34 Ford Bernard style

[Draggon]

A long time ago I posted my wip on a Revell 34 Ford snap kit using the technique Bernard Kron did on his fabulous "simple 34" After an epic fail on the front axle, I learned that super glue and baking soda is not always my best friend. I finally found a replacement axle, the custom one from AMT's 27 phaeton. After slicing some of the spring mount off, and reattaching the spring to the axle, its almost as good as the original. First pic is of the axle slicing, second is of how it sits now. Good enough for government work!

Next pics are of paint. I grabbed a practice body, and started playing with Testor's new line of airbrushable acrylics. I gotta tell you, theyre fantastic! This is pearl gold fogged with pearl green. The second picture is with their clear, lightly polished. It lays down super smooth, dries rock hard, and polishes up great!

[Ace-Garageguy]

Dang....I gotta dig out one of those snappers and finish something quick. That looks really good.

[Draggon]

Go for it Bill! Heres the post for B's great build.

http://www.modelcars...topic=58341&hl=

The only thing I did different from Bernard was to kick out the axle vertically in relation to the radius rods. I gave me about 2 scale inches of stretch, but looking at it overall, it accentuates the long and low look. Using the 27 spring is super easy, after modifying it all I had to do was clearance the kit radius rods a touch, however, it brings the axle back to where is on Bernard's model. This is how it looked with the Bernard style axle. As you can see, the axle centerline is just in front of the grill shell to hood side lines.

[Intmd8r]

I like it! Everythign about this stance feels right! Nice airbrush work on the test mule as well.

[1930fordpickup]

Nice and interesting at the same time.

[TooOld]

Cool looking paint ! That snap kit has a lot of possibilities .