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Thank you Stuart. The idea behind the way I cut the cowl on the Roadster is to help with two things. First it is cut above the belt line, which keeps the original belt line on the roadster and I don't have to worry about it afterwards. Second, this way the dash flows naturally into the doors. Also it is easier to square everything off when lign up the front edges of the door lines. About the sedan conversion. I have been always in love with the yellow Bob Kolmos Phaeton, built by Boyd Coddington. It was created by cutting the the roof off a sedan, as its lines are different from the standard Phaeton Ford originally built. In recent years Foose ripped that idea off (he had nothing to do with the Kolmos car) and announced it as his own limited edition body by Brookville. The only difference in the Foose design is that the front edge of the door is like on the 3 window coupe. I am very split on that. The Boyd car has the large door from the Tudor, with all the lines being straight. It works perfect as all the gaps match - the grille to hood, hood to cowl, cowl to leading door edge to back of the door. They are all paralel. On the other hand the leading edge on the 3 window door is beautiful and has that graceful curve on the bottom. It will work great on a full fendered car, but on a high/low boy I think it will look odd. So I still have not decided how to scrape the door lines on that body. Any opinion, argumentation or advise is more than welcome.

This is the longest of all the long roofs I have ever built. LOL The "Last Ride" Deuce.

Thank you. Aside from losing $230 000 in a court battle involving my house, everything will be fine. LOL When is the next Heartland Show going to be and what is the theme next year?

Simply fantastic!!!!

Nicely done. You should put that stunning model in the Deuce Roadster thread and tell us more about it

I decided to make another Deuce dedicated thread thread. This time showing modifications on Deuce bodies, much like in real body shops. I'll start with three different body mods. First on the agenda is everybody's favorite Roadster, which will swap its cowl with the not so favorite Phantom Vicky. The idea is to have a much more traditional looking Phantom Vicky and also a nice roadster with a custom Duval style windshield. Lets start cutting.... While we are at it, why not add one more Deuce to the mix? This is the Revell Tudor Sedan, with its roof cut off and the cowl from the Rat Roaster '32 grafted on. But first things firs........ The Roadster! The body was cleaned up and then the uper section was cut to fit from the back edge of the doors all the way around. The front part of the body was kept to retain the little reveal that goes around it. Everything was aligned by the front edge of the doors, which opened just a hair thin gap. Nothing some sheet styrene can't fix. That's it for now. stay tuned for more and thanks for looking.

This! 100% agree.

Rodney, I am not much of a rat rod fan, but this one is just bad ass. Could you please show some more pictures? I am particularly interested in your front suspension solution. Would love you to shed some light on the entire frame/chassis and the interior too. Thanks

Аааhhh....Burgundy!!! One of my all time favorite colors for a hot rod from any era.

Great classic roadster Mike. I love the knobs on the dash. Little details like that make all the difference.

I absolutely agree with your grouping, but we are looking from two different perspectives. You are grouping them based on the characteristics of the real cars. I am grouping them from the perspective of ideas and inspiration for model projects. If we were to be building the 1:1 real McCoy, then absolutely your grouping would be the correct one.

Here is my first contribution to this thread. It was build (or rather just finally finished) as part of that "great idea" about a Deuce in every class at a contest. This was supposed to be my Box Stock Plus model, which is basically a box stock model with parts from three different Revell editions of the '32. The model is build as a quick fun project (which end up taking about 10 years to be finally 100% finished). Everything is pretty much box stock 3 window with the motor from the 5 window, wheels and tires from the roadster and the steering wheel from the AMT Phantom Vicky. I wasn't sure what license plate to go with, when I ran across the decal sheet from some Ferrari model and thought that it would be pretty cool to put this plate on an unfinished rod.

Great Coupes and a cool story Eric. My favorite has to be the one with the different wheels. The simple red on white for a 3 window Deuce is like the red on beige for Ferraris.

You like them Black hot Rods!!! In real life I am pretty close to the belief that all hot rods should be black, LOL, but in models I love all the different colors and try to stay away from black. I feel they almost loose most of their detail when they are all in black. And something I forgot to comment on earlier. I kinda hear you on the Phaetons, but they have four doors (at least originally) four seats and their bodies and roofs are much longer. If they belonged with the roadsters, then the Tudors and Fourdoors would belong with the 3/5 window coupes. If people post models of Phaetons, they could serve as inspiration for people building sedans, as far as colors and continuation of the beltilne goes and vice versa. With coupes and roadsters it is completely different and I would separate a two tone combo a completely different way than on a Sedan.

That Roadster is pretty cool Eric, engine or no engine. The color looks very much like Ferrari's Blue Pozzi. Looking black most of the time but very obviously blue under certain light. And I definitely hear you on the big Deuce. I have some projects that are in some box in a bigger box, somewhere in the garage and have not seen light in over a decade.

