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Love everything about it-looks great! leaves me wanting more pics tho....

I've built a couple of these myself - they build up real nice. Nice colour choice and excellent work!

Looks real good to me! Everythign looks very realistic/

That's a good looking truck - you should be proud of this one.

My guess would be Alclad II Magnesium, but I would love confirmation of this

Glad to see that you're not doing anything too ambitious lol. Looks great so far-keep it up! The wheels look like a perfect match to the pic

I feel your pain-you just described to a "T" my experience with the Testors 'Cuda (reboxed Johan+pewter parts) over 10yrs ago. I gave up on it and threw it in the trash. You are a better man than I for keeping up with this build! Still would love to see it finished tho. Hang in there! Steve

Great work! Nice color choice too. Love the wheel color, really does look like magnesium wheels from back in the day.

I'm not a Ford guy, but I have always loved the '64 Fairlane/Thnderbolt! Nice color choice - can't wait to see the finished product.

Looks perfect - great color choice!

I love my Monte Carlos! Nice work

Great idea! Already working on something to that effect....stay tuned lol

I saw a tutorial somewhere where the builder made weld lines by using thin strips of styrene and a sharp hobby knife. You could try that. I only went with the PE because I didn't have any styrene at the time and it was cheaper to buy with the S&H.

Thanks again everyone. If you ask me, the Scandinavian rods are doing similar stuff as the early roots of Hot Rodding in So-Cal, just with their own take on things. Cool stuff none the less-which is why I love it! I take comments about "period correct", or it needs this or that with a grain of salt. It's hard to be original with a Hot Rod, most of the things you think are new have been done before at some point. Nothing on this build is new. Except for the body & rear tires, everything was sourced from the same box. A lot of my inspiration comes from Google black & white images of the early rodding days in Cali or the salt lakes. Back then, guys were slapping cars together with whatever they had. Another reason why I kept the original 4cyl engine and factory ride hight. I can't take credit for the header tips - I saw this in a picture and thought it would be a cool idea. I just changed up the colours. And yes, the looming Canada Post strike sucks. Excluding Michael's, there isn't a hobby store within an hours drive of my home. I don't live in the sticks, just not enough support in the area to keep a store open.

Fantastic detail

Cool build. I built one of these a while back-can vouch for the fitment issues! Yours turned out well. Love the colour too! The Testors one coat laquee really do a nice finish right out of the can.

Cool build-don't see many in white. This is one of my favourite kits and I learned early on to not use the white wall decals. Had great results painting them with white directly on the tire. The supercharger is just what that small block Ford needs!

Hey Travis-I did do some light weathering on the tires using the Tamiya kit to get rid of the new tire shine. Guess it didn't show too well in the pics. I happen to like the chrome wheels-to each their own I guess. As I said before, the wheels in this kit suck-they really show the age of the kit. I experimented different finishes on a spare set for another build. The results were pretty much the same-enhancing the flaws, not hidding them. This kit shares chassis components with the '29 Ford Rat Rod/Blue Bandito pick up, and some '30-'31 Woody kits. Regardless of the issue, I found that they ALL have twisted frames that need to be accounted for or corrected. Also, this chassis was never designed to be built without fenders by Revell/Monogram. It's not hard, but you need to modify the floor pan if you want to build without. I don't have a tutorial or build thread per se, but you can see some more pics here: Forums/Community Builds/Rat Rod Community 2016.

Excellent detail work! You nailed the color/visual texture of the exhaust manifolds perfectly

x2. The body alone should have its own dedicated post lol

I thought it looked good before, but I it looks that much better since you tweaked the suspension. Again-great job.

Real nice work - gives me flashbacks of Grand Turismo (the original) for PlayStation, back in the late '90s. LeMans had some real cool cars back then

That turned out great. I've had pretty good success with the Powerslide decals over the box stock Revell/Monogram too. Not a big Buick fan, but this one has me thinking....

say that 3 times fast!

I used the PE weld lines by Studio 27. They seemed like the best bang for the buck from HLJ. The are very delicate and actually curl up like BMF when removed from the adhesive backing. Nearly lost all of them to the carpet it in the process. I applied some around the rear window, sides, and cowl of the body. They tend to get covered up quite easily and disappear if you paint over them lol. My intention was to sand the paint off of the PE to give the impression of where the top chop may have been made. oh well...never know unless you try....