Lovefordgalaxie

Really love them '57 Fords!! Can you say? I have an ongoing project of building one Custom Tudor in every single color Ford offered in 1957. I'm not building them one after the other, but when I see one of the Revell kits I get it. have 10 unbuilt, and one on the way as payment for a '58 Plymouth build i'm on right now...

The engines. Try to guess from each car each engine is!! 1957 Ford Collection by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Collection by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Collection by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Collection by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Club Victoria by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1958 Edsel Custom by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr '57 Ford by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Custom Tudor by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Custom Tudor by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Edsel X Edsel by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

Continuing: 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Club Victoria Supercharged Road Racer: 1957 Ford Fairlane Sleeper by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1958 Edsel Pacer Custom: 1958 Edsel Custom by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1958 Edsel Pacer Prepaint: 1958 Edsel Pacer Hardtop by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1958 Edsel Pacer Horizon Blue and Frost White: Test Shots by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1958 Edsel Junker: Rescued Edsel by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Galaxie: 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Galaxie by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Galaxie by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

You asked for... 1957 Ford Custom Tudor Raven Black: 1957 Ford Custom Tudor by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Custom Tudor Coral Sand: 1957 Ford Custom Tudor by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Custom Tudor Gunmetal Gray: 1957 Ford Custom Tudor by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Custom Tudor Inca Gold with the optional Supercharged engine: 1957 Ford Custom Tudor (indoor pictures) by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Custom Tudor (indoor pictures) by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Ford 1957 Fairlane 500 Club Victoria Raven Black: 1957 Ford Collection by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Ford 1957 Fairlane 500 Club Victoria Raven Black Supercherged: 1957 Ford Collection by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Club Victoria early '60s Custom: 1957 Ford Collection by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Club Victoria 1970's Hot Rod; 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Hot Rod. by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1957 Ford Custom Tudor 1960's Custom: Kustom 1957 Fords!! by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

Thanks John! Trying to make the car to look as nice as possible. She has a very beautiful a fluid design, and I hope to make a paint job to make it justice. After all, it's Christine we're talking about. I wanna live to my next birthday... By the way, I built a Mopar before, a '69 Super Bee, more than 20 years ago. until now she was the only one... 1969 Dodge Super Bee by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

Small update folks. My cousin chose the color for the floor pan, and gray primer it is. I used Model Master acrylics to make the tone he wanted, and airbrushed the floor pan this evening: Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Also, the paint on the roof is now rock solid, and I unmasked the body: Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Will do the polishing after painting the blood red. By the way, Marcelo gave me the body paints already mixed (he has a perfect idea of the completed car on his head): The white and the red, both in synthetic enamel form, automotive paint: Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr I guess he got Christine's "Blood Red" like in the book, pretty well with this tone of red: Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Next step is to actually spray the red, and do the "overspray" on the floor pan. Pretend to do it tomorrow if everything goes smooth. Wish me luck guys!!! I promised my cousin this baby done by the 22th... and I'm NOT on vacation now, I'm full of work At least I'l enjoy the payment: A sealed Revell 1957 Ford Custom Tudor kit

No need to hurry, they were probably rusted from the factory already

Cujo, and Under the Dome, both "done!!! From a Buick 8 was better than Under the Dome, if you ask me. Very cool book.

Thanks Glenn!! Also love the movie, and the book. I red the book about five times already... Interesting stuff: On the book, Christine is a four door Fury. There are no four door Furys for 1958. On the book, Christine has a regular transmission select lever instead of the push button on the dash. On the book, Christine has one four barrel carburetor, on the movie she has two.

Thanks for the confidence vote Gary! Yep, I know what you are talking about on urethane. It shines more easily , but it's harder on the plastic as well, and would really need a sealer to stop the red from staining the white. I just love working with synthetic enamel. Using the appropriate reducer, the paint will get very hard, and polish to a shine that is correct to the model year of the cars I build. One thing is bugging me tough. My cousin says that the underside of the '58 is supposed to be gray primer with red overspray. Couldn't confirm this anywhere... I know Ford used red/brown primer, and GM used almost the same thing, only more to the orange side, but Plymouth?

My cousin Marcelo always comes here in my house, and keeps looking at my completed models. He had modeling a try when both of us were kids, but he never took it really seriously. A few months ago, he bought a AMT Plymouth Christine, and asked me to build it for him. Along with the kit, he gave me a list of the colors he wanted used. I confess I've being procrastinating this build, because I don't exactly love Mopars. Anyway, I started the car, and will build it the best I can. The kit came molded in red, what is not a problem at all because I'm using automotive synthetic enamel paint, and never ever had any problems with colored plastic before. The first thing I did, yesterday, was to prepare all body and related parts and to give them several coats of white primer (Lukscolor a Brazilian brand). Today I prepared the bone white paint for the roof, and airbrushed it in several light coats with a final "wet" coat. Now, I will give the white a couple of days to dry, and then will paint the blood red. First coat of primer: Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Shaved the "Belvedere" nameplate: Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr The roof just painted: Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr Christine by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

COOL!!! Have to get one of those kits...

Really cool '59 Edsel!!!

Finally!!!!! I was watching the build and was dying to see it finished. Geof my friend did a outstanding job!! The car looks flawless and impeccable.

Super nice!! Loved all about it. Looks like Harry is making some disciples...

Don't be mad at me Richard, loved the cherry bombs, but the lack of bumpers makes the car to look odd. Of course that's my personal opinion. When I saw the pictures I was like: "Where are the bumpers!?" Other things I like are the tires and wheel covers, and the treatment you gave to the floor pan and engine bay. Great craftsmanship, as I usually expect from you.

I like it a lot. Great color choice and great execution!!! Clean and sharp.

It's not stock, but you know... I like it a lot!! No chop on the roof, nice wide whites, Y-Block under the hood, cool fender skirts, cool taillights... Very old school, and THAT's what I like!!!

It would be cool to own one to drive on the beach. Does it float?

Thanks Mike!! Now I'm getting your e-mails. My next build will be... CHRISTINE!!!! as a gift for my cousin. Man, talk about postponing a build... Christine could be a '58 Ford.

Thanks guys!! It's far from perfect, as I weathered an old build (didn't have the nerve to experiment on a new one)

I agree 100% I built this Ford about 20 years ago, just did the weathering and some other small fixing now. My "modern" builds of this kit are a little better on the chassis and engine department, even tough a few of the ejector pins always escape me: 1936 Ford De Luxe Coupe by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford De Luxe Coupe by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr

That would be 1966. Until '66 the passenger cars were imported in parts on big wooden crates and assembled here, what included soldering the bodies, painting and assembly. The engines came fully assembled. Trucks were 100% built here from 1956 as was the 272 - 292 V8 Y Block. Those Brazilian engines were also installed on imported cars that were supposed to have them as original equipment. Ford installed a assembly plant in Brazil in 1919. Originally it supplied all South America with Fords. Thanks for your comments guys!!! Very appreciated!!!

Thanks!! That was a very small thing to fix, and easy to let pass. Only mentioned so you could fix it before taking the model to a show or something, and have a judge taking points from you because of that. When it's something on a factory stock car, and I'm positive the detail is wrong I try to warn the builder to fix it. Now go fix that Ford already!!

Took my very old build 1936 Ford five window, and did some fixing and painting. The objective was to represent a 1936 Ford with about 6 or 7 years of age. Did the job by looking at pictures of my grandfather's cars. He was a carefuller owner, and his cars were always in good shape. I did some weathering, and included early 1950s licence plates. Anyway, here she is. Hope you guys like her!!! 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr 1936 Ford "driver" by Lovefordgalaxie, on Flickr