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Gorgeous color combination.

Looking really good so far. Not a big fan of flat black on cars, but old led sleds pull it off.

Most of the time I drive my Subaru Wagon. Weather permitting and if without family with me, I get around in this

I can not speak for the young members on here, but everyone else I am pretty sure is familiar with the cartoon Pink Panther. Well, in the beginning of each episode there was the Pink Panther car driven by a little kid. To say this car looked wild is an understatement. The only one to have made it in kit form is Doyusha/Eldon from Japan. It was released in a series of show rods that included the Outhouse, Milk truck, Bathtub, Evader and the Pink Panther. All of these are pretty impossible to find our days. The only available Pink Panther I have seen lately was selling for $175. But I am not a collector. I like to build. I collect diecast models (and build them too). But collecting plastic models never made any sense to me as you are basically collecting cardboard boxes with pictures on them. So I am having a blast. For the fuzzy interior I bought a kids bunny harness and a matching color nail polish. How many times could you say that you gutted a bunny to build your model? Groovy!

The Pink Panther show car.

This was a kit I always wanted to build since I saw one in a hobby shop in Belgium more than 20 years ago. Then at the Heartland Nationals few years ago, I found it on one of the tables for sale in a Ziplock bag, without the original box. I don't remember what I paid for it, but it was less than what a current model goes for in my "local" hobby shop. I did not take any pictures in the beginning, but I'll start from where I am at right now. First thing was to get the right color. Nailpolish section in Target to the rescue. The frame is painted semigloss black, the engine block gold and the interior has not been started yet. Here is the time to say, that this is a horrible kit. The body is a chore to get together smooth without any visible gaps. The doors are pretty much impossible to make to open and close so they will be fixed open as per the instructions. There are no decals. There is not even a steering wheel included. If anyone has looked at this kit, they would have seen that there is no radiator, no fuel thank and no exhaust of any sort. And actually this is accurate. I searched quite a bit about the real car. The original (which has changed quite a bit over the years) actually had an electric motor and the V8 was just a dummy. So it really did not have fuel tank, radiator or exhaust. And I am leaving it this way. However, I will have to make some parts, simply because they were missing.

Dan, Dave and Daniel, thank you guys. So the headliner was fitted in and painted. Both the headlights and the wire wheels from the 32 Tudor were dechromed with over cleaner and painted. [ Then the wheels had their hubcaps foiled. Everything was painted Nero Stellato but not cleared yet. At this time the bottom of the bed received its bolts…. …and the top of the bed got foiled. The runners on the side are chrome and rollers in the middle are gold (brass) The other day I was with my wife at Hobby Lobby with my wife and looked around wile waiting for her. I got some crosses from the jewelry section and these really cool turned brass door knobs for doll houses. And here is what the bed will look like when done. It has the brass door knobs as coffin guides on the sides. The "stop" on the far end is from a boothill express extra chrome tree I had and so are the the two chrome handles on the corners of the table. From the brief research I did online, hearses have sliding tables that come out the back (or the side on some), so this is what the handles are for and the stop on the far end keep the coffin from hitting the wall. The brass guides keep it from moving side to side. Or at least that's what I tried to make. Now everything has to be clear coated and polished.

Ahh. I 've had a similar idea for quite some time, but never took on a project to realize it. This will be a build to follow. It looks like it is coming along very well so far. Love the wheel choice too.

This will be a really hard paint job to pull. I don't know if you can find the proper referrence material to replicate it and this is before even involving one's ability to do it. About Janis' looks, she lived at a time when for a performer it was way more important how they sing than how they looked. Unfortunately that concept has been long lost with today's "music stars". Good luck with the paint. I would really love to see you pull it off.

It looks fantastic. I love woodies.

Any pictures from the show?

Awesome truck with great color, but where are the mirrors?

Epic!

Extremely nice clean build. I can definitely second the opinion about this being the best flocking job I have seen.

OK, so I just finished this. I made a frame that supports the floor/body of the hearse. cut some "brackets" that will "bolt" the frame to the body. This is what it will look like from underneath, when everything is together. The black dots will be bolt heads, which I don't have right now, but I am getting tomorrow. off to paint we go….. Thanks for looking

Great work. The wood graining is extremely cool. That's something I never learned how to do. The fuel tank finish blows me away.

Very nice. I like the interior.

Thank you Charlie. I am still working on the floor and the frame that supports it. About the optional paint on Ferraris and other cars like that, it is basically paying to tell the other guy with the same car in red, that your d*** is bigger than his. On the new Porsche 918 I believe the "liquid metal" paint option is closer to $100K. But everything is relative. Considering the 918 is a 2 million, percentage wise its paint option is cheaper than GM's. LOL

Thank you guys. Antonio, this is a nice Benz. I was thinking if that body would fit over the Tamiya chassis and interior. Then I could make a fully detailed one.

Now, THIS will be very interesting. I love wacky projects like this. This will never happen in real life and it makes it all that more enjoyable to see a model like that.

Thank you both guys. Today I did the floor in the back. First I started with laying down some strips to represent the sliders on the bed. Then made some designs from half round stock, which represent the little wheels sunk in hearses floors that "glide" the coffins in. These are going to be foiled together with the outer sliders. The finished floor will have the decoration from the Boothill Express' roof, but only four of them and some chrome hardware, which i haven't figured out yet. That's a pretty big and flat floor, so I thought it would need to be pretty strong (if it were 1:1) so I cut a bunch of small strips and sanded their edges (bottom one on picture)….. …..to make a floor that is "stamped" and reinforced.

Thank you Charlie. I believe that because of the components in it, you can't make less than 8 ounces from the color. So you need 8oz from the base coat and 8oz from the midcoat. I believe my buddy charged me about $70 for the two cans. It is difficult to fork with honestly. I have other Ferrari tri-coats and they are not such a pain. Their Giallo Tristrati is a $60 000 option on their cars. But it has a lot more to do with the "right to exclusivity" than with the paint itself. Here is a Giallo Tristrati California I made.

Here are some pictures. http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/02/ferrari-599-hy-kers-geneva-motor-show-2010/

Thank you Bradley. I love your signature. I decided to keep the headliner simple, but not plain. It will be all plain flat black.