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Does the kit you have contain the Chopped Hardtop ? I have built one with that and some minor other '50's type styling and it turned out pretty nice. Additional body panels can be found in the '49 Ford coupe kit.

Your build looks good so far. This kit is a very good representation of the 1:1 Magnum Wagon.

Great looking T & R Dash. I have only done a few with the T & R type interiors but have found something that may simplify adding this feature. I used Plastruct #91519 1:48 scale Corrugated Siding. This comes in sheet form and can be cut to size. Looking at the sheet I have the rolls appears somewhat smaller than what you have here but I'm sure they offer different sizes as needed.

I think MCW offers a resin body for the Bel Air and Biscayne .

See that's what I mean about the fait of so many of these great cars. I'm glad this one is in good hands.

They're all a little unusual in a very good way. I enjoyed your Trailer build especially. The Island Tour Jitney just makes me smile.

They all look great and the Caddy is real special.

Nice to see these well done NASCAR builds.

All very cleanly done. I like the Comet and hope to build one this year.

Great looking builds. I like the wide verity of cars built.

While not a normal sedan type builder this is interesting to me. I'll wait until someone opens one and posts the contains before I buy one, if it's as well done as I expect I'll buy one or two just to try something different.

That's good to know. I enjoy both your builds and the stories. I since a pent up writer in there somewhere.

I can see the pattern in the gold area and it looks good to me anyway. My question would be is this adhesive backed ? or do you still have to glue it in place somehow ? Looking at the picture it looks like you have chrome foil covering the whole trim area. I would suggest removing the chrome foil in the area of the gold trim unless you're going to try and just paint it in. The gold foil method is just my personal choice and should not be the final reason for what you do with your build.

Looking at the pattern and the finish here this may be an ideal option. The 1:1 cars had a textured surface that I think you could find on Google by just asking for pictures of a '57 Ford Fairlane 500. The kit body has a very correct finish in the plastic in this area, at least to my eye. This texture shows thru the gold foil with a good burnishing of the foil. While this material looks like a good finish I wonder about the thickness of the material and weather or not it has any adhesive backing. If it is any thicker than the foil then it may look out of proportion to the surrounding chrome trim.

I really like your Grand Prix. I was wondering if it was one of Hurst models from that era based on the paint colors and their layout ? Glad to see you're caring for this as to many have been damaged or unceremonially changed into something else.

A Motor Cycle with a Jet Ski body and the rider is wearing a Life Jacket. At least he has a since of humor.

I forgot to mention something about the Gold Foil. The foils finish is very shiny much like their chrome. This is what I used on the ones I have built. This is purely personal choice but since it is so shiny it may appear unrealistic to the eye. The area is also very small and you may not even notice it. I have owned a couple of 1:1 '57 Fords years ago and the gold area was a metal insert held in place by some adhesive and the side moldings above and below and the finish was not shiny like chrome. Should the gold foil appear to shiny, again to your taste, a very light coat of semi-gloss paint should go a long way to tone it down. I left mine without any top coat and they look fine to these old eyes.

Tamaya X-31 Titan Gold is pretty close for the gold trim. Bare-Metal Foil is also available in Gold foil.

Moving along nicely. I actually saw an Orange Super Bee in the wild last week. Almost sorry to see this build getting close to finished, need to know more about McNally and company.

Another thought for this problem. Any place with school type supplies usually has very inexpensive rubber teasers, the type that slip over the end of a pencil. These usually have a four sided area that slips over the end of a pencil or the handle of a #11 blade handle. They also offer several different colors so you can color code your blade handle and your saw handle oe what ever.

Generally I'll use a drop or two of Tamiya X-22 Clear paint. I have used the old Future Floor Polish with similar results, I just prefer the Tamiya product.

These are the artist I was thinking of. So hard to describe just how good they are. They look like they're having the time of their lives when they preform and this really shows the range of their talent.

I have watched the UK based Wheeler Dealer show on TV. When they were still filming in the UK they went to France and bought one of these. I never knew they existed, so it was interesting how they rebuilt theirs into what we here call a Food Truck. Your build looks very much like what they started with. Watching this build I learned some new techniques about this style of build, and thank you for that.

Very impressive looking builds. The Purple colored pick-up just looks wright in every way. The '61 Ventura with all the opening doors, trunk and even the gas filler door really shows the craftsmanship you put into this build. The truck and flat bed trailers with the shovels are also impressive. I got to watch your build on the Roadster and learned a great deal from all the fabrication you did on that. All of these share great paint work and cleanly built.

Thank you for your explanation. I can see now looking at your drawing and the side picture of the body in yellow and white. The area around the rear wheel well stands out just ever so much. Great way to solve the problem as I thought you might have widened the whole quarter panel,