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When I bought this 1932 Ford from Monogram, I got really disapointed, because it only came with a chevy scrub motor. To solve that problem, I replaced the thing with a FORD 312 engine from a Monogram '56 T-Bird kit. The entire model was painted with acrylic Testors paint, and for a touch of Chevy revange, the car color is testors Chevy engine red. Thanks for looking!!

WOW, what a nice '49!! Not only de doors, but the work done on the V8 engine, it's amazing.

I think a heat gun will work just fine. It will be slower, but will work, yes. Skip, I can't garentee it will always work wit plastic that is not PET. The vac forming plastic is quite different.

Cool!! Thanks for missing the glue blob on the hood ornament :P %$#@*&% superglue!!!

This one is a AMT '65 Continental. It's box stock, without any extra detail than paint and foil. The color is Azul Clássico, from the 1980 Galaxie Landau, and looks very close to an actual Lincoln color. It's not a recent build, the star on the hood broke, and when I glued it back I did a mess. Thanks for looking

I loved it, looks excelent!!! It's so crazy, that's cool!!!

Ilike it a lot, very very well put together is the least one can say. I have this kit as well, I bought it with the idea of building a Herbie replica. When I got it home, my brother looked at it and said: "It's not a V8, are you feeling ok?" I told him about the Herbie idea, and he just said: "Another one? It's so cliché" That's how I gave up building a Herbie replica.

Yep, she'll stay as is, with the exception of an engine rebuild, as it blew up when trying to race a '57 FORD!!!!!

Other than model cars, I like modeling WWII aircraft as well, but not from plastic kits. I build aircraft with paper, both, from scratch and from paper kits. This one, is my all time favorite aircraft, and for me, the best looking fighter ever made, the Mikoyasn Gurevich MIG-3, designed bu the MIG OKB around a monster Mikulin V12, the aircraft was super fast, but required experienced pilots, what limited it's fame and production time a lot. This model was built from a ModelArt kit, in 1:32 scale. The slogan on the fuselage says: "Za Rodinu" or "For the Motherland"

For now, looks like the "don't do anything to it" is winning with ease.

Those Brazilians are invading the forum, let's kick them out!!!! Just kidding. Very cool looking Ford, just loved the weathering and your old car really looks old.

This one is maybe a candidate for a rebuild, or at least a refreshment with a new red and black paint on the interior. It's a AMT 1/25 model kit I built around 1991, maybe 1992, it's old, 20 years old at least. It was my very first atempt on actual modeling paint for the body, and If I recall correct, it was Tamiya from a spray can. At the time, finding BMF around here was impossible, so I use to foil my models with domestic use aluminum foil, and white water based glue. The foil is already showing some corrosion, what's kind of cool if you ask me!! The colors for the interior I just invented by using the colors I had at the time. What do you think? Rebuild it or not?

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I really love to hear what people think about my builds (don't we all?). This week I'll start yet another rebuild, of a '57 Ford Fairlane I got really, really cheap out of Brazilian e-Bay. I'll post some before pictures as soon as it arrives.

Yep, that was my good old laziness speaking. I wanted a blue Chevy, just like that one at the car show. I gave my assembled Chevy a look, gave the box with the unbuilt kit I also have a look, and thought: "That thing is already painted in silver, that is a great primer for the metallic blue, and I won't have to paint the frame, engine..." You pretty much know what happened next

That wheels look amazing. It could pass as a 1/1 car with ease.

A red Ford, what is there to dislike???? Never mind the bent frame!! Is that a wine bottle on the front seat? I love that politicaly incorrect detail, I think I'm gonna put a 12 pack of Heineken beer on my '57 Ford model.

Thanks Ed, I did that to my '58 Edsel, that I painted in Frost white and Horizon blue.

I imagine what one can find after doing this for the first time. Look, a turn signal I lost in 1978!!!

I wish I could find a decal to that seats I had to hand paint them. I airbrushed the base blue with Testors enamel, and then hand painted the seats's centers with acrylics. Maybe a little better tha Overhaulin', since the car resulted factory stock looking Maybe I'm gonna catch a fight here, but I really hate what Foose does to cars on Overhaulin' (and in general). When he cut the top off a T-Bird I wanted to punch him. When he ruined a '50 Ford, that was black and beautiful and ended like something from a circus I wanted to punch him. When he killed a '67 Galaxie convertible, I took the decision to never watch the show again. Yep, I'm a car fan, but I like cars the way the factory built them, with very few exceptions.

This Impala was built the first time around 1996-1997. Back then, I painted it silver with a black interior. Fast foward to 2011, I saw a 1:1 Impala at a car show, in this beautiful metallic blue, and thought the color suited the car very well, so I decided to take it apart, and to repaint it. Since the original paint was Tamiya spray paint, and I had some tubes of a very nice Tamiya metallic blue, I didn't have to strip the body, just removed the foil, and repainted it in blue. The interior was repainted in blue as well, but the engine, and frame were left as they were. Before the repaint: After the "rebuild/repaint": Hope you like the old glue bomb rebuilt!!

This one in the pictures is a section of a 2 liter Pepsi bottle. Can be any PET bottle that's clear, and smooth. In fact, you can actually build colored glass if you want, like green, blue or red, just use a colored bottle!!

Oh yes, the oly limitation is the size of the plastic bottle. A clear bonnet is easy, you just have to reinforce the template with some epoxi putty to avoid any distortion, and you are done, not to mention you can build as many as you want.

That's not clay, its epoxi putty, and believe me, it has to be a strong stuff, when the plastic starts to shrink it gets really tight. I don't remove the bad windshield, as it is the template for the new, it only has to be smooth (you have to sand the glued part smooth) before being used, because every imperfection will show on the "new" windshield.

I think everibody had this problem once or twice. You bring a new kit home, and when you do open the box, you find out that ther is a clear part broken. That happened to me with a AMT '58 edsel prepaint. All parts were inside this little bags, and the windshield sat there, happy divided in two Well, like I didn't want to butcher a Edsel kit to fix my prepaint, I decided to try a little trick I learned card modeling: heat forming a clear part with actual curves, just like the original kit part. You only need to glue the original part back together (it will be the template for the new one), a small or mini torch, and a soft drink bottle, those made from PET plastic. First, it's important to know that this only works with PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottles. This plastic shrinks when heated, so you have to direct the heat to the area around the mold, and over the mold itself to form the parts. I never tried to do this with an oven, so I don't know if it works without the mini torch. If you don't have a torch, a little gas lighter can do it, but with less control. The secret is to move the flame all the time, and never to stop the movement. If the flame is directed to the same place for about two seconds, the plastic first turns milky, and then starts to melt, so constant movement is the key. You can find those torches at places were they sell cigars. Here is the picture tutorial: The windshield in place:

More pictures please!!!!!