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Post by Bernard Kron on Jan 1, 2022 16:01:14 GMT -8
 ’40 Ford Sedan Delivery Hemi Powered Street Rod(more pictures below) This was my final project for 2021, begun on the afternoon of December 28th with a self-imposed deadline to get it done by year’s end. I did complete it on the afternoon of December 31st, so basically a 96 hour build. My motivation was that 2021 had been a kind stale year for me with only 4 projects completed so I wanted to challenge myself to get No. 5 on the board. Like all most of my projects this year this is a spare-parts kit bash. The basic kit was the AMT ;40 Ford Sedan Delivery, one of my favorite parts kits for doing late ‘40’s and 50’s customs because of its flipper hubcaps, baby Moons, ribbed bumpers and tubular nerf bars, and also for the tri-carb Buick Nailhead. As a result I’ve got plenty of spare bodies and chassis to work from. I wanted to do a 60’s style raked California style street rod. I had a blown 932 Hemi from the Revell Miss Deal that I had recently gotten in a box of Miss Deal parts I won on eBay and I felt this would make the perfect exaggerated street rod statement to go with a heavy dive-bomb rake. I used the front and rear axles from the Revell ’32 Ford hot rod kits, shaving the front axle spring to get the front end in the weeds as much as possible. I radiused the rear wheel openings to clear a set of Revell Goodyear drag slicks. The slicks and the AMT Firestone blackwalls were modified to fit a set of Torq-Thrust mags from the Revell Deuce kits. The nerf bars are from the AMT ’36 Ford coupe kits and the bucket seats for the interior are from an AMT ’37 Chevy kit. Paint is Duplicolor Flame Red for the fenders and Brite Touch Black Primer for the body and hood. Thanx for lookin’ B.       |
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Post by Joel_W on Jan 1, 2022 17:50:42 GMT -8
An amazing build in 96 hrs including a full paint job.
joel
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 7, 2022 7:38:43 GMT -8
That's some really good work for such a short time of building Bernard.
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Post by Bernard Kron on Jan 7, 2022 10:58:22 GMT -8
An amazing build in 96 hrs including a full paint job. joel That's some really good work for such a short time of building Bernard. Thanks to you both! The secret behind this speed-build is that it's an early AMT kit with a solid straightforward chassis plate that's pretty well detailed to begin with, and the fat fender cars ('36 and '39/'40 Fords) all have the single piece fender assemblies. Also the bucket type interior helps. All that keeps things well aligned and minimizes the parts count. A Revell '40 would have taken at least half again as much time with plenty of fiddly detail parts to paint and assemble. Also those vintage AMT pre-war Fords just have that "right " hot rod DNA, so if you don't fight 'em they'll probably get you there. As should be obvious most everything is hidden inside the body work and the build was all about the overall look, not the details. But the funny thing about this project is that it was identical in build style to virtually anything else I've been doing lately. Most of the build routines were ones I had done many times before. It involved almost zero compromises and the only shortcut I used is that the motor was already built, had the right style, and happened to fit the chassis with virtually no modifications. It just needed to be wired. I must admit that the fast dry time of lacquer and modern acrylics goes a long way towards keeping the flow going. And having my eye on the calendar I did increase my bench time. As I mentioned in my write up, it probably took me as many days to decide on a candidate as I did to execute the project! |
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Post by Joel_W on Jan 8, 2022 7:04:01 GMT -8
Bernard,
Still, it's an amazing speed build even with all those shortcuts.
joel
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 9, 2022 5:51:12 GMT -8
I hear you Bernard. As time passes we get in our routines that make model building more streamlined and we can pick kits that don't require as much work as others to get completed. I think the quickest aircraft build (even opened up) that I've ever done was a Tamiya Fw190 D-9. But.....it was a Tamiya. Sometimes I'll get into that slump to where I can't decide what to build next because it takes me so long to get a build done that I want to make sure that it's going to hold my interest for that long. In your case I can see where it would be a tough decision to make in regards to the time factor.
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