Just Sump'un I Had to Try

[StevenGuthmiller]

While fiddling around with my current project, I got to admiring the rather nicely engraved door handles on this 50 year old kit.

I had thought about trying this before, but I thought that being as this time I have some excellent Fireball Modelworks handles to replace them with, that this would be the time to experiment.

If I had some small enough files to smooth the body better behind the handle, it might be a solution on some future project.

For this particular build, I'll shave them off and replace them.

 

Anybody else ever thought of doing this, or done it before?

 

 

Steve

 

 

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Edited September 28, 2019 by StevenGuthmiller

[GaryR]

YEP! I have done some.

[Bucky]

I'd do it, if I had the handles. I'm gonna hafta do some shopping at Fireball's!!

[Snake45]

I've done it on a couple, it the handle sticks out far enough. One I remember was the Revell '67 Chevelle.

[Bucky]

I have drilled and carved the originals, if I had the room to work on them.

[ChrisBcritter]

I've done it on a few of mine; not easy but not impossible. A few certain FoMoCos with scooped-out areas below the handle have been an extra challenge to smooth out ('61 Ford and '62 Mercury in particular).

[Plowboy]

First time I did it was on an AMT '57 Ford around fifteen years ago.

[Classicgas]

I did it on a 70 Monte Carlo I'm working on.

[peteski]

I have done that years ago (when I was younger and crazier) on a Monogram Ultimates '67 Corvette, in 1:43 scale. Yes, 1:43.  Then I Bare-Metal-Foiled the door handles.

[Pete J.]

Yup.  Monogram 69 GTO Judge, twice.  Kind of one of those thing that just had to be done. 

[Russell C]

Ditto, on a Plymouth 2-seater I build in the early 1990s (plopped years later for the heck of it at a GSL contest).

[Snake45]

9 hours ago, peteski said:

I have done that years ago (when I was younger and crazier) on a Monogram Ultimates '67 Corvette, in 1:43 scale. Yes, 1:43.  Then I Bare-Metal-Foiled the door handles.

You win. 

[PeeBee]

Yup, what Snake said.  The Revell '67 Chevelle.

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

Fireballs on a '70 DeVille. Couldn't get the BMF to stick though so I went with Motlow.