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Modelhaus has several grill and bumper combos for the 49 & 50 Fords. Plus many others. I have used their parts and bodies in the past. They are one of the best you will find.

Chris, The 62 Bel Air had only two roof styles for 2 doors. The post style like Jeff's model, and the hardtop which had the same roof as the 61 year models had. The Impala and Impala SS were the only body styles with a formal roof in 1962. If you wanted a make believe formal roof Bel Air you could use the Revell 62 Impala,fill one tail light, remove some trim and tone down the interior.

You put a lot of work into makeing this 2 door. Color realy shows well.

Nice clean build. The paint is out standing.

Looking good, Now I know what to do with the Caprice kit I destroyed with some laquer paint that was to hot. Let us know if you find out who makes the body.

Very original idea, not the body style you would think of this style of build. Looking forward to see how this turns out.

I'm afraid I have some recollection of the 70's. The "rake" look was popular. The first 70 and later 60 series tires were comeing into the market from Good Year and Firestone. These required wider wheels. The 6" wide crome revers wheels that most of us had were too narrow. When you start to put 7" or wider revers wheels under 50 & 60s cars they start hitting wheel well opening and even steering componets on the front end when you turned. On the leaf spring cars you could raise the back with shackles and air shocks. On the front you could use spacers in the springs and over load shocks. When you tried to corner hard the rear tires would still sometimes rub on the fenders. We destroyed what little handling the factory put into these cars. It was like trying to run in high heels. I look forward to what your'e doing with this Firebird. They were one of the hottest cars of their day. It realy was a lot of fun as I recall.

What Art said! GM was under a microscope with Washington at the time. Thay sold a more cars in the US than Ford - Chrysler - American Motors.

Thanks Jeff. Your right. I got kind of worked-up. It is a JK. My wife's is a Sahara, weve added all the armor to the undercarriage and a 9500Lb. Warn wench

I would also like to build some off-road vehicles. Years ago I lived near Pismo Beach Ca. I had a modified VW Type 1. It was called a BAJA style, somewhat like the ones used for desert raceing at the time. My wife has always liked Jeeps, and we got her a TJ Wrangler in '97. We got to go to several Jeep Jamborees in Colorado and realy injoyed it. In '08 we ordered her a new '09 TJ Wrangler and again used it at several Jeep Jamborees. This is her daily driver also. Sorry to bore you all about myself, but I put this out there so that everyone can see why I would realy like to see one or more of the model makers step up and make some off-road models of current models. While I personaly like some Jeeps, I think it would make valid buisness since to make GM, Ford, and Dodge off-roader also. I'll bet there are many people on this forum who have 4x4s in their driveways. Sorry to drag on, but I think that the model companys are leaving money on the table by not offering these kits.

Looks great,! If your'e painting the bed strips you could try lightly running a #11 blade to out line the molding. I've used this to help keep the paint from bleeding out onto the wood. This is a nice model, but I straggled with the grill/lower front fenders. There is very little to support the two parts where they are joined. .

I did a wood bed in a 50 Ford pick-up useing a paint layering technique I read about on one of the forums. The base coat was Tamiya TS-68 Wooden Deck Tan. Next I used some Tamiya X-33 Bronze that was lightly deluted, which I wiped lightly so that it would stay on edges of the wood grain molded into the bed. Next I used Tamiya X-26 Clear Orange which again was wiped of with a terry towel. You could use verying colors for darkness.

I have had the best luck painting the grill with Tamiya X-12 Gold Leaf. After 24 hours you can "black wash" with either The Deailer Black-it-out, or thin some Tamiya XF-1 Flat Black.

Congratulations! As others have said, please use all you safety gear. Have lots of fun, just don"t show up on YOUTUBE.

Thanks for the headsup on the new issue. I'm heading into town now.

You might look at RUST-OLEUM TEXTURED spray. Its for indoor/outdoor metal surfaces, but it doesn't seem to hurt plastic. I have used it for a vinyl roof on a model of a 50 Ford Crestliner. I think it comes in a few colors besides the black that I used. I bought it at Wally World. The finish is flat to simi flat with a very fine texture much like vinyl. With a little flat over spray you might get what you"re looking for. Good Luck

I have enjoyed watching your Willys build. I would like to get some of the frenched headlights for a future project. Could you give us a web site where I could find them?

Looks real nice. I have been looking at this and your convertable both. I realy like the style of your build. Now I have to dig out one of these kits myself. Keep up the nice work.

They both look better than what Chevrolet offers today. Peter's silver photo shop looks better than the Camaro of today. I personaly owned a 1969 Camaro for 18 years. Sold it in 1995 to get a new Chevrolet pick-up. When Chevrolet was teasing us with the new Camaro prototypes I was hopping I could get a new one. Still can't get worked up over the new Camaro's. They are nice and all, but not 30k+ nice.

At one time this kit had a hardtop in stock and chopped top. Looks nice, I looking to see how this turns out.

You might look at Scale Dreams (Scaledreams.com). I got two from there last year. Very good looking and priced right.

Your braver than I am. This is starting to look real nice. By the time I got to the picture of the cab in primer I thought you might have found a resin cab or something. I like how you did your fenders.

The flames realy grab your eye. The level of detail without useing anything else is amazing

Thay are all winners but some very different subjects. My pick was because of my personal taste in subjects. All should be very proud of their models.

You raely nailed the look. I remember whene I first saw the Thunderbolts at the Pomona Winter Nationals. I was more of a GM type , but you have to love the TBolts.