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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.

Alway enjoyed the Bond films even if they were sort of tung in cheek. The "toys" that Bond got to use were also fun.

My default paint would be a Tamiya product based on the results thru the years. As mentioned, the Clear Red, and any of their clear colors for that matter, need to be thoroughly mixed before using. Try using a stirrer like a toothpick or a small coffee type stir stick to get the pigment that settles on the bottom of the jar mixed with the clear. This will make each light coat of color actually better cover say the kit chrome lenses. This has seemed to work better for mixing than trying to shake the bottle until your wrist wants to fall off.

Wow, thanks for the information. I better start setting aside some extra model monies.

Great looking paint finish. The interior and engine detailing are really well done and the colors and finishes all look correct.

Great looking paint and trim. What I can see of the interior it looks like is well done as well.

Looks great, just needs a little shinny paint work.

A little love and understanding are all they need.