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Very nice. You should have a warning in the title that sunglasses are needed. LOL

Oliver, Tom, Craig and Claude, thank you all for the input. Considering that this will be the FAMILY Deuce, I have to take into consideration mainly the opinion of the family. To my surprise the winning votes go to the steering wheel that is second from the right on the bottom. The point my wife made was, that this is not a sports car, but more of a family cruiser and therefore the wheel needs to be more "laid back" and ornate. Who am I to argue with a woman's logic?!?! LOL So I skipped any work on the Deuce yesterday, but I plan making up for it today. So the fourth day starts with spicing up the interior a little, because it was way too plain. I added some plastic rod where the door handles are going to be and made some "door pockets" (or bags or whatever they should be called) from really thin sheet styrene. Not much, but enough to brake up the plain sides. While I was doing this I had two Foose F100 kits starring at me. So I had a funny thing go through my head "THE FAMILY FOOSE". So I waisted some time away from the Family Deuce to check out a "what-if" Family Foose. Now I need to put that Foose thing away, before all hell breaks lose, so I can actually finish my Family Deuce project.

Today I had to run some errands, so Day 3 was not that productive. I still managed to spray the top coat on the drivetrain. And to correct the boo-boos on the fender/chassis assembly that the first coat of primer revealed. Now a new dilemma! 8 choices for steering wheels.......

Tom, thank you. I guess I am lucky, as I don't like cereals. LOL. Thank you Dennis. from looking at other posts I believe the company that made the body is Star Models or something else with the word "Star" in it. I don't remember when or where I bought it from.

Really cool project. I love the idea. However, I think the rear of the car needs to be longer and lower, in order to stay in the spirit of F1. Right now the rear looks “bunched up”. Part of the issue is that it is trying to stay true to the Deuce proportions, but it impossible, because it wasn’t a rear engined car. That rear wing needs space and air flow to do anything. Just my two cents. And I am just expressing my personal opinion, trying to offer constructive criticism. Not putting down the craftsmanship or the effort invested.

picking colors is always a lengthy and complicated ordeal in my house. It involves the wife, the kids, the dog, the cats and days on the net searching for reference pics and ideas. Not this time tho. For some unknown reason, an idea just popped in my head and everyone unanimously agreed on it. In case you're wondering, the base for the accent color (the drivetrain and half the body) is Tamiya's Copper PS-14, shot through and airbrush right out of the can. It will be followed by PPG's Cinnamon pearl candy.

So, at the end of Day 2 I am pretty happy with my progress. I managed to prime almost everything and then some. The body looks perfect and needs no corrections. The chassis/fenders however need quite a bit more work to make everything good for paint. I filled the center line in the top hood and that needs to be touched up on a couple of places. The interior doesn't have any issues, but there were none expected. It's all stock after all. I filled in the old lines for the doors and made new ones for the extra doors. I wanted to see the the panels under primer. I will add a little detail to the side panels before I paint the interior, because it looks way too plain the way it is. I even managed to lay down the base color on the drivetrain. Tomorrow I will put the top coat on the drive train and hopefully straighten all the issues with the fenders/chassis. Stay tuned.

I’ve had my share of cool cars. Most were actually not only two door, but two seaters too. I just got rid of my fifth Corvette. When I was single it was the greatest thing ever. When I got married it was still cool, altho not very practical. After my first kid, it was OK, because my wife is not really a car person at all. So when I wanted to go to a car show with my kid, she didn’t mind staying home. Now, however, when I have two boys and they are starting to get into cars (or more like showing off, LOL) a two seater is out of the question and a two-door would be a major PITA. Hence, The Family Deuce.

Oookeeeey......Day two is tarting with lots of sanding in preparation for the primer and with finding another piece of the puzzle. Deciding on wheels and tires. This is a huge step forward for me as I can never make my mind up. The wheels are from Pegasus with rears having the faces cut and put in Pegasus alu sleeves.

Paint came out great. Always loved those pastel colors of the '50s.

Nice color

I love the interior. Also can't wait to see what the paint job ends up like.

Looking good. Ferraris have always been my number one passion. I reserve the 1:18 scale for them however. Always nice to see a classic Ferrari project on here.

The engine has been decided too. Powerful without being over the top, great sounding, reliable and easy to maintain. It will be a small block Ford by Roush. In other words, a medley of the different engine parts from the various Revell '32 kits with the great decals from the Foose F-100. LOL Considering that the biggest issue I have building a model, is usually actually deciding what I want and how I want it, I am very happy with my progress after Day-1.Tomorrow hopefully I can lay some primer.

