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Wow, this is very very nice model! That Street Fighter kit is not very good, my dad has it and I've never heard anything else positive comments from him than "Well it's 1960 Nomad" (That's very good, because in the garage, there is '60 Impala 2D HT Sport Coupe.) I have Jimmy Flintstone resin kit from '60 Nomad but I'm just waiting better building skills before I start building it... But your looks nice, paintjob is very great and engine looks good too, with those plug wires, nice detailing on it. Just don't like that 70's or 80's style so much, but whatever.

Good looking lowrider! Paintjob is super, clean and smooth! Looks like prefect. I'm suprised if this model doesn't manage in the show!

Looking very nice! I think, those modifications make this model looking lots of better than it was from the kit. Now it looks like "normal" street car. Nice job, paintjob looks good, BMF work is great looking too! Engine is great too, awesome detailing and I like those wheels and tires. I think, it looks very good!

And all WIP pictures are here: '57 Nomad Gasser All comments, suggestions, critic and questions are very very very welcome!!! THANK YOU!

OLD SCHOOL GASSER NOMAD!!! I finished this one today. This project started in November 2008. It was quite long project, bought from Sweden... I started building from interior. Because idea was to turn this into Gasser, I removed the backseat from it. I saw it first away and then using some unknown plastic, I filled the hole. Then some putty on it and lots of sanding... I get some fabric and I made a carpet from it. Of course it's black. Kit has quite bad door panels, so I saded them smooth and lots of putty to them too, and sanding... Then I painted it with silver and now they look like made from aluminium. I made new door hinghes from piece of rivet... Front seat is from kit, I had to put some putty to it. Floor shifter wasn't in the kit. Engine is SBC 283''. That's quite ok from the kit. There is manifold options for Tunnel Ram or Cross Ram or original Fuel injection... But they all were anything but good for Gasser, so I used Hillborn Fuel Injection for it. Engine is painted by red and there are lots of different colours. Manifolds are from unknown model kit, but they are painted by silver and then a bit of blue to them. Plug wires are Detail Master's stuff. That engine looks pretty good on the car, valve covers are chromed original "Chevrolet" covers... Chassis got some modifications too... Original gas tank was not good for Gasser, so I took dremel and it was bye bye for original gas tank. It was sure, that I will be using Mooneyes tank on it... Exhaust pipes are molded to chassis and I removed them. Mufflers I removed with dremel and I sanded all of the original pipes away from the chassis. Rear axle with leaf springs is from the kit and front axle is from '55 Chevy BadMan Gasser. I painted it with gold and springs are chromed. I removed original front axle mounts from springs... Tie rod is made from MIG wire. Body is painted with a spray gun, Badger 250 and paint is Revell Enamel blue... It's quite good (and smooth), I had a bit problems with it but finished paintjob looks pretty good. Decals are from some old model kit, they were in quite bad shape. I put one of those textes together from five pieces! Clear is Revell's Enamel clear. It was very tricky to clear it up, but it's looking quite ok. Foiling went wrong. Small pieces of Clear left off from the body and that means that it's not looking so good right now... Final assembly was not so difficult, gas tank is from Mooneyes and I made mounts to it from MIG-wire. Then I made a hole to it for fuel line. It's Pro Tech's "Braided Line" and it goes to fuel filter... From there lieves one hose to that part, where goes one fuel line for every fuel injection tube... Just a little details to engine. Original grille and front bumber system was not good, so I saw just upper flange (?) away from it and installed it to body. No problems with final assembly, I think, model looks pretty nice right now, there are lots of mistakes (yes, I know) but the style is great. Few more pictures on the next post.

WOW, what a detailing! It looks very good, meaning that engine and that ''REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT'' is looking very good, plug wires are very nicely etc. Very good looking paintjob on it and those wheels and tires are looking very good. Stance is vewry great too. Build on!

This looks awesome! That weathering looks very autentic and that building style is good. I never would make weathering for that nice paintjob, you did and it looks amazing! I like this, pictures from the engine...? Great work!

Wow, it was very nice to see your "On The Workbench" topic. Lots of scratch building... This is just amazing and awesome model. Paintjob is very nice and I like that scratchbuilding a lot and detailing is super as always and those exhaust pipes are looking like 1:1!!! AMAZING job on this and keep these coming.

This is going to be great! That engine looks very nice and wheels and tires are 1:1 looking! Nice job, keep on the good work!

After Ford, I built '67 Chevrolet Chevelle Pro Street. It's Revell's kit and that kit is worth buying. It's very good and there are lots of useful stuff, if you want to buy it for spare parts. This is painted by brush, because I just didn't find a good colour on it. Paint is Humbroll Metallic blue, and that's not a good paintjob. My brush was very very bad... But anyway, engine is 396'' with blower. Blower is from Monogram '70 Chevelle and I left wheelie bars away. Othervise it is box stock build and it's very good kit!!! After this Chevelle I built '72 Nova Pro Stock but I have to go and take pictures from it later, so I'll post it later... Then I built '64 Pontiac GTO. It's Revell's kit and that kit is pretty good too... It has 455'' Big Block and Hillborn fuel injection system is from '57 Fairlane... Interior is built stock and this is pretty simple model, don't mean the kit! Wheels and tires are looking good, I think. Painted by spray gun and it has few coats of clear on it. I'm pretty happy with this model, all body trim is painted by Revell Enamel colours... More comes tomorrow, comments and questions are very welcome!

