Lovefordgalaxie

That's an awesome paint job.

Thanks! Ford has the habit of reusing bits and pieces of styling, or let's say, to get inspired by themselves. Even tough, it's rare that the resulting parts are the same. That happens to the grille of the Mercury, and taillights of the '70 Ford just like you said. I think the best is to start from scratch anyway. I did it before, making a front bumper and grille for a 1:12 '57 Bel Air, but the scale factor and the design of the Chevrolet parts made things a lot easier. My idea is to make a negative mold in clay, and cast a prototype grille and rear fascia in resin. The problem is: I can't make a perfect mold. I want it to be as good as a kit part, and not a terrible bend and inaccurate thing like most aftermarket resin bodies and parts. I even got a resin body, a four door conversion body on ebay that is in fact a '65 Galaxie, but that thing is unusable. The proportions are all wrong.

My '74: 1974 Ford Galaxie 500 by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1974 Ford Galaxie 500 by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

Thanks Misha!! Thanks a lot Pat!!

Thanks Bill. Being a big fan of your art (not modeling, you are past this point) it's great praise for me your liking of my Galaxie!! That's a sad story. Poor Galaxie. Well, not so bad, at the time they were new, so fixing her should have being easy. The 7 Litre was not the real power house it looked like with the standard 428 engine. The objective was to be super smooth, and with tons of torque. If one wanted a true Chevy killer street machine the engine of choice should be the R Code 427. The 7 Litre so equipped was not smooth at all, but like the Beach Boys sing, would burn rubber on all four gears!!

For sure they won't appreciate kicking those around

I'm far from Rio de Janeiro, as I live in Florianópolis. I flown there a couple of times to see car shows, as well as to São paulo to the Águas de Lindoia car show, that is 400 km from Rio, but the Olympics are not my cup of tea, so I will not go. Another thing I'm not into is football. The country is crazy about it, I can't see the fun of it. 11 grown men running after a ball? Give each one his own ball and they'll all be happy

Thanks guys!! I always LOVED the '66 Galaxie. Have a ton of books and sales literature on her. Also have two 1:1 U.S. built cars I have access to to look at details if needed, not to mention my own Galaxie. 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

Oh BOY!! That is a sweeeeeeet Mustang!! Loved the color, and the quality of the build. That steering wheel would had saved me a ton of work... It's the same on on the '66 Galaxie 500 7 Litre.

My original idea was to build a replica of my own Galaxie, but my body modifications skills are not yet up to the task. I would produce something not very attractive, and would end ruining the kit. I'm practicing on some old bodies, but molding some exclusive parts like the grille and taillights still is a problem, so let's postpone the 1974 Galaxie 500 project for a while. Since I was with the AMT '66 Galaxie kit on hand, I decided to build a better replica of the 7 Litre I had built back in 2009. That car was painted Emberglo, and had the red interior. My favorite color among the ones offered by Ford in 1966 is Candy Apple Red, so I had some paint mixed and went to work!! The AMT kit has a very accurate body, but has some problems caused by the transformation of that body from Promo into a full detail kit. For starters, the interior is the one from the convertible... On a fastback... This little detail I didn't fix, but fixed another detail, the brake pedal. The AMT kit has only the four speed Top Loader transmission, but the interior has the automatic transmission pedal. Easy fix, just had to build a set of new pedals. Also the steering wheel is the one from the Galaxie 500 (sans XL, or 7 Litre options) so a correct one had to be scratchbuilt. Also separated the exhaust from the rear end, and added a few under hood details, along with a set of decals for the engine and emblems. Well, I hope you guys like the result, and if you are interested I have a few videos on YouTube covering the build. 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

I know what you feel. Foil here in Brasil is not that hard to find, but the price... Well, suffice to say one can get a kit for the cost of one envelope of foil. I wouldn't mind, and didn't until BMF had a drop in quality, and my foil work resulted all orange peely. It's the glue on the foil that is applied leaving orange peel that will show on the foil job. To go around this, I started making my own foil with simple household aluminum foil, and gold leaf bond. Have a video about it if you feel interested.

Yes, that's the one!! Black Moon Rising. Found the complete movie to watch on YouTube.

I loved it. cars from the '80s are so cool. I remember a movie, with Tommy Lee Jones that had one of those. It's being a while, and I can be wrong... It was about a super futuristic car that was stolen or something like that (Black Moon??) I think it's almost 30 years since I saw that movie, so I don't recall it well

Loved the reverse color scheme.

Now THAT is a great looking car. And also a great looking model.

That thing reminds me why I hate European cars. It looks like a cute little frog. The model is great, tough.

Welcome Paulo to the Forum dos gringos. People here is great, well maybe with the exception of Harry, that will get into your skin if you forget the rearview mirrors... By the way, great choice on car. i'm not into the Brazilian forums as most of the posts are about Euro or Japanese trash. Not to mention the guys there have the "king in the belly" as we speak, and can only criticize.

It looks great. For some reason, this particular body style looks awesome in gold.

Thanks!! I used no primer whatsoever. Unless the Tamiya paint is metallic I use no primer.

I really like it a lot. A good honest model, that just looks good.

Would love to own the 1:1. She looks great.

People use to look at my S-10, and say it's too colorful. Back to the factory tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

Love those cars. Pity you didn't have all the original wheel covers from the kit.

Good looking models!! Love the Mustang collection you have there.

Nice looking Chevrolet. Loved the Ford rear bumper. I built the convertible version of this kit, a long time ago. It got destroyed when I moved back in 2006. It was red with a gray interior. Wish I still had it.