With little help from my wife, the colors for the "Family Deuce" have been decided too. Two tone all the way!!!!

Hahaha.... That would be a cool name. Mordoor. Thanks for the interest. This rod will be shiny and will be modern. As with most builds I do, I build the model based on what would work in real life, rather than what would look better on a model contest table. So think what if you were building a 1:1 Street Rod, that you wouldn’t hesitate to a road tour with your whole family. That’s what I would be shooting for.

Thank you. I don't know who makes the body, but it is very nicely done. Better than the usual Jimmy Flintstone bodies, which are very crude sometimes. It is obviously based on the Revell Tudor kit. This means that the windshield and its frame are direct fit and so is the rear window. Obviously new side windows need to be made. The interior fits nice, but the panels don't match as they are obviously for a two door application. Converting the interior should't be that hard. Since the new body is four door, a bench seat can also be used in the front.

Very nice project. I love the finish.

Hello everyone, Life got in the way and I have not touched a plastic kit for over a year. Well, things have changed and I got the itch to build something, so I dug into my stuff that was put away in boxes and put together the parts for a project. I didn't want anything complicated, so I will try (key word TRY, LOL) to keep this project simple. I found this resin body in a box full of Deuce bodies that I had forgotten about. It could be the quintessential family street rod. First order of business was to rescribe all the panel lines for the doors. Next I scribed around the roof insert and then sanded the whole roof smooth. The idea is reproduce the roof panel treatment on Bobby Alloway's Mrs Vicky. So there will be a roof insert, but sitting flush with the roof and with no trim around it. The chassis/fenders will be the standard Revell '32 Ford affair. For now at least.... First steps are taken to fix sink marks and to start sanding everything and prepping for primer. A quick mockup of the FAMILY DEUCE

Actually the Tamiya good ole "Italian red" is exact match for the Rosso Corsa Ferrari used. They can't put it on the cans for licensing reasons, but quite few of their colors are exact match for real life liveries. The original Rosso Corsa on the Ferrari racers and F1 cars was showing too dark on TV compared to real life. So in '97 Ferrari switched to a much brighter red, which on TV actually looked like the regular Rosso Corsa did in real life. That bright red is called Rosso Scuderia and the Tamita TS49 is exact match for it. It was developed for.......you guessed it - their 1:20 1997 Ferrari F1 model. In 2007, Ferrari painted their cars in custom red metallic. Tamiya has a paint that is exact match to that color too, but I don't know the number on top of my head. If I was you, I would just go to any car paint shop and ask them to mix you PPG Rosso Corsa 322. That would be the original Ferrari factory color. Probably $25 will buy you a lifetime supply of Ferrari Red. All the best

I totally get it. My comment wasn't meant as criticism, but rather just curiosity. To me , personally the classic blood red Ferrari red looks better and more in age with the subject you chose to build. That color - TS 49, matches the exact color used by the Scuderia after 1997. It was created simply for TV. IMHO there is no substitution for the classic Ferrari Red.

Very nice and clean builds of kits I have heard are not very friendly. I just don't understand why did you paint them in that color, which wasn't even invented until three decades after the cars stopped racing.

and why exactly is this in "on the workbench"?

Thanks for the interest guys. So here is a little mockup of the engine. It is the Tudor block and transmission with its belts and generator, but the heads, intake, carbs, fuel pump and air filter from the '48 ford. I have not decided about the heads yet. I may use the Ardun ones from Revell's '50 truck. It all depends if they fit without sticking outside the frame rails. The frame got it's regular engine mounts cut off and it was pretty cleaned up and puttied. Now it just needs new motor mounts for the flattie and to be sanded smooth. The body got its cowl removed, rear inner fenders in place and the AMT Vicky's firewall installed. Now I need to transfer the cowl from the Vicky and I am pretty much done with the body work. Usually , no matter if I am doing a Deuce with or without fenders, I would roll the rear and have no fuel tank in sight. In the very rare occasion I would leave the tank in its stock location, I would at least fill out its outer edge. No this time. It is staying stock and eventually getting a spreader bar. And here is a quick mockup of the whole Deuce, which will pretty much give you ZERO idea of what the final model would look like. Stay tuned.

Been there, done that. Project for the most part don't end up exactly as planned. At least that's how it is with me.