62rebel Posted October 23, 2011 Posted October 23, 2011 sorry, no pics yet, i need to find my camera.... but i traded for a '62 Falcon promo that is getting as much detail as i can manage to fit into it.... first on the agenda was deleting the deluxe trim and smoothing out 50 years of kind and gentle play wear...... i substituted a '61 Ranchero chassis plate which i've been heavily modifying to more accurately represent a Falcon.... ever so carefully and slowly sliced the hood open and removed the front screw posts, and fabricated a full engine bay from sheet plastic and bitsa. getting the chassis plate lined up with the interior tub floor required a quarter inch of plastic spacers glued to the chassis.... wow. and now, in the middle of creating some front suspension, i realize i don't have a Falcon six cylinder engine to put in this darn thing. soon as i find my flipping camera i'll show you what i have done.
Jon Cole Posted October 23, 2011 Posted October 23, 2011 Wha? What am I missing? You said you do have a '61 Ranchero... why not use that for the engine bay, and whatever else you need? As for the six, I know they are out there, can't think of what kit. Ken Kitchen has it in resin too.
george 53 Posted October 23, 2011 Posted October 23, 2011 I got a red 64 Falcon promo quite a while back, and I used the 68 AMT Mustang chassis and engine compartment from it. They really fit well too. Maybe the chassis of the 61 is similar, and you could use it also. Hth.
62rebel Posted October 23, 2011 Author Posted October 23, 2011 the actual engine bay of a Falcon (or Mustang, Cougar, Comet, etc) is made up of flat panels that are attached to the firewall and core support and the front fenders hang on them. the shock towers are built more or less in the middle of them, and these panels are built on top of what make up the frame rails. the Ranchero chassis plate has simple round wheelwells. i found my digital cameras and be darned if both have dead batteries. i compared the '68 chassis to the Falcon parts and they'd require as much or more work to look right. i am using some front suspension parts from one of my '68's but i think it's one of the gt500 kits.
62rebel Posted October 27, 2011 Author Posted October 27, 2011 i hope these help illustrate what i was talking about; even at that, the shock towers are not the correct shape/contour at the bottom., nor are the shock top brackets on top of them. sometimes just getting a representation is tough enough. i should have researched more on the availability of one of Perry's Resins Falcon engines.... this is turning out to be a well-detailed curbside !!
62rebel Posted October 28, 2011 Author Posted October 28, 2011 waiting for paint to dry.... black on black. going to use Cragar S/S mags and MPC Polyglas GT's to represent what i want my '62 to look like when it's done.
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