My take on the most famous ‘55 gasser street machine’…

[OldNYJim]

Thanks so much fellas! 

I didn't take a bunch of progress pics of the final week of this project - most of it was polishing out the paint on the yellow car, and assembling (mostly box stock) the lilac one.  Lilac one turned out ok, for a simple build...WAY simpler of a project than I normally like to do, but it was meant to be a comparison piece for the detailed version so I left it alone and assembled it in an afternoon last weekend:

And with that done, only thing left to do was finish polishing out the paint on the Badman (that thing got surprisingly dirty at the model show, considering no one was supposed to be touching any of the models...) and then take some pics on the base:

And a pic of both, like the box art...

This was a fun one - definitely challenging and had to push my skills to get it together, but I'm relatively pleased with it - thanks for all the nice comments and to everybody who followed along!  Onto the next one!

 

[OldNYJim]

On 10/16/2023 at 7:22 PM, Larry Rose said:

How do you do those templates for the name etc...

I laid the names out in Adobe Illustrator, and then cut masking film with my Silhouette scrapbook cutter.  If you're not familiar with Illustrator the Scrapbook cutter has it's own software that will allow simple graphics to be designed, but I use Illustrator all day every day so makes sense for me to use that...

[slusher]

Outstanding pair of 55 Chevys!!

[Roadrunner]

Both cars are just beautiful.