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The shoebox Ford. The first car I remember (Dad kept that oil burner for ten years) in my life was a '51 Ford custom tudor, color brown (bronze?) metallic. I heard him say more than once that it burned oil from the day he bought it. (So why didn't he...oh....) The idea of this one is chopping it a very healthy four scale inches and it is because I'm trying to look like a chopped Merc. Can't do that with a coupe. Gotta have a tudor. So....I got it in my head that if I could maybe move the backlight rearward to say...half-way to the trunk opening and lay it way down on a low roof, I could get close to that Merc lead sled feeling. It's a little scary; there's lots of taper, bottom to top, on the greenhouse. This body is an easy section job but the roof is not an easy chop. The early plan was both section and chop but after a week of mental activity the conservative won out. Here's the victim, an eBay find ? This is not an attempt to model any particular car. It's an adventure, an experiment. I've been lusting...well, needing to butcher this one into a sorta "punk" lead sled. Something with a quickie stolen car smell to it. You've seen them. You'd peg it for a novice, which, it so happens, it is! Gotta learn it somehow and this way is fun for me. The following is not for the squeamish. Our victim was given a bath and scrubbed with DAWN ( go away, I'm no good for you....) uh... The shiny black was tough on my eyes for some reason so I dusted it with some light gray primer Check your magazine archives. See any customs with no windshield wipers? Smooth is king here. All you need is Rain-x anyway. And here we go .....don't expect much ?! This is what I would like to say, but without the accent....and lower.....black cherrrrry

I am waiting for some ordered parts for Salt Shaker and the custom decals I am making for the Riviera, and then the motivation to finish the decals on my Ford GT, so why not start another project? This is the AMT Pontiac Catalina. I purchased this many years ago and it has been on the storage rack just staring at me for years so the other day I picked up the box, opened it and figured, why not? So, first thing I did, which seems to be the first thing I always do with these cars is I started opening the doors. But since I planned on removing and replacing the top, I only did the doors up to about 90% since I needed the strength of the doors to hold the body together once the top is removed. Removing to the top was a snap. 4 quick cuts with the electric rotary saw and the top was gone. The only tricky part was rebuilding new "A" pillars because the curved ones would not look correct since the new roof is significantly lower than the original. I glued and puttied the new roof in place and sanded the joints smooth. Then I opened the rear window and finished the side window area. When I finished opening the doors and built hinges for them I moved on to the inside door panels. Once the hinges were secured, I cut out the inside door panels from the kit supplied interior "sides" and glued them in place. I then added plastic strips around all of the windows to represent the chrome molding which will be BMF after the car is painted. Next, I will use bondo to make the door jams and finish them. I decided to add rear wheel opening skirts. These were cut out in two layers because of the body contours and then glued and puttied in place. I am planning a light pale yellow "pearlish" flat paint and maybe some painted on white scallops to accent it. of course, the colors are always subject to change as I may see another car that inspires me to go a different color direction, but as of now, the light pale yellow is looking good in my minds eye. . This door actually fits perfectly, it is just not closed properly here. Obviously, the doors and trim still need a little work to clean them up and align the doors exactly, but all is pretty close to finished on them.P.S., that is Max who came into my workroom to annoy me to give him, and his buddy, Dexter some treats,I dechromed the front and rear bumpers as they will be molded to the body and obviously paint body color. I am planing a slightly modified air-cleaner for the engines 2 carb's and a very lowered stance. Not sure if the door handles remain or get shaved yet. Thinking of using the custom wheels from the 1965 Riviera since I have them just laying around on the workbench since I have different wheels for Riv, when I get to finish that car.

Hello all, This is my very first build thread, and my first resin kit ever built! The body is a Jimmy Flintstone body my wife got me for Christmas last year, and when the '29 Ford roadster kit came out, I knew I had a frame to use. I have started some of the cleaning up the body work. I knew that would take me a bit, and it did.

Here's my entry for the Revell/Gearz contest. At lease I hope I'm entered. There's no acknowledgement after you press submit. Paint is Tamiya Purple and Racing White; my first two-color paint job.