Kit Karson Posted February 22 Posted February 22 14 hours ago, Speedpro said: Thought I would show the results of taking a wedge cut out of the front fenders. Not sure if it was worth doing, but there is a small change. And I'm glad I'm not building new fenders. That's it for now. Bet the front tires fit under the pinched fenders a whole lot better! -KK
Kit Karson Posted February 22 Posted February 22 '32 Ford Chauffeured Town Sedan Cab & Coach Interiors: 9
Kit Karson Posted February 27 Posted February 27 '32 Ford Chauffeured Town Sedan W.I.P. in Base Coat Black & a Mockup: 8
bill-e-boy Posted March 7 Posted March 7 The 32 is in the paint shop (still). Had an oops with the clear coat running and causing a dark patch on the roof. Sanded back and shot a coat of colour on the roof and now in the process of clear coating again. Below is a shot of the oops but is very hard to see but in real life it was very visible and being on the top even more so. you can see a dark smudge in the closeup pix. The top has been sanded in the pix. Onward we go, thanks for looking 5
bill-e-boy Posted March 8 Posted March 8 Paint sorted and has been in hot box for a while so dug body out to fit up the windscreen surround. Test fitted - what gives here? Does not even look close to fitting. Checked fit on a 5W body I have in the modelling room and nope doesn't fit that either. Then I looked at the chrome tree I cut it from - it is the same as the 3W tree without the Hemi parts. Looked again and found the correct surround on another tree and compared - the less rounded one is for the sedan...... DOH!! I cut the bottom rail out with vertical cuts along the sides and cut back the sides to suit the gap Mocked up and now looks much betterer And glued up - somewhere under the tape is a chopped windscreen surround Thanks for looking 4
bill-e-boy Posted March 9 Posted March 9 A quick mock up to take the local MPH group (Miniature Petrol Heads) meeting. When fitting the drivers side guards I had an awful lot of trouble to get them to fit - found the cause - the lower radiator hose clashes with the front guard. I will now have to alter this to fit. I am annal and made a list of things left to do - comes from being a Project Manager in a past life The next big effort is to colour sand and polish out the body. Pix are as it came from the paint shop Thanks for looking 10 1
Speedpro Posted March 10 Posted March 10 Your paint shop is doing a great job Bill! Nice save on the roof. I like the colors your using as they work so well together. Hope all goes well from here on. 2
bill-e-boy Posted March 11 Posted March 11 16 hours ago, Speedpro said: Your paint shop is doing a great job Bill! Nice save on the roof. I like the colors your using as they work so well together. Hope all goes well from here on. Thanks haps Paul. I am happy with paint at the moment so fingers crossed it works out OK when I polish it out. Choosing colours and colour combos is an agonizing process when building a model and can make or break a model. In the process of all the little things to get it across the line 2
bill-e-boy Posted March 11 Posted March 11 16 hours ago, SpikeSchumacher said: Looking good Bill! Thanks Mathias 1
bill-e-boy Posted April 18 Posted April 18 Been a month or so for an update on my 32 Sedan build. I have been working to get my 68 Charger across the line and that's now under glass. I noted that the trans I am using is a manual and I also noted I did not have a shifter - DOH!! At least I got the three pedals right So for the shifter I looked at the one that comes with the AMT Vickie and it is rather blah. I then looked at my collection of pins and the round head ones were a bit big. I checked with the War Dept and she has these nice little beads. I cut the head off a chrome pin, super glued the bead onto the pin shaft and applied a good bead of glue and now I have nice round shifter knob. To finish off I painted the knob with clear red and bent the pin to shape. The boot is a bit of tree shaped with a small dab section of round added and drilled out 0.7mm for the pin. Original thought was to paint the boot SG black but sense prevailed and I painted it the same colour as the interior Pins, boot and knob And completed shifter as compared to the Vickie unit Meanwhile the body and guards etc have gone back to the body shop for colour sanding and polish 4
Bullybeef Posted April 19 Posted April 19 @bill-e-boy that’s a neat way to do a shifter, my stash of decent levers is depleting at a rapid rate. I don’t have a “War Dept “ to raid so I’ll have to go visit a craft store! 😜 1
Kit Karson Posted May 6 Posted May 6 (edited) '32 Ford Chauffeured Town Sedan with the Cab & Coach Interiors Mocked up -KK Edited May 6 by Kit Karson 6
Bullybeef Posted May 7 Posted May 7 (edited) It’s great to see that almost a year later they there are still builders plugging away at the finish line and have not abandoned their builds! Edited May 7 by Bullybeef 1
FoMoCo66 Posted May 7 Posted May 7 2 hours ago, Bullybeef said: It’s great to see that almost a year later they there are still builders plugging away at the finish line and have not abandoned their builds! He he , mines sitting in it's box still, haven't touched it for a while. 1
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