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Post by geetee66 on Mar 3, 2008 10:39:51 GMT -5
I started this a few weeks ago. It felt like I was trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear. There were a lot of deformed parts on the sprues and the chrome was terrible in places. As I got into it, though, I started to enjoy it more. After the PE set came throught the post from MCG, I got into it even more. Here's the ride height pics. I didn't like the kit wheels, they looked wrong. (These rims came from the first kit I did, the AMT 32 Phaeton) Couldn't get it any lower that this without having to seriously re-work stuff. I didn't want to get bogged-down with tricky body mods as I wanted to finish it before Easter.  The sills (rocker panels??) are a scale 5 inches from the road. More pics soon |
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Post by geetee66 on Mar 3, 2008 10:41:44 GMT -5
I think I enjoy doing the interiors as much as I enjoy building the engines... This was my first go at using PE parts for the interior. I used fine wire around the instrument binnacle. The floor and rear shelf are flocked. The gearnob was made from an off-cut of red sprue. The steering wheel was in the kit (the stock version was very distorted). I used one of the chrome bullets for the other grille version as the centre.   |
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Post by geetee66 on Mar 3, 2008 10:42:21 GMT -5
Now to the Fred Cady decals. I've not used decals in 25 years. These were tricky to lay down and incredibly fragile. I like the contrast of the black on the red. Saw a picture of something like this online.   Now I've got to wait for the weather to improve so I can clearcoat it. I successfully managed to cut the centre out of the bumper/radiator grille and fittted the MCG photoetch version. Well worth £10.00. I'll post a pic of that later... cheers |
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Post by racer13 on Mar 3, 2008 10:59:46 GMT -5
Awesome stripes. I just laid down dome crazy scallops this weekend, and I haven't used stickers in over 20 years too.
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Post by rodburner on Mar 3, 2008 13:24:17 GMT -5
this is looking slicker than snot ! nice interior and the decals look good on it!
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Post by geetee66 on Mar 11, 2008 12:56:29 GMT -5
I decided to upgrade the gearknob. The old one looked a bit rubbish. I carved the skull from a bit of sprue with some needle files and a #11 blade Painted Tamiya clear red over silver and added a dog-leg to the lever:   I think it looks better now...what d'you reckon? |
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Post by rodburner on Mar 11, 2008 14:21:52 GMT -5
daggumb that is one hell of a horn button! cool , nice work!
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Post by geezerman35 on Mar 12, 2008 17:53:14 GMT -5
NIce work.
having tried a couple of those shifter skulls, I'df say you did a dam fine job. That ain't easy.
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Post by gerg on Mar 24, 2008 10:13:20 GMT -5
Very nice all around, i am with Geezer, great job on the shifter and all the interior for that matter!
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Post by rattlehead71 on Mar 24, 2008 20:29:16 GMT -5
Great looking stripes.
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Post by gilsdropshop1 on Apr 10, 2008 18:10:29 GMT -5
KILLER RIDE.
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Post by ronkok on Apr 11, 2008 2:47:59 GMT -5
Clean build
Looking forward when its finished
Ron
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It's an interweb thing.....