espo

Thanks Bob. The kits factory bumpers, like the real car, make these cars look heavy front and rear. Became a fun challenge to do but was worth the effort.

They might start disappearing in a week or so.

The body panels fit perfectly, and the paint treatment must have taken a lot of masking.

Beautiful looking paint treatments and finishes. Like the way you dirtied up the engine a little and the chassis.

Great looking paint finish and color. Don't normally care for a lot of some of the old factory style striping, but this looks really nicely done. The detailing on the engine and the dash gauges looks good. Like the stance.

Great looking shade of blue and finish. The lighting changes how dark it looks. Noticed how good the gauges in the dash look. Clean detailing.

Very sharp looking details on the bumpers and grill areas.

Great looking interior. Like your suggestion on the tabs. Usually, the problem is getting the chassis to go up inside the body far enough.

Seeing all the custom body work including the roof, I wonder if this is a factory glass roof car. Living south of your southern border, this would have been a Ford and '54 was the first year of the clear roof option. In our Mercureys here the models with this option were called "The Sun Valley". All of the '50's style body and trim mods still look great and whoever did this body work should be proud.

Have you tried Google Images? I go there before I start on most builds for ideas and colors both stock and some customs or rods.

I agree with everyone above, but I have a question about his body tools. Did anyone else notice how he was using the hammer? Maybe he's just bragging about something else, but I have never seen anyone use a body hammer in this way, obscene.

Remember seeing pictures of these and other cars with tops chopped just this low many years ago, so you're right in line with what they did. There used to be a filler park in the kit for the hood, and that maybe what you did. The grill shell looks like a smooth transition into the fenders. Are you going to use the rear roll panel with the license plate relief in it? For lowering the front end, maybe cut out the inner fenders and use the old pill bottle trick to tub it like you would a rear end. The flat black look would look good on this.

Thankyou Alex.

Great looking Brass Era build. Realistic looking finishes.

Had a mouse problem in a house I lived in many years ago. Very rural area and they would get into the laundry room. I went to do the laundry one night and there was a couple of them that had fallen into a plastic waste basket, and they couldn't get out. One of them overpowered the other and was eating him. They are really nasty when hungry.

O please - please do the '68 Bel Air two door. Having owned one with the 427 and 4 - speed, to get around the insurance rates of the time, had rally wheels and factory A/C and the factory 8 track built into the bottom of the dash.

Great looking paint finishes and PD markings. Like the engine detailing.

Great looking paint and body work. Like the early style finishes and colors that you used.

Like the louvers on the hood.

The headlights and taillights add so much to the appearance.

Great background story, the sort of thing that makes your model build all the more personal.

A thought that may or may not apply to what happened with your paint work. Having had something along this line happen before. I have found that before removing the masking tape use a sharp #11 along the edge of the tape, basically cutting the paint between the tape and the body, may prevent this in the future.

Like the realistic finishes and details.

Enjoying watching your plastic surgery here. Your process on the roof is much like the way many 1:1 cars are done. Looking at the windshield opening you now know where the "mail slot" description comes from.

Great kit and endless possibilities for build style.