bh1701 Posted Friday at 02:00 AM Posted Friday at 02:00 AM Here is my 1975 Ford Pinto. This is an MPC kit I bought on the internet. It's been quite a while since I built an MPC kit and I was surprised at how well designed it was. I especially appreciated that the side panels of the interior were separate parts rather than being molded into an interior tub. This makes painting the details on the door panels so much easier! The color is ScaleFinishes Medium Yellow Gold - which replicates a very popular Pinto color. The interior is painted with various craft paints. The houndstooth pattern on the seats are decals from Mr. Model. The gauges are from BestModelCarParts. For the side protective moldings, I painted the molding silver and then added a really thin piece of chart tape down the center. All chrome trim and the emblems/script were hand painted with acrylic metallic silver paint. Thanks for checking this out! Bart 20
Pete75 Posted Friday at 02:21 AM Posted Friday at 02:21 AM Nice work. I really love that interior detailing. Is that painted-over embossing powder painted for the carpet? Great effect!
johnyrotten Posted Friday at 11:07 AM Posted Friday at 11:07 AM Very nicely done. Beautiful work in the interior.
TonyK Posted Friday at 12:07 PM Posted Friday at 12:07 PM Very nice, clean built model. That interior is great!
ncbuckeye67 Posted Friday at 01:22 PM Posted Friday at 01:22 PM That looks amazing! I never knew Ford used houndstooth on their interiors (it looks great!), all these years I thought it was a GM exclusive....
Mike 1017 Posted Friday at 02:38 PM Posted Friday at 02:38 PM Most Excellent !!!! My wife's Mustang II was that color
bh1701 Posted Friday at 03:15 PM Author Posted Friday at 03:15 PM 12 hours ago, Pete75 said: Nice work. I really love that interior detailing. Is that painted-over embossing powder painted for the carpet? Great effect! It is embossing powder for the carpet. It is a "brown" I got at Hobby Lobby or Michael's. I did not paint over the embossing powder, so this is its actual color. I do usually spray some flat or semi-gloss clear over it when the glue is dry so that it holds the little embossing powder particles in place better. Bart 1
bh1701 Posted Friday at 03:18 PM Author Posted Friday at 03:18 PM 1 hour ago, ncbuckeye67 said: That looks amazing! I never knew Ford used houndstooth on their interiors (it looks great!), all these years I thought it was a GM exclusive.... Jeff, Thanks, and you may be right that Ford never used this specific pattern. I used some artistic license to pick a pattern from Mr. Model's catalog that I thought would look nice. This was the look I was trying to come close to. Bart 2
Pete75 Posted Friday at 03:25 PM Posted Friday at 03:25 PM 9 minutes ago, bh1701 said: It is embossing powder for the carpet. It is a "brown" I got at Hobby Lobby or Michael's. I did not paint over the embossing powder, so this is its actual color. I do usually spray some flat or semi-gloss clear over it when the glue is dry so that it holds the little embossing powder particles in place better. Bart Excellent tip. Thanks!
Jim N Posted Friday at 05:55 PM Posted Friday at 05:55 PM Great looking model. The interior and details are really sharp!
espo Posted Friday at 08:05 PM Posted Friday at 08:05 PM Great looking paint finish and chrome trim is well done. Most impressive interior finishes.
charger74 Posted Saturday at 04:18 AM Posted Saturday at 04:18 AM (edited) Wow thats a great looking pinto, love the interior Edited Saturday at 04:32 AM by charger74
ncbuckeye67 Posted Saturday at 10:19 AM Posted Saturday at 10:19 AM 18 hours ago, bh1701 said: Jeff, Thanks, and you may be right that Ford never used this specific pattern. I used some artistic license to pick a pattern from Mr. Model's catalog that I thought would look nice. This was the look I was trying to come close to. Bart We build to suit ourselves (I know I do). I did research that topic, and Ford did use some form of Houndstooth on a few models (Comet, Falcon, Cougar (??). I think your build looks amazing! I'm going to do a similar thing when I build one of my Pintos (plaid maybe?).
bh1701 Posted Sunday at 12:52 PM Author Posted Sunday at 12:52 PM Thanks for all of the positive comments from everyone! A lot of people have commented on the interior. I have always enjoyed doing interiors and like to add as much detail as I can. Now, if you ask me about detailing an engine compartment, that's an entirely different story. I have absolutely no idea where the different wires and hoses would come from and go to! They are built only with the parts from the kit and are pretty basic looking. So don't be looking for pictures of them!😃 Bart
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