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That looks spectacular! I've never seen one of these built before, but that's no wonder considering how rare it is. Great to see one that's built this well. Good looking paint job and those working lights are a very nice touch. Great job.

Wow! I didn't see this one finished until now. Great work as always! Everything looks just right, but your flawless detailing is my favorite part, especially in the engine bay but interior and chassis look very good too. Nice work!

Very nice build on a great kit! I built this car a couple of years ago too and it was a lot of fun, the kit was excellent in every possible way. I remember that I didn't even have problems with the decals. They were a bit fragile, but they were easy to install properly on place as they were so thin. Your build turned out very nice. Fantastic work overall, it looks just right. I like your diorama too! Now let's go racing! http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/75708-55-chrysler-300-tim-flock-stock-car-finished/?do=findComment&comment=1007948

These are great kits even though they're not as well detailed as newer kits. But while these are a bit simple, they're excellent for "fast builds" or then they can be detailed pretty well too. Here are mine: '77 Chevy Van: Older build, '57 Chevy Nomad: '69 Chevy Camaro:

Thanks guys! Andy, I've heard some bad things about these kits as well, but I have to admit that I really like building this one (And the Falcon is a very nice kit too). Parts fit has been great and most of the parts are well detailed too. Plus that the subject is very interesting! I agree, the intake could be better. Here's a little update even though I've been really busy, but luckily I've managed to snitch some modeling time here and there. I started doing a bit of bodywork. The body itself is still in very early stages, but I started with the tailgate. It had Ford letters on it, but I wanted to shave them to achieve a bit cleaner look. I removed the letters with hobby knife and finished with sandpaper. After that I applied some liquid glue where those letters had been and once that dried, I sanded that area smooth again. That way the letters were not "ghosting" through primer. Kit's hood needs some work too. After block sanding it I noticed there is an X-shaped sink mark going from one corner to another. There are couple of other minor sink marks too, and looks like the only way to smooth them out is to use a bit of putty. Here I darkened the sink marks a bit to make sure I remember to fill all of them with putty. Rear axle was glued together from two pieces so I had to smooth out the joint with putty. Here in the first picture it is sanded smooth and ready for paint. Then I just brush painted some Revell Gloss Black to the axle. I also painted and clear coated radiator wall and front inner fenders. So here are all of the engine bay panels in color.

Thanks Grant and Gene! I agree that I should have this one done as soon as possible. My goal is to have this one done by the end of the year. It should be possible, but there's a lot of work to do and I know I'll be very busy during the summer and during the winter too as I'll be building my 1:1 '62 Chevy II 'Street/Race' car. So yeah it's been a while since the latest update. I've been really busy with other stuff that's going on, but I've been able to do a little work with this thing anyway. Body is still waiting for another coat of clear, and if the weather permits, I'll try to shoot that clear coat on this week. Anyway yesterday and today I added some BMF to the dashboard. It's definitely not my best work, but it's the best I could do for now, cutting the extra foil away was really tricky as there were no proper edges/trim etc to use as a "guide". But I guess it will do while it can't be seen that well from inside of the car anyway. Today I painted some black on top of the foil as well. Cauges, radio and that little area with chromed Bel Air text on it were painted with small brush and then I wiped paint off from the details. That brought out the Bel Air text, for example. Not perfect, but I guess I can live with it.

That looks very good with those stock wheel openings! That's the way they should have done it already at Belkits I think. Very nice work with that conversion, if there was a reasonable priced resin copy of one of those I'd pick one up. That looks so much better than the rally version.

Wow, I didn't see this one until now. Looks great! '67 Impala is a very nice car and you're doing an excellent job with this. Where are those valve covers from? I would need a couple of sets for future projects...

Wow that is looking great! I just saw this thread for the first time, and I'm very glad I did! That looks just right, especially those wheels are done very nicely. I like your color choice too, hopefully we can see an update in the near future.

It's very tricky to say just a couple as there are so many nice cars out there. But my list would probably look something like this: '63 Chevrolet Impala Z11. '60 Chevrolet Impala 2D HT. '62-'64 Chevrolet Chevy II 2D Sedan: '55 Chevrolet Bel Air 2D Sedan:

Oh yeah I have lots of these! I have a huge pile of projects so most of them are stalled at one point or another. Every one of them is going to be completed though, the big question just is.... When? Here are a few examples. '60 Plymouth Fury Mild Custom: The Ramchargers' '61 Dodge Phoenix: '58 Chevy Sedan Delivery Pro Street: '70 Ford Torino E/S: I have lots of more as well...

I pretty much never start rebuilding/modifying my models after they're finished for the first time. It's true that 1:1 cars are never done, but I think it's not a good idea to start improving or rebuilding my own model kits, I prefer buying another kit and building that one different way then. That way when I have every model that I've built in my display case, I can see how my building skills have improved etc. My only two cars that I've started rebuilding are AMT '57 Fairlane that was my second build ever. It was a decent build originally, factory stock with wide whites, but pretty soon I swapped wheels and tires and then it had a raised rear end with wide tires, Cragars and tires with raised letters. Then I took it apart completely and started to build somekind of Drag Racer out of it, but I'm very happy that it stalled, and it's still possible to be restored the way I originally built it. I'm glad I didn't strip the paint! Another one is a Revell '32 Deuce, but I dropped it by an accident and to be honest I was never happy with that one. It will be rebuilt anyway.

