Lowlife ! !

Now your jus showing off Dale, just cos I finished one !! As someone else wrote, each one of your builds looks like a years worth of work ! Fantastic paint, really good details, and above all great imagination ! You definitely build the kind of stuff I love to build , you just do it better !

Pat, thanks yeah it takes a time but its fun, right ? Randy, thanks man, nothing like the kind of work you do, but I appreciate it ! And thanks for following along David....... Been a busy Xmas but I've finished the side panels ! Just the new seats, passenger door insert and dash to go.... Had trouble with the red felt at the top, folding it over the top of the door panels etc was difficult, so I had to cut and chop it about to fit. But the joins are located where the rear pillar comes so its not seen ! Anyways, a quick pic, more soon hopefully......

Great job on the chop so far, customs usually have everything smoothed so I would loose the scoop, but hey its just my opinion ! Looks good so far, take your time smoothing that roof out and it should look great ....

Wow er, okay I think I got it ! So you find a beautiful race car, something with a chassis that's made of thousands of little tubes, and a body with more curves than a super model, and you scratch build the whole thing.... Except not the easy route, oh no, you solder it together in metal ! ! Randy do you enjoy doing things the hard way ? Most of us here are still struggling with plastic kits, this is something way beyond that. Amazing work, a real amazing project... Im just waiting for the last few pages of this thread, where you write ' now the engine is running smoothly I think I might fill up the rad, bleed the brakes, and add the working cigarette lighter, then I'll call it done ! ! ' Some how I won't be surprised at all, that Mr Wingroves a bad influence on some people....

And we missed ya Birthday Luke, hope you had a good one !

i dont think I've EVER finished that many models ..... Great stuff, the 34 is very nice, cool 49 merc too, but I really like that Hemi Dodge Dart !

That's the secret to a good chop, precise planning ! Very well thought out, chop looks spot on !

I agree with everything above, wow its like seeing model building in the future ! ! Absolutely crazy idea ( I expect nothing else from you Eric! ) but it looks really good ! Who would of thought of building this from a humble model A !?! Looking forward to more mate , keep it going !

Great idea, love this cab its a great car to copy ! Don't know if you've seen it, but check the rods n sods site, under the garage section is a build thread for this car. The guys also building a rat rod taxi which looks great ! Pretty sure he used 55 Chevy headlight surrounds, yours look perfect ! And did you notice the taxi sign from the front of the roof, used as a bonnet scoop !?

Looking good, gives the mustang a real aggressive stance with those arches ! Look forward to more on this !

Looking great Ace ! Always like following your builds, its as close to watching someone build the real thing as you can get ! Looking forward to seeing this one finished up !

The Ghia is looking good Paul, looking forward to more on this ! The interior is fuzzy felt, you can pick up packets of felt, fur, glitter card etc at most art / toy shops. I use chrome cardboard too, usually saved from things like easter egg boxes ! There's a WIP for this 64 with more pix, its in the workbench section !

Wow you've shredded this thing ! Best thing for it if the kits that bad, great job so far !. Glad you've in the lowrider CBP with us, your bugs gonna be wild for sure !

My interior in the 64 is coming along, never did like building things factory stock !

George, Tom, thanks guys ! Not been getting a lot of time to work on this, but thought id show you the boot floor. I continued the centre console through the boot, adding a few curves as it looked a bit plain being flat. Still got to add the hydraulic pumps, and rear rams etc but the furry bits done ! Now I can start on the side panels, and then fit the new dashboard and seats.

Thanks guys, I got a bit burned out working on kits, been on a break, but with a new lowrider under construction I will be back on this soon ! And no it won't be allowed on the floor, I've banned it ! !

couldnt agree more, I like the fact you both use as much imagination, as you do all these computer gadgets ! Your little pickup looks great, the inspiration pic is just stunning ! I kinda really like that black n white picture, the way it makes the whole car baremetal , thought of doing it like that ??

If your interested look up a custom VW lowrider built by Bernnt ( I think? ) the guy from Sweden that used to work at Boyd Coddingtons. He built a show bug called the pink lady, chopped, widened, new front/rear end. It was WiLd, gullwing doors, Dayton's, and fur interior. I want to build a replica of it one day, one of the wildest beetle lowriders ever built !

Looks super clean to me, great job I love the colour scheme !

Looking good Mike, can't remember which kit it was but I had this problem of not sticking. I just marked along where the glue would go, and rubbed the line with rough sandpaper, really rough, so it scored grooves for the glue. It certainly helped, but I'm sure you've probably tried this already, jus thought I'd mention it ! Oh and that black Plymouth looks soooo Evil ....

Love them pumps Luke, and that rear panel above the lights looks perfect ! Great work, looking forward to more..

Thanks guys ! Luke, funny you mention Tingos, I was blown away with his interiors and Ive been trying them out ever since ! Eric, thanks mate nice to hear some people on here like these old style interiors too ! Lloyd, cheers for following along, thanks again for the pegasus link on eBay , they do look good ! Bob, Dave, I'm slowly getting the hang of interiors, but the paint I'm still in need of more practice. Hopefully I can come up with something good, I'm going to practice when the weather warms up a bit ! And Shawn, where you been? Thanks bro glad your still around I haven't heard of you in a while !

So on with the interior, the floor was covered in plastic sheet to get a flat base, and a piece of plastic, cut to shape, made up for the rear seat support. The centre console is again plastic strip covered in chrome card, marked into strips, and added along with all the other fur, felt, and glitter card ! The strip of plastic across where the dash goes is to support the new scratched dash I'm working on ! After several attempts I'm liking this now, it kind of evolves as you add a piece, rip a bit out and redo it, then add new bits. I'm going to redo the front seats in a different colour, and eventually have the dash, door panels, boot floor, headliner and inside the boot and bonnet all matching. More soon, thanks for looking in......

Thanks Dave, Lloyd and Luke, appreciate the replies.... So the wheels arrived from the States, very pleased I am too !

If your only going to finish one, make it a good un' !! That 55 is immaculate, lovely job. How much was rechromed, I assume the bumpers, how bout the wheel covers etc ?? PS, get some more pics of it please !