1949 Ford Three Window Coupe -- Feedback?

[Steve_L]

These are pictures of my recently completed 1949 Three Window Coupe. I started with a Ron Cash resin three window body and sectioned it a scale five inches. Other custom touches are shaved door handles, trim and emblems. The headlights are frenched and tunneled and the taillights are 1957 Corvette units mounted in the side of the rear fenders. The bumpers are stock 1949 Ford units and the grill is a modified 1954 Chevy unit. The wheels are plain reversed units with stock 1949 Ford hubcaps. The exterior is Brand X red enamel that I had lying around in my hobby room and the interior is Tamiya flat red. A custom touch for the interior is the entirely chromed dash.

Enjoy!

Steve Linngren

[RichCostello]

I really like this,the color and paint job look great,and it's a very unusual car. The only problem I have with it is the tail lights.They tend to mess-up the otherwise smooth body sides and don't really match the shape of the fenders.I would have prefered them frenched into the rear of the fenders or maybe even in the panel between the trunk and bumper.It's still a good job on a very cool car.

[41CHEVY]

I really like this,the color and paint job look great,and it's a very unusual car. The only problem I have with it is the tail lights.They tend to mess-up the otherwise smooth body sides and don't really match the shape of the fenders.I would have prefered them frenched into the rear of the fenders or maybe even in the panel between the trunk and bumper.It's still a good job on a very cool car.

DITTO but smaller mirrors would have been MY choice ,But still an awesome custom!!!! Paul

[41CHEVY]

I really like this,the color and paint job look great,and it's a very unusual car. The only problem I have with it is the tail lights.They tend to mess-up the otherwise smooth body sides and don't really match the shape of the fenders.I would have prefered them frenched into the rear of the fenders or maybe even in the panel between the trunk and bumper.It's still a good job on a very cool car.

DITTO but smaller mirrors would have been MY choice ,But still an awesome custom!!!! Paul

[modeltech]

very, very impressive build!!! i really like it and it all flows very well together!! i do agree with the above on the size of the mirrors, but still an awesome build!!

[cruz]

Very nice job on that man.............

[41CHEVY]

This is obviously a very interesting build.I don't believe I ever seen a three window '49.Okay,now you asked for feedback and I have to agree that the mirrors are too big,the tail lights take up the rear body line,and you should have run the exhaust up under the rear end and had them extending evenly in each corner under the bumper.Please don't take this the wrong way,because it is a very nice model. Your building style is very clean and neat.

Actually the exhaust with a radically lowered car is "correct" (what ever that is ) STILL AWESOME!! Paul

[Steve H.]

Its a great looking custom! I don't criticize choices made early in a custom build (ok, maybe the mirrors... ), as they were your choices and seemed right to you. In all, its a very nice build with a great nostalgic flavor to it. I think the only thing I would have done different is less monochromatic paint, with maybe a few more colors on the frame, engine and running gear.

[Mr. Metallic]

Steve, I love it. The criticizms posted here are valid, if the car was being built as a modern interpritation of an old custom. Building a car today to imitate or emulate a 50's custom is easier because many of the quirky design ideas that were tried back then can be avoided. Or, they can also be incorporated, with a more purposeful and coherent manner, as you have done here.

But from the look of it you were going for an original kustom build possibly in the early to mid 50's. Back then they did some funky stuff just to set their cars apart, and try something different. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn't. In that context I love every detail on your model. And your craftsmanship is top notch. Bravo!

[Steve_L]

Thanks, much, for your kind comments and feedback.

Steve Linngren

[James2]

Very nice, clean build

[FloridaBoy]

SteveL,

First this is a beautiful job and a great custom job. There are just not enough of us choppers, channelers, and sectioners out there, and then you completely refashion the grille and rear area to enhance the original Ford design. I never have seen the 3-window resin version and I really like it.

As for me, I like the way the mirror and taillight breaks up the shoebox sides. I am working on a sectioned '50 Ford Convertible, but the taillights are on the rear, and the side is completely bare. I am now debating whether to add a chrome strip to break up the side, just as you did with the mirror and taillights. What is holding me back adding little Plastruct strips to foil on the sides would be that these were added to cover up my joint when I sectioned the car. That is not the case.

I also think you were pretty bold in using steeliesd in liew of the narrow tires and big wheels, and again, like the effect.

My only suggestion would be to add just a little more detail to the engine compartment. For example, a beehive oil filter on the firewall, blacking out the background of the valve covers, and adding spark plug lines would be the perfect touch. I am a subscriber to Foose's philosophy to make the engine compartment a "jewel box" to showcase the engine, which you did very nicely.

Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman

[lowandphatg]

steve my first glance i loved it custom means custom nice job move on to the next one and if you wish keep in mind the feedback you were given keep on building

[mr moto]

I think it's great! Extremely stylish, a very clean building style and that "Brand X" paint job is amazing!

[FloridaBoy]

steve my first glance i loved it custom means custom nice job move on to the next one and if you wish keep in mind the feedback you were given keep on building

Point well taken. I met an very gifted artist a few years ago, who told me that the painting will tell me when it's done, not me. I now believe that with my model cars, that it will be done when it tells me and not one second sooner.

Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman