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Rdkingjay, the answer to your question is vynil, no tape. Making it contour to the fenders is definitely a test to anyone's patience.

The flames are paint guys. No decals. The whole model was sprayed Duplicolor acryl flat black and then the masked off flames were sprayed white primer, gloss white, two different yellows, orange and red in that order. All the flames colors are Tamiya spray cans through an airbrush. Everything is then sealed under PPG polyurethane clear and when cured it is wetsanded and buffed and polished. Next there are going to be a pair of fenderless Deuces- one coupe and one roadster that are also going to be flamed, but are going to be like yin and yeng. One silver with purple flames and the other purple with silver flames. They are definitely not going to be box stock however.

Here is what will probably be my second finished model of the year. It should have been in last year's list, as it has been sitting just like you see it for months. I think it is time to complete it. I saw an identical rod at a little car gathering last summer. I was blown away from the cool looks of the front bumper in the weeds and the contrast between the shiny chrome of the wheels and engine and the plain green primer. I did not ask the owner if it was in the process of being finished or he was going toleave it just in green primer, but I loved it and the same day I knew I was making it in scale. Since I have just rediscovered the joy of just building models for the overall look of them, I decided to build this pretty much box stock, with maybe just kitbashing some parts, like the engine, but making no modifications and no aftermarket whatsoever. In my other thread I mentioned that made something like a challenge to myself, to build only Deuces, that would qualify for as many different classes at a contest as possible. So I gues this one puts a check mark on the "modified out of box" class.

I have to agree wholeheartedly. This thing deserves a furry dash and some bright neon graphics under a shiny coat.

That would be me, but I have to admit, that I still have to learn quite a bit to get to John's level

This is just too cool.

What model is the Ferrari based on and what scale is it? 1:20?

Thanks again everyone. Espo, That was exactly how I fell. This model has great detail straight out of the box. Photoetched grilles and wires and hoses are all cool, but this thing is plenty good even without them. Maybe just add a wired distributor and some hardware on the doors inside, as they forgot to put anything. There are no armrests, window cranks or door handles of any sort. This is probably the only gripe I have about the model. (and maybe the lack of third member on the rear end)

I understand. And this is what I love about your idea. But don't you think that wider fenders, lower stance, agressive intakes, race hood, open headlights and rear diffuser make this point clear? You can plant the entire interior tube from the regular car in your custom body to match the "waterfall" between the seats and then put nice racing seats and accent everything with Carbon Fiber. Nothing visually screams racing more than racing buckets with 4/5 point harness surrounded by CF.

Glad you like it guys. I need some advice here. I want to tackle the suspension next, but I am undecided because the ideas I have all involve methods I have never tried before. I need to make a new entire front suspention. This means scratchbuilding upper and lower controll arms and shocks, with corresponding attachment points on the frame. The Vicky's front setup would be fine for a full fendered rod, but I don't like it for a fenderless car. Scratchbuilding tubular Aarms is not really hard, but I want to have them in chrome. So here is the issue I need an advice with, which goes for both front and rear components. OPTION I - weld the pieces from brass tubing, but I have no experience with soldering. It will be strong, but there is still issue with chrome finish, which can be either sent to Chrome tech USA or painted with Alclad. It gets pricey tho. OPTION II - make all the pieces from styrene tubing. It will be way easier and faster and I have experience with it. The chrome solutions are identical to option I but parts will not be as strong and is going to be just as pricey. OPTION III - make the parts from whatever and then make molds (I have experience with that) and cast them from white metal. This way they can be strong and polished to look like aluminum. The issue is that it is going to be hell to polish the little bits and is also pricey. The good part is that this way I would be able to use the same front end on other projects in the future. The other issue I need a second opinion on is the front setup itself. The way it is now there is not much space left between the engine and the radiator. That is not a problem as on this engine all the pulleys are enclosed. But I was thinking that if this car is inspired by Boyd's creation and has all modern look, then it could be set up with inboard shocks to keep the outside clean. As far as making components for it, there is no problem any different than the ones already mentioned. The issue is the space. I can stretch the front a little, which would mean making new hoods. Firs off I am not sure if it is not going to mess up the look of the car if I stretch the nose and then do you guys think it is worth the trouble just to clean up the front end from the shocks. Please, all opinions are welcome and if you had experience with any of the described operations, please share them. Thank you

Really cool idea. I love Vettes and owned few in my past. I even wrapped one around a poll with about 120 and lived to tell the story. I think it will be one hell of a model that Vert, but since it has no roof I would loose the wing. Big wings never look cool on convertibles. Mabe make a little lip at the end of the tail or a really low profile wing, but that huge thing will look odd at best. Just my two cents. I will definitely be following this build. My kind of stuff.

Wonderfull work on display here. So many cool ideas. However, I think it would be cool if a couple a words are written about each engiine. This thread is like a library for one's project, but for people like me who have been away from the hobby for a wile and are not familiar with which kit comes with what parts it is very confusing. I see people putting "55Chevy" on top of a picture of a Pontiac engine, which is not helpful. I know you can stuff that engine in just about anything, but the real question that would be helpful to everyone is where it came from. So please, I don't think it is too much to ask, put what and where from the engines are, instead of what they are in. For example "Revell's '32 engine with scratchbuild intake" or " whatever kit's flathead with Reps&Min. intake and blower" etc.

I have few projects involving stuffing a Ferrari engine in '30s street rods. Here is one of them

This is going to be my first major project for 2012. The idea started probably years ago and it was simple. Build a nice modern Phaeton with clean lines. The inspiration was the Boyd Coddington Built car for Bob Kolmos. So even these years ago some things were clear. It was going to be yellow, two door, clean, low, fenderless and with modern high performance drivetrain. Some things were started back then, like the frame and even believe I had some sort of engine picked up for it. And then.........it was forgotten in some box. Recently during some crazy decision of organizing the dusty pile of kits in the garage it was redescovered. And then new ideas flew and one things led to another and so on and so forth. So now I am picking up the project for like the third or fourth time. It is still going to have all the elements of the original idea, but just a little more complicated. The body is from the old AMT phaeton kit, but the doors have been filled in and new ones have been scraped. Then the firewall and cowl from the much newer AMT Phantom Vicky have been grafted on. The top is just slightly modified from the same kit as the body. The entire floor and interior will be most likely scratchbuild The frame so far is thefront portion of the Phantom Vicky one whith highly modified rear section from a prowler with elements from a Ferrari 612. Most likely the front suspention of the Vicky will give way to a new more high tech one, which will have to be scratchbuild too. I can try to see if I like soldering stuff as I am not familiar with it. Things got kind of complicated when I decided that it would be totally fine to fit the Ferrari V12 from the 612 Scaglieti together with the rear transaxle. There is still more work on this chassis alone than I would like to even think about, but so far I managed to fit everything quite well actually Thank you for looking and stay tuned

Thank you guys. I had a lot fun building this and it made me realize again how much fun it is building something out of the box just for the fun of it. Here are some more pictures Thank you for looking

This thing was painted some time ago, mostly as a painting exersize, trying masking flames. I had big plans for it, like superdetailing the engine and the chassis, plus making a custom interior for it. Then I got the itch to build it "right now" and went online and looked at the different parts I would need. I ordered them just few days ago and they are still on the way. But looking at the painted body got me somewhat aggrevated and made me think. This hobby is for my pleasure and relaxation, not the opposite. So I decided to sit down and make the model absolutely 100% box stock. Everything is exactly per the instructions and nothing from outside the box has been used. Not even a single decal, even the ones provided in the box. Everything is just the kit and paint. The idea for the car itself was to build what I would have as a daily driver if I could afford anything I wanted. So I wanted a very traditional, yet very modern Deuce, that could haul my whole family of four in any weather. I don't think anything says Street rod more than a chopped '32 with flames over black rolling on american 5 spokes with small block Ford under the hood. Since it is a daily driver everything under the hood has been dechromed and color matched to the rest of the car. Same goes for the chassis. The finished model is EXACTLY what I would love to drive if I could afford one. And I believe it is a great testament to what an exceptional kit Revell's '32 series is. I may still add the license plate at the rear, but have not decided yet.

And here is the finished piece

The exhaust pipes' tips were angled to match the shape of their surround and then fitted in the underpanel, which was already flat black The wheels received brakes from the parts box, with the calipers painted same beige as the interior to tie things up. The rear received quite modified grilles, which together with the two tone stoplights were massaged to blend all the shapes, openings and lines together The front received a nice big aluminum radiator and some carbon The front grilles were tweeked to fit in the new openings. (the original grille is on the right) A new spoiler lip was made from styrene

Only to decide later on, that I was not happy with the color and I should try to "spice it up". So I decided to experiment with a duplicolor spraycan set I had in my garrage. It is one of these flip flop colors, that is called black ice, or something like that. They come in three step process, where the first step is flat black of some sort, then comes the pearly stuff and then clear. So I sprayed only the pearly stuff over the red I already had the car in. The effect blew me away. I was loving it and pictures don't do it justice.

After many sanding hours, finally some red paint was laid

The model started receiving primer coats and putty.... ...when I realized that I had still to do a rear underpanel. Fitting the factory panel with its difuser ventury was not as easylly done as I had in mind, but at the end it was there to stay and a couple of center mounted aluminum pipes were made for the finishing touch Things were starting to look a lot better and complete now

Now the V10 fitted very nicely and snug. For seats were chosen the buckets from a Ferrari 599 which were painted in beige. The dash was painted and detailed and so were the doors, which received only minor modiffications Since the interior was all black, but the seats beige, I made beige accent panels on the doors, but wanted to continue them all the way back. So some of the panels in the engine compartment were painted the same color Now everything was nicelly flowing and detailed, being color coordinated with the overall look of the car.

Next I removed the moldings from the doors, as they had no longer matching lines on the fenders and did not fit with the rest of the car. Now I had my "factory tuned" wheels and all needed body panels, so I could start test fitting everything together and start working on smoothing it out. But first I had to figure out the inside of the model, which at this point was a piece of floor with a thin outline frame. First I grafted the center tunnel from the R8 Then some pieces from the R8's engine compartment were transferred with a firewall from sheet styrene. The rest of the interior, save for the dash was scratchbuilt.

While the Miliput was hardening I had to decide on wheels. Original R8 wheels, or something from the parts box. This is what I liked and had on hand but I wanted more factory looking wheels. So I ended up cutting the original R8 centers and putting them into Pegasus alu rings. Because of the now huge rear fenders, I reversed the rear rings to make the REALLY deep. After I was happy with everything, the centers were dechromed and painted black and the Rims got primed and painted the color I picked for the Golf - Ferrari red, what else?