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Harry strikes again with his craftsmanship. Very, very nice work Harry.

Dynamite model Harry. You are a true craftsman.

Try a #70 bit... and it's a pin vise. Micro Mark has them, but you might be able to get one in a well stocked hobby shop.

John you are definitely a sicko... In a good way of course.

Yeah... Ya gotta LOVE Art's "short and to the point answers"...... I'm NOT picking on you Art, honest I'm not. You are our walking encyclopedia of all things Auto related.

Great car. I love that corduroy interior...... I'll have to try that someday.

Yeah Tom thanks.... By the way buddy.... you were only 2 way back in 65... LOL.

Thanks for the comments guys. I have to get back to this little build sometime this weekend, along with the '36 Ford HiBoy project. I had my NY friend come to pick up the '65 Rambler model that I built for him and I "entertained" him from Tuesday through this morning so I wasn't able to get in any bench time for most of the week.

Here's a Postscript to this "story". My friend Mike drove out here to western PA this week to pick up his Rambler model, and needless to say, he was thrilled with the car and can't wait until the Cruise nights start in May in his NY area so he can display the model with his car. He even bought a small turntable to display the car on. He brought with him a picture from our High School yearbook from waaaaayyyy back in 1965 of us at a table in the school library looking at a '62 T-Bird model that I built back then. I'm the guy in the middle with the glasses and pompadour hairstyle which was "big" in those days and Mike is the guy sitting, holding the model. We decided to try to "restage"the picture in my dining room while he was with me for a couple of days...... a "then and now" thing. I'm standing in the "today" picture and obviously couldn't pull off that pompadour hair thing today if my life depended on it...... not enough hair left to do it...LOL. This should probably make a lot of you smile... 1965 2013 Thanks again to all who followed along on this build and commented along the way. It was a totally fun time and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Another great looking model Ron. I like the green paint, and the curb feelers are cool.

Great looking model Ron. My first car was a '67 Galaxy. Yep they are big boats.

Looking pretty good James. Don't you just love doing all that sanding... LOL.

Great job Bernard, I love it.

Last Friday my wife took me to my LHS for a belated Christmas present of a "shopping spree". While browsing though the store I wandered through the military model section and came across a Tamiya 1/48 scale 1942 Ford Army Staff Car model. Ford stopped production of civilian vehicles at the start of WWII but they made Army Staff Cars. Since it is such an "unusual" subject I thought it would make a "cute" little Street Rod. So while I was waiting for the paint to dry on the '36 Ford Highboy I've been working on, I decided to check out this little car. There were all of about 20 pieces to this kit so I just dove right in on it. After a few hours over the weekend this is where it stands at the moment... I painted the plastic tires flat black and tried my best to paint whitewalls on them. I had a set of MCG aluminum baby moon hubcaps that perfectly fit into where the kit's hubcaps go. I polished up the aluminum caps and glued them onto the tires for full moon discs. The interior has a dashboard, steering wheel & column and front & rear seats. I painted the floor flat black, the seats tan and the dashboard tan and chrome silver with some small gauge decals for detail. The steering wheel was painted leather for a wood color and the column chrome silver. I drilled small depressions under the headlight openings for amber MV lens turn signals, and also drilled depressions into the rear fenders for red MV lens taillights. All that's left to do is paint the body, apply a couple of small decals, install the glass and dashboard, mount the body to the chassis and attach the grille, bumpers and lights. This is one cool and cute little project and a fun break from my other projects. Thanks for looking in on it.

Beautiful model Harry. Congratulations on a great build.

I love it... hilarious. Just wait until the next time my daughter asks where the crazy glue is........

I'm NOT trying to start any funny business here... believe me I'm not. But today is January 6th... No December issue has arrived in my mail yet.

I'm a builder. Of course I'll have to live for at least another lifetime to build them ALL.

OK, first of all, I bought myself a Christmas present of a 1958 Ford Convertible resin kit from The Modelhaus. I love all the '58 cars. Some people consider the '58 Ford to be an ugly car, but, I happen to like it. This is a really great casting with next to no cleanup needed at all. My plan for this, which is on my workbench now, is to make this a "bolt-on" Custom...... as if someone threw a J.C. Whitney catalog at it in 1959 to see what would stick...!!! I got the curbside kit with skirts, an uptop and convertible boot, and a full continental kit with an extended rear bumper. I sanded off all name badging and will be adding twin dummy spots, mirrors, front spinner hubcaps, lake pipes and a swept back antenna on the trunk lid. The color will be Tamiya Coral Blue. One of the things that I really love about this kit is that the interior is NOT a bucket...... It is a platform style interior with the front seat, side panels, dashboard and steering wheel all being separate pieces. This is going to be GREAT to detail the heck out of. The colors will be Tamiya Coral Blue and white. In addition to this kit, today my wife treated me to a trip to my LHS for a belated shopping spree Christmas Present. Here's what I picked up I finally got the '50 Olds and the '57 Ford kits and a bunch of flat paints for interior detailing along with some epoxy, non-fogging CA glue, and XActo blades. While wandering through the very well stocked store I came across the 1/48 scale 1942 Ford Army Staff Car. Now 1/48 scale is pretty darn small, but since it was such an odd find I thought that at some point I'll try to make it into a Street Rod. Should be a good challenge if I don't go blind trying to work on it... LOL.

Thanks John... I think so too. Overall I think the flat black and red colors would be to his liking along with the flathead engine. I also think the grenade shifter would be crazy enough for him too.

Thank you Ron and Derrick. This is a fun project in trying to make something that I know my late friend would have really liked.

Geoff, Scale Motorsports has various upholstery pattern decals for 50's & 60's cars. You may want to see if any of their stuff matches or comes close to the upholstery pattern you are looking for.

I finally took some in-progress pictures of various finished components of this build. First up is the chassis before I installed the engine. I also still have to make an exhaust system once the engine is put in. Next is a side picture of the chassis showing the detailed wheels. I painted the stock AMT '36 Ford steel wheels red, added PE bolt heads to the lugs, '40 Ford trim rings and a PE "O" from RMCoMD's Wizard's O's. The wheels are mounted in RMCoMD resin Big & Little whitewalls. And yes, the wheels are attached to the chassis with the good old metal axle through the front and rear plastic axles. Next is the engine from the Revell chopped '48 Ford mounted in the '36 Ford chassis. I still have to attach the hoses to the radiator. These last 2 pictures are of the finished interior. I flocked the floor in gray and the seats and side panels in black and red. The dashboard is painted semi-gloss black with a PE gauge panel with clear epoxy drop lenses, and aluminum dash knobs from Detail Master. The PE banjo steering wheel is from MCG as are the pedals and the seat belts and hardware. The shifter is a hand grenade from the Gangster Lincoln kit mounted to a straight pin and a small PE "pull" ring. The door handles and window cranks are resin pcs. from RMCoMD painted chrome silver. Next chore is to spray the body, hood assembly, inner fender assembly and headlight buckets with flat black primer and then do the final assembly. Hopefully this model will be finished up by some time this weekend. Thanks for following along on this build. .

Best wishes to ALL for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

Great idea Tom. Thanks for the how-to.