David G.

Hello David, I tried gently scrubbing at it with a toothbrush but started getting some faint, tiny scratches. The paint was just a little more than 24hrs old, so it may have still been a little soft. So rather than continuing to scratch the paint with the toothbrush, I decided to chase the polish residue out of the panel lines with my panel line scribe, using it very gently, with not much more than the weight of the tool itself. That worked very well on the other areas except on the cowl vent and a few spots around the roof panel. That's why I suspect a lack of paint rather than a remnant of polish. Thank you for your comment and the tip Mark. I'll see if I can pick up a baby toothbrush to have on hand for next time. David G.

Looks great! David G.

Now that I have a more regular work schedule, I have a bit more time and energy for hobbies. So Here's another update. The paint is cured and polished. I've painted the rubber treads on the running boards with a flat black. They should probably be semi-gloss, but there you go. The white bit in the panel gap on the cowl vent is either polish or a lack of paint. Either way I plan to tap in some black pastel scrapings to cover it. This is the spare wheel kit that AMT provided for this model, yuck. In my research I wasn't able to find anything that looked remotely like this in the photos of Fords from this era. This is what the spare wheel should probably look like. Luckily, I was able to find these bits in the parts box. With some modifications they should work nicely. As Always, thanks for taking the time to look and please feel free to comment. David G.

Looks good, nice interior work! Engine looks great too but I seem to recall that the box on top of the generator (voltage regulator?) was usually black. I could be wrong, but that's the way I remember them on my old Bugs. David G.

Good save! David G.

Nicely done! David G.

Looks great, everything is spot-on! David G.

Túlio, your paint always looks fantastic and your work on the trim rings came out great. I am always impressed by your work. David G.

Wow! That takes "Fat Fenders" to a whole new level. Nicely done. David G.

Thank you Dan. To me the corrected bodies and 1:1 cars don't really look wrong Glenn. I actually have a difficult time telling the difference unless they are compared side by side. And thank you for your kind comment on the chassis, that's always my favorite part to build and paint. Thank you Randy. It'll be mostly out of the box- there are a couple of improvements and additions I have planned. I have to say Delton that I was surprised to learn this. To me the body didn't really look out of proportion and knowing of the errors hasn't changed my opinion of it. I do appreciate the insights that you and Bill have provided- I find them rather interesting. Thank you for sharing them. David G.

Looks great so far John! I really enjoy all the added detail you throw at your builds. David G.

Hello everybody! I finally made some time to post some more photos. This is supposed to be dark green, Tamiya TS-43 Racing Green. It's probably supposed to be the equivalent British Racing Green. It looks a good bit brighter tin the photo than it does in natural light. When I painted the green on the radiator shell, I sprayed it over the white Tamiya primer that was on it. I wanted to see if I could darken the green just a bit by shooting the rest of the body with dark gray primer before spraying the green. It worked... a little. The rest of the body is darker than the radiator shell, but not much. I plan to do do some work on it this weekend, by then the paint will be cured and ready for some color sanding and/or polishing. As always, thanks for taking the time to look and please feel free to comment. David G.

Wow! I had no idea. David G.

Thank you Dave Thanks Rich Yes, I think you have to do something really spectacular to pull off a good custom hot rod from that era. Thanks Delton, I'm glad you like the weathering details. I always do at least a little light weathering. "Factory fresh" is great, but in real life, they never look that way for long. Also, I didn't notice that the body of the model looked any different than the photos of real cars I checked out during my research. Where did they do the sectioning? Thanks, David G.

I actually wondered about that Bill. In my research I didn't see any 32 Fords with wooden floorboards but I figured that after 85 years they'd all been replaced or upgraded. No biggie, I'll keep that in mind if I build another one. Thanks for the tip and the comment, too. Thank you Tom, I'm glad you enjoy it. Thank you Marty. I agree with you David, so many of these have been hot-rodded that it's almost a cliche. Thanks Robert. David G.

Nice color, looks great! David G.

Looks great! David G.

I had one of these kits when I was 12 or 13 years old. I don't recall that I finished building it but I do remember that I enjoyed working on it. When I found this kit at a swap meet a couple of months ago, I just had to get it and take another shot at it. The box said that the kit was "Molded in Color". It's grey with little sparkly bits (bleah). It's probably supposed to be silver like the illustration on the box. There's just a little bit of clean up. Not too bad considering the likely age of the molds. On an actual car the floor boards would have most likely been painted with the same black paint as the frame. Treating them as lightly weathered wood however, creates more visual interest, The lightly weathered chassis with the wheels and all the bottom bits installed. I decided that I wanted to do a more basic "out of the box" build so I didn't add any fuel lines or plug wires to the engine. The fan will be added during final assembly. As always, thanks for taking the time to look and please feel free to comment. David G.

Nice paintwork on that Dale! David G.

Beautifully done Geoff! David G.

Nicely done- has a great feel to it. Really needs to be in a diorama. David G.

Love the wheels on that! David G.

Here's mine. Yes, my other car is a hearse. David G.

Thanks for bumping this one Bob. It's another fine example of Harry's excellent skills. David G.

That's funny because I was thinking about you the other day- wondering where you'd got to. If I remember correctly, you were working on building a 1:1 classic Chrysler of some sort and I figured that's where all your free time was going. It's good to see you back at the bench. David G.