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Two very nice paint jobs. Love the colors!

Holy Moly! That is outstanding!

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Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome back.

Looks great and nice engine.

Looks great!

Nice one!

What an outstanding finish!

Nice resto of a seldom seen kit.

Beautiful! These cars had some huge trunks didn't they.

Very nice and great paint!

Oh yeah! I'm digging this one.

Looks good!

Just noticed that I used both shifters. Must have had an off day when I did the interior.?

Thanks! Makes me feel good to get an attaboy from someone as good as you Tom, and I will do the hood emblem.

That's good to know. I just felt it was a little to garish for the era.

This one had been languishing almost finished for a couple of years so I decided to finish it in parallel with the 34 Ford build. Painted with Tamiya Light Blue. This color doesn't look as good as I thought it would but I'm reluctant to repaint because it turned out so beautifully smooth. Totally OOB. Drilled out the carbs and left off the air filters. Chassis is all Tamiya Gloss Black. Seat and tonneau are Testors little bottle Flat Brown. I did the ejector pin marks on the back of the West Coast mirrors with Stoplight Red and calling them reflectors as I remember seeing them back in the day on these mirrors. Except for the grille swap this one is a "J C Whitney custom". I did add some small shims to the edges of the hood opening to keep the hood from being sunken below the surrounding body work. Also shimmed the back of the cab where it touches the frame rails to keep from having the sagging in the middle look that a lot of pickup models seem to have. Still needs a radiator hose as I need to scratch one( Don't care for the forked hose that is in the kit). I may also rip the bumper off and repaint it white. Front could be lower as well. Also lost the inside mirror and two headlight lenses along the way but should be easy to find replacement lenses. One more issue is if built per the instructions the steering wheel sticks to far out of the dash(as you can see). This is the fourth one of these kits I have built in my modelling life and will probably build at least one more and use the left over Thunderbird engine from the 34 pickup kit.

Did this one as a late fifties mild custom. OOB except for the steering wheel and adding a fuel pump to the stock engine. Also made a simple tag bracket from evergreen strip. She's painted with some Krylon Colormaster Satin Ivory. The frame, firewall and dash are done in Tamiya Light Sand. The suspension, grille and other body trim is Tamiya British green. Engine is some old Humbrol Brunswick Green enamel. Seat and tonneau are just plain old Testors Flat Brown enamel from the little bottle. Still need to add the radiator hoses to finish. Oh yeah, removed the hood sides because I think it makes it look jauntier. These old AMT trophy kits still make nice models right from the box and it went together with no issues.

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Looks really good for your first build.

Cool! I really like this one.

Looks good.

Came out nice.