48 Continental

Whatever became of the 48 Lincoln?

I'll try and do this in all post so here goes

@Octane Orange-

      Thanks for that, I know I'll be using that later

@Philo426-

     thanks,I think it  looks pretty good for someone with as little skill as me if I do say so myself ;

     no I won't put a proper engine in since I have nothing to salvage one from, but I stripped the chrome off and will go from there

@detailfreak-

    koolsville it is, and thanks for sticking around

                           I'll second that.

Henry Js rock too!      

                                 Boy those 48 Lincolns were really koolsville,when I worked in the salvage yard years back one of these came in for junk,rotten rusted and beyond repair,and a V-12 car to boot. But I did manage to score a one-off trinket from this beaty. If you look just below the mirror and a little to the left you will see a genuine lincoln pushbutton door handle.

                                   I'll definitley be around to watch this one progress.

                                                        Greg"Detailfreak"Rowley

Looks good! Are you planning on cutting out the molded in oil pan and install a proper engine?  

always use acrylic paint on vinyl tires. enamel paints react with the chemicals in the vinyl and won't dry properly.

Thanks for the tips, still haven't gotten to the headlights though

here's my latest progress:

 painting the white walls was a pain, especially since paint doesn't dry too good on vinyl

fox

89er - My - I would drill out the headlight housing with progressively larger drill bits until it looks right to you. Then, either paint the insides silver or line with a piece of tin foil. Glue a small piece of clear scrap plastic in the center to represent a bulb. Then, all you have to do is find a scrap of clear plastic to make the lens. A piece of the clear plastic that covers stuff you buy at the hardware store (smoke alarms) can yield lots of small clear parts.

i got a good tip off scale auto, use leather punch on some of that clear packaging plastic to make perfectly round lenses!

"a lot of other types of mishaps that we don't care to mention. "

Second what?

I'LL second that.

Here's some of my latest progress

 wheel was too red

photo's to fuzzy to see, but I dry brushed some flat-black on it

finished detail on the body

It's the one that came with the kit

Hey---looks pretty good! I was wondering about the front seat...is that the kits or did you replace it? If so---what with from what kit?

Starting to come together nicely. Don't worry about the fender. It's happened to all of us at least a few times in our modeling lifetimes ( along with a lot of other types of mishaps that we don't care to mention ).

Jim

Here's a couple of pictures:

 dry fit after paint, and that bare spot on the fender is a fine example of my clumsiness; spilled bottle of plastic cement  the other day

Thanks for your , I never could have thought of any of that for both things. I'll post some pics once I get a little more assembly done.

89er - My - I would drill out the headlight housing with progressively larger drill bits until it looks right to you. Then, either paint the insides silver or line with a piece of tin foil. Glue a small piece of clear scrap plastic in the center to represent a bulb. Then, all you have to do is find a scrap of clear plastic to make the lens. A piece of the clear plastic that covers stuff you buy at the hardware store (smoke alarms) can yield lots of small clear parts.

Most members have boxes of scrap wire from broken electronics, old electric cords, old telephone cords etc.         If not, hardware stores carry all sizes of copper wire or coated wire. Somewhere around 22 ga. usually looks good. Look around until you see a size that looks right.

A box full of all kinds of junk toy parts, broken watches, non-working electronics parts can yield all kinds of parts for model building. Don't forget to save any left-over parts from kits. You never know when they might come in handy. I have boxes of all kinds of parts for all kinds of models. They take up a whole set of steel storage shelves in my workroom.

Good luck with your build. Post photos when you get a chance.

Jim