Here is one I started maybe 2 years ago, but never finished. http://public.fotki.com/Chads/1/1951_chevy_fleetlin/
Chopping a Fleet is not real big deal... in scale ! I did that one more than ten years ago, need to finish it one day ! instead of cutting and replacing the rear window, you have to cut and replace the window AND trunk ... I didn't take how to pics, and i just have that ****y one to let you see what i mean ... hope it helps !
Chad s; I see on your link that that Fleetline is your first attempt at a model custom. I hardly know what to say. That's just plain scary!
I had built model hot rods from when I was 12-17, and competed with them. Several wound up in model magazines. I got my first small lathe to make model parts when I was 13. I had always spent most of my time doing engine and ch***is detail. My bodywork was always just fair. It presented well, but I never attempted anything extreme. This was my first attempt at a custom, and I really screwed up the look of the front grill area. I hate it, I think its an awful design. I do like the chop and taillights, but Im sorry I slanted the B pillars. I had plans of cutting off the front end, and grafting on a new front from another plastic body, and starting the front end over, but I just sort of lost interest when work on my full size custom started to get really going. Perhaps one day I'll return to it.
Cool thanks man! I was big into plastic up through Highschool and actually built one kit for the carshow a few years back (41 Plymouth taildragger with Winfield long fade style paint). This car is being built, well as a model of the full size car I am working on. Mainly to work on the colors/scallops/and to see which top color will look the best. I MAY need to find an unmolested 32 frame. I have to dig through my boxes but I think the only one I had I bobbed front and rear? Oh well, an excuse to buy a couple kits!!!! And a reason for me to be able to contribute to these threads!!!!! Pics to come. Anyone know a current kit that has a 235 or 250 Chevy 6 banger in it?
Thanks man! I didn't notice untill later the whole "art show" archive, I'll be sure to find the correct place the next time! I guess it isn't a model in the spirit of this thread, but I would still cl***ify the mustang as a model. It's even built to right around a 1/15th scale.
Josh, if you didn't notice, I posted a link for your stuff in the model section over there in the Friday Art section... but I'm not sure if anyone came over to have look. Your "art" belongs over there!!! All the best, Gary
jdustu....... The finishes are amazing guys! I may have to look into getting some of mine painted...I do a lot of metal models, some based on specific cars and bikes and others more "custom." Here are a few of them: OK GUY'S I can't beleive no one has said by now... wait for it ..... wait for it........... DON'T those things drive ya NUTS.......... GET IT, GET IT, HAhahahahahahahhaahah SORRY........I had to say it..............
Hey anybody ever see cancars [author] on u-tube? Unbelivable. Life's to short not to have a deuce roadster..............
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