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This model started as a 1930 Ford Model A Woody. A Monogram kit from
the Early Iron Series in 1/24 scale. The kit was intended to be built as a custom car with a large Chevy V-8 and Kelsey-Hayes wheels with Goodyear GT tires. As I only build stock models I decided to convert it back to 100% stock. I had enough spare parts to build a stock chassis, including the stock 4-cylinder engine, so that problem was quickly solved. After that I had to modify the left front fender. The custom car had no side-mounted spare, so I had to be creative with some plastic to create the original holding space for the spare. The body was mainly stock, so not much work was needed on that. But I had to make things difficult and decided to remove the rear doors, creating a two-door Deluxe Delivery woody. And to be complete, the rear door was build in a closed version to get the correct look for the this Model A version. Painting the car was no problem, but the real challenge was to create a realistic wood-grain structure on the plastic. Most times the grain structure is over-accented, which maybe looking nice, but it's not correct considering the small structure of the 1/25 scale wood grain. It did cost time, a lot of time, to get it right, but I achieved a very subtle wood grain structure. If you look at the pictures you'll notice it. |
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