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Looks perfect to me. I like the ride height and the tires are much more fitting for such a truck. Great paint job and the white painted wheels look right.

I will enjoy watching this project. The interior could be covered with a Mexican Blanket and might look perfect depending on how nice you're building the rest of the model. I love the TROG cars.

As I recall the manufactures started trying out three tone cars around '55 models. The ones I remember most were the Dodges and De Soto's, Buicks were the only GM product that I can remember. The Edsel's were actually about the last models to use this style of paint treatment. Some of the color combinations including the combination you used look very nice at that time. What I meant by saying that you wouldn't go unnoticed was that they would catch your eye in a good way. I tried to convince my father we should have an Edsel when they came out, he was a very conservative type and didn't want to draw attention in that way. We carried on with a '56 Chevrolet 210 4 door 6 Cyl. 3 speed manual transmission with black wall tires, he splurged on a blue and white color combination since that was the only one the Chevrolet dealer had at the time. Like I said he wanted to be inconspicuous.

You know what, he's right.

Great photos, thank you for sharing. So many good looking builds.

The example of the interior in the 1:1 white convertible looks like a very nice semi-custom interior. You might look at www.oldbrochures.com and see what the original sales brochures show for interiors. I think that a majority of the images you will find on line and else where are of cars that have been modified in many ways, and the interiors are often done in this fashion.

That's a tuff looking little truck. Great Patina, not over done and the perfect flat finish. The wheel tubs look natural in the bed. I'd love to see the power plant on this, and the interior.

This looks as if the Bronco has been submerged in a flood and had a tree fall across the hood. The mechanic is probably look for a part to use on a serviceable vehicle. Your build looks like it is beyond saving. Great job.

Great looking 4 X 4. The Green color looks very much like the Thunder Bird Cascade Green from that era. The "Barber Pole" paint job on the drive shafts made me smile.

I like the color combination. So used to seeing the "Little Red Wagon" it's nice to see one built in this manor.

Very nice clean looking build. I like the smooth paint work. Always thought these looked better without the Vinyl Roofs, and the didn't rust out as fast that way. The deep offset Mag wheels give your model an aggressive look.

Excellent replica of the Kopperhed. The roof line is hard to replicate. Very cleanly built.

Interesting subject and I like the diorama idea. Since you're redoing the paint work anyway I was going to suggest the same idea as Luc Janssens, with the Clear coat before the Decals. The basic idea is to have the paint surface as smooth as possible before applying any decals and Clear coat as well. You mentioned the tires pointed the wrong way for a left turn. Since this is a chase seen anyway maybe the car is sliding around and the driver is turning the wheels to the right into the skid. I'm sure you have experience driving on snow and ice covered roads, and you are accustom to correcting a slid or skid. When you put together your diorama you could pose the car in such a way that it looks like it's sliding around the corner.

You might consider using the stock steel wheels and sliding them into Pegasus Sleeves. That way you can use the stock dog dish hub cap and paint the wheel center and the outer will be polished and give you low profile tires.

Still using Eyeball Engineering but my eyes are a little blood shot. I try to drill a small hole for what ever wire I may be using to pin the part. I'll start with a small scribe mark using an X-acto knife and start with a very small diameter drill bit. With the small bit it is easier to get the hole drilled in the correct direction and depth and this makes it easier to drill what ever size hole you need for the actual pin. For pins I have used Swingline staples - small diameter Brass rods and Floral Stem Wire works well. I like the stem wire the best in that it is easily bent as needed and easier to cut. There are many other possible products that you can use, this is just what I've found that I'm comfortable with. I'm sure others will offer some good ideas.

I think the problem that Michaels was having was that they kept trying to charge more for their models than Hobby Lobby. In either case if you wanted to buy a kit and you had a 40% off coupon you would only save $3 or $4 over the standard price at the local hobby shops. Guess where I spent my money.

I have the kit in the stash, never looked at the Carb. Jets.

Well said. You just have to remember that some people are going to complain even if they were getting hung with a new rope as my mother used to say.

So many great looking cars. Was that at Gale's HD Store ? The copper Chevy coupe gives me an idea for a Moebius build. The Hugger Orange Nova looks just like the '72 Nova SS I bought new, it was Flame Orange which was a very fine gold flake effect over the Orange.

They were great little cars. I was in California and the smog laws were really limiting as to drive trains that they would allow into the state. Some of the problem had to do with GM not wanting to certify every engine for California based on how many GM thought they may sell. This usually left the YF5 Smog cars with either the base 6 cylinder or in the case of the Malibu the option of a 350 4 barrel car the first year and later they certified the 305 also with a 4 barrel. While not that fast by todays standards, they were pretty quick for their time. The LAPD were using Novas with the 350 package and the Suspension and HD Brakes.

I hope someone will remember to post their picture of the show.

I love your two cars. I started selling for a Chevrolet dealer in '74 and always had a new Chevrolet to drive in addition to my own Chevys. I had several different Caprice coups and I still think they were a great size and with the F-41 suspension they would handle well also. I had a couple different Novas also. I favorite was a silver Nova LN in '75. The other salesmen used to call it the silver bullet, I wonder why ? The great thing about the Nova was that you basically had a Camaro with a sedan body, but all of the good parts are a direct bolt on.

They both look used up. You need a diorama to show them off in.

Very nice looking build. I agree your pinky just looks painful.

I appreciate your devotion to Fords in general. The AMT '56 Ford is a very different kit than the '57 Revell kits as I'm sure you're aware after build several of them. The AMT kit still stands up well against many of the newer kits and was a very advanced kit at the time of its release. I enjoy watching your builds as they are all exceptional. I had a high school friend that I rode to school with every day, his '56 was a white over blue tutone with a white convertible top. He had the 292 engine with the Fordomatic.