Projects Model Car Sunday.. 9-25-2011

I'll post one after my coffee and meds..
So, lets see your finished or unfinished model car builds you have on the modeling bench... Modeling tips 'n tricks would be cool also...

 

The '40 is the most customized... I built it as a pretty stock '40 Ford with a flat black paint job. I got tired of it and ripped it apart and chopped it, added fade away fenders, stovebolt 6 (to be different) and '57 Ford hubcaps.

 

Very cool!!
Thanks for posting those!!

 

Kustomcar, that 40 looks great! Please post up some more pics of it.

Doc.

 

Older Railjob build from me this week.

 

That 40 is cool looking, nice work. here's an 1/8 scale VW midget I started a week or so ago. No decals, just me fooling around with a Sharpie.

 

Man, I love this stuff!!
Keep it coming!!

 

Here's a favorite in my model car garage; a 32 Ford Tudor Sedan. I chopped the top, opened the roof, channeled the body and sectioned the rear quarters. The grille shell is canted back and slightly reshaped.

 

Alyn - your engine detail is great! How'd you do the firewall?

(edit: all of your detail is great)

 

A couple older builds I pulled off the shelf and entered in a model car contest at the Labor Of Love car show in Burlington, KY last month. Haven't built nothing in awhile and wanted to add to the contest since I donated the trophies.

 

Nice bubbletop, John

C&C, The firewall is machine-turned aluminum by hand. I used a toothpick with one end cut off and flattened, chucked up in a Dremel tool.

Old Sprinter, always enjoy seeing your great chassis work.

 

almost finished

 

Same here !

 

great stuff as usual, Alyn, that tudor is great!

ps...the new 53 Hudson kit is out!!!,...picked one up at the Jefferson Wisconsin swap this weekend...looks like a super nice kit.

 

Trying to scratch build a chopped '34 Ford pickup in 1/8th scale. Only have a couple of pictures of the real one. Built in 1957 in Victoria B.C.

 

Hey guys,

This isnt my model but i was just wondering if the wheels and tires come in the big deuce kit?

Thanks, Bagged Chevy

 

Those look like the ones in the Big T kit.

 

Wow, nice looking stuff! I'll echo every one else, I like that 40 Ford. The machine turned firewall is great as well as the dragsters. Nice!

I've been messing with making laminated dash knobs like those on the Hirohata & many others. I made some by gluing sheets of clear, colored & white plastic together in layers. I really wanted purple, but the local RC place didn't have that color, so I used blue to try this out.

These are the sheets I used.


Here is how they came out. The dash insert will be chrome plated. I put BMF on it many years ago for a mockup. The shift lever is a .017" guitar string.




Pretty dang small.

 

dude those are so awesome^^^^^ i want a set

 

SteveB... those laminated 1/25 scale dash knobs are UNREAL!!!

 

Never did a lot of models, but I've done hundreds of hotwheels.

 

Got any pics of what's inside? I pre-ordered one on ebay and got a shipping notice Friday.

 

Have you had your coffee and meds yet?

 

Oh MAN, those laminated knobs are THE coolest part I've ever seen added to any model. Great work!

 

More for THIS Sunday

 

Did this one for grins out of a '66 Coupe model with tilt front end

 

Those knobs have to be the coolest thing I've ever seen done on a model build. I just wish I had started building models and stayed with it. I've only built a few and that was 20+ years ago.

 

How many Doc Hudsons do you think will be built?

 

Great job, as usual, Alyn.

This is my latest. It started as a 1938 Mercedes-Benz W154 GP car rummage sale glue bomb by Hawk. I made a phantom Indy car out of it. The B. S. Levy Special.

It has custom wheels, and home made real gold leaf decals. It was built in just 8 days.

Don't you just love any car with special in it's name?

 

Where's your post? Still waiting for the meds to kick in?