Lovefordgalaxie

My friends, thank you a lot for all the cool comments!! I'm glad if by looking at my little Bird some of you guys decide to build one, because those cars are not common to see built, like Jon Cole said, and they are cool little cars!!! About that shine, I would put the blame on the two part automotive clear. It was the first time I used the stuff, and man, I will use it from now one for sure!! Compared to "regular" modeling clear, it had about 10X the shine, not to mention it's made to resist being on a 1:1 car, so I guess the finish will remain in perfect condition for decades. It airbrushes very well, and I would recomend it for sure.

Here is the finished model: 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1962 Thunderbird - Done!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

Just finished this AMT '62 Thunderbird. The car was painted in Cascade Green, a '62 'Bird original color, and is box stock, with the exception of the tires. The ones that came in the kit are that ugly (at least for me) BFGs with white wall inserts that AMT puts on it's new tooling kits, so I ditched those in favor of some older Firestones also from AMT, with hand painted white lines. Other than that, I just aded paint and foil. The kit also comes with a tonneau cover, but I really didn't like the way it makes the 'Bird to look like, so I kept it out. Hope you like the result, and thanks for looking!! First a few pictures of the build: The body in primer: 1962 Thunderbird WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr I had the factory color mixed in automotive Urethane: 1962 Thunderbird WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The two part clear I used for the first time: 1962 Thunderbird WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The body painted and cleared. No polishing was needed aother than a soft rubbing on the hood, and that only because a insect landed on it. 1962 Thunderbird WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The underside of the unibody painted: 1962 Thunderbird WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The body foiled: 1962 Thunderbird WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The interior foiled: 1962 Thunderbird WIP by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

I love it!! Thumbs up, really nice save!!

Transformation VI by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Transformation IV by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

What a nice looking Edsel.

Ok, some will perhaps want to kill me, but I really think Barris ruined the Futura to make the nasty Batmobile. That said, the build looks very good, I know the kit, and making it look this nice is not easy at all.

I built this kit twice. One was a '60s edition, and had all the styline parts, plus the chop top glass. All suspension parts were chrome plated. After that, I built a early 90s edition, and the styline parts had vanished. The chrome suspension was still there though. I like this kit a lot, and it goes togheter very well. both times I built a factory stock Bel Air. A thing I like about the kit, and many people dislike are the decals for the side trim. Even being an old tooling, and maybe BECAUSE it's an old tooling, I love this kit!!

The guys that designed the car back in the 60s should be rolling in their graves, or asking each other who is the clound called Foose that messed up with their design... They should be looking at the wheels and imagining where those things called tires went, and when cars started to use steam locomotive wheels.

Yep, the wheels are ugly, but the car and the build is awesome.

What a beautiful build. The paint alone is awesome, and I love this old tooling AMT kit. Very fun to build.

Yes, the 312 and the 292 are virtually indistinguishable from the outside. Both are Y-Blocks, and the main difference are the crankshaft with bigger bearings, and pistons. The first Ford version of the Y-Block (not considering the Lincoln) came in 1954 with 239 cubes. Then Ford enlarged the engine to 272, 292, and 312 cubes, for example. For me, the Y-Block is the second best sounding V8 engine ever, only superated by the Ford Flathead V8.

Same thing I thought

Looks nice, remembers me of the Aurora kit from the '60s.

What a beautiful Galaxie!!!

What a beauty!!!!

It's your model Ron, do what you want with it man, after all, we build those things to have fun!! The wheel painted in white will look good with blackwall tires, yes they will. if you want to detail it to look more factory, the interior gray is a medium gray tone. The floor pan was painted at the line before painting the body itself on cars that would go to places where some more rust protection were needed. A curious fact is that if they had just painted a Colonial Blue car, for example, and the next car on the line needed to be painted a different color, they would empty the paint guns at the floor pans, so you could have a Raven Black car with a Colonial Blue floor. Usually, cars that would be sold in states like Arizona, or California would have just the red oxide primer on the floor pans, with some body color overspray, and black undercoating on wheel weels, and rockers.

That combination of Raven Black and Winbledon White is awesome. For me, the Ford no matter the year always looks way better than the Cheby The E-code engine that comes with the Revell kit, is the base version of the 312 Thunderbird Special V8, rated at 245 hp. This engine has black valve covers. The tranny is natural metal. If you are aiming at a factory stock look, the wheels should be Raven Black (main body color in your case) By painting the body black and white, to go factory stock, you will have to go with a gray interior. In many ads of the Custom Tudor Sedan you can see the car with whitewall tires, but few were actually sold that way.

That's how a Dart is supposed to look like!!! Loved the color, the wheels and caps, and the blue plug wires. Great build!!

WOW!!! Very nice Delivery!!! Love the frame detail, and the three carb six banger!!

Well, one thing is for sure, if you don't like rulles, factory stock building ain't for you!!! My personal taste is for a factory original car, but if you want a modified dart, I think the wheels that suit the car better are the Magnums that other Mopar products used. Even some 15" Cragars are cool on a car like that. Don't care much for those too modern brakes and wheels... Most Mopars had a painted engine bay, yes. In Brazil, Darts had the engine bay painted body color. The underside of the unibody was gray primer with body color overspray, and some black undercoating inside the wheel wells, and under the trunk. Today, most hot roders in Brazil like to paint all the underside of the unibody body color, even clear coating the whole thing. Among "Dodgeiros", a flat black engine compartment is not a good thing, as most lazy owners like to paint the engine compartments flat black to hide flaws, like bondo, and poor rust repair. For your posts, I saw that you like Japanese cars, and your builds are awesome, and very accurate to what those cars shoul look like, but the Dart, isn't a Japanese car, and if your friend likes Dodges, you should consider building a model that represents what he would do with a 1:1 version of the Dodge Dart. Your paint job on the body is awesome, just awesome. I would just paint the engine compartment orange, to go with the body, and also paint the underside of the unibody orange, to match what people do with those cars around here. Another detail is the hood and the engine color. Your hood has the "flautas" of the Brazilain Dodge Charger. very few people like the Charger hood on a Dart. Most Dart owners like the original Dart hood better. The only diference is that the Dart hood is flat. About the engine color, well, Brazilian Dodges had engines painted light blue (Darts) or gold (Chargers). passenger cars by Chrysler of Brazil never had orange or red engines.

Thanks a lot guys for all the nice comments. Even tough I love factory stock cars, and don't care much about Hot Rods, I have nothing against them, and even build one once in a while. I just won't cross a line, that's changing brands between engines and cars, and doing things that on a real car would be very hard to reverse back to stock, like chop tops, etc. Thank you againg folks, and a Merry Christmas to you all!!!

It's a beautiful car, beautifully done. More pictures Mike!!!

Loved them all, but the Hornet convertible... If they were all 1:1 cars, I'll be driving that one for sure.

The factory stock Chevy is by far my favorite.