VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND EARLIER 1937-1945 Small scale...Models anyone?

I know most of us in the car hobby started small when we were young. I reentered the model car hobby a few years back with the lofty goal of building a Chevy of every year. In the 1937-1942 range I have completed two, with the plans to build them all. The major problem is that the model companies only ever built two of the years in kit form...AMT's 1937 coupe or cabriolet, or Revell's 1939 coupe or sedan delivery in street rod versions only. I built the AMT cabriolet using all of the factory stock parts, and wiring the motor with ModelCar Garage ignition wire.

The '39 seden delivery was built using Revell's 1941 pickup kit for the stock suspension, tires(hence the '41 hubcaps!), and motor.An AMT 40 Ford donated the front seat, cut in half to make the stock buckets. The AMT '37 kit donated interior door panels, and the cargo floor is built up from another '39 kit, as the street rod does not have the raised floor.

My plans for the other years are as follows:
1938-resin body on an AMT '37 chassis (body style undesided)
1940-will make a '40 out of a '39 coupe and '41 diecast parts
1941-will use resin body, and diecast parts
1942-Convert the Galaxie 46-48 kit to a '42.

38chevy asked in another thread where to find a '38 two dr kit. None was made, but there are companies that do resin...
http://resinrealm.net/Star/RRGalleries/Chevrolet/index.html
There is a four door that could be trimmed down to a two door here. I will search further for a 2dr. These kits get pricey as you need a doner kit for the parts not included as well. It's not hard to sink $200 into a build to get it right!

Brewster - you have nice looking models. Be sure to post pictures when you get more of them done.

Very nice models. Several years ago, Ertl came out with a '38 delivery van (also a '50) but they were in the smaller 1/43rd scale. A nice '48 convertible came up on ebay a few years ago, also a 1/43rd, done up like the real one which was the Indy pace car. I am a 1/43rd scale collector and I really wanted that model because my first car was a '48 convertible but I dropped out of the bidding after it went over $200.00. I saw it on the Brooklin ebay site but I am not sure who the maker was as other makers use the Brooklin site. Beamer