'92 Mustang GT Convertible

[nails3825]

Hey guys, been working on this for the past couple weeks... tried to take my time but it still turned out to be sort of rushed. I'm trying to learn "patience" when it comes to building, something I can't get the hang of... so I've been doing these rebuilds to try to slow myself down This is what it looked like before...

It's another one from the shoebox ~ I built it somewhere between 1993/1995... not sure exactly when. It never had a hood, so it was neglected all those years. Finally I decided to rebuild it ~ change the color and give it the attention it deserved, and a hood! Comments are welcome, even a little criticism. Your ideas and thoughts, tips and tricks. We are all here to learn and I know there is much for me to discover in the model building world. Thanks for looking Here are the finished photos... hope it's not lost with all the other mustang posts

[nails3825]

Hmmm... should I have lowered it? Or maybe built a dodge instead?

[camaroman]

Nice job on the rebuild... I really like the color.

[RodneyBad]

Nice looking Stang.

Paint looks good.

nice restoration.

Maybe a wee bit lower but good stock height.

[whale392]

Coming from someone who owns real Foxes; that looks great! You did a killer job on restoring this kit and should be proud of the results. Both thumbs WAAAAYYYYY up for this one!

[jedimastergary]

Looks great love the color. I have the same

problem when I build start out to go slow

end up rushing it and themodel either looks

bad or falls apart with in a short time.

[Rick Schmidt]

Looks great. I'm curious about how you did the Cheese Graters.. That's one part I could'nt come up with a suitible solution for

[BigBeze]

I am wondering how you did the tail lights to? It looks just the way it does in person.

Really nice build. Its cool to make blue mustangs, red, purple what ever the color there is never enough 5.0's

[Greg Cullinan]

I learned something,to paint those rear view mirrors looks good! I've never thunk of that! Color with the darker gray skirt looks good.Nice work.Thanks

[Wayne Buck]

Looks great. I'm curious about how you did the Cheese Graters.. That's one part I could'nt come up with a suitible solution for

I've done them before by filling them in with elmer's glue and it worked very well. Just fill all the slots in, paint it and then pick the glue out of the slots.

Liquid mask would probably work as well.

The car looks GREAT!! Outstanding job, sir!

Edited March 19, 2010 by NJ-Wayne

[nails3825]

Thanks for the comments

BigBeze and Rick, it took a while to do the tail lights... first I covered the back with BMF and then painted the front the same color as the body. Before the paint had a chance to dry, I used a toothpick dipped in thinner to clean out the grooves ~ after that, I sprayed Testors gloss laquer on them to bring the "red" back out. Make sure you do each one seperately, since you don't want the paint to dry too much before you have a chance to clean them out. I'm sure there's an easier way to do it, NJ-Wayne's idea may work better That's a good tip, thanks.

[whale392]

I have the 83-86 Halo headrests in my 91GT.......made a world of difference in the way the seats look!

[nails3825]

Did some minor changes to this 'stang to better resemble the '92... thanks to Mark for pointing these differences out. First, I shaved the headrests down a little ~ this is one detail I missed while browsing through the several hundred reference photos. I just assumed they were correct, being that this was a '92 Mustang kit. Of course, I was wrong... but now they are correct

And the steering wheel... this is one thing I did notice but didn't pay much attention to. I figured since the seats were now correct, the steering wheel should be too. The closest thing I had to match was the steering wheel from a '94 mustang. I sanded the airbag bulge down flat and scraped in some lines so it at least looks something like what it's supposed to.

Although these changes were minor, they add a lot to the model. It's a better representation of what it should be... that being a 1992 Mustang Thanks for all the input on this one, your opinions mean a lot to me. As always, thanks for looking!

[Eric Stone]

Looks good!

[whale392]

Much better (although I didn't see anything wrong with your original rebuild). The wheel looks pretty close to me (my 91 is an airbag wheel), and the headrests look right now as well. Still one of my favorite 'Stang builds.