The 2015 /16 Red Hot and Rollin Automotive Group Build--Ended

Excellent choice with the Mustang Doug!!! I see that you're at the surgery already. I'll have you entered in the intro pretty quick here.

Back in town after the hurricane fellas. I got the place as ready as I could and me and my family got tha hell outta Dodge till Sunday. All is ok here with little damage but there are parts of the Coastal Bend that are really BAAAAAAAD. Same goes for Houston with the flooding. We were supposed to get the hurricane AND  the backlash flooding but it moved north. Thoughts and prayers for those folks in Houston are ongoing as the flooding is horrible up there.

This is aways a awesome GB lots of great builds outstanding !!! here is my finished 57 chevy thanks again for your comments next a 58 chevy.

lets keep in order

Man Nick!! You really know how to build a showstopper car AND aircraft bud. Very nice rendition of a true classic with that 57 right there!!! I'll get that one and the rest of your missing photos posted back up front. Looking forward to having you around again with this 58 man.

Crown 7: All three photos that were missing are now restored, the 57 is now there and I've got your 58 added to the roster. Will be watching..............

thank you Joe. I like that ford in black also 

Joe

i like your ideas for the Ford pickup. 

Nick... The 57... Nice! As to the 58... My two favorite 50s cars are the 55,56 Ford Crown Vick, and the 58 Chevy S/S Impala. It would be a tough choice to have to pick only one. I know your 58 will be awesome!

Joe, Looking forward to another early Ford pickup from you. The first one came out beautifully. 

What nice ideas and builds going on!! I have been away far too long and have to know, is there a 2017 GB or is it this one keepin on truckin'?

Thanks for the good word Nick, Dan and Doug.

simpilot34: This one is still on going bud! Jump in with a kit and we'll go from there.

A bit more from me...

And thats about all for now, frame is nearing completion and so far so good...

Thanks and Take care all!

Doug

This is going to be interesting in a cool way how you get all this to work Doug. Watching...............

That frame is looking great Doug!!

Thanks Mustang, have a few projects I want to get done before I commit. Stil have my '65 Impala in mind whn the time comes.

Crown i'm lovin'that '57, really looking forward to the '58! I have two of them, dunno where the one I started is but found another at a pawn shop. Have a vignette going in my stash with Impalas. Have '58-'67 so far

simple pilot... Thanks man, this is a first attempt and I'm following as close as I can a few pictures I found online.

Joe... Yup, interesting indeed, lol... I'm just going piece at a time and doing alot of fit checking as I go, so far so good!

Take care...

Doug

Got a little more done. I started by tackling pretty much the only modification that I'll be undertaking with this project which'll be mini tubbing out back for the larger meats that I'll be throwing under the back and narrowing the rear end. I robbed the tubs from the AMT 65 Nova kit which is now my "go-to" kit for all Pro Street projects it seems.

I made the necessary cuts in the bed floor and the bed sidewalls. The cuts are a little dicey but they'll be hidden on the topside by a tub and on the bottom by a giant ass tire.



and then made the necessary cuts to the Nova chassis and cut the width of the tubs down to size as well as trim/ clean all the edges of the tubs up.



Here we are test fitted and ready to go. This is about a weeks worth of work normally that I've now got out of the way.



Rear end is narrowed and set further upwards into the chassis in the name of lowering it even more. Had to make a number of mods to get the tire to fit in the fenderwell but I got it done. Here's the way it's going to sit in there:





I've got an order in now for a Texas license plate that reads "DEMON II" and a decal for the rear window and front bumper that'll be clear except for the graphics and will look like so. Sorry Dodge fans.....it was just too dang appropriate!

Stang she's looking good mate!! Gotta ask, with all that meat in the rear, I do hope you'll be a puttin'a heart in to match? Probably a stupid question but hey lol.

Joe... Don't ya just love cutting frames up! If they'd only make em right to start. LOL...Shes gonna look good! No doubt!

Any who... More from me,

Rear axle cut down and installed.As I'm sure you know, much is scratch built and trying to duplicate what pictures show.

Tires and wheels on.

In between cutting, fitting, drying glue... I've been working on the body, Sanding down trim pieces, Filling and sanding the roof louvers and the louvers behind the doors and priming.

At a later point in the build, I'm going to thread cut the doors so as to be able to display opened up, but not just yet. Thats all for now, more in a bit.

Doug

OK, More from Da kid...

Lets start building up the engine.

This is the distributer I got from Kurt Herber at connkurmodelparts.com , I really like it and will be ordering more. It is a turned aluminum distributer with the cap installed and pre wired with boots, and an additional set of plug boots included. VERY easy to work with...

The carbs were resin cast from Ebay, they also are well detailed and fairly easy to work with.

Well thats all for now... More in a day or so! Thanks

Doug

Doug that is really looking great!! Lovin' the engine work too!!

Really cool stuff going on here!

That tube frame... Im sure its mighty rigid! :-)))

Pawel

Really cool stuff going on here!

That tube frame... Im sure its mighty rigid! :-)))

 

Good Morning all! Hope this finds everyone well... I've been trying to do some day trips to local model shows now that I'm able to and there are some incredibly talented modelers out there! From Plastic to paper... All look so darned good! I'm liking being retired... wish I could have done it YEARS ago. Any way, some more from me...

A test fit to make sure all will go together well...

OK... Joe, I know you know where this hood scoop comes from, right?

And thats about all for now... Take care all... Back in a bit.

Rigid she's really lookin'the part now!! Love your work!!

simpilot34

Rigid she's really lookin'the part now!! Love your work!!

 

Doug

Evening all... I was able to get a bit mor done today...

I'm going to get the body ready and painted since it will require time to sit and dry. This is the copper base coat ...

Like I said earlier, I puttied over the louvers both behind the door and on the roof line... Never liked them to begin with.

This is the candy persimmon color coat. In subsequent coats I'm going to allpy a cleat metal flake carrier then top coat with more persimmon.

I'm going to put this aside now for a day or two then apply the flake and start on the top coats... More work on the engine soon! Thanks...

Doug

WOW!!! Love the color already!! Looking forward to seeing her with the flakes!!

Afternoon everyone!  Got some more done while allowing the base colors to set up.

Getting some more of the chassis and components done. Made some nitrous bottles from some spare bomb casings, the valves are just various sizes of round evergreen or plastistruct stock. The braided hose was from the bead aisle of the local Hobby Lobby.

Well, Thats about it for now. Its getting close to being done, atleast the running gear and chassis. I'm also building (in between steps) a 1992 Ford F150 flairside pickup and scratch building a trailer. I havent been taking picturs of them, but will have some in the final shots. OK, have a great weekend all! I'll be at the IPMS exhibit at Peach Tree DeKalb airport here in Atlanta this weekend at the War Birds Weekend. Should be pretty cool trying to recruit new members and checking out the WWII aircraft to be there, A B-17 a B-24 (I think) a few P51s, a P40, among some others... Again, take care and any one in the path of the storm... Batten down the hatches!

Doug

That is looking absolutely brilliant, Rigid! Love the extra detail!