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Very impressive body work on your conversion.

Depending on how you intend to build your model the roof would have been a weatherproof fabric when new. That would make the roof a flat black or textured surface to represent the fabric. If you're going custom it can be what ever color you want it to be.

Just go with picture number 2.

The paint looks super smooth and the foiling looks great. I see you replaced the OEM style Holley carbs, what did you replace them with ? Interesting duel fuel filters in the rear.

Very nice clean looking build. As the others have mentioned the colors go well together.

You know the old saying, "If big is good bigger will be better".

They cold weather will put any battery to the test. I'm fortunate to have a semi heated garage that is at about 35 to 40 degrees now with -2 and -5 degrees outside but the 2010 Charger is starting to drag a little when starting. The dealer has been trying to sell me a new battery for a couple of years now. This is the first time I've noticed anything out of the norm. Our 2009 Wrangler is on it's third battery now so it's hard to understand how one does so well and another not so much.

Interesting read. Most of these studies are not credible to me. Just as mentioned in the article the questions that the so called Psychologists would ask were not really relatable to the food and drink that people like. I have known a few Psychologists and Drug Rehab Consolers, not professionally, and my impression is that all to many of them become Psychologists to try and straighten out their own problems.

This spark plug wire routing is interesting. The only thing I can offer is my 1:1 experience with Small Block Chevrolet engines. In the factory form using the Cast Iron Exhaust Manifolds Chevrolet would have the plug wires from the Distributer go along the back side of the head and go between the block and the manifolds running toward the front of the engine. There would be a heat shield on the 283 cu.in. and larger engines that used the center down pipe exhaust to protect the plug wires going to the front two cylinders. I have owned several small block Chevrolets in the past and almost everyone of them would get Headers installed. The routing of the plug wires with the headers would follow the factory method used on the '64 or later model cars with the manifolds that had a down turn in the factory cast iron manifolds at the exhaust port. The OEM heat shields where mounted to the exhaust manifolds and the plug wires would come in over the Valves Covers or were routed thru small brackets that were mounted to the valve covers depending on the application. This same routing was commonly used in an application where headers were used also. Many, including myself, would use the Heat Shields used on Corvette applications that were a wrap around the spark plug and the lead so they wouldn't melt. If plug wires are exposed for prolonged periods of heat over time they will start to short out to the nearest metal surface and often become very brittle and need to be replaced. I don't know if this will help or confuse you, but the way you are doing it on your model now is about as close as you can get unless you can get some where close to a 90 degree bend where the lead meets the spark plug.

I really like this one. Always enjoy how you weather your builds. This seems to becoming a norm for the 1:1 builds also.

Thank you for your interest in my 2017 efforts.

Great looking Sprints. A lot of delicate parts on these kits. Very nice detailing and decal work.

Thank you for the pictures. It takes a lot of work to make this kit look this good. Again very well done.

I was wondering where you got the '51 Ford Woody, thank you for sharing how that was done I'll be using that. I like all of the creativity in your many body modifications. The Sun Valley Mercury is very nice.

Nice to see a more main stream type Corvette. I think there are more models of big block Corvettes built than Chevrolet ever produced.

Great looking Ute conversion. The Metro is interesting looking also.

I'll enjoy watching this. The Hood on your prototype is the '65 big block style hood but the Grand Sport style you show is in keeping with the Racing theme. I think it would have more to do with the Class that the vehicle would be entered into anyway. Either Minilite Wheels or the American style wheels were commonly used on these cars at that time. Should you want to go with the five spokes Revell offeres some very nice ones in several different kits. Depending on what kits you have access to the '32 Ford 3-Window has very nice wheels and tires. My favorites are the ones in the Greenwood's '71 Sebring Corvette. This kit has been reissued using different decals and names, but the wheels are the Americans molded with no center caps on the wheels and the tires represent Racing tires of the day. This kit would also provide you with the side exhaust seen in your picture. I'm not trying to tell you how to build your model I'm just trying to share some possible parts source.

Spent most of the early hours of 12/31 getting the rear bumper and $%@#&*^$ exhaust tips on my '50 Olds fastback done. The license plate kept coming off also. Isn't Super Glue just grand ?

Both are super nice builds. In the larger scales you can better see the detailing that went into these.

That's a great solution for a problem I didn't know existed. That would be cool in 1:1 also.

The hitch and basic ball was included in the Hemi Hydro kit. I did build the mountings to the frame based on hitches I have had on 1:1 cars.

That's wild looking. Makes one wonder what all goes on in that garden cabin.

I like it much more than the Badman livery. Do you have any additional pictures ?

Great looking Thunderbolt.

They both look great. The Convertible is unusual, but I really like it.