Well I finally got around clear coating this one. As it was a very nice weather today I decided to paint it outside. I started with very light coats so the Tamiya clear wouldn't react with those decals and after several light coats, I shot a couple of heavier coats of clear to the body. It looks pretty good right now, but I'm bit unsure if there is enough clear to be polished or not, so probably I will be spraying another coat or two of clear on top of that. The dashboard was also clear coated.

Thanks guys! The progress has been pretty slow since I've had very little bench time, but I've made some minor steps forward with it anyway. I got the seat painted a while ago. That color came straight from a spray can and after the picture I shot some flat clear on it so now it's not too shiny. I think that's a pretty good interior color, at least the 1:1 cars with similar interior colors that I've seen look very good. That seat color is a bit more green in real life though. I also got inner fenders and radiator wall painted from both sides. The pictures show only other side of the parts though, but now when both sides are in color, I can shoot some clear over them as well.

This might be the best version of these '65 Plymouths from Moebius! These AWB cars have always been very interesting and now when finally a kit of one is coming out, it looks like I'll be buying several of these.

I'm not that crazy about this Charger as there are lots of kits from these '68-'70 Chargers already and they all look pretty much alike to me. Some of the kits, like the Revell '68 are even very good quality so I think I can skip this upcoming '70 Charger for now. BUT, if that '68 Coronet would be coming out, I'd get a couple of them immediately! That is a good looking car.

Oh Boy it looks like Moebius has my money again... That kit is absolutely a Must Have. Not sure though if I will manage with one of them or do I have to buy more to build a couple of different cars with different decals.

Well I was kind of debating if I should buy this kit or not, as I have lots of these Lindberg '64 Dodges and Plymouths already. The subject is very interesting though and with those new parts included, I'm pretty sure I'll end up buying me one of these kits. Glad to see it's finally coming out.

Well I tried to find another can of that clear for chassis and firewall, but it looks like I couldn't find it anywhere no more, all shops were carrying other brand paints that I normally use. So as a solution I decided to try spraying different brand clear over the paint and I'm glad the paint didn't react with the clear. The paint job on these parts is not perfect, but I think it'll do in the chassis and engine bay. Here is the bench seat sanded and ready for another coat of primer. After that I tried to paint it, but looks like that old spray can didn't want to spray anything out from it anymore. The fun thing is, it worked fine last weekend when I tested it. Well, I gotta get me a new one next weekend. Here are front inner fenders and radiator wall. I had to add some filler to smooth out ejector pin marks from them and now I sanded everything smooth and shot some primer on the parts. I also installed the generator on place. It wasn't very easy to install with that quite fiddly belt, but I got everything on place in one piece anyway.

Here's a small update for this project. Yesterday my painting didn't go that well, I shot some primer to the bench seat after smoothing out filler I had applied on it. It turned out pretty good, but unfortunately I dropped it to the floor by accident. Now it requires a light wetsanding and another coat of primer before it can be painted. I also tried to shoot some clear to chassis and firewall, but looks like my spray can had lost its pressures and none of the clear came out... I gotta go to get me another one of those cans and try again... Anyway today I installed carburetors on place. I also built fuel lines to the engine. Fuel filter is somekind of electric component and the fuel lines are regular metal wire that was attahed to the electric component already when I bought it.

Thanks guys, I appreciate your kind words! Grant: Unfortunately I have no updates yet as right now I have time to build only on weekends. I'm planning to shoot some clear over the body next weekend though so I should have an update then. At the same time I can clear coat the dashboard so I can continue the progress with the interior as well.

Turned out fantastic. That fuel injection setup is something I have never seen before, but you did a great job replicating it in scale. Excellent looking paint job and flawless detailing in the engine and interior as always. You for sure know how to build these tube frame cars right.

Very nice job on this Pro Stock Ford! I have the same kit in my stash waiting to be built, but I'm missing the decals for it... Anyway you did a great job on this. The paint and decal work looks really good to me even though you had some problems, and sharp details in the engine bay look good too. Nice work.

It's great to see this one done, following the WIP thread was a lot of fun and I learned a lot from that thread. Now it's bookmarked for future reference as I have a couple of '59 Impalas to be done too. When looking at this finished product, I can't think of a word that describes this one better than "Perfect". Everything seems to be just right and the biggest issues in this kit are fixed very nicely. Personally I see nothing wrong with the kit's roof, but I have a bad eye for accurate body shapes, but great job fixing the engine placement as it's way too back originally and nice to see that the chassis is not visible under the body too. Those are probably the two things that bother me the most in these kits anyway but you fixed them nicely! Nice work overall, with all side windows down you added that little piece of chrome trim where that rear side window rolls up, I've never seen anyone doing that before even though it is there on real car. The trunk looks just like real '59 or '60 Impala trunk does...Fantastic. Overall very nice and clean work, everything seems to be just right including the paint job, BMF and detailing all over. Those hubcaps are looking very fine too. Nice job detail painting them. (Sorry for such a long story...This model just made me drool over my keyboard very hard.)

Looks fantastic as your builds always do! One of the best Monogram Cadillacs I've seen. It's great to see this one with the top up, I think it looks much better that way than with top down. I like that color choice and paint job is really smooth too, plus that your work is very nice and clean overall as always. Great job.