1948 ford woody

[stitchdup]

Since I cant do anything on my cannonball build until more styrene turns up I pulled this build out again. Its been back in a box for 4 years as the roof pillars broke when I was assembling it. I didn't remember fixing them but I guess I did at some point. It has all the running gear from a 90s mustang cobra. As well as the fade awy fenders it has also been chopped, sectioned and to save cutting the roof I pulled the rear forward at the top. The interior is tuck n roll and the wheels are from a hasegawa vw bus with ford caps but they may get changed for wide whites and ford steels. The plan with this is just to get it finished. The first 2 pics are how it currently sits with a few random build pics following.

heres afew build pics too

some of the areas that caused it to get put in the box again

[Modlbldr]

I like the body work so far, especially the fadeaway fenders. Not sure that I like the idea of that grill though, but I won't rush to judgement yet. I'd love to see this one progress.

Later-

[stitchdup]

6 hours ago, Modlbldr said:

I like the body work so far, especially the fadeaway fenders. Not sure that I like the idea of that grill though, but I won't rush to judgement yet. I'd love to see this one progress.

Later-

I think I agree with you on the grille Tom, so I guess there will be one mod needed. It shouldn't be too hard to change for the stock one maybe

[espo]

The addition of the Fadeaway side panels really change the way the body looks, almost like a Buick or Oldsmobile. I have to agree with Modlbldr on the grill in that it is a little large for this design. I recall a design in one of the old Rod & Custom Magazines from the '60's where they did a drawing of the grill opening and using  the stock grill from a '55 or '56 Chevrolet pickup. This area offers you a very big  flat area to work with. You might consider something like the '49 Mercury type grill opening. An easy part for this can be found in the AMT '49 Ford kit. Beamerman is building a '49 Ford Shoe Box Custom right now and this would give you an idea of how that may or may not look like something you would want to do. With everything else you have done with this a unique front end would really work well. 

[stitchdup]

I didn't even think of that. Its too late now anyway. I used the stock parts from the chopped 48 kit to put it back more stock. I also made another small change to the bottom wood bars by swapping them for square strip instead of the round which I would have done when i first worked on it if I had sqare to use

 

[misterNNL]

You've done a massive amount of work on a complicated design theme. Good luck with the sisypean task of body work and of refining all the hick ups in the body work. Many radical designs do not survive this stage of the build and end up going back into a box to worked on "later". Stick with it and keep us updated on your progress.

[stitchdup]

I wasn't feeling like rubbing down filler today, even though its pretty close to primer now. Instead I spent more time than i want to admit making a couple of wooden surf boards from lolly sticks and coffee stirrers. They need some more refining but my idea worked out ok