1965 Polar Lights Coronet

[drodg]

So I have decided to build a  kit of my red 1:1  65 Coronet 500 with a red P/L kit.  I had a white metallic in my stash that I am building without any detail or much detail anyhow to practice.  I know these kits can be a little rough so this is my practice run.  I will detail out the red kit.  I bought one off of Ebay and I think the color is not far off from my bright red 1:1 Coronet so I would like to just polish and foil if I can.  I will obviously paint the interior and engine etc on the red kit.  This is kinda fun though building a kit basically straight from the box.  I couldn't resist painting the exhaust and I am using wsw decal/vinyl stickers for the tires.    Try to ignore the place mat the car is on....    Btw as I posted in another section has anyone had luck doing up a better headlight for this grill?  That I think is a real weak point in the kit.  I kinda wanted to try to do something with the headlights but not sure what.  Thanks  

Edited September 19, 2019 by drodg
added pictures

[drodg]

The second picture is my grandson doing a photo shoot of my 1:1 for a high school project last fall.  I think it was called something like histories.  So we shot the car with an old building in our local town in the background.  

[drodg]

I am continuing to work on the basic Polar Lights kit with a red one sitting ready for me to fully detail.  I worked on the grill with some black wash and with a suggestion for the headlights from another post here I used Faspearl white Faskolor paint on the headlights.  I still need to do a little more to the grill and I obviously need to do some more work centering the wsw's.  The wsw's are viny decals and they may be too old.  I have had hard time removing them from the contact paper once they are on the tire and very hard to center.      

[High octane]

On 9/19/2019 at 9:08 AM, drodg said:

So I have decided to build a  kit of my red 1:1  65 Coronet 500 with a red P/L kit.  I had a white metallic in my stash that I am building without any detail or much detail anyhow to practice.  I know these kits can be a little rough so this is my practice run.  I will detail out the red kit.  I bought one off of Ebay and I think the color is not far off from my bright red 1:1 Coronet so I would like to just polish and foil if I can.  I will obviously paint the interior and engine etc on the red kit.  This is kinda fun though building a kit basically straight from the box.  I couldn't resist painting the exhaust and I am using wsw decal/vinyl stickers for the tires.    Try to ignore the place mat the car is on....    Btw as I posted in another section has anyone had luck doing up a better headlight for this grill?  That I think is a real weak point in the kit.  I kinda wanted to try to do something with the headlights but not sure what.  Thanks  

Wow, David your car looks BEAUTIFUL and I just love dem Mopars! For the headlights I usually use a light white wash on them.

[drodg]

11 minutes ago, High octane said:

Wow, David your car looks BEAUTIFUL and I just love dem Mopars! For the headlights I usually use a light white wash on them.

Thanks!

[mrmike]

I have two of the Coronet Convertibles in the stash to build.  Yours is looking good!