W-409

Very nice Dodge Coronet. It's always great to see these AWB Cars being built and this is one of the best looking Mopars for that. Excellent job on the paint and detailing, this is one of the best AWB cars I've seen for a while.

Sure, I started a WIP thread in Drag Racing Models a couple of days ago: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/106203-65-ford-cortina-street-altered/ . The pics are not the best though, looks like Photobucket is lowering picture quality while resizing pics. Before it hasn't done that. Now I gotta try resizing pics different way then. It's definitely an interesting project, and a challenging one, too.

This is coming together very nicely! Body looks excellent so far, smooth paint job and great color choice. That white stripe fits very well to the look and as others have said, your BMF work is very clean. I'm waiting to see more.

I bought these from a local Model Car Show a while back: -AMT '62 Bel Air Super Stock will be built with kit parts, but of course I need to add some details here and there. -Monogram '66 Malibu Street Rat builtup will be rebuilt as '70s Street Machine, pretty much like the box top shows. But extra detailing and some modifications will be needed as the kit is pretty simple. -AirTrax '65 Ford Cortina resin body. I'm building it as a Street Altered Drag Car. -AirTrax Alfa Romeo Resin body. It's going to be an early '60s Altered. -Slicks & a couple of engines. And then I got that Decal Tray for free. And then I found these accidentally from a local Swap Meet. I was searching for 1:1 car parts for my projects, but found these. As they were pretty cheap, I picked them up. Thunderbird has been started by gluing a couple of parts together and decals are missing from it, but otherwise they seem to be complete and unstarted. Now I just gotta find me a decal sheet for that T-Bird from somewhere.

This will be very interesting to follow as I've missed your builds. That engine looks very good already, super nice work scratchbuilding those parts. You make it look so easy but I know it definitely is not. I can't wait to see more.

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone! It felt really good to work with styrene and resin after a long break. Hopefully I can keep working on this and it won't get stalled after a week because I don't have parts or something like that. Funny you posted that one. It is an old Street Altered car that was known as Footbait Cortina. Nowadays it has been brought back to life and it's running with a Hilborn Injected Big Block Chevy here in Finland. Here's a picture of that car from decades ago: http://www.theaccelerationarchive.co.uk/alan_currans/comp_altereds/page_08/1-CA-143.jpg Today I'm going to go buying some material to build the frame for this, so stay tuned.

I've been away for a while, as I've simply had no time to build anything or visit on these forums so often. I've been busy with 1:1 cars, visiting Cruising Nights, Car Shows etc with '60 Impala and building my new daily driver, '92 Chevy S10. It looks like I might find some more time to build models as well so I'll post this thread on a build I started today. A Couple of weeks ago I was at local Model Car Contest where I bought this '65 Ford Cortina Resin Body. It's made by AirTrax and the body has some flaws, but as usual with these AirTrax bodies that have mold flaws in them, this is so good that I can't find any problems in it. I have only the body, but I'll have to buy a separate hood, grille, bumpers etc for this. They're not needed right now as I have tons of other thing on line first. My plan is to build a Finnish Street Altered Drag Car from the early '80s. At that time, Drag Racing was a pretty new thing in Finland (First race was driven here in 1975) and Drag Cars were home built... And they looked like that too. Driving abilities weren't very good and tracks had no prep on them so usually it was quite slippery even though drivers laid some track glue on the ground after burnout and spinned the wheels in that liquid. Street Altered cars had to have naturally aspirated engines running on gasoline, but otherwise engine tuning was pretty much free. It was allowed to build a new frame and suspension components were free as well. My plan is to scratchbuild a frame from square styrene rod and all suspension components will be taken from my spare parts box. Interior will be very simple and overall I'm not trying to make this too cleanly finished so that it looks like it could have raced in Street Altered back then. Here are some old Street Altered car photos to get you in the mood. "FlatTop Plymouth" and "Wheelie Valiant" "Hitler's Revenge" VW Beetle. Street Altered Escort Beaver Rocker Cortina I started today by removing mold flash from window areas and then I started to mock up tires. Rear Slicks are from Jo-Han '69 AMC AMX Super Stock and front tires are 13 inch tires from AMT Chevy Monza. Because most guys didn't narrow their rear axles, rear wheel openings had to be cut larger and then rear tires stuck outside the bodyline. That's why I did the same on mine: Now when both rear wheel openings were enlarged and the tires fit on place, I did a fast mock up: I would have started building the frame as well, but I have no styrene rod for that. In a couple of days I'm going to go buy some more though. Hopefully this thread will keep me going and make it easier to get back building.

Yes, I'm doing great, but just like Matti said I've been really busy with 1:1 cars. I guess when guys get bigger, toys get bigger as well. Hopefully I'll find time to work on model cars as well in the near future. There are a couple of projects I'd like to continue soon so I'll keep you guys posted when I get to it. This is the reason why I've been so busy: http://tapahtumakuvia.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Tapahtumat%202015/Cruisings/Stadi/Stadin%20Cruising%201.5.2015/DSCN5529.JPG/_full.jpg

This will be very interesting! That real thing looks like a wild ride to me and building a scale replica of that one won't be an easy task, but I know it should be no problem to you. I can't wait for more.

