'40 Tudor on Revell chassis

[Ace-Garageguy]

32 minutes ago, customline said:

Well I hope so because I wasn't too sure how any of this would have any value 🥴. 

Your work always has value, just seeing somebody with talent and skill building cool stuff. That's what we come here for.  

Thanks for posting the photo above too.  

[customline]

5 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Your work always has value, just seeing somebody with talent and skill building cool stuff. That's what we come here for.  

Thanks for posting the photo above too.  

Thanks, Bill. 

[customline]

Moving right along on this gorgeous Mothers' Day, I've got the tudor spruced up for the occasion. All polished up and foiled.  I still need to install a trunk handle and do a little more chrome work. Then I need to get some glass in the holes. There's more work to be done on the interior, particularly the dash but today she looks like this 👇

 

 

 

[Bullybeef]

2 hours ago, customline said:

Moving right along on this gorgeous Mothers' Day, I've got the tudor spruced up for the occasion. All polished up and foiled.  I still need to install a trunk handle and do a little more chrome work. Then I need to get some glass in the holes. There's more work to be done on the interior, particularly the dash but today she looks like this 👇

 

 

 

Looks darn purdy there Jim, are you using the stock trunk handle or something a little more svelt?

Edited May 11 by Bullybeef

[customline]

Nope. What ever is in the box. Could be the pink elephant 🐖   oops.....🦏.....no, wait.....🐘. There we go 🙂. Gotta spray the boards too, and make board brackets ( not necessarily in that order). I'm really liking the Tamiya spray paint. Have I mentioned that? 🥴

[customline]

OK then, I scratched some running board support brackets. 

Without them, even my svelte 😉 170 lbs. would bend them in half and destroy the ends of the fenders. Below is a board from the Revell kit

The AMT,  as I'm sure you know, has no detail under their boards. They do, however have some really nice ejector pin circles which I have enjoyed removing.  

A little heavy, material-wise, but it was a simple scratch using Evergreen shapes. Easy peezy 😎

Tomorrow I'll spray' em with semi-gloss black along with the boards. Well, I've stretched this post as far as I can so..................see ya!

Edited May 12 by customline

[customline]

Got the boards painted, and the gas tank. Windshield is in, dash installed.  Almost there, thanks for looking. 

[jdcar32]

did the same thing a few years back, the AMT Tudor body on the ( much better ) Revell frame with the Columbia rear ! Good luck and have fun with your build.

[customline]

On 5/15/2025 at 9:07 PM, jdcar32 said:

did the same thing a few years back, the AMT Tudor body on the ( much better ) Revell frame with the Columbia rear ! Good luck and have fun with your build.

Not much room for that Firedome, huh? Nice job on the doors, Jon, and the exhaust routing!  Thanks for sharing, it's a beauty. Super nice detailing. I'd love to see the build thread on it. 

[Mr. Metallic]

On 5/15/2025 at 8:07 PM, jdcar32 said:

Great build. Where is the intake setup from?

[customline]

Sometimes I get an urge.  Yesterday the urge to whack the Revell coupe got the best of me. I'm not gonna pretend I know what I'm doing and I don't recommend using my methods to anyone.  

I removed the rain gutter completely and may not replace it, I'm undecided.  I removed the backlight section, it stays un-chopped.  I took about 3/16" out of the A and B , nothing too unmanageable.  The B pillar gets aligned and sets the new height.  Then I filled the front gap with evergreen scrap material. This joinery is held together mostly with CA but some of it is welded with Mr. Hobby thin cement.

The C pillars needed some help landing so I added some .020 sheet scrap. CA slinging everywhere, the smell of kicker wafting about.  

 

A piece was removed to allow the backlight section to be positioned farther to the rear which allows it to lay down a bit more.

Incidently, I have employed nail silk on the inside of the pillars and coated with CA as an experiment. Something I learned about on this very forum. 😉

 

 

Time for BONDO! I love that smell.

Now it's time for getting all the scribe lines straight.  I hate this part. Thanks for stopping in  🖐🤓

[BK9300]

You're ambitious! And the tudor is looking pretty special, too.

[customline]

Well....I decided to replace the rain gutter. I think it looks more professional  and it hides some questionable work on the door seams 🙂.  I'll allow subsequent coats of paint to fill them on top and I will likely sand them down a bit. I'll give it a day or two and then wet-sand this body, fill the low spots , rinse, repeat. A quick mock-up for your somewhat morbid curiosity 🥴.

[espo]

The drip moldings enhance the look of the roof. 

[customline]

46 minutes ago, espo said:

The drip moldings enhance the look of the roof. 

Yes they do, David 😉!  And if not placed precisely, the good they may do could be lost. With bare plastic and Bondo sharing space on the roof, it's a bit tricky attaching the "gutter". Some CA must be used in spots. It's hard to get both sides identical. I couldn't 😔.

[NOBLNG]

The chop looks good Jim. Nice work replacing the gutters!👍

[TarheelRick]

Some mighty fine looking '40s. The Tudor is a real beauty, the short tracker looks the part (I'll bet he is going looking for a red car with a mangled fender after the heat race), and that chop came out looking really nice. It still looks like a coupe; so many lay the back glass down way too much IMHO.

[customline]

15 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

The chop looks good Jim. Nice work replacing the gutters!👍

Thanks, Greg, it still needs some adjustments but I'm pretty happy with it so far.

15 hours ago, TarheelRick said:

Some mighty fine looking '40s. The Tudor is a real beauty, the short tracker looks the part (I'll bet he is going looking for a red car with a mangled fender after the heat race), and that chop came out looking really nice. It still looks like a coupe; so many lay the back glass down way too much IMHO.

Thanks, Rick, I'm happy you noticed the red paint.  My first chop on a '40 was pretty tame so I wanted to take more out this time but still keep it "simple" I think there's enough slope on the backlight to look chopped but not butchered. I might have gone that way but I didn't want to get lost. 

 

[customline]

Did some tweaking and primed it again. The wheel change is me changing things around due to a new color choice. I'm wanting bright. Light-ish maybe.  Orange? Metallic light blue? Bronze?

[FoMoCo66]

Great chop man, looks amazing! Are those wheels from the amt 57 chevy by chance?

Edited 8 hours ago by FoMoCo66