Rare Resin Score

[Tom Jackson]

At todays club meeting I scored these two AAM Resin kits

40Ford Wagon

%0 ford Panel

I got both for a song !

[Rick Forrester]

TOM NICE FINE. I WISH I HAD THEM. I DID HAVE THE WOODY ONCE BUT GIVE TO A BUDDY OF MINE WHO HAD ONE. GOOD LUCK WITH THEM AND HOPE TO SEE THEM DONE PAPAFO

[Tom Jackson]

Hope to have the woody done for Toledo .

[Jeff Sauber]

That '40 wagon looks really cool. I haven't gotten brave enough to try my hand at wood grain detailing..although one of these days I'll give it a shot. I wouldn't attempt to try it for the first time on that wagon...that's way too nice to screw up.....LOL.

Be sure to post some updates when you get to working on it.

Edited May 9, 2010 by J. Sauber

[Tom Jackson]

no fear here Jeff I think I cand do it

[peter31a]

Good find Tom! I've been wanting the woody for years now but always lost out on the 'bay as it went out of reach. But I hit pay dirt at NNL East this year where a vendor had one for a reasonalble price. It made my day.

Peter

[Marc @ MPC Motorsports]

Great find on the AAM resins. I've managed to collect a few myself over the past few years. I have a 1970 Olds Cutlass 442 convertible, '66 Malibu SS, and the 1955 Chevy panel truck. All are pieces of scale modeling history that deserve to be built someday.

[Modlbldr]

Nice score Tom. I like them both. I scored a 53 Ford Panel from a vendor last year but I'm not sure who it's from. It looks a lot like your 50. Did AAM do a 53? I paid $25 for mine and I thought it was well worth it. It s a very nice clean casting.

Thanks for showing your two.

Later-

[Art Anderson]

Nice score Tom. I like them both. I scored a 53 Ford Panel from a vendor last year but I'm not sure who it's from. It looks a lot like your 50. Did AAM do a 53? I paid $25 for mine and I thought it was well worth it. It s a very nice clean casting.

Thanks for showing your two.

Later-

About the only thing common between a '48-52 Ford F1 Panel Delivery and the '53 is the flathead V8, all the sheet metal is different. Unfortunately, I never did even consider a '53-56 Panel though.

Art

[Art Anderson]

At todays club meeting I scored these two AAM Resin kits

40Ford Wagon

%0 ford Panel

I got both for a song !

The AAM '40 Ford Station Wagon was a project by the late Lee Baker, master builder of Classic Cars and early Ford V8's (those were Lee's real model car passions!).

As far as finishing the Woody, less wood graining work is actually better: Ford, through 1940, used hard maple for framing up station wagon bodies (every Ford woody wagon used wood cut and shaped by Ford's Iron Mountain Michigan factory, from wood cut in forests owned by Ford, the '40 station wagon being the first to actually be produced start to finish by Ford/Iron Mountain) and birch plywood for the panels. Neither of those woods has a pronounced grain to them, both being very blonde in color when newly finished, darkening only with age (spar varnish, as used back then, turned a darker amber shade as it aged in the sun). Modern restorers and rodders tend to stain the wood to bring out some of the grain, that certainly was not the case through 1940, both woods when new are very nearly the same color. So, only the slightest hint of wood grain is all that is needed, and that is best done by dry-brushing with a very fine bristled paintbrush, then covered with one of the "yellowing" clear coats we all otherwise hate.

If doing the woodie stock, some color tips: The roof material was a dark chocolate brown, not black, as were the inside door hardware "boxes". Seats were a medium brown vinyl artificial leather.

It was in 1941 that Ford edged away from birch plywood, birch by then becoming scarce in the forests in Michigan's upper peninsula owned by Henry Ford. For color contrast, as well as availability, Ford transitioned that year to "southern gumwood" which has a reddish color very similar to that of Honduran or African Mahogany, both woods very popular among powerboat builders, such as Hacker and Chris-Craft (Bob Gregorie, Ford's chief stylist, was first and foremost, a pleasure boat designer, but worked at Ford to pay the bills). Southern Gumwood does have a very pronounced grain to it, along with fairly broad, prominent light and dark bands of this color. This is the veneer that Ford plywood station wagon panels used all the way to the end of woodie wagon production at the close of the 1951 model year. Along the same time frame, Ford did transition from hard maple to ash for the framing, and ash does have a much more prominent grain to it, prone to darkening in the soft rings of the wood. From 1941 through 1948 (the last year of completely wood-constructed wagon bodies at Ford, the roof material was color matched to the sheet metal color of the fenders and front clip.

Art

Edited May 21, 2010 by Art Anderson

[Tom Jackson]

Thanks Art ! You are a wealth of knowledge. Even the the 40 will be rodded I plan to do the wood blonde with real light graining .

[Terry Jessee]

I picked up an AAM '56 Chrysler at SLC last spring. Interesting kit....

Terry

[SoCalCarCulture]

Let us know how you remove the seam in the middle of the '40 Woodie roof and feel free to look through my Woodie albums for inspiration/reference.

Terry - you're supposed to build that 300B!

[Lyle Willits]

I built the AAM '40 Ford woodie in 1993 ( I think) as a rod. Of course, trends change over the years and I wouldn't paint it this color today. I recall that I spent 3 days on the wood graining. I still have another one in a box that I'm going to build as a '39,,,,,,,,,some day.

[Rick Forrester]

I built the AAM '40 Ford woodie in 1993 ( I think) as a rod. Of course, trends change over the years and I wouldn't paint it this color today. I recall that I spent 3 days on the wood graining. I still have another one in a box that I'm going to build as a '39,,,,,,,,,some day.

the wood is the best iever seen on a model.papafo

[Chuck Most]

Lyle... wasn't that woody of yours featured in a woodgrain how to in SAE 'bout 15 years ago? Seems like I have seen it somewhere before.

Tom... Dude, you suck!!!! Sure wish I had those in my stash!

[SoCalCarCulture]

Here's a stock '40 for reference, note no seam down the middle of the roof!

[Lyle Willits]

Lyle... wasn't that woody of yours featured in a woodgrain how to in SAE 'bout 15 years ago? Seems like I have seen it somewhere before.

You have a good memory

[Tom Jackson]

Thanks for the Pics Dave the seam doesn't bother me a bit.

Lyle I rember your woodie well that was the first build of Arts 40 kitthat I had seen and have wanted one ever since.

Edited May 29, 2010 by Tom Jackson

[Chuck Most]

You have a good memory

No, sir, I assure you I don't! I just happened to be shuffling my old SAE issues around a day or two before I read this!

[Kaleb]

That is sweet, I just traded for a 48 woody...dont know why I just came to like these one day...Btw ...what did you have to sing to get them? lol That I would have paid to see(almost)

[Tom Jackson]

got the pair for less than 2 new revell releases.