Mountain States Model Works 1940 Ford Rebuild

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While waiting for the paint to dry on Grumpy's Cafe build, I came across this little 1940 Ford. It was in a box of Jim Miller's misc. railroad items. Jim glued it together but never painted it.

I have six of these unbuilt so I know it is a Mountain States model. The vehicle is actually a 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe. The coupe was two doors and the sedan was four doors.

Since it was never painted, I'll paint it and use it on the A&S RR for Jim. Also, I'll need to "unglue" it and make it a kit once again.





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You can see how it is glued together. The wheels will need to be repaired, realigned and a new axles added.



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Since I have nothing else to do,    I thought I'll take on another project. I hope this one gets finished. 



More tomorrow evening.

[Raymo]

I'm assuming these were the same kits sold by Williams Brothers. Grabbing a seat and watching this one Tom..

[Oldguy]

Ohh, this should be good.  I have a couple of their 1935 Ford 4 doors waiting for action of some type of action. 

[postalkarl]

Hey Tom:

Nice looking kit.

Karl

[GPdemayo]

Fun cars Tom.....I'll be looking in also. 

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I'm assuming these were the same kits sold by Williams Brothers. Grabbing a seat and watching this one Tom..

Dan,

Happy to have you along on the ride in this rebuilt 1940 ford coupe. Not sure about the WB kit but below is how I got them from an old hobby shop in Tampa.





Tom 

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I used a new #11 Xacto blade and scored along the glue line between the car body and frame.

After several passes and several minutes, I was able to cut through the glue and remove the body from the frame.







You can see in the photo above that I broke the front fender bracket off the frame. This was unavoidable.

I then broke off, on purpose, the four wheels leaving the plastic axles in place - for now.

More in a few.

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To make the front bumper bracket repair I used Evergreen Polystyrene.



I cut off a short piece and then used a single edge razor blade and split the piece horizontally.

I used Plastruct Bondene and glued the two pieces of polystyrene to the underside of the broken bracket.



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[bparrish]

Pretty cool.... Tom

see ya   Tonight

Bob

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Next I glued the bumper bracket to the underside of the frame. While the glue was setting, I placed the body back on the frame to make sure the bracket aligned properly so it fit into the slot the front fenders.



You can also see where I cleaned out the axle area. I used a Dremel cut off disc to carefully remove the plastic axles. I used the Dremel on a very low speed so the plastic would be cut and not melted.



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Pretty cool.... Tom

see ya   Tonight

Bob

Bob,

Thank you, Yes, see ya tonight!

Tom 

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I nipped off the extra styrene using a #11 blade.



Front bumper is now repaired.



More tomorrow evening.

[postalkarl]

Hey Tom:

Looking just great so far.

Karl