Ace-Garageguy

Whoopee!!! I was running low on vintage issues.

Apparently not. This is the Merit kit built, complete with the odd clear wire wheels and plastic tires... And this is the Heller kit built...considerably different, inny louvers, spoked wheels, sorta-correct tread pattern... Here's the Merit kit detailed...

You've built a good looking model, even though it didn't quite match your expectations far as finish. I've spent rather a lot of effort experimenting with various materials to achieve believable "bare metal" finishes. One of my recent ones is here...http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/?showtopic=81398 It represents a just-finished alloy body, and pretty well matches the 1959 press photos. The body in your reference pic seems to have been stripped and then treated with a phosphoric-acid wash. That's probably why it's gray, and many of us were expecting "silver", as clean "bare metal" would be.

Here's a late-model Hemi going in a '53 or so Stude...

Got a little injection timing problem with the Dodge truck, eh?

Yup. The nekkiid metal is "silver" whether it's steel or aluminum. It's also "silver" after it's been stripped and sanded / bodyworked, or if it's been built from sheet with English wheels, etc.

I'm building this '33 Plymouth for a client...354 Hemi power.

BREAKING NEWS: IRANIAN MONKEY RECREATES FAKED U.S. MOON LANDING...(1 1/2 years ago...) http://www.selectsmart.com/DISCUSS/read.php?16,952709,952709

Or in a Mustang...

It's not wrong to put a Hemi in ANYTHING. Just do a good job.

Beautiful work, sir. Where did you get your data for the CAD rendering? Blueprints, or did you measure a real car??

I'm just curious. The common knowledge is that blood-sucking vampires hate the stuff, but lawyers seem to have no problem with it. Hmmmm... PC disclaimer: I've actually known one or two lawyers who were NOT blood-sucking vampires, so I apologize for painting them all with the bloody stereotype brush.

Get an armored Humvee...

Why can lawyers eat garlic?

Just as long as they're not gun-carrying sociopathic morons. I've crossed paths with a couple of those. I don't recommend it.

Here's a bunch of pix of a 2-tone 4-door. http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=47565&country=us

'49 apparently had the tail / decklid in the secondary color, unlike '50.

From the '50 brochure, here's where the color break is...

From the '49 brochure...left side car is 2-tone.

Yes, Sikkens is Akzo Nobel's premium automotive paint line in this country. I did NOT know that they were to ones who did the F1 chrome paint. Thanks...I had wondered.

Thanks for all the good info, ALL of which I'll be looking into. Question: peekay (the builder of the gorgeous turquoise DeSoto in "under glass" mentioned (I think) a Sikkens very fine silver mixing base. I seem to recall years back there were some 1:1 silver Mercedes with a flake so small, it almost disappeared. Any of you 1:1 guys have any experience with that? My local Sikkens store went away during the "economic downturn", and I haven't found another one yet.

Man, this is some serious model building. Don't know how I missed it, but sure am glad I found it. Beautiful, beautiful.

I LOVE working trucks, COEs, and anything oddball. This is a wild one...I've never seen that configuration before. Great project, sir.