'49 Ford Coupe Street Rod
Dec 26, 2018 22:20:16 GMT -4
Post by BERNARD "HOT ROD" KRON on Dec 26, 2018 22:20:16 GMT -4
’49 Ford Street Rod
I thought I’d share this with you guys here on Model Masters since it’s about as close as I’ve gotten to far to the kind of shiny Show Rod look done so well on Model Masters. It’s for the year-long Autorama contest over on the TRaK board which ends on December 31st. I’ve got 4 entries going, one of which has just blown up with bad paint and won’t be rescued in time, but I’ve got 2 done now (the other being the Revell/AMT Box Art Deuce I posted recently) and a shot at a third (for the Kustom category) that, if it holds together, will also be in the MM vein. We’ll see…
In any case this is the venerable AMT ’49 Ford kit, one of the greats IMHO. I wanted to build specifically to the Autorama theme, the kind of SoCal car seen at these shows in the early 60’s, flashy to look good at the drive-in, fast to show well at the stop lights, and full of the “right stuff” and the latest trends for the car shows.
Much of this project is OOB including the grill area and rear pan and the nose-down rake. The grill was adapted from the custom part in the AMT ’51 Chevy Fleetline kit. The front wheels are from the recent Round 2 re-issue of the AMT ’53 Ford pickup, and the rears from an AMT Model A Roadster kit. The cheater slick white walls are from Morgan Auto Detail, as is the pre-wired distributor I used. The front whitewalls are also from AMT ’53 Ford pickup. Those sexy Strombergs with the ovoid SP tops are 3D printed items from Maple Leaf Modelworks.
The only really heavy duty plastic surgery was cutting in a set of louvers from the hood sides of a Revell ’32 Ford Roadster, grafted into the hood. The interior is largely scratch built with the rear seat deleted. Those sweet bucket seats are recent items introduced by Ed Fluck from Drag City Castings and adapted from the first issue of the Stone, Woods, Cook Willys gasser.
Paint is Duplicolor Dark Toreador Red Metallic over white primer, 3 coats with 4 coats of clear and lots of wet sanding and polishing along the way, especially on the hood…
Thanks for lookin’,
B.
