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Some time ago, I was given a box full of built models by a friend. I did some rebuilds on the models, but the only one I took pictures of before doing the job was this Poncho, a Catalina Super Duty. The car was painted with acrylic paint in a very nice tone of blue, but it was very scratched. Like the car was missing almost nothing, being just a little scratched and showing it's time inside a box full of models kept just one on top of the other, I decided to try to restore it, and also use it to practice on this particular kit, as I have one still sealed that I plan to build in the near future. For my luck, there was another Catalina inside the box, built as a junker, with lot's of what I can swear is Testors rust paint brushed on, with no chrome parts left. Combining the two, I could build one complete model. Here is what I started with: The first thing I did was to disassemble the Poncho, and strip the body and floor pans with brake fluid. It took a week but most of the paint came off. The rest I removed with an old tooth brush and pine sol. The first part to be repainted was the interior, where I used Testors red enamel, and then Testors acrylics: The dark red, white and silver were all brush painted.

Never tried to build a car with paper, but built lot's of paper airplanes from kits, like the ones from ModelArt, WAK, or Fiedler's Green. I have a very cool paper kit of the '36 Ford, I got online, but never built it.

The '51 convertible looks great as the woody. I have a woody kit from Revell, but I'm a little worried about doing the wood to look good.

The other day I was talking to a friend of mine, owner of a very beautiful '57 four door Bel Air, and decided to do a picture composition to piss him off So, I took my Amt '57 Chevy I built about a zilion years ago, and my new built '57 Ford and did this: Of course it's a joke, we have a V6 Chevy S-10 here at home, and love Chevys, but think about a pissed off Chevy maniac I named the picture "GO!!! With FORD, BOOOMMM with chevy"

Thanks Steve and Jeffrey!!

Mike, I used the old AMT Firestones that came with my AMT '40 Ford. I used a circle template, and airbrushed whitewalls on them. At a recent swap meet, I found a box with lot's of parts, from lot's of different kits, but I got it because it had also lots of Monogram tires, with separate white plastic for the whitewalls. Those are a little too generic, because they have no names, but before I discovered the circle template trick, I used them alot.

If I still have some influence with The Man, I'll ask Him for a favor.

WOW!!! That's way cool!!! That's a fine looking ragtop. Are those Revell tires? I think they are much nicer than the kit's originals. The only regreat I have with mine is not having it wired, but since the Y-Block V8 spark plug wires go to the plugs from under the exhaust manifolds, only the wires leaving the distributor would be visible, so I was lazy and didn't do it. I wish those tires you are using Mike were available for sale on Hobby Shops. I had a '55 Chevy kit butchered for the stock tires for my '58 Edsel.

Well, I would say, that in my oppinion there is no paint like Tamiya when the subject is spray cans. Perfect results avery single time. Their clear coats are also the very best. never got any good result with the spray paints from Testors, but theys acrylics and enamels work great for frames, floor pans, engines, etc. Humbrol enamels are great for airbrushing a car body, but never got a result as good as with Tamiya spray cans.

Thanks!! This is a great kit, I had some trouble with the engine bay sides, the so called inner fenders, but that was my fault, not the kit's.

Wow, that nail polish looks amazing!!!

Forgot to tell that I did a modification to the hood. The central trim piece wasn't supposed to be chrome plated, asit only serves as a finishing device for the meeting of the two hood halves on the real car, but my grandfather owned a '51 Chevy, and he had the trim chromed, and the hood emblem removed, so I kind of copyed him.

This one is a AMT '51 Chevy Fleetline I built last year. It's almost box stock, I just added spark plug wires, heater hoses, and coil springs on the front suspension. The paint is Tamiya TS-11 Maroon, and two 100ml spray cans were used. The interior and engine were painted with Testors Enamels, custom mixed, and the flor pans and frame were paintedwith Testors acrylic semigloss black. Hope you like it!! Thanks for looking.

Very nice looking Olds. I loved the wood inserts inside. Is that paint or decal? Looks perfect.

Thanks Charlie! For some reason, the modelers I know here in my town are into a kind of car I'm not much into, that's modern day cars. Those I see every day on the street. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, after all I drive a '74 Galaxie, a big car with a good old V8. Considering the gas price today, maybe i'm just nuts.

Wow!! Thanks a lot guys!!! Tha BMF it's really a pain untill you get the hang of it, what, unfortunatelly can take a while... This remembers me I'm almost out of the stuff. Will have to buy more soon, and it takes a good 20 to 30 days to USPS send it from the States. For some reason, the hooby shops around here never have BMF on stock

Thanks a lot for all the welcomes, really, really appreciated!!!! I agree with Gluhead, those cars just now are geting the recognizion they deserve, specially considering they are great cars, without any kind of issue whatsoever, and still practical to be driven today, and all this just the way they left the factory. I have a special feeling for the four door sedans and station wagons. Hard to beat a '66 Country Squire with the "magic" tailgate, foldeable seats on the trunk, and wooden decals!! Even a bare bones Country Sedan or Custom 500 are great.

Looks great to me. I built the Revell '32 Roadster (Classic Cruiser edition) in just over four days or so, but it's a much simpler kit. This one is much more detailed, and that color just suited it very well. Thumbs up!!!

Someone has to build a 1:1 version of this, like Foose did with the Deora 2! it would be awesome.

That base I built with a wood canvas, the kind people use to do artistic paintings with acrylic paint, and the wavy part of a carboard box. First thing, I mixed beach sand with flat black paint, and used a foam roller to paint the base, creating the "concrete" texture. After that, I used a knife to draw the concrete plating separation. Next, I just airbrushed the base with five different tones of acrylic gray. To create the "grass" on the separations of the concrete plates, I just used white water based glue, and fake grass from the hobby shop. The fence wasbuilt with the cardpaper box "insides" painted silver, then "washed" with flat black, and somedry brushing with rust (I used Testors leather brown) The white lines separating the parking spaces were done with Testors acrylic flat white a brush and some masking tape, and it's ok if the paind "leakes", after all those lines were never perfect on the real thing.

A couple more:

Here is the custom Fairlane:

I have a thing for Fords, and the '57 Fairlane is special to me, because a AMT Fairlane was my first kit when I was 10 or 11 years old. That one is "no longer among us" as I put it apart with the intention of rebuilding it, and ended loosing most part of it and eventually trowing the remains away. This year I finally decided to give the AMT Fairlane a second try, and also a third try That happened because I couldn't choose if I was going to build a factory stock or a mild custom Fairlane, so I decided to build both. As always, my lack of patience and my urge to see the models done got in the way of adding some extra detail, and the cars ended basically being built box stock, both in automotive paint Raven Black monotone, with the medium gray/colonial white interior. As the finish of the automotive paint wasn't what I wanted, as I'm used to paint with Tamiya spray cans, I gave it a few coats of Tamiya clear, and it ended, after some buffing, looking like a Tamiya paint job with the good old TS-14 black. Well, here goes the pics, first the factory stock, and after the custom:

WOW!!!!!!

WOW guys, thanks!!! Never thought people would like my models so much!!