About 10 years ago I had picked up this Lindberg 1/25 Mustang 2 concept car kit. I had started it with a cream color on the body -- did not like the results and gave up. Everything went back in the box. I went back to building airplanes. A few years ago I was trying out some different means of stripping paint and figured this would be a good test subject so off came the cream paint. Process worked ok and the car went back into the box while I worked on a B-17 project. About a year and a half ago I saw some neat stuff being done with Alclad 2 transparent paints and want to experiment, this seemed like a good guinea pig so out came the car - again. I found that I could get some pretty neat color tones going by applying some Krylon Gloss black followed by Alclad Magnesium then three or four layers of transparent red. I did the doors of the car like this, was happy with the results and put the car away promising myself that someday I would come back and finish this project in this deep red. Saturday I was working on the load-out for my 1/48 F-16CJ and had to wait for paint to dry. Looking for something to mess with out came the car - again. This time I think I want to finish this thing off by the end of the weekend.
Here she is with the main body already done with the magnesium, the doors that were done some time ago and the two alternative roofs in differing stages of completion. I also wired the engine compartment just for laughs.
The Mustang followed a somewhat odd developmental life with the original Mustang being one of those spaceship looking future cars done as a concept car around 1960. One was made and really went nowhere. Later in 1962 development started on the Mustang 2 built on a Cougar chassis and was displayed as a concept car in 1963 (this model). Power was good but handling could have been better. By 1965 a completely redesigned Mustang 3 went into production and is what we know of as the classic pony car. So by rights the 1980s Mustang 2 should really have been the Mustang 4 (as long as you don't count all the model changes in the intervening years).
It's good every once in a while to build something outside your comfort zone.