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Here is what will probably be my second finished model of the year. It should have been in last year's list, as it has been sitting just like you see it for months. I think it is time to complete it.

I saw an identical rod at a little car gathering last summer. I was blown away from the cool looks of the front bumper in the weeds and the contrast between the shiny chrome of the wheels and engine and the plain green primer. I did not ask the owner if it was in the process of being finished or he was going toleave it just in green primer, but I loved it and the same day I knew I was making it in scale.

Since I have just rediscovered the joy of just building models for the overall look of them, I decided to build this pretty much box stock, with maybe just kitbashing some parts, like the engine, but making no modifications and no aftermarket whatsoever.

In my other thread I mentioned that made something like a challenge to myself, to build only Deuces, that would qualify for as many different classes at a contest as possible. So I gues this one puts a check mark on the "modified out of box" class.

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I don't know if it's the light or the pictures, but you've achieved a very interesting faded look to the paint. Like what a daily driver would look, or a garage kept ride. I like it. Keep it going.

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I don't know if it's the light or the pictures, but you've achieved a very interesting faded look to the paint. Like what a daily driver would look, or a garage kept ride. I like it. Keep it going.

Well the effect of the finish is really realistic because.....it is real. The model has been touched so many times with oily fingers, dirty hands and it has been collecting dust and catching sunlight for some time now. I don't think I can replicate the finish even if I tried. LOL

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Bart, the wheels are from the Revell Monogram '32 Roadster, hence they fit perfectly on the original axles of the kit, but do miracles on a fendered setup.

So, I did the interior. It was painted in the closest thing I had to natural hideand the window cranks and other detailes were picked out with chrome paint. The dash was painted semi gloss black and the upmost portion on the doors and the handrests in flat black. The chromed piece from the kit for the dash had its gauges first painted yellow and then the markings drybrushed black in them. Then the entire panel received a general dose of Tamiya smoke paint. After that the instruments were drowned in acrylic clear. The steering wheel is the banjo style found in AMT's Phantom Vicky, from my other thread. It was first painted flat black and then the spokes were picked out with chrome.

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The buttons on the seat were also touched up with black

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Next I put the radiator in the model. Instead of the usual flat black, I decided to make the Rod sport an aluminum radiator. So some metalizer gunmetal with aluminum drybrushed over it, did the trick. Unfortunately after I had installed the fan on the radiator, I found out that it rubs in the engine pulley, so some material had be sanded down.

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I know in the other thread I said I never liked the panel creases painted black, but in this case it works quite well

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So here is where we are so far

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