1/12 1965 Mustang GT "Red Must"

[MoparWoman Jamie]

Hi you all, well with a few projects going on, My wife likes the old Mustangs so shes been asking me to build her a model of one for her. I told her I would build one, well last week ago, I went into my local hobby shop to see Floyd, low and behold what did her just have come in... a 1/12 partly assembled or assembled model of a Mustang setting down in a box with quite afew other model cars. I asked about the Mustang and we talked for afew minutes. I got the project at a very good and cheap deal really for it's size. My wife picked a name out already for the project. I got most of the parts with it but for the front bumper which I am looking for one for on it.

I am going to detail this one with a few things to name off is working lights, interior lights, tail lights, open and closeable door, hood, trunk. I have ideas for a lot more stuff on this one. But I would like ideas, and also suggestions from you all also.

Anyways here is some photos of the project. I will do my best to post only afew photos at a time after today.

[MoparWoman Jamie]

Slight issue I can handle

[MoparWoman Jamie]

The Interior

The box

This here is all I got with the kit

[hacked]

very cool, would love one, very rear over here

[Hawk312]

Hi you all, well with a few projects going on, My wife likes the old Mustangs so shes been asking me to build her a model of one for her. I told her I would build one, well last week ago, I went into my local hobby shop to see Floyd, low and behold what did her just have come in... a 1/12 partly assembled or assembled model of a Mustang setting down in a box with quite afew other model cars. I asked about the Mustang and we talked for afew minutes. I got the project at a very good and cheap deal really for it's size. My wife picked a name out already for the project. I got most of the parts with it but for the front bumper which I am looking for one for on it.

I am going to detail this one with a few things to name off is working lights, interior lights, tail lights, open and closeable door, hood, trunk. I have ideas for a lot more stuff on this one. But I would like ideas, and also suggestions from you all also.

I`m not sure what level you are planning to build this kit to, but I built the Shelby version of this kit for a customer, and the body gave me fits. From memory, I had to glue the doors in place and use alot of putty and sanding to get the body lines straight. I also had to do a lot of cutting and sanding to get the bottom of the rear fenders to a convincing shape...they have a very slab-sided look to them built up out of the box. The front A pillars are also very fragile, so it might not be a bad idea to strengthen that area with some strip styrene or something. I think I have an in progress thread here somewhere.....

[Hawk312]

Here is the in the in progress thread:

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46650&hl=mustang

and here is the completed thread:

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=52347&hl=mustang

[cobraman]

I look forward to watching this build. I had the kit many years ago and my results were........ lets just say it wasn't pretty. I'm sure you will do better.

[PappyD340]

I got the Popcorn in the microwave right now, going to sit down and enjoy the show!!

[MoparWoman Jamie]

Hi you all, thanks so far for the suggestions and help. David those links of yours will help out alot man, thank for posting them. I took 4 hours off last night and did research on the 1965 Mustang and save quite afew ref photos for the project. My wife wants me to really detail this one for her. Looks like the interior will be getting a major redo when that time comes.

I need help with finding photos of the wiring though through out the real cars.

[MoparWoman Jamie]

I'm going to start on this one probably this weekend if not sooner.

[DumpyDan]

The only thing you didn't tell us is what you paid for it.

[MoparWoman Jamie]

The only thing you didn't tell us is what you paid for it.

If I told you, you and the others would probably BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH in your pants.