"Bring Out Your Dead" Completion Build--ROUND 2 Is On!

[vintageford]

That turned out great...

[Eric Macleod]

My Duesenberg is probably 2 evenings out. I am thinking I might try to add one more to the completions pile....maybe.

[disconovaman]

Gitter done!? Gotter done! lol! Now I think I will challange myself to finish the blazer before 2019... Thanks alot for this thread to get me moving agian.

[disconovaman]

Neexxtt! ☺

[disconovaman]

It's official, the Monster Blazer is back on the bench... We'll shoot for the end of the year to get it done. Lotta work ahead. I called it the Frankenstein Blazer because it was in peices when I got ahold of it in the early 90's... 

[fordf-100]

On 11/12/2018 at 5:00 AM, fordf-100 said:

I would like to enter this! I'm going to go with my 67 Lemans project, This is the first time I have entered something like this!

After posting the pictures I realized that the side chrome was completly wrong and so were the tailights so I started working on them yesterday.

 

A quick update on the progress! Went with a new color, the side chrome is closer looking but not really accurate.

[vintageford]

Thats looking good Fordf100. nice color for that car.

[mod3l Lover]

  I want in too!?!  The subject matter is cars and trucks? 

All I have to do is dig around under my bench and see what

is do-able in that amount of time!?!?

  Stalled a year or more you said, and that covers everything

I have that is started! LOL!!

  They had to parole me sooner or later!!  Just kidding, nothing

that bad!!    Just woke up from my coma!!

    David S.

[Superbird McMonte]

Found 3 long lost bodies. If I remember correctly, they stalled while trying to scratch build bumpers for the green one. They need to be 71-72 style.

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, Superbird McMonte said:

Found 3 long lost bodies. If I remember correctly, they stalled while trying to scratch build bumpers for the green one. They need to be 71-72 style.

 

Great! Which one are you going to try to finish by the end of the year? 

[mod3l Lover]

So how about this little guy?

[disconovaman]

12 hours ago, mod3l Lover said:

this little guy

Yeah! I wanna see that one done!

[Snake45]

14 hours ago, mod3l Lover said:

So how about this little guy?

Did you start it over a year ago, and it's stalled? If so, you're in! 

[mod3l Lover]

Yes sir!  Maybe 5 or 6 years on that one!!  

Ok, thanks. I will post up a few showing it's

status for now, then where I'm going with it 

very soon.

     David S. 

[Snake45]

I guess this could qualify as a stalled project. I took this pic in 2015, and was expecting to start on a restoration then--and several times since--but have actually gotten little if anything done on it.  It's a genuine survivor of mine, or what's left of it--first-issue MPC Mako Shark from 1966 or '67, painted in AMT Candy Oriental Blue. The paint is in horrible shape, but I'm not going to strip and repaint it, I'm keeping it as a relic of my teenage years. (I have a couple unpainted restorable glue bombs to do up good). 

The hangup has been the chassis--the original chassis was harvested 50 years ago for some other project. I was originally gonna slide it on a common AMT '63 Corvette reissue chassis, but that won't work. Second choice was to scratchbuild a simple slam/curbside-type chassis for it, which I keep putting off doing as too big a PITA. I just realized I might be able to get it on one of the glue bomb chassis (at least temporarily) without too much work, and have been putting forth effort in an attempt at such. We'll see how it goes. 

[Straightliner59]

3 hours ago, Snake45 said:

I guess this could qualify as a stalled project. I took this pic in 2015, and was expecting to start on a restoration then--and several times since--but have actually gotten little if anything done on it.  It's a genuine survivor of mine, or what's left of it--first-issue MPC Mako Shark from 1966 or '67, painted in AMT Candy Oriental Blue. The paint is in horrible shape, but I'm not going to strip and repaint it, I'm keeping it as a relic of my teenage years. (I have a couple unpainted restorable glue bombs to do up good). 

The hangup has been the chassis--the original chassis was harvested 50 years ago for some other project. I was originally gonna slide it on a common AMT '63 Corvette reissue chassis, but that won't work. Second choice was to scratchbuild a simple slam/curbside-type chassis for it, which I keep putting off doing as too big a PITA. I just realized I might be able to get it on one of the glue bomb chassis (at least temporarily) without too much work, and have been putting forth effort in an attempt at such. We'll see how it goes. 

 

A slammer chassis should be a quick and easy, down and dirty deal to get done. Here's the one I did for a SS/GT Firebird, that would qualify for this thread.

[Snake45]

38 minutes ago, Straightliner59 said:

A slammer chassis should be a quick and easy, down and dirty deal to get done. Here's the one I did for a SS/GT Firebird, that would qualify for this thread.

 

Yup, that's pretty much what I've had in mind for MONTHS now, but the part I'm dreading is figuring out how to drill the axle holes to get them EXACTLY where I need them. 

[Straightliner59]

3 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Yup, that's pretty much what I've had in mind for MONTHS now, but the part I'm dreading is figuring out how to drill the axle holes to get them EXACTLY where I need them. 

I think I might have eyeballed them, and gritted my teeth. Got lucky, on this one!

[Superbird McMonte]

On 11/28/2018 at 9:43 PM, Snake45 said:

Great! Which one are you going to try to finish by the end of the year? 

I’m leaning toward finishing the Saturn Yellow car first. The paint has been polished on it.?

[Eric Macleod]

The Duesenberg project is done. It should be posted under glass in a day or two.

The next dead one may be a project that may be a record,  I started it 38 years ago.

[Snake45]

Time for a status update: 

Richard Bartrop: '29 Ford

Disconovaman: '55 Nomad. SECOND COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Moving on to Monster Blazer.

89AKurt: '50 Chevy truck

Jantrix: '37 Ford (?) rod

Snake45: Get Smart Sunbeam Alpine and '40 Ford coupe, maybe Mako Shark

Lordmodelbuilder: '64 Chevy Blazer

Eric Macleod: Deusenberg. THIRD COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE!

Scale Asylum: '64 Dodge 330

Junkyard Jeff: '41 Chevy truck

FordF-100: '67 LeMans

Vintageford: '49 Ford shelved, looking for new project

Magicmustang: Tommy Ivo double Buick rail. FIRST COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE!

Foxer: AA/Comp rail

GerN: '32 Ford

Superbird McMonte: '70 GSX

Mod3lLover: '60 (?) Corvette

[vintageford]

Hey Snake, I'm back in with a 49 Ford, just a different one, I'll get ups some pictures this weekend. I've got "several" of them in various stages of UNDONE!!

[Eric Macleod]

And I am going to tackle completion of the '30 Cord Phaeton Sedan...may the Force be with me!

[mod3l Lover]

   I am going to (just for fun) start a thread for my '59 Corvette

club racer build I guess!?!  If I'm going have fun finally building

it, I might as well share what I'm up to here!

       David S.

[Eric Macleod]

On 11/29/2018 at 10:31 PM, Eric Macleod said:

The Duesenberg project is done. It should be posted under glass in a day or two.

The next dead one may be a project that may be a record,  I started it 38 years ago.

 

5 hours ago, Eric Macleod said:

And I am going to tackle completion of the '30 Cord Phaeton Sedan...may the Force be with me!

So here it is, literally dragged out of the bottom of the pile. I started this one when I was 16, and my 54th birthday was 8 days ago, so nearly 38 years in the making. I have picked away at it ever since but my skill set has always lagged behind my vision for it. Since I started work Automodello produced a resin model so I was able to get ahold of a couple badly distressed parts cars. We'll see if I can get it over the finish line. Here is what I have today.