Thank you for the flames. However credit has to be given in this case to Crazy Modeler, as his precut masks were used. I love his Deuce flames, except the part in the center of the top hood. At one point I had the "great idea" to build a Deuce qualifying for every contest category at the Heartland Nationals. Of course that idea never materialized altho it pokes its annoying head out every once in a while. LOL. What came out of it was this Deuce for the Box Stock class. I thought that if it is box stock, the only thing that could be made completely custom, was the paint. So I ordered the Crazy Modeler's masks and went to work on it. Really nice product. The only thing is that the flames have pretty much the same pattern for a lot of his other masks, so it becomes almost immediately evident when a model is done with that product. This is what actually pushed me to make my blue flamed roadster in the other thread.

Thank you David, I appreciate it. As a matter of fact, I am finishing the couple of little details tonight and calling it ALL done. I know it has been a wile, but I had some very turbulent times in my life since last time at Heartland. Add a move from Colorado to Tennessee and the whole Covid BS and you can see why this was not finished. I am just trying to get back into building something, but my everyday life is fighting me hard on it. LOL I have to snap some new and better pictures of it too.

Ok, another Deuce specific thread for all the Deuce Roadsters out there. Highboys, Lowboys, Fendered, stock or fully blown drag monsters. If it's based on a Deuce Roadster/Cabrio - IT FLIES! Show'em up guys! I am going to start it with a Bobby Alloway inspired Fendered Roadster. It sits on a scratch-bashed chassis, with Roadster rails and front cross member, half Phantom Vicky - half scratchbuilt rest of crossmembers. Quickchange with the center copied in resin by me from the Paddy Wagon and the rest of the rear axle and shocks scratchbuilt. Front axle is from the Roadster kit, together with the brakes, wheels and brakes. The Engine, transmission and blower are from the Rat Roaster. The dual carbs are from the parts box. Headers are from the Revell '37 Ford and the rest of the exhaust is scratch built from aluminum and solder. The valve covers and airfilter are mixed media resin/photoetched pieces from MCG. I believe they discontinued their SBC offerings. Everything was covered in Molotow chrome and fully plumbed and wired. Body has been modified with the cowl from the Phantom Vicky grafted and the windshield from the same kit. It needed some tweaking to sit properly over the 5-window fenders, especially since it is slightly channeled on its front. This required the grille shell to be sunk even more in the front fenders. The front grille had to be filled on the bottom, to look good behind the MCG photo etched grille, together with the scratchbuilt photo etched radiator. Interior is pretty much stock from the Roadster kit, save for the MCG photo etched gauges, steering wheel, pedals and the detail master photo etched seatbelts. Paint is waterbase Createx from Hobby Lobby, with 2K midcoat and then the flames were free hand cut with exacto knife over BMF on the model, followed by Tamiya white, yellow and two oranges. Everything was topped by more 2K clear, sanded even and cleared again. Technically the model is not 100% finished, as it still needs taillights, licence plate and some minor details.

Yeah. I just made one for the Long Roofs. I'm making one for the roadsters and that would pretty much cover it.

This thing is killer Dennis. It just has this understated attitude oozing out of it. Not far from what I would do with a real one if I could afford it.

That's perfectly fine Lee. They are basically the same thing. Nice clean build of that Lindberg kit you got there.

Now that's one you don't see every day! I love the colors. Very well done.

So I am going to continue with the series of Deuce threads, to expand the specific building idea library. And also, so nobody with a Deuce model feels left out. My personal favorite body styles for Deuces (and most Street Rods) are what I call "the Long Roofs". I believe it gives a more elegant and fluid shape to street rods. I am counting on all the rodders on here to step up and show us what they got. I'm gonna kick it off with Revell's '32 Tudor Sedan. The kit is 100% Box Stock, build as per the instructions. Not a single decal inside and out. All Paint, all Tamiya.

Pretty solid model you have there. I did not mean to leave anyone out with the other threads. They were pretty much like a "pilot" threads. My ideas was to create separate threads concentrated on particular body style Deuce and eventually have threads for every Deuce. The reason for it was to have threads for inspiration when building a Deuce. So if you want to build a Vicky, you could check out all other people's Vickies. And same with everything else. If you are willing of course, you can switch the name of this thread to "'32 Coupes- 3/5Windows" and I'll take care of the other ones. I just didn't have the time and energy earlier. And by the way, did I mention that your model definitely does justice to one of Revell's greatest model kits ever?

So, the hoods, radiator and grille shell from what I thought was my complete kit, were apparently cannibalized elsewhere. The $3 kit donated the hoods, which have been glued solid, and the grille shell. I guess I'll have to scratchbuild the radiator itself, which shouldn't be that much of a deal. Unless of course, someone on here has the radiator piece and is willing to donate it for this build.