Ok, now it's coming some more... After the GTX I bought '66 Chevrolet Malibu Flip Nose wich is new version of Monogram's old model. Was it called ''Malibu SM''? However, this is painted by brush again and I have changed the wheels and tires, they are from Monogram '70 Chevelle. I left that scoop away and I put some sponsor-decals to it. Engine is 427 Big Block Chevy, it's straight from the box and interior has no modification either. Chassis is that, what comes with the kit. It was quite good model but now, many many years later, I think, I would make that Flip Nose working.. And after Malibu was built, I bought other new release from old Monogram's kit... This time it was '55 Chevy Gasser, wich was ''BadMan'' originally... This is PAINTED BY SPRAY CAN!!! So, it's my first model painted with spray can and it went quite well. This kit is not so good, because engine is too small, not meaning cubic inches. I mean that it's looking way too small on there... Chassis was pretty good and that front axle system looks pretty good so now I bought BadMan's front axle to '57 Nomad, wich will be finished soon. This one is not one of my best ones, but I like the style of this build. And yes, it's matt black. Scoop is from '66 Malibu... After Bel Air I build '32 Ford with 302'' and blower but it felt to floor and now I'm working it again. More on the next post...

I have painted these older models with brush, not all of them. I painthed just a few models after these one with brush and then it was time to move on and use spray paints... Just a few weeks ago I painted '57 Nomad with spray gun (Badger 250). Thank you for comments, I'll post more of my old builds later tomorrow, when I come back from school...

First I thaught, this will be not looking good without any chrome parts... Now I think, this looks very nice! Black and red are very good combo and your paintjob looks very good too. Engine looks good and chassis is very good looking! Like those black wheels on it... Keep on building these awesome lowriders!

Then I built '99 Silverado Pickup... It's quite new car and it's not so interesting than my others but it's painted by brush as others and this was very great model when built. Kit was good too... I thaught, it was time to build something else... So I built Revell '71 Plymouth GTX. I used decals from '57 Fairlane kit, 9'' slicks are from Fairlane kit and I raised that rearend a bit. Now it looks like mix of NASCAR and Drag Race car... But I was happy with it. It's paited with a brush... More comes tomorrow, comments and questions welcome, and I try to answer. But now, good night!

Hello! I just took some outdoor pictures from my older builds, and I would like to post a few pics. It was only under 10 celsius degrees outside so it wasn't so funny to take these pics. My first model ever was '60 Ford Starliner. I built it stock and basis was AMT's kit. That kit was great, and I'll buy it again some day... Car is painted by brush and 'cause it's my first model ever, there are no details all around. I built this in age of six, so it's seven years ago. My second model was '59 Fairlane, but I have only one picture from it, I post it later. But my third model was '58 Plymouth Belvedere, it's built from AMT kit, if I remember correctly. It's also painted by brush and wow, two tone colour on it... No details added to this one... It was great kit too! Continues on the next post...

Looking good! Like that colour on it and paintjob is very good and those details on the engine and chassis are very good looking. It's looking AWESOME as always, John. It's great to see these older builds from you, I would post my older stuff too... Don't know, they are quite big gluebombs but...

That's a good start, keep up the good work. Great to see people building H-Body cars! Have to buy that Monza sometime. Have to buy AMT stock Monza someday too and build it like 1:1 '79 Buick Skyhawk, like in the garage... But that's a great start, looks good.

That '58 Impala looks very cool. That paintjob is beautiful and I like that styled custom cars a lot. Please, underhood and interior pictures from that Impala. That Silohuette looks very nice too. Keep on building!

I think, those wheels are looking too modern as midnightprowler said. They are not looking good on this originally old school styled MonkeesMobile. I have this same kit and I'll be using it for spare parts, I got it from model show here in Finland, 'cause I was ''runner up'' in Junior category... There are very good parts for other projects. Don't really know, what I do with that body, maybe I should test polishing or something to it... Funniest thing with this is that on the box there is ''Colorful decals''. Oh yeah, they are very very colorful... But anyway, your one looks nice!

This is very very cool build! It looks like taken straight from the track. Haven't seen these Turbine Cars often and it's very rare thing to see race car version of this car. But however, that paintjob looks very nice on it and those decals are good looking too, and they fit very well. Like that interior very much too!!! This looks very good at all, that first pic is my favourite. Those wheels and tires are looking very good with this car and that frontend is nice too, I mean that grille part. Awesome!!!

That engine looks very good, why hide that nice engine? That interior is very good too. Thanks for sharing this one!

Very nice '55 Chevy you have there! Those wheels are perfect choice for this, that paintjob looks good and like that colour combo. Engine looks very nice, and interior is very nice too, great details and that looks better with that top down, I think. Keep on building, you build very nice models and you build them very fast!

Very good looking Dodge! Like this bodystyle a lot. Your one looks nice, that paintjob is very good looking and those Bare Metal Foils are nicely in place. Engine looks good, very nice detail and chassis is very cool too! I'm not suprised, that you won bronze medal with it.

Very nice looking Mustang! That paintjob is looking awesome and those all opening doors and trunk etc are looking very good. Great detailing on the engine and that steering wheel is very good looking with those holes.

This is very nice lowrider Impala. I like this, those wheels are looking very good and that paintjob is very very cool, those little stripes are awesome! But can you post pictures from the interior and engine bay...?