Lovefordgalaxie

Sorry about the dellay, I just saw your question now. I don't even know what is silly putty masking. How does it work, do you just put the putty there and use it as a masking media? I don't use masking to paint the frames, they are too complicated to masc, so I brush paint the black with acrylic pint over the bese enamel red oxide.

Well, I have a 1:1 Focus four door hatchback, and always toyed abut building a replica. You have done a pretty wild little Focus, that's for sure!!!

Now THAT is a masterpiece!!!!!

WOW!!!! What a cool looking model!!! On the boof "Full Size Fords 1955-1970" by David Temple, there is a picture of a '64 Galaxie JUST like yours, with the teardrop hood and all, and this model look even more real than the REAL car!!! What a killer job!! I just have one more thing to say, a positive criticism to make a future model even more accurate (if it's possible). When using the 1960 Starliner kit frame and underside "sheetmetal" to make a full detail '61, '62, '63, or '64 Ford, there is one detail of the trunk floor that needs to be changed. From 1961 to 1964, Ford stamped the spare tire "bed" on the trunk floor just above the rear exle of the car. The 1960 Ford didn't have this, so the underside of the Starliner is not 100% correct for a newer Ford. There are some other small details, but in 1:25 scale they would be invisible anyway, so the main issue is the spare weel, or bed stamped to the sheetmetal. I know it's easy for me to say that after all the work you had, but i'm only saying because it's a easy mod compared to the work you had, and on your next build, you can get it 100% like the real car.

The car looks good with the subble custom touches, they are the kind of customizing I like, nothing radical, and irreversible, and even tough, still capable of individualizing the car, and make it unique. The color is also a very nice choice, and even looks like a original Ford color from newer Lincolns a Thunderbirds. Thumbs up!!!

Promos are cool!!! I wish the real ones, from the 60s, and not reissues, were not so expensive to get

Actually, that's not trademark stuff. The kit is a reissue od a dealer promo used to promote the real car. All that writing are the cars specs, and features wrote to inform the potential buyers of what they would get buying a '64 Gal. It was a commom practice on promos, and I would never even dream about sanding that off.

WOW, great looking Galaxie!!! What is the brand of paint used? The finish is great!

Yes, a carefull painting would improve the looks of the front end. I think I already did some testing with this kind of detail painting, and at the time, I didn't like the result because I didn't know how to do it properlly I guess. As for drilling the headlights, and installing clear lenses, I would never do that. Please, don't get me wrong, but I LOVE the promo features of those 1960s tooling kits, and that includes the metal exles, the simple frames, the one piece grille/headlight/bumper assembly, and even the fact it has no engine. If I start changing this, the model will start looking like a modern kit, with lot's of tiny parts, and bits, and zero historic appeal to me, just like a restored car compared to a original survivor. As a car is only original once, a model kit is only a original if it's from the same era as it's subject, and iven tough I build new tooling kits, the old ones are really special to me. Like I said, the old tooling kits are from the same era as the real cars, designed by guys that not only SAW the real cars, but SAW THEM NEW on showroom floors, smelled that brand new car scent inside a 1964 Ford Galaxie, let the "magic" in, and they did the best they could, with the resources they had at the time. I feel I have no right to mess with what they produced, so I leave their mesterpieces alone, and just add paint and foil, two things that could have being done at the time. This Galaxie for example, was foiled with a technique that is used since the 1950s by modelers here in Brazil, that is the white glue and household aluminum foil techique. I have a video on YouTube showing how it's done. I guess I'm old school to the bone :D

Thanks again guys!! I use Sherrill and Williams paint and two part high solids clear. PPG is great, but overpriced, and House of Kolor is mega hiper super overpriced around here. At he paint store I always use to mix the paints, for the price of 250 ml of PPG mixed automotive poliurethane paint I can buy a liter of S&W. House of Kolor os about double as PPG. Having used all, I failed to see a significant difference in quality to justify this, so, Sherrill and William it is.

