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That must have been a very neat car! Mine is going to have a 350 SBC with a V6/71 Blower and dual carburetors, and also 4-Speed. I'm trying to make it look like someone could have built it in the mid '60s.

Did some work with the engine details today. Started off with throttle linkage. That was kinda tricky, and because of that my linkage is not completely accurate but I think it will do. It's made from some metal wire that I had laying around and Detail Master's Photo Etch parts. Then I glued the belt driven fuel pump on place. Obviously, the belt and pulleys is still in progress . The fuel pump itself is taken from the AMT Boss Nova kit that has the same Hemi engine than AMT Double Dragster. After some prepping I sprayed it with chrome silver, painted the fuel line fittings and added a bit of black washing with Tamiya's Panel Line Accent Color. Fuel line from fuel pump to the fuel block was very tricky to get on place, but finally I got it there. Next step will be scratchbuilding the headers and messing with the belt pulleys and belt for the fuel pump. Then a couple of smaller parts (starter, oil filter etc) and the engine is pretty much done.

Unfortunately they are using pretty much road salt in here, too. Which is why it's pretty rare to see old cars during the winter months. Except that the road salt doesn't work when it's cold enough, so when it's really cold, it's possible to cruise around without having the salt all over your chassis. Now as it has been very cold for a while and yesterday evening the temp cage was showing -16 Fahrenheits, all of the roads are snowy as the road salt doesn't work. That Cadillac Hearse was pictured at a Kustom Kulture Show parking lot. The city of Helsinki has decided that particular parking lot is not free, so if you're planning to park your car there for the whole day (like you have to do when you go to see the show), it's actually cheaper to take the parking ticket than pay for the whole day parking...

Nice work slicing the roof! Now it looks really good from front and rear, but I might do something with the side profile. Now it looks too flat in my opinion, so I when looking at the cab from the side, I'd add a bit of material to the middle of the roof and smooth it out with putty. A flat roofline like that doesn't work very well with the rest of the body which is full of round shapes everywhere. Just a suggestion what would make the roofline look better. As I said, it looks very good from front and rear. Just the side profile could do some minor tweaking. Anyway, keep it coming, this is going to be a great looking Pickup when done.

Yep, it's a great kit that I've been searching for a long time. I'm very happy to finally have it on my shelf. The trailer was missing from my kit, but that's no problem. Maybe I'll score one on eBay some day. Thanks, I like '60s Wagons as well. But even more I like the 1st gen Chevy II or Novas in different body styles. In fact I have a plan to build one of each body style (Hardtop, Convertible, 2D Sedan, 4D Sedan and Wagon) in stock condition. That will take some time though, and first I want to get my 1:1 '62 Two Door Sedan running and driving.

Wow, that is a great looking Country Squire right there! Always liked how these cars look, great to see a scale version of one. The paint work and woodgrain on the sides are incredible. Very well done Longroof!

That's a very clean Cadillac, nice work! Great to see these unusual subjects being built, especially when they're done this well. The color is perfect choice and paint job looks really good too. I also like the interior upholstery pattern a lot. Very nicely done Cadillac.

Oh yeah I know that car. Once he did a good burnout while leaving a Cruising night in Tampere, of course with the sirens and police lights on. You can see plenty of old US cars in the summer around here. Unfortunately in the winter not so much. In this link you can see some of the cars I saw on the road last year. Of course I saw lots of more cars, but these are the ones I was able to catch on camera: What Did You See On The Road 2018

This arrived in the mail today. Did some trading with a fellow modeler on Drastics Plastics forum, and got this AMT '63 Nova Wagon. It's one of those kits that I've been trying to find for a long time, but they always seem to go over my budget range on eBay. This one is not perfect, but a very good starting point for me. It's missing some small parts, but it has the most important ones and that's good for me. I think it will be factory stock as the kit is so complete and in good condition. I'm very happy to finally have this kit on my stash. And can't wait to start building!

Not a very special update to my '51 Bel Air, but minor progress at least. I fabricated those small "supports" or whatever they might be called to the seat. Now the driver and co-driver are not going to slide around on the seat while cornering. At least some of the old Stock Cars had these on their bench seats. Also the engine got a bit of black wash. Next step will be working on the intake and exhaust area, and add spark plug wires...

