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Bello lavoro en la macchina!! Pio bella.

Some more progress on the restoration: 1948 Ford Custom Restoration. by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr 1948 Ford Custom Restoration. by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr 1948 Ford Custom Restoration. by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr

Thank you!! On te model world, yes, they are cool, and fun, but in 1:1 form, I think they are a waste of a perfectly nice classic car. I'm not a radical anti custom, I just dislike the mods that can't be reversed. One can say that in theory, anything can be reversed, but sometimes the cost is just prohibitive, and a nice original car just is no more as someone decided it was a good idea to butcher the roof...

Did a little more work on the Ford. Painted the wheels, the interior, and installed some parts box headlights. The chrome reflectors are actually inverted moon caps from the AMT 1956 Ford. The sealed beams are spares from the AMT 1957 Ford kit. Like the interior I have to use on the custom is stock, I had to something with the paint to make it to look customized, without having to sand the upholstery, and redo it. Quite happy with the way my resin dash turned out. All detail paint still to do.

That's cool.

WOW!!! And that Edsel? WOW again!! Huge fan of the Edsel, and I love the '58 in special, but the '59 is a beauty too.

Extremely nice!!! The six would look cool in model form, but I wouldn't want one in 1:1 form even for free. I had a Chevrolet Veraneio (kind of a Suburban) with a 261 six. The car looked great, but the sound always turned me down.

Thanks guys!! I did some mixing, and I think I got a cool color for the interior, with a '60s vibe I like on custom cars.

Thanks!! It's the second time I use only a body, and source all the rest from different kits and the parts box. Some very creative models were built just like this, but most of the time the resulting car is anything but factory stock, that is my usual goal. Thanks!! By the way I'm also restoring a Charger 500 I built some time ago, from the old MPC Dukes kit. Took it along with some other cars to a meeting, and dropped it on my way out of the hobby shop. It fell on carpet, but I never knew it had so many pieces... Thanks!! Yes, I did it when first built the body, and had to redo after stripping the paint. I don't like the smooth hood, it looks just wrong. I also scribed the fender separation lines on this one. Added the fender welting as well, but it's hard to see on a black car.

Thanks!! It was kind of a last resource to actually do something with the body. It was a nice curbside until I started taking parts from it... That caused the paint flaws. I got the spotlights I had glued on the pillars, and that left one flaw at each one. Afterwards I needed a mirror, and I had a nice one on this car, so I just popped it out, leaving yet another hole on the paint. Glued another mirror on the car, but the hole was still visible. Also, the grille was originally the Cadillac one that comes with the kit. Didn't like the end result, and changed to the grille in the pictures. That left quite a defect on the original paint. Look near the base of the mirror and on the windshield pilar: 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr Now, look on the front, around the grille, where the paint is all messy after I replaced the grille and nose piece: 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr

This engine, comes with the Revell Custom Coupe kit: 1947 Ford Sedan Coupe Super Deluxe by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr Period Navarro heads and intake. This engine, comes with the Revell '48 Ford Convertible kit: 1948 Ford Sedan Coupe Hot Rod by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr New Motor City Flathead heads, intake, air filter.

Early last year I did a kitbash between the Revell 1948 Ford Sedan Coupe, and the Revell 1948 Ford Custom Coupe. Used the lowered suspension, and interior on the stock body. Fords e Aliana 009 copy by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr A little after that I used only the engine parts on this day two Ford: 1947 Ford Sedan Coupe Super Deluxe by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr 1947 Ford Sedan Coupe Super Deluxe by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr I was left just with the body of the Custom Coupe, that I slammed together with no interior and a chassis made out of paper... 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr Well, I was kind of sorry for the little thing, and started looking for some parts to build it, at least with an actual interior, chassis and engine. Found a incomplete 1948 Ford Convertible, that has only the "hop up" parts. 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr Perfect, now I have a nice V8 to go. Also headers, and the dual exhaust. Also have the stock frame from the '48, and I'm lowering the suspension on it to look good under the custom body. Have no custom interior, only the stock from the '48 Sedan Coupe, but I'll paint it to look something customized. I was missing only the dash, so I made a resin copy of the dash on one of mine (many) Revell '48 Ford kits... 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr Like the paint I did on the body was not the nicest, and was full of flaws, I stripped it, and repainted the body black. 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr 1948 Ford Custom Restoration by CCCP Digital Studio, on Flickr Now, I have to find a way to put all parts together... Will have to paint the frame again, as I messed up the paint to lower the suspension, and will have to paint the interior. I'm thinking about a dark tone or metallic red.

Cool, I'm building the same kit. Mine is stock tough.

