mrm

Here is some of the work I've done on the interior. The whole area in the back received a new shelf under the rear window and the rear seat space was filled in making a nice little package tray, like something you would find in a Grand Touring Ferrari. Actually it is almost identical to what's behind the seats of a Ferrari 550 Maranello for example. I have added more detail to the edges of all panels, which is missing in the pictures. Next, that old outdated dash had to be addressed and I first glued it to the center console. Then I covered all the old instrumentation in the center with sheet styrene and molded the console into the dash with more styrene. This left me with a blank center console. I had bought an Aoshima kit of the 50th anniversary Lamborghini Aventador, which I have not even started. But when I was going over its parts I noticed that Aoshima added a new sprue tree with the 50th anniversary seats, doors and roof, which have different upholstery pattern but are otherwise the same as the stock Aventador and on the same tree was also an extra center console. They left all the regular parts in there too, since they share real estate with some other pieces. So I end up with an extra set of seats and doors and center console. So I cut it up. The insert with all the modern controls had to be trimmed and after some sanding, just nestled up nicely in the Mustang's dash - nav screen and all. Next the molded in door handles were completely cut out and the surface behind them sanded smooth. Then almost as a joke I piled up bunch of loose left over styrene rod pieces and ends that were littering my desk to create actual door handles, which I wanted to kinda flow into the dash, like on most Ferraris from the '70s/'80s/'90s... This was the rough result after some serious sanding and sculpting. Here it is after some primer for guidence, before a round of putty. And how everything flows together, looking rather factory. This will be ever more apparent, when everything gets painted as seen with this masking tape. Thanks for looking and stay tuned...

Thank you. In contrast, I always liked the look of the '71. It has a hood for miles and a low roofline that looks chopped from the factory.

Pretty cool build. In the late '90s/early 2000s I used to work for Kerbeck (FC Kerbeck car dealership empire). They were (and probably still are) the biggest Corvette Dealership in the world. That's where I worked - the Cadillac, Corvette, Lamborghini and Rolls Royce showroom in Atlantic City, NJ. At the Corvette showroom is where the three Kerbeck brothers had their main offices and also where they kept most of their personal car collection. This very same original Camaro pace car (not a clone or reproduction) was on the showroom floor not 15 feet from my desk. Next to it was the very very first Corvette ever made. I mean the the prototype with the very first serial number. George - the oldest brother, who basically ran the show was a diehard GM guy. With all his millions (if not billions) of dollars, you would never see him behind the wheel of anything other than a Cadillac, Corvette or a Harley. I honestly have no idea if their collection is still on display in AC or even if the dealership is still there, as even 25 years ago the casinos were offering them all sorts of stupid piles of money for their property.

Can't go wrong with that Hemi. I just always thought that Hemis look better with something beefier for induction on top of them. It's such a large engine that a single row of Strombergs kinda gets lost on top of it. The forum's own Maplelleaf Motorparts makes a killer six carb intake for that motor.

I get the difference in height because of the channel job, but you don't have to section the grille. just the radiator and the back side of the grille shell, which would allow you to sit it lower without moving it forward. Here I filled mine because I am going to use a see through photo etched one, but if you are using the kit's grille you don't even have to do that.

I missed this one the first time around, but I am definitely following now. A lot to be learned in this thread and definitely some ideas/techniques that will be used in the future. Thank you for that. Here is the crazy thing. I love street rods and I absolutely love woodies. I have bought woody kits countless times, but somehow in the last 30 years building street rod kits, I managed to only ever build two of them. One was a '30 Ford woody which I build while working part time in a hobby shop in Chicago, back in 1996. I painted it some kind of lighter green metallic and at the time it was one of my best models. When my relationship with the shop's owner fell apart and we decided to part ways, thanks mainly to his unbelievably bratty son, he refused to give it to me and kept it on display at the store. I was furious, but mostly hurt by his petty attitude. The other was a Dan Fink Speed Wagon converted to a pick up with the drivetrain and chassis from the Phantom Vicky, built in New Jersey in 2001 which ended up on the cover of Scale Model Contest Annual 2003. I still have it. So over 20 years since I have even attempted a woody, while I've bought plenty of them during this time. Ironically enough, the last woody I bought was last year and it is the latest reissue of the very model you are showing on here. I definitely simply can not fit another build on my bench right now (I wonder how many times we have all said this in vain) but your thread is definitely making me want to go dig out the box in my garage and start mocking parts up. Must resist... I'm with the force and the force is with me...I'm with the force and the force is with me... LOL

I'll join the others on the figures. I think you did a fantastic job on them. They look very period correct and compliment the car perfectly.

LOL. Sure we can. And thank you. I printed them for the C3500 extended cab dually I'm working on. But the rear is too narrow for it. The files came with two different backs - tall and short. So I had to resize them in all directions to make them work. I cut out the kit's rear seat as two separate pieces - bottom and back. Then I measured them and resized the 3D parts to those specs. Then I resized the front seats to match the width of the inserts, hoping they would fit in the Deuce's narrow interior. They barely fit, but it will work. It will just limit the room to play with the door cards, which I'm going to custom make. I'm planning to make three different long roofs and I don't want them to all have the same interior.

I love your color combo. The red interior looks super nice on that light gunmetal. I just don't understand why did the grille have to move so far forward?

Great stuff from the golden era of F1, when real men raced real cars.

I did make the plunge and that's exactly the trap I fell into. For the last month I've been printing bunch of stuff that I don't even know if I'm gonna use or trying to figure things out by reprinting parts with different settings and I have spent very little time actually building something. After all, there are only so many hours in a day... I recognized the seats and the accessories, but what files did you use for that Ford motor? It seems like a very, very well designed parts.

