know. I REALLY don't want to take the frame off. I didn't notice the misaligned part until I went to decal the engine. You know, I actually wouldn't mind another Coronet kit. There is a REALLY nice one I would love to model it after.

Thanks again, guys! I am happy with the way it turned out. I look forward to my next vehicular project. There is one major thing that is driving me crazy. You can see it in the pics. The front of the engine isn't in the right spot (it looks detached). It has been an issue. There is a part, that is hard to see, at the bottom of the engine. It looks like a hose of some sort. The instructions aren't very clear on the placement, but I think it is in the right spot. Part of the piece is suppose to fit into the piece on the front of the engine. There is a clearance issue because it didn't go all the way back. I had superglued it to the block, but it must have come loose when I fitted the frame to the rest of the car. I would have to take the frame out to work on the engine. I really hesitate to do that because it is a tight fit and I don't want to damage the fragile foil. I don't know if the engine could be taken out of the hood or not. It's a real tight fit. If I leave it, it is going to eat me up inside. There are a couple other minor issues I might like to address.

That little rod looks great! The magazines are a neat touch.

Thanks for the compliments, guys! I think it turned out ok. I've learned a lot about foiling during this project. I'm finding I like flat colors better than gloss colors. I kind of wish the Chrysler engine blue I used was flat. I used the Testors flat black spray to paint all the black parts. The blue and dark green were the only gloss colors I used. I used the dark green out of necessity. The instructions called for those parts to be gloss yellow, but I didn't have any. I kind of like the dark green look. I kind of rushed this project. I probably could have done better had I slowed down. However, I used my computer desk as my workbench. I needed that space back! I'm going to have to come up with a better solution for my next project - Revell's 1/196 USS Constitution. I wasn't sure I even wanted to do this kit after reading about it. I even thought about putting it in the trade forum to see if anyone else wanted it. However, I am now glad I did build it. I realize it may not be the best kit out there, but I got to learn quite a bit about a really cool piece of Mopar history. I sure wouldn't mind having a real '65 Coronet!

Apparently I went over the pic limit...

Well, I finally got it done. I started last week by doing some initial foiling of the chrome. One of the last things I did today was foil. I have come to not like that task at all. I foiled the interior where the actual car had chrome. I took most of the shots in macro mode on my camera. The interior is a little dark, but I think it should be ok. This model has reminded me how much I hate working with Testors enamels. Over a day later and they are still kind of tacky. I don't glob it on, either. Humbrol doesn't seem as bad. One thing I did was paint the black plastic pieces flat black. I like the look better and I always hated the plastic toy look. I didn't get the tires whitewalled or the engine wired. Since the model has the wrong distributor it threw those plans out the window. I didn't have the right stuff for the tires, either. Those will be projects for a later date, I guess. I didn't paint the car a different color, either. By the time I got the other tools and supplies I exhausted most of my budget. Turns out I still need more! Anyway, enough rambling. Here are the pics. Don't mind the hair in the pics. That's the price of three cats and a kitten.

There are so many cool trucks in this thread! Truck models are some of my favorite.

Thanks for the help, guys! This is going to sound really stupid but as I was scrolling to the top to check out other threads I saw my dorky signature. I saw those pennies walking on their 1000 mile journey when it hit me - why don't I try a penny. To my surprise it is almost the perfect size. A nickel may also work, too. I tried a white out pen and the circle itself wasn't bad. I'm going to try something else, though, because the pen isn't fine enough. Too much bled. By the time I was done it looked more like a wide wall. I removed the white out for now.

Thanks, guys. I appreciate the help. I found a white out pen that was laying around. I tried a small spot on the tire and found out the pen didn't like to stay on target. The tires for this kit have little raised ridges. Here is a pic. I'm beginning to think about just doing a wide white wall. I think I can stay inside the line on the tire since it has that raised ridge. I've also got a bottle of white out that has the little foam tip. That may be easier to use. What do you guys think? Should I do a wide white wall on the tires?

I want to do a stock look for the Coronet I am doing. Some photos I have seen show narrow white wall tires. I tried doing it freehand with the Humbrol matte white I got today. It didn't go so well so I removed the paint. I did a search for white walling tires, but only found threads dealing with wide white walls. I have some white out that I read can be used for white walls. My dilemma is, how can I do narrow white walls? How do I mask off the tiny area for the narrow white walls on my tires?

Here are the pictures of the engine components. Yes, my keyboard is dusty. If more pictures are needed I will take them. I got the idea for bead wire from this thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.p...opic=23117&

I'll try and get some pics later. I can just cut the six protrusions off the distributor. I have some bead wire I want to use for the spark plug wires. I'm not sure exactly where they go on the engine. Like I said, I was looking at some pictures of the real thing. Some engines have the wires going down into the engine out of shot of the camera. A couple pictures showed the wires on top of the engine like the one Dave showed above. I was going to strip the paint and paint the car a different color. I decided I wanted it to look stock like it just rolled off the assembly line instead of a custom. Since the kit isn't that great I didn't really want to spend the time stripping and then the money to get the primer, paint, and clear for it. I probably wouldn't have bought this kit if I saw it in the store, but since it was given to me I didn't want to see it just sitting there in the box. I'm really using the kit as practice for stuff like foiling and then bead wire for spark plugs.