MarkJ Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 With this model I will try to depict the 1956 Southern 500 winner. Here is the kit and some reference and wip pics. I will have to remove the Victoria moldings and add Customline moldings to depict the real car.
Dr. Cranky Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 Looking good so far, please keep it going, it's going to be a winner.
Jantrix Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 Very interesting. I'll be following this one.
Guest Gramps-xrds Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 Love them 65s especially the customline trim. I guess I'm predigest cause that's what I used ta run around in as a teen back in the early 60s. Had a lot of fun in that old Ford.
MarkJ Posted September 4, 2011 Author Posted September 4, 2011 I Need to add the customline trim so first I lay down some narrow tape and mark above the tape with a tinydrill bit. Then with the dividers I transfer the drill marks to the other side of the car I layed the first tape down below where I wanted the moldings. I then remove that tape and install new tape right on top of the drill marks on both sides of the car. I then use a #11 blade to scratch along the bottom edge of the tape on both sides to have a guide to show me where to glue the moldings.
MarkJ Posted September 4, 2011 Author Posted September 4, 2011 I used .010 X .060 styrene strips for the molding then added .025 styrene rod at the bottom edge of the strip to give the molding a more realistic look. I filled in the area where the two moldings meet with squadron white putty. I will make a customline decal to be placed in this area after it is bare metal foiled.
FordRodnKustom Posted September 4, 2011 Posted September 4, 2011 Nice scratchbuilding work on the side trim. Looking forward to watching this build progress.
MarkJ Posted September 5, 2011 Author Posted September 5, 2011 I layed down the first primer coat and the sanding guide coat and sanded it to prepare for the hopefully final primer coat.
W-409 Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 Really nice work again, Mark! That looks good. I like how you modified the side trim to match the real car. Nice job with it. Looking forward to see more work with it. Great start. Where you find these decals, I'd like to build some Nascar racer also, but I'd like to have decals for that too.
MarkJ Posted September 6, 2011 Author Posted September 6, 2011 Really nice work again, Mark! That looks good. I like how you modified the side trim to match the real car. Nice job with it. Looking forward to see more work with it. Great start. Where you find these decals, I'd like to build some Nascar racer also, but I'd like to have decals for that too. Niko, I am going to make my own decals for the model but there is a sheet available for this car. I have seen them on internet searches for this car on google. I do not know how old they are and if they would be brittle. They are only 8 dollars so you would not be out much if they were.
MarkJ Posted September 6, 2011 Author Posted September 6, 2011 Hopefully this is the last primer coat.
MarkJ Posted September 7, 2011 Author Posted September 7, 2011 Amazing transformation, great job. Thanks Dr. Cranky. It is very gratifying to recieve a positive comment from such a famous builder as yourself.
MarkJ Posted September 9, 2011 Author Posted September 9, 2011 Pics of the beginnings of the powerplant. The big round white air cleaner depicts the Purolator filters they used back then.
MicroNitro Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 Your doing a great job, I love old stock cars.
Dominik Posted September 11, 2011 Posted September 11, 2011 Hi Mark, the work on the side trim is amazing! That looks absolute perfect to me! How many pictures do you have for your build up? Keep the work going
MarkJ Posted September 12, 2011 Author Posted September 12, 2011 Hi Mark, the work on the side trim is amazing! That looks absolute perfect to me! How many pictures do you have for your build up? Keep the work going Dominik, The pictures I am using are posted at the top of the thread. There might be some more in my photobucket.
MarkJ Posted September 13, 2011 Author Posted September 13, 2011 I got the body finished as far as painting goes. need to take and post pics.
MarkJ Posted September 23, 2011 Author Posted September 23, 2011 I got all the decals finished. I just need to paste the decals going on the white parts of the car on to a clear decal sheet and the decals for the purple parts of the car need to go on a white decal sheet. I will post pictures of the sheets when finished.
MarkJ Posted September 27, 2011 Author Posted September 27, 2011 Here are the decal sheets. The first is the clear sheet for the white parts of the model. The second is the white sheet for the purple parts of the model. Also on the white sheet to the right are decals for the engine.
MarkJ Posted September 27, 2011 Author Posted September 27, 2011 I posted them a little out of focus. They are not that fuzzy looking in real life.
MicroNitro Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 I want one of these. What program did you draw the decals with?
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