I have the extended cab 3500 version in the works. I haven't started a thread about it, but maybe I should.

Pretty cool. I am a big fan of unconventional powertrains in hot rods. I was just reading an old magazine (from 2012) about a '54 Buick by Troy Trepanier that is powered by a supercharged AMG V8. I'm also working on the reissued AMT Dually right now.

Now, for me personally, this is the quintessential Deuce coupe! Love the wheel/tire/stance combo.

I think the fenders look a lot better bobbed. It can be very tricky tho, as I have cut off too much in the past. Yours look just right and I thing they abslutely needed it considering the channel job.

The engine getting closer to be ready. The block was painted Tamiya yellow, while everything else is Model Master Aluminum non-buffing metalizer.

Thank you. This build just gets my creative juices flowing and I keep adding new ideas to it. At this point I have a general idea what I want it to look like but not a clear plan or vision what it would end up like.

I was not happy with the look of the lights. They are very nice if you are building a stock version of the car, but for my build I needed something more in tune with today's trends. So I drilled them out and made myself some nice custom HID projector lights. I only feel a little bit of guilt, as the more I change, the cooler the car looks, but it gets less and less recognizable as the Mustang it started as.

The California's underbody/chassis was greatly modified, including cutting down and reshaping all the wheelwells, narrowing it, cutting both front and rear ends, reshaping them and engineering them to attach to the body, while fitting the somewhat stock (dimension wise) interior or rather what is left of it. A whole new diffuser was molded in at the rear. The result is a very factory looking underside, which was the goal from the beginning.

Figuring out the interior of my modern Deuce. Black Box 3D files of interior sets were rescaled and slightly modified/cut to create the seats. The rear seat of the kit was cut out and the new pieces superglued in place. The front seats were just scaled down to match the rears and to fit better in the space. It is funny how on the pictures the sizes and the angles of the rear seat look somewhat weird, but they are the exact same as the kit's pieces.

Well, while I resolve the issue (tomorrow) I guess I can upload some pics directly. Sorry for the size. The interior was ,made from some modified pieces from the '31 Coupe kit. Templates were made for custom inserts to be added. Next, the horns of the frame were cut off together with the front cross member, leaving just a thin vertical piece of it. Then the modified cross member from a '32 5 window as grafted, resulting in a slightly longer wheelsbase. Experimenting with my first ever 3D printer, I made some through frame exhaust tips. Shrinkage on waterbased resin is ridiculous. Parts were not affected. I cut an opening in the frame rails ahead of the rear wheels to accept the exhaust flange. I am very happy with the look. The '32 grille from the Rat Roaster is definitely too tall for the '30 firewall, so the back of it was cut down and then the grille shell was filled in with styrene. More to come... Thanks for looking and stay tuned.

It was a lot of body work, but definitely happy with the outlandinsh widebody look. Molding in that custom engine compartment was no joke.

I am having some issues uploading my pictures to my usual Imageshack location, so I'll try putting some up directly. The Body.

It would probably go in the piles of other unused stuff in random boxes, until one day I find use for some of it. Or you can have it. Maybe you have some similar stuff that is useless to you you can trade.

OK, so this is attempt number two at this thread. First off, I would like to apologize to everyone for the first one. I made a political joke (and it was meant just as that - a joke) in the opening post of the thread, which apparently was against the forum rules. Honestly God, I had no idea, which is no excuse, as I am the first one to advocate that one's ignorance of the rules is no excuse for braking them. Anyway, lesson learned. I got my 30 ban served and now I know better. I'll keep it clean from anything associated with politics from now on. So, I have never ever build a model of a Mustang before in my life. Well... sort of. But I am not counting the two or three diecast models I've done on commission long time ago. For a 1/25 scale plastic kit, this is definitely the very first for me. And to be honest, I have to admit that I know Jack about Mustangs, other than they have a cult following and that their latest small block Coyotee engines make a really cool noise when equipped with the proper exhaust. Here is a little bit of a back story on this build, which happened just because "the planets aligned" as they say: I am an exotics lover and not much out there gets more exotic than a Pagani. Aoshima is the only manufacturer that makes a Pagani in 1/24. They make the Zonda S and Zonda F, which are the second and third generation of the Zonda model. There were 5 cars build of the Zonda Cinque and the only way to get that in 1/24 scale is to either scratch build 50% of the car based on the Aoshima Zonda F or to get all the necessary parts 3D printed. Since I have been thinking about getting a 3D printer for the longest time, I chose the second option. This led to me exploring the available 3D files online. A big presence in the scale is Black Box, who make a bunch of really cool stuff, some of which has been shown by some here on the forum. They also make at least three or four Mustang body kits. Add to that the raving reviews of Revell's new '71 Mustang kits and that one of the themes for this year's ACME show (which I am determined to attend) is Mustangs and You would understand what I mean by the planets aligning. This is what I am starting with. And in a rather unconventional way. I am going to show you what I a NOT going to use from the kit. Which is most of it. So, basically I am going to use just the body and this from the interior: For some reason I love the box art and I decided that my model would be in the same color combo as a nod to it. AKA Storm Trooper spec. Plain white with black. Except this is going to be a very modern, current vibe, resto-mod kind of build, so most of the black will probably end up in carbon fiber. And staying in character the car would need a new chassis, because the dinosaur '70 set up would just not cut it between the cones on a modern auto cross track as the ones seen on Good Guys events. Well, who would have thought that A Revell Of Germany 1/24 scale Ferrari California would have the exact same wheel base as a 1/25 scale '70 Mustang? This gives an instant solution for a modern independent suspension on all four corners. But it is a lot wider, some would say! Yes, it is. But not if you put on the body a freshly 3D printed Black Box wide body kit. Stay tuned and thanks for looking.