Ace-Garageguy

No pix, but I once hauled a small-block Chevy to the machine shop in the trunk of a client's Jag XJ-12.

Wish I'd seen this BEFORE i tried inking in the panel lines on my Revell Gearz entry, just before I took it to a club meet here. The black inking was nice and even, but looked like dog squeeze on the orange metalflake body. And THEN it took me almost half the day to get it off the car withoug damaging the paint, and even after all that, you can still see some traces of my misguided attempt. This was doubly disappointing because the contest car is the first one I've gotten to the paint stage in years. I'll be experimenting with the deep-scribe technique before I paint anything else. Thanks to everyone for the great info.

Absolutely beautiful. I love the old Olds, and this one is a knokcout.

Great looking project.

Mo debinately likin' dis one a'ready. Weathered, as in having had a rough life ex-custom-painted truck, or full-tilt-boogie shiny, it's going to look great.

Poor little car. Probably not restorable. Great job.

Man, that's a jell of a lot of fine looking work on a bunch of "incorrect" parts. Fascinating project.

Really nice rework, and one of my favorite designs.

Beautiful model of a truly striking car.

Jason, since you asked, I have two build threads on here now. The first is a '61 Dodge Dart Phoenix restoration / custom: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=58538 The second one is a re-design of the old Monogram Orange Hauler : http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=58969

Man, this is great. Has everything that appeals to me: unusual subject, experimental techniques, lots of scratch-building, and historical research for accuracy. Really cool project.

Great projects. Naturally I also love to see old models restored and reworked, especially when they have some particular sentimental value to the builder. I like your ideas for both of them, especially the BBS wheels on the T-bolt.

The stretched wheelbase is an interesting idea. Cool little bug.

This one reminds me why the '34 3-window is one of my all time favorites. Great clean car.

Really great photos. Hard to beat reality for realism. Good looking T too.

Thanks Jason. I'm really focused on 3 to finish ASAP. This one is getting lonely, being the only one "done".

I deleted my original post of some content that was subsequently quoted in its entirety in a relpy. All the content remains, just not two copies. Hate to waste bandwidth for mutiple posts of the same stuff.

Yup.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I'm with the guys who loved Indy when it was about innovation and sport....sport including back-yard small-time guys building winning cars. With the influx of huge marketing money and management, to me it's lost its soul entirely. Come to think of it, that's pretty much the way I've felt about motorsports in general these past 25 or so years. Time was, a guy like me could have built an F1 car too. Never again. I usually listen to the audio feed from Indy, just for nostalgia, and I watch some of the in-car work. I have respect for anyone who drives or flies in competition, but it just isn't accessible to mere mortals, and it WAS when I was a kid.

Still enjoying seeing all of it, from concept through execution. Very nice work and a good looking design.

Thanks for the interest and comments. Austin T, I have an anmolested kit of this too, and at some point will build it box-stock (wired and detailed) and show the two together.

Wow, everything you've done is truly outstanding. I've had this kit so long the tires have dry-rotted. Guess I'm going to have to find some more, 'cause this is really inspiring.

This is really a terriffic build. Keep it going. It's a ton of work to adapt a production car body to a race car chassis, but the results here will certainly be worth the effort.

Way too cool. Nice cut-and-splice.

Very original, cool concept. The lines work remarkably well. Nice job.