The build itself was fast, because the model is very simple. The chassis is one major piece and an "engine" underside: 1964 Galaxie 500 XL WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The interior is also very simple, all the seats are molded with the tube, you just have to add the dash, and steering whee/column: 1964 Galaxie 500 XL WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

Thanks for the comments guys Always love to hear the feedback, positive and negative, so I can improve the builds. With some patience it's possible to find the full kit online, but it's a little (a lot) pricey... All in all, I loved the Model King edition of this kit. It's really well built. The body, interior, and chassis came assembled inside a tissue bage INSIDE a plastic bag!! Same with the chrome tree: New kits by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr New kits by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The body itself had zero flash, and veru thinn mold lines near the "B" columns: New kits by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr New kits by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Here is the body about 20 minutes after I had painted it: 1964 Galaxie 500 XL WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The great thing about automotive two part clear, is that you don't have to buff it out, it dries very fast, and is as resistent as a real car's finish, because it IS a real car finish: 1964 Galaxie 500 XL WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

I finished this Galaxie yesterday. Started it last Friday morning painting the body. It's a very simple kit made by Model King with the AMT molds, it's a curbside, and like the original Promo, it has some of the impressive and superior features of the fabulous Ford Galaxie written on the botton. Yep, I love Fords :wub: I painted her the factory color of Guardsman Blue with automotive urethane paint, and cleared it with two part clear, also automotive from S&W. The interior is the white and black vinyl option, and I fell in love with the combination after seeing a 1/1 Galaxie in that color combination at a car show. Other than a parts box rear view mirror the Galaxie is box stock. Thanks for looking!!!! 1964 FORD Galaxie 500 XL by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1964 FORD Galaxie 500 XL by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1964 FORD Galaxie 500 XL by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1964 FORD Galaxie 500 XL by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1964 FORD Galaxie 500 XL by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1964 FORD Galaxie 500 XL by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1964 FORD Galaxie 500 XL by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1964 FORD Galaxie 500 XL by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

Yes, a kit from when they knew what they where doing!!!! Looks awesome.

Very well done. The paint looks great, as the foil job. The overall looks of the car is very impressive,

Great '57 Ford. The other car is also well built.

Oh boy, it's a Ford, white and black, and 1957 on top of that!!! Impossible not to love it!!! Once you hear the Y-Block V8, you get in love with it.

That is insane!! I never saw any kit, even resin, of this car. They are really hard to come bout. Great job!!

Well, I was never 100% ok about how the Galaxie turned out, and I discovered why. It was the tires. All the times I saw one of those cars it has a set of whide whites, that even not being as whide as the ones from the 50s, still were wider than a set of plain white line tires, so I copied a brochure, and painted some whide whites on the tires. Also added the cool rear view mirrors that came with the kit, that look alike the optional mirrors that Ford ofered for those cars. Note how the color changes on those indoor pictures. 1961 Galaxie by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1961 Galaxie by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

You did a great job on a R&R body. I did the mistake of buying one, and won't do it againg, that's for sure.

I loved this build. It's a great looking car replicated into a great looking model. The color suits it perfect, and the stripes look great. If I were to change anything, I would only paint the inside of the xhaust tips, and maybe use some foil on the brake disks to make they look more like the real deal.

Don't be hard on us Harry, we do drink beer while eating pizza.

Yes, there is a huge diference between the digital, and film cameras, and I think film cameras are far superior, but, they are not so practical as the digital. Our gasoline here has 25% in volume of alcohol. The modifications needed are just bigger jets on the carburetor, and adjusting the ignition timing. On the maintenance side, you just have to use the car at least once a week so gas won't evaporate on the carb. That's because the gasoline with alcohol creates a gely residue that clogs the carburetor up. To avoid that, you have to drive the car enough to keep the carb full, or to dry it in case of stooring the car.

My friends, once again I thank you all for the commnts. You all surprised me again, as I wasn't expecting much, after all this is a curbside model, and I couldn't find many of them built to take some ideas from, so I concluded it would be a low interest model. Thanks again!!

Very nice Galaxie!! Black on black, yes it looks bad ass!!