Wow! That's a very nice Mercury Longroof! As always you did an excellent job with the paint and finish. Always great to see these unique cars being built. I'm wondering how did you do the woodgrain on the sides? They look fantastic.

I made them from masking tape which I painted black. It works pretty good unless there is a bend in the roll bar tubing as that will cause wrinkles to the tape. I wonder if anyone has used this Pro Tech Roll Bar Padding on their models? Usually Pro Tech stuff is top notch quality so I'd think this is good stuff as well, but never tried it. http://www.tedsmodelingmarketplace.com/roll-bar-padding-1-25/

This evening I was cruising around in Helsinki, Finland (because what else would I do on Saturday night ). I stopped by at a gas station to go and get a cup of coffee. When I got out of my Chevy S10, I heard a V8 rumble and saw this chopped Cadillac Hearse driving towards the city center. That made my day, great to see a car like that driving in snow next to several horrible looking new cars. This picture was taken about a year ago.

This one was actually pretty easy. It was very clear that it was based on a Triumph Herald, but because Triumph never made a four door version of this car, it was clear that this is some other version of that car. After some searching in Google I found out about the Standard Gazel and that was it... Never knew these were made in India until this week.

Wow, another beauty from your bench! I would probably still see nightmares about BMF if I built one of these, that's a lot of chrome trim ! But you did an excellent job with them, the paint job also looks very good. The red interior works perfectly with the black paint job, too. Very nicely done.

Oh yeah, a vertical gate shifter! Been trying to find one for my 1:1 Chevy II Gasser project, but haven't found any of them around here. So, probably I have to start with the regular H-pattern shifter, but one thing is for sure. Not gonna install a boring automatic in that one, four speed is the way to go.

Here are two of my latest ones, a '55 Chevy Gasser built from the Monogram BadMan kit with lots of modifications here and there, and a '64 Ford Thunderbolt.

Lots of Z11 information on this page: http://www.hanksz11page.com/z11info.htm . Can't find any information about the paint colors, but all of the pictures show the valve covers being silver. So that's what I would go with. Hope this helps.

Thanks Charles! Today I did some test fitting with the engine to get it mounted properly in the engine bay. First I did a mock up with the stock Flathead six to see where it would mount, and for my surprise it sat pretty far back when using the stock mounts. I did a Google search and that seems to be the case with the real car as well. Of course that's good for my use. The Flathead V8 fit on place pretty well, but it was sitting way too low, so it looked tiny in the engine bay. So I decided to lift it up a little and that helped a lot. So I fabricated a new crossmember for the frame so that the oil pan fits on top of that. I used the stock engine mounts as a basis for that. It's not the most accurate way, but that way the engine can be glued exactly to the right position and it will sit there just like it should. The crossmember needs still some work, and I will also have to fabricate the actual engine mounts between the stock Flathead engine mounts and the new crossmember that I built. Trans crossmember was also modified a little by adding a bit of material so that the trans will sit a bit higher too.

Didn't know they had that in grey as well, but now I know. Did you use black or grey to the chassis and firewall? I'm wondering because I've used the black version for all my panel lines and it's pretty...How could I say it...Black/dark. I would think that it's pretty hard to do a subtle wash like that with it but of course I could be wrong. In any case now I know there is more use for that than just only the panel lines.

This is coming together very nicely, I have several of these different '65 Plymouth kits on my stash so I'll be bookmarking this thread for future reference. Everything is looking very good so far. Especially that light weathering looks fantastic. Did you use the Panel Line Accent Color for the firewall and chassis, too? They look very good.

Definitely an opening hood, especially as it doesn't look that bad to me. The Revell kit has a nice engine bay and engine, so it would be a shame to cover that up. And personally as a builder, a resin kit with opening hood is always a million times more interesting than one with molded in hood, as then it will have to be opened up.

Wow! I need to start saving immediately for that one. Always liked Wagoneers and now when there is a good quality resin kit available of one, I really need one of them.

Beautiful as always! Very nice paint work, a black paint job like that is very hard to get right, but looks like you nailed it. The interior is very nicely done too. This is one of those bodystyles that looks pretty good as a Convertible, even though I'm usually not a huge fan of them.

We've seen bunch of those VW Bugs from the '60s, but these older ones are pretty rarely seen. Great work as always, very nice and clean BMF work on the chrome trim. The color is a perfect match for that body, too.