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I enjoy looking at all of the detail work on the interior and chassis. Almost a shame it has to hide under the body. I would love to see the 1:1 inspiration for this build.

Very nice clean looking build. I like that you didn't put a vinyl roof on it they look better without.

Very impressive chassis and body fit. I'm far from an expert on '34's but something about the rear "apron" below the trunk and between the rear fenders looks off. The Resin body looks great but it's as if it was cast as a body without fenders ?

Neat videos. I like the look of the Rivera and agree the front end may use a little clean up. The supports for the Spliter are unavoidable but the grill bars could be changed for the better. I think if he painted the body all one color would also help, and yes it would be a shame to paint over the Carbon Fiber body panels.

In that case that might not be an arm on the hood. With the "wash off paint" that the sell in parts stores now that could just be a Halloween thing.

Thank you for sharing. Great pictures and show how it was when it was.

I like the very aggressive look.

I agree with TarheelRick about the lighter back ground. I like the color combination and it looks very much like an option Chevrolet offered at that time. I think the colors work well together and I like the white interior.

Great looking build. Very classic color combination. You had mentioned the desire to go with white walls, maybe the tires from one of the later Revell kits with the white wall inserts might help.

Excellent body work . Makes one wonder why Mercury didn't offer this body style.

Great looking paint work and I really like the color. Your fender skirts look perfect for the look you are after.

The designer of the Titanic Bouncer is probably much younger than your self and doesn't realize the magnitude of the event that this represents.

The wait time is one of the reasons I don't use enamels usually. I'm the impatient type any way. I try to use the more modern acrylics and lacquers. These are usually ready to polish in 24 hours or so.

That is a nice kit, especially when you think about when it was first released. Makes a very handsome model.

I'm glad to see you're back on this build. You mentioned the hood fitment, and you may have already set what you're going to do there, but as I recall the 1:1 Chevy hoods had a different alignment between the back edge of the hood and cowl just above the front fender. The kit has the back edge of the hood coming to a point at the corner where the hood, cowl, and fender all meet. I think this may be wrong. On the 1:1 the hood ends in a much straighter up and down line instead of a point. As I recall the hood meets the front door edge and covers the cowl in that area above the fender. If you google the '49 thru '52 Chevrolet you can see in the pictures what I mean. The back edge of the hood follows the door opening from the fender to the top of the cowl. Most would never notice this but I'm one of the fly ### in the pepper guys and have owned a '51 many many years ago.

Poor Edsel, the car and the man. Neither ever got the respect they deserved. I enjoy looking at all of the old styling prototypes that others have shared. While it is remarkable that so many cars from different manufactures have such a great resemblance to one another I think that one reason may have to do with the design staffs. In the past and even in the present we hear about the heads of design moving from one company to another, and I'm sure that has an influence on design, but the designers that are basic staff or say midrange designers move around also and that is never mentioned. Say a designer working with company A is laid off or leaves for a better paying position at company B, would it not be normal for this person to bring some of the styling features with them ?

Looking at the picture of Fat Brian's Monster Truck reminded me of the days when all we had was some Testers Chrome Silver in a bottle. First off nothing bad to say about the Monster Truck because it looks very nice. What I was shown by others to do when painting the chrome trim like drip rails and side moldings and such was to lightly score either side of the edge of the object you are trying to paint. This is only a very light line, only enough to stop the flow of the paint from running out onto the body surface. This worked well all those years ago and I still do this sometimes when painting fine details such as interiors and chassis. I haven't tried it with the Pen, but it would seem to work the same way.

There is a fine line between being cheap and being thrifty. I know many here and elsewhere that are thrifty, but I don't think anyone here is cheap enough to steal .

I would be very cautious how and were in the Marijuana you invest, but I agree the possibilities are great for the medical side for sure. I think that some day the recreational side will be treated much like Alcohol and taxed and users will have to meet the same regulations as Alcohol. I have heard that people generally behave better when High than when Drunk. So that could also be a benefit.

I can see the fun part from a youngsters prospective, but it really is bad form on this one. They have a lot of blow-up slides that you can rent that they might even relate too.

Looks interesting. Standard answer is paint some picnic spoons and see for your self.

Ya you just know the hinges would be worn out by this point. I like what you're doing, but it hurts, I love the '49 thru '51 Fords and have owned a few thru the years.

Very impressive looking build. I like the bed wood, I remember old trucks that got worked to death and that is what the wood slates often looked like. I have even seen where the wood dry rotted all the way thru in places. The finish on the body looks very much like a truck that has spent it's entire life setting in the elements.

Rather than respray the body Red, use some triple 0 steel wool and lightly go over the body. Do a little rust around the holes then spray everything with flat clear. The same with the tires, just spray them with flat clear and from arms length so you get a very rough finish like a well worn tire. You should collapse the suspension on at least one corner. You're going to leave that door hanging open aren't you ?

I'm still trying to learn the in and outs of the Molotow pen. I'm not ready to use it instead of chrome foil and I may never get there. The pen has done wonders for me on small detailing and works better for small trim parts on the interior and dash. I see many other builders here who are doing remarkable trim detailing with it, but it will be like anything else where you just have to work on it and it will come in time.