1953 Ford Pickup Flipnose Street - completed 12/3

Ice, can't waitto see how that turns out with some detail painting and washes.........Will look GREAT!

NICE! I take it the trucks gonna be yeller?

The yellow accents look GREAT! My only addition would be to paint the plugs you have them yellow, to gloss white, and then paint the middle of the ribs on the valve cover the same yellow, and remove the yellow from just the "tops" of the ribs on the valve covers..... inside of the outer most 2 ribs!

THEN if you wanted some "offset" paint just the tops of those ribs with gloss black! LEAVE the "flat" area on the valve cover alone incase you want to add a decal.....Number of the engine size would go GREAT in that center location "392".....OR "HEMI" in black lettering..... UNLESS your lettering is white then paint that "flat" area, black too!

Everything looking good Ice. The only thing I'm on the fence of is the yellow engine details, but I don't really know what your completed vision is.
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Here ya go Ice....I did some fancy photoshop with MS Paint....



NOTICE where I added "yellow" and thats a color match right from your own picture! I then too the plug boots and made them black, not yellow....As these would not be "plugs" themself at all....Remember the spark plug, in a Hemi, is DEEP within the center of the head....There is a stiff, "boot" and seal that comes out of the center of the top of the valve cover, UNLIKE a regular head on a wedge type motor, you can see the plug, and where it turns into........ and then the boot that holds the plug wire onto the plug...

Ok guys so I got rid of most of the yellow. Not planning on painting the body yellow so I have no idea what I was thinking. But I wired it up added the belt and some pulley faces to give it a different look. Does anybody know of a kit that has the "392 Hemi"!decals for the engine?






Lol. Thanks John. I understood what you meant but just wasn't feeling the yellow. I think a black wash will take care of the rest. Cut the transmission from the engine and the oil pan that came with the kit. Also took the headers from the Revell 41 Willys kit. And here it is sitting on the chassis.

Lol @ Dennis. No green tires for this one and no funky color combos, I've decided. We're hosting Thanksgiving this year. While the wife and daughter are busy ion the kitchen I am tucked away in the garage working on this baby. I already took care of what I was responsible for.

So I wasn't planning on detailing this one so much but I Saw the PE parts that came with the Gibson engine and I got to researching a bit. I'm working on it as we speak but I was so excited that I pulled this off. Might not be 100% accurate due to missing nuts and bolts or whatever, but I think I got it just right. I'm like a little kit right now, "Look what I can do!" haha. I tried sharing with the fam but they dont see what all the fuss is about lol so I want to share it with you guys. Here are some closeup pics.






I'm patting myself on the back for this one. Now I feel like I have to keep running lines everywhere.

Oh the body is in the paint booth drying as we speak also. Those pics coming this weekend.

Thank you so much, Dennis. Those comments make me want to keep working on this.
This is my first one for a blower so I'm pretty proud of it. When I finished it and took off my magnifying glasses I was like cant-believe-my-eyes-smiley-emoticon

The pieces with the blue tint are PE parts that came with the Gibson engine pictured below. The piece holding the clip on the hat is a the end of a pin. Drilled a small hole and stuck it in there with some CA glue. Gut the extra piece. The rest of the rods are fitting lines from Detail Master. It's their Brake/Fuel lines #1 which are .020 in diameter. I would put it through the hole and bend it at a 90 degree angle and clip it. Added some CA glue so it wouldn't slide off.

Thanks Ice, I have 12 of the Gibson kits and plenty of the DM rod so I'm in business. I also have plenty of DM linkages and looms.

Looking great Iceman and the detail is fantastic

I never heard of Detail Junkees. I just went tnere some pretty neat stuff there and their prices are great.

Their stuffs pretty clean. Their inventory sucks though. Always running out of stuff some nice grilled too.
So here's the interior done and a pic of them cab. Gloss black.

Thanks John. I sprayed automotive acetate for clear and just couldn't get it to set properly. The cab for example was nice and glossy on top but the doors would end up flat or vice a versa. A bit tricky. I used good old Rustoleum clear out of a can like I usually do. Looks beautiful. That picture was before the spray can. Will be able to take it out of the shelf tomorrow to see how it dries. May need another coat.

Oh and this isn't a resin cab. It's the plastic one from the kit. The only resin one is the chopped one for the custom. Different thread though.