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It looks prety good!! Are those '59 Cadillac wheel covers? They look right at home.

You did great. I had this kit in the stash, and gave it to my cousin. he is building it for the last five months. Kind of curious to see what will result out of that. People can say the kit is bad, but I loved the tires, very well done, and realistic.

Thanks gents!!

It looks great!! Refreshing to see a unmolested '49 Mercury.

WOW!!

It's so cool, and realistic. Even has a Columbia rear end.

Awesome model never the less. I just noticed as I use to work on those engines, and have one on my daily driver. The previous representations of the Y-Block in scale never bothered with this detail. The new tool Revell was the first one I ever saw with it.

The Revell version of the Y-Block tooled for their '57 Ford Custom Tudor, and also used on their '57 Wagon is the first one to actually have a oil pump, and oil pick up tube represented in scale. The other representations, lack this detail. Even on rear of the oil pan oil pick up engines, like the Thunderbird and some trucks had, the external oil pump and it's external oil line is still visible on the outside of the engine. Not trying to bash on the model or anything like that, just something that I noticed right away, as I own a Y-Block powered car. All my builds of AMT '56 and '57 Fords, and the build I did this year of the AMT '57 Thunderbird lack the oil pump and oil pick up tube, as I never bothered to add this detail, but 1:1 cars have it. On one of the super rare occasions I was in the mood for keeping detail (not adding detail, as I usually don't even add spark plug wires) I modified the revel oil pan to be used on a transplant of the 312 in a '51 Chevrolet. In that case, the engine would use front mounted engine mount, and to clear the Chevrolet steering the oil pan was inverted, and it was just the case of modifying the Revell molded parts to represent what Ford did on rear oil pick up engines.

The car looks great. The Y-Block is my favorite engine, love it. The engine looks like it came from the Revell '57 Ford, and you installed the oil pan in a way it would serve your build, but by doing that you eliminated the oil pump, and oil pick up tube. On the Ford Y, the oil pump is external to the crankcase and sits on the rear of the engine block, by the oil filter. On the Revell engine, the oil pump comes molded to the oil pan.

Thanks guys!! i'm with you on the V8 being nicer looking than the Deluxe V8. Ford, at least here, was notorious for being flexible on paint colors. Guy I know has a '49 Coupe that came from the factory painted Miami Cream, a convertible only color. The color code reads E for special order. Last car I built is a '53 Sunliner painted in Majestic Maroon, a Lincoln color. You just had to have the patience to order the car, pay the fee, and to wait the delivery. Yes, all Revell '40 Ford kits come with the Columbia. Working was simple. There was a vacuum operated solenoid, that would engage a secondary set of gears (planetary gear set) that would add ratio to the original Ford ring and pinion relation. It was basically a overdrive, and that's why it faded when Ford started offering their own overdrive.

Thanks!!

Thanks guys!!

Thanks my friends.

I'll be leaving Flickr after their change in mind and no longer offering 1 TB of free space. Will just upload the pictures direct here. Have all my pictures in a separate picture only HD, so, I will loose nothing. All my posts before now will get picture-less tough, and I won't spent a month fixing them by re uploading because Flickr decided to blackmail it's free accounts. When I got into Flickr, the free accounts had a low picture showing number, If I remember correctly, they would show your last 100 pictures, and the rest only you could see. Started there with a pro account. Kept the Pro account up to when they started offering one terabit of free storage space. I never used the "special pro account functions" anyway, so, I went free. Worked great, until they got greedy. Yeah, pay 50 Dollars, or we will delete (not just not show, they will delete the material) every single picture and video you have over 1000 pictures and videos. That's blackmail in my book. Have over 13.000 pictures stored there. They will delete 12.000 pictures from my account in February.

Thanks Mark!!

After a couple of weeks off, I resumed work on the '56 Ford Fairlane. The rear end was assembled, and some putty needed to smooth things up. The engine halves were glued together, and again some putty was necessary. The glue line on the transmission casing will stay, as the real transmission had a casting part line right there. The front seat needed a second putty application, as the sides were kind of hard to make smooth.

Thanks guys!!

Built this one a while back. I had left the grille all chrome, and the headlight bezels also in chrome. The other day I decided to give those parts the "stock" treatment, and paint them body color, even tough the body color was not available by the book on a '40 Ford V8 (non Deluxe). Guess I ended with a sleeper.

Looks cool to the extreme. I'm not a fan of the headlights on top, as the original position is kind of a trademark of the car, like the M on the hood, and the overall design, but I understand why you changed it, and I would end doing the same thing. The execution os top notch. Paint, finish, all are great, and the car looks very believable, and not just a fictional piece.

Thanks!! I like a nicely done custom, but really dislike the ones that look like a Christmas tree, full of stuff and crazy paint jobs. I always preserve the car's structure stock, so it could in theory be reversed back to a proper '53 Ford.

Bent eight means V8.

I also have a 1:1 a four door, and even tough, the first AMT '66 I built, i forgot this detail. Foiled after the car was ready, as I looked at the 1:1 and just tough oh sh...

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VERY nice job. One detail most people forget: The front splash pan is painted argent (kind of a semi gloss aluminum) on 1957 Fords, and not body color.