Real nice!! Thumbs up!!

VERY nice!! Perfect color.

Amen. I like and value the unrestored originals infinitely more, even if not as "cosmetically perfect" as the fresh restored cars. That being said, the car being factory stock, or restored to replicate factory stock, and free of "updates" I'll dig it for sure.

Guys, lets go back on topic, before the thread gets locked. On the car prices, I noticed something interesting. Here in Brasil, the prices usually have less to do with what actually costed to build the car, and more with the taxes, and with the target market. Example: Back in 1989, Fiat found out that cars with engines of 1000cc and smaller had big tax reductions. They immediately launched the Uno Mille. It was a regular Fiat Uno, but with their old 1050cc engine reduced to just under 1000cc. It was useless to talk about power, the car had any, but sold in huge numbers. It created a new segment, the so called 1.0 cars. They soon dominated the market, as they were very cheap. Thing is, without the heavier taxes the cars with larger engines had, the car didn't have to be very simple to be cheap, but since the target market was the buyer of cheapo cars, cheapo they were. The Uno Mille didn't have a passenger side sun visor, didn't have a glove box cover, no radio, no carpeting, bare steel wheels, and so on. Even the right side mirror was optional. Even tough, the car costed the same as a regular Uno, less the extra taxes. Fiat was selling a bare bones car, fo a lot more it was worth, and people would buy it as it was "cheaper". They had a target market, and made use of it.

Hahahahaha!!! When I saw it was a Jurgen model, I knew what to expect way before rolling the page down.

Agreed, that's the convention they teach in the former British Colonies. I use the term continent to represent the same land mass, what the Americas are. It was divided, by convention, like you said. The idea of seven continents was created by convention. In school I learned the America is one continental mass, containing two sub continents. For example, I have a Encyclopedia Britannica from the 50's that says the Americas are one continental mass, divided by convention in two sub continents. It's all a question of nomenclature, and what convention you want to accept. From the Encyclopedia Britannica, and what I learned in school: "Depending on the convention and model, some continents may be consolidated or subdivided: for example, Eurasia is most often subdivided into Asia and Europe, while North and South America are sometimes recognised as one American continent." That citation was copied on Wikipedia (surprise surprise, they copied a citation from a 60 year old book): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#/media/File:Continental_models-Australia.gif The British usually referred to Africa as a Sub Continent. It's all over the classic literature.

Things are getting off topic here quite fast. The Americas are one single continent, that has being divided in South America, Central America and North America by convention, and not by physical divisions. Convention, is an agreement between countries to accept something as a fact. Example, zero degree longitude is represented by the Greenwich Observatory in the UK. That was accepted by all, and it's used to determine coordinates worldwide. Example: if you are in a place where your clock shows 10:00 o'clock at the exact same time it's 12:00 o'clock (noon) in Greenwich, you are two hours behind or 30 degrees of longitude West. Your latitude, by other hand will require a sextant, some calculations and a shipping almanac for the seasonal corrections to determinate. Before the advent of the Panama Canal, one could actually walk from the very southern Chile, to the polar cold of northern Alaska, in just one giant continent, divided by convention in three Americas.

My mother always told me a car is a durable consumer good, and it's supposed to be used for 30, or 40 years before even thinking about a new one. She will only buy a new car, if hers gets badly damaged in some sort of accident, or gets stolen. She drives a 2001 Ford Focus, and she only got it as the previous car (1990 Chevrolet Monza) was rear ended so badly the rear tires were jammed. The Focus is 17 years old, and still drives like new. She has no plans whatsoever to trade it. Last year I installed four new tires, and a new timing belt. I drive a 1974 Galaxie. New car? Never. Idon't need a computer with wheels, that looks like it was drawn by a 7 year old.

WOW!!! Even a Mopar looks good in black!!! First rate job, awesome paint quality, and the overall cleanliness of the job is nothing short of awesome.

Very nice of you on going over the grieff and finishing building this great model. It can be very hard, I know. In 2011 I was building a '64 Impala for my uncle when he passed away. I could never finish the car. It sits inside it's box, unfinished. I cry like crazy every time I touch it...

The Tech Wax leaves flat stains on Bare Matal Foil. The only way to avoid it is to wipe the wax before dry. On my home made foil, that is household aluminum foil, it gives an awesome shine. To remove the stains from the BMF, you have to polish it with the polishing compound, what will remove the wax from the surrounding painted sections as well. This is just one of the reasons I stopped using BMF. The other reason is the odd texture it was leaving on the trim. Kind of an orange peel of sorts. It was NOT from the paint job. It was the foil.