Maindrian Pace

The facial expression of the Jaguar is appropriate.

I love these combo kit bash builds. Rock on! -MJS

Looking quite nice. -MJS

AMT '62 Galaxie. We got almost every other year... AMT '61 Starliner. Because the roofline on the other '61 is hard to look at. AMT '67 Galaxie. Ooh. AMT '68 Galaxie. Not very accurate, but has possibilities. MPC '76 Cobra II. Because Jill. MPC '76 Firebird. Because Jim. MPC '76 Pinto wagon. Because who doesn't want to build a light metallic green Squire with whitewalls? MPC '82 Ford EXP. You know you want one. Pick any five.

Outstanding, it just has the right look and feel from every angle. -MJS

I put a 312 into a '37 Ford pickup. Cool engines.

Very clean!

It looks to me like it's in the rear overhang and the angle of the C pillar - an easy fix.

Great build, as a phantom, it works! -MJS

As the owner of a 1:1, I think yours is the nicest built example of this kit I've seen. Excellent job. -MJS

It's also in the Scotty Gosson book Show Rod Model Cars, so it's Official. I just got an order from them, things I've needed for some time but never got around to ordering.

Well, he did design this...

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Fire Iron was the first show rod I ever built, and I really liked it because at 8 years old, it was the first glue kit that I built by myself that actually came out looking decent. Several more Daniel/Roth show rods came later, then custom vans, (this was the '70s) and finally cars. -MJS

I've seen worse.

Very impressive and convincing conversion. I really like these types of builds. -MJS

Proper! Isn't it amazing how well AMT captured the dimensions way back then? And those guys probably used slide rules.

Cool!

It's too long, so I shortened it, and also narrowed it a bit. Added a pad to make it sit level on the two package shelf spikes on the chassis. The builder will need to scribe a notch in the middle of the coupe seat back to make it look more like a split fold hatch seat. The hatch seat back is narrower, but changing that would require changing the whole rear seat area; adding expense and probably not worth it for something so hard to see in a built model. -MJS

Sure did! And that's what gave me the idea to look at the model interior. The whole tub fit the the Revell body, but it's obviously too big. The hatch area is cut off and trimmed to fit around the coupe seat. -MJS

Thanks very much, gentlemen. This is what I have so far: It fits pretty well: The only problem is that it's a total piece of junk. MPC got the shape of the inner panels completely wrong, coming from back in the dark '80s when they had just about given up - and it shows. So it won't be used. The glue is drying on the next update... -MJS

Superb, brings me right back to the early '80s when they were thick on the streets. Very popular cars around here, most had custom wheels and a stereo with 6x9s in the rear deck. Yours is the nicest version of that kit I've seen. -MJS

Time to get all my ducks in a row and address the interior insert. I'll use the back of an MPC chassis and rear panels, a good bit of modification will be necessary to make it so the builder can cut off the coupe package shelf and add the hatch cargo area.

Very nice! Is this Christine's 'just as evil" twin, or "even more evil" twin?

Stunning, it looks like you can fall into that paint. -MJS