32 Ford Coupe

[Mercman]

Not much done yet, still have the engine, and some suspension left. Then it's off to paint. The hair pins radius rods on this are just that Hair thin. You sneeze, and they're gone.

[RodneyBad]

Don't look that small in the pic.

You must have some good eyes for that scale.

[Mercman]

Got a good pair of reading glasses for doing them 1.75 magnification.

[Foxer]

My fingers hurt just looking..

[Ryan Quantz]

Yeah! I enjoyed building this kit, I will enjoy watching you build yours! I have a few spare parts left over, if you need any, let me know.

[cosmiccadillac]

WOW. 1/25th scale must feel like you're painting a bus after you do a kit like that!

[James W]

Jordan makes some nice kits.

I've built a few stock model T's and trucks but have not hot rodded any.

This one looks fun!

[Mercman]

WOW. 1/25th scale must feel like you're painting a bus after you do a kit like that!

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ActuallyI gave up 1/25th to work in this scale. I still have some 1/25th kits, but not as many as before. Went from 500, down to about 30. Now I bet I have close to 200 1/87th cars, and trucks, and 40-50 buildings that I'm working on. Also no I dont own a train layout, I have some rolling train stock, but it is for diorama purposes.

Your little coupe looks good. I like it. How did you make the headers?

Edited May 10, 2009 by Mercman

[Ryan Quantz]

I used .035 styrene rod. It is a tab big for the scale but, it was close enough. I measured out how close the body was to the front of the engine, and how far the exhaust needed to stick out of te side so it wouldn't interfere with the body. I just heated the rod up under my halogen desklamp, and made a nice tight bend with tweezers. then I cut the front exhaust pipe to length and added the other 2 pipes, angling the cut so they match up with the main pipe. It was somewhat tedious work, but it looks better than not having exhaust manifolds at all.