I haven't been able to check in for a while on these forums as I've been so busy lately. Now I'm really glad that I could see these latest updates - the engine is looking fantastic! Super nice detail work and it looks like you could fire it up any minute. Gas tank looks very good too... Keep the pics coming!

I'd like to see of course a '58-'64 Chevy Wagons (Nomad, Brookwood, Kingswood etc). As an owner of a '60 Impala HT, I'd buy lots of those if they were available. Others I'd like to see would be '80s Chevrolet Caprice STWs. That's just simply because lots of them were imported to Finland when they were new and they are still seen quite often on roads. Plus that it's not a bad looking car either. '79-'81 Malibu STW would be cool too. Perfect starting point for a Street & Strip car.

How about this one? I got a stylish set of duds that I'm proud to wear I got a greasy pompadour up in my hair

Hey, another easy one! Stray Cats - Look At That Cadillac.

Thanks again for the suggestions everyone! It's true that it's impossible to visit in every place, but the plan is to go and see as much places as we can. And of course there are other places as well than Car or Model Car related places but not so many. So Cal Speed Shop was on my list, too, it's a must visit for sure. Looks like I'll have to go to In-N-Out Burger as well, it sounds good! Buzz: Could you post the opening hours of that Warbird Hobbies in here? I have no Facebook myself nor have I never opened a link that leads there.

Wow, finally after 314 pages I saw the second one that I knew right away . But just like last time, I saw it after someone had already recognized it...

This is easy! Option S for sure, because it's a Model A & 5 Window Coupe. I think that pretty much says why. But of course it would need some chopping and minor channeling, plus a Chevy engine in it etc... That would be a great starting point for a Hot Rod so I'd be happy to have it.

Yesterday while I was Cruising around with my '60 Impala here in Finland, I spotted a blue '69 Oldsmobile Cutlass, very clean & red '68 Camaro with white SS Stripes, an early '70s Chrysler Convertible and a green '53 Hudson Hornet. I also saw one late '30s / Early '40s Pickup that I had absolutely no clue on what was it. I bet it was really rare, I've never seen one like that before.

If the box is old and/or it's already rare even if it wouldn't be that old, it gets saved. Then if I like the boxart, I'll save it even if those kits weren't rare or old. Though nowadays when I buy lots of glue bombs and old builtups that often come without boxes, I haven't thrown a model kit box away for a long long time as they are great for storaging those projects. I'm having a bit problems with space, but at some point I guess that will make me sell some of my model kits or projects that I'm not so interested in instead of throwing those old boxes away...

To me, the best one would be option H. Option G is looking horrible in my opinion. Flames and that color combo don't fit to a car like that and engine is way too modern. Wheels and tires are not fitting to the look either. Option H is a lot better. If it was mine, I'd remove the exhaust pipes and leave open headers on it, put Cheater Slicks on back and shoot a glossy clear coat to the body. Then it would be pretty close to what I really like. Option I is looking good as well, there is not much wrong with it. But somehow it doesn't have as much "Wow Factor" as Option H did.

Wow! Nice to see this kit built this well. As always, your paint job is smooth as glass and you've done very sharp work overall. That combined to those pictures made me think it was a real car too. Fantastic job!

That's looking very good! I definitely can't wait to build one of these and it might not be a surprise to anyone that mine will end up being a Junior Stocker just like the Belvedere. But looking at the pics, only thing I'm not so happy with is the fact that it looks like windshield and rear window trim is molded to the windows. It will make foiling very difficult as if hobby knife blade accidentally slips a bit, whole glass is ruined. On a paint job a mistake like that is not seen so easily. But anyway I'm very interested in this one.

Thanks Guys! Moving the engine was actually pretty easy and it looks already a bit better even if it's not completely right. But if I moved it more, then there would be clearance issues with generator belt and fan hitting the fan shroud. Tom: That's very cool! I have those original brochures as well. My dad bought them a couple of decades ago and now I have them hanging on my wall. Fun thing is that I just graduated from High School myself and I went to the graduation "ceremony" with this: I hope I can find some more modeling time soon. This summer has been very busy and I've had no time to build. I hope I can change that as I have interesting projects, like this, going on.

Wow, it looks like this is out! Gotta get me one as a starter as soon as I see one somewhere. From the pics, it looks like Moebius hit another home run with this kit. Now I see a Factory Stock or Mild Custom Hudson coming from my bench.

Great to see that Vega being reissued! I'll definitely buy a couple of them when they're out. It's a shame that engine, interior and chassis are so simple that I'll have to find better parts from some other kit... Anyway I'm very interested in this.

Good looking work with this '55 Chevy so far! It's very interesting to see more as I have one of these in progress as well and it's even almost same color. Very nice work with that BMF, body looks very good with chrome trim foiled properly.