(NEW Update! 6/19/15) IN progress, ICM '13 Model T For

[mustang1989]

I didn't know a thing about the style of headlights used in those days. For some reason I just always assumed it was done with the ol' bulb and filament idea. Thanks for the history/ information on this and whadda build Art. You're really showing some true plastic modeling skill here.

Edited June 2, 2015 by mustang1989

[bbowser]

I'm just starting this kit, won't be anywhere near as detailed as this! I'm amazed at what you've done so far, this is not a big model.

Art, where did you get a reference for the engine color? I've done a couple of google searches and they all seem to be black, dark green, or dark blue?

Edited June 14, 2015 by bbowser

[Danno]

Sweet!

[Eric Macleod]

The engine for this era Ford would be either black or natural cast iron. They were not Ford green until late 1925. Art is doing a great job on this one is he not?

[bbowser]

Thanks Eric. And yes, Art is knocking this one out of the park. Mine will be pretty much OOB, I may add plug wires since they are so prominent.

[Art Anderson]

Interior is finished, the windshield installed. The windshield is perhaps the scariest part of this project, given the very thin framing, which I had to strip the brass plating off of, then SCRAPE carefully, all the basecoating from (Dunno what ICM uses for base coating under plating, but it was impervious even to 91% Isopropyl alcohol!). As I painted the windshield frame black, which is correct for 1913, that meant using CA glue to attach the glass, which was something I took a lot of time "psyching" myself up to doing--one miscue there, the glass would be ruined. What was unavoidable though, was the sprue attachment points on the glass itself--those intruded into the "stepped" edges of both panes, which resulted in the whitish spots you see in the pic. I choose to describe those as a hit from a stone kicked up from a car in front, which hit the framing, resulting in a mark on both panes (that's my story and I'm sticking with it, so there!)

The interior shot shows the wooden coil box I built, using the same 1/32" birch aircraft plywood I used to make the dashboard, and it worked. I simply whittled out the magneto control box on that from some thick styrene, added the two knobs with bits of brass rod stock. To the right of the coil box is the choke rod, which also could be turned to adjust the fuel mixture--made from the simplest bit of material I had--one of those ball-headed straight pins from a new shirt!

If you squint down, you can see the foot pedals, which are actually fixed to the transmission housing, and extend up through slots in the floorboard, just as on the real thing.

Art

[sjordan2]

Just spectacular. Bravo. Can't wait to see it under glass with the hood and top on.

Edited June 19, 2015 by sjordan2

[cobraman]

Beautiful work !

[peekay]

Looking fabulous!

[bobthehobbyguy]

Very nice.

[Roadrunner]

Nice! What class. I like it a lot.