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Glad to see your getting back to these.

Very realistic looking weathering on the under carriage. The interior looks good also. The quilted pattern on the interior side panels, are they in the kit or something you have added ?

I love the paint finish, and the stance, how did you get it that low ?

Looks great.

You really captured the look of the time. Most had this look but they didn't have the power you show here to back it up. The stance was what everyone wanted and the "weed sprayer" side exhaust looks good. The lines on the vinyl roof look in proportion and a good finish. Nice clean chrome moldings. I'm partial to the color as well.

Wild looking body work, all well done. I like the T-Bird Bed option,

I like how this looks. The contrasting white trim and roof are spread out on the body so that is more of an accent than a focus point.

I would like to see how your project looks.

That may be the easiest way. My suggestion would be to use either Tamiya X-12 Gold Leaf or something similar. One thought would be to not completely mix in the pigment that gathers on the bottom of the jar. Rely on the clearer portion of the paint with just a little of the pigment preset. Try your technique on the chrome tree to get the desired effect. The gold on the factory wheels weren't a high gloss, sort of a medium sheen. Some of the hard Q-Tips that are sold in many model shops work well for cleaning off the detail edges on the wheel. A light amount of paint thinner may be needed and this type of Q-Tip usually will not "bleed out" onto the gold portion. Hope that helps and consider posting your results.

Beautiful looking. Besides the great paint work I like how you detailed the engine and interior.

Now that's a Kustom. With all the body and paint work plus the interior and then knock it out in 3 weeks. Beautiful looking build with all the right touches.

They are really nice kits. Some things I have learned along the way is that they are design with very close tolerances. The gaps leave very little room for paint and on the interior floor, if you're flocking it be sure to not get any on the mounting surface of the interior side panels. It's that close. If you run into a problem with the frame and floor boards lining up drop me a line and I can show you what I had to do.

Cool idea, I have seen this done in 1:1 before and have always wanted one. Wife doesn't seem as interested as I am thought.

Thankyou for your comment on the wood graining I'm starting to enjoy doing that. I also thought about the kits chrome foil. While I appreciate Galaxie's effort it just doesn't look right. I was going to build it without any side trim but that wasn't the look I wanted. I used plastic stripes to represent the chrome trim. I have done this on other builds before, but not this much. One big plus doing it this way is when I foil it there is no mistaking where the edge of the molding is.

The Kleenex dispenser is in the kit and I just added a black wash to bring out the details. I don't think it will even be seen when everything is assembled.

Great looking build. I remember when you were looking for additional information for your build. I always wondered what happened, and now I know. My '57 was white with a blue and white interior.

The gauge pod with the 5 gauges was for mounting on the bottom edge of the dash board. This was a common practice on 1:1 cars . The factory gauges were for the fuel and water temp only. The '57 Chevy had small parking/turn signal lights on the ends of the grill bar. These maybe lenses for that.

Your build, it should be what ever you want it to be. On the outside chance that you wanted to back date the engine a four barrel carb. and manifold could put it back to 1963 when Ford started the small block anyway.

Great looking Baby Bird. The color combination looks good on this. Nice paint finish. Glad to see you're getting a little bench time again.

Yesterday I applied the final color coats of paint and today I got the clear coats done. I'm going to wait a couple of days before I do anything else with the body until I'm sure the paint has dried.

The Dash is done.

Having some issues with posting the pictures. I'm sure it's me and not the Forum. For the interior I used some scale siding for the tuck & roll effect on the seats, door panels and the rear package try.

This build is inspired by a car I saw in De Luxe Car Kulture magazine. The actual car is a Convertible but I wanted the general look of a Low Rider.

Can't be to bad, it did sell, but for how much ? The old saying " there is a bottom for every seat" and yes I cleaned it up a bit.

This is something very unusual looking. The paint, both quality and the colors, is outstanding. The subject looks like anything but an inexpensive 2 seater.