Cut doors and trunk lid

[sno_man80]

I used this 1970 Mustang for a guinea pig that I messed up on the paint work. I used a hobby knife to remove the doors, and the interior doors and the trunk lid. That part was easy now its doing the hinging for the doors and lid. Then I need to build the trunk compartment. Then making the interior the same size as the door itself. This will be work for spring and summer when I have more money to buy all the required stuff and get a little more knowledge on it. Heres the pic on the "test" car. Comments on progress and what to do next is appreciated! Just remember this car is done for, its only a test car.

[MrObsessive]

Scott, the doors look nice and cleanly cut out! 8) You can use the method I did for getting the panel gaps reasonable by adding plastic to the perimeter of the doors/trunk, and then filing and sanding it down.

As far as the interior, what I've done in the past is use the flip side of the chassis as the interior. If you think about it, 1:1 cars don't have interior tubs............the interior sits on the flip side of the chassis floor itself.

The driveshaft tunnel/toeboards can be cut away from the interior tub, and then grafted on the chassis floor. Likewise, the rear quarter interior panels and rear shelf area. Don't worry if the floor doesn't meet up to the rocker panels in the model............Most 1:1 cars have a "stepdown" from the rockers to the floor, and you can build this area with sheet plastic.

As far as the interior door panels, you may have to carefully add some plastic around them to get them to correspond to the shape of the door itself.

In recent years the model manufacturers have been building new tools with "platform" interiors which make things alot easier for those of us that like to have opening panels.

The trunk area also can be built up using the floor of the chassis..............I recommend getting some good photos of the trunk to see where to go from there, but I'm sure you got plenty 'o pics!

As your skills get more advanced, you may want to consider building up the framing that's on the underside of most trunk lids.............this can take a while to build, but it's worth it if the model's gonna be displayed with the trunk open.

Hope some of this helps and keep us posted! :mrgreen: