1954 Hudson Hornet

[MarkJ]

The kit:



Sanded mold lines removed fender skirts and added gas cap door



The only wheels in this kit are the hubcaps made on to the wheels. I wanted to use the kit tires so I had to transform the wheels into stock steel wheels without hubcaps. The next pictures show that transformation.











I found the steel wheels in my spare parts box. With a little trimming they fit the backs of the hub cap wheels perfectly and I am able to use the nice hollow tires that come in the kit. You'd think a kit as expensive as this one is, would have a different option for the wheels, other than just the stock hub caps. I believe the wheels I found, came from the 40 ford standard kit, but I'm not sure.

[pdaly28]

nice work and a great tip!Thanks!

[slim]

Good start, Mark, I'll be watching as I have the earlier racecar Hudson kit. I can see why you would go to that effort to use the tires. They are cool early racing tires.

[MarkJ]

Got the tire wheel assemblies almost finished. just need to glue on a tube with a hole on the inside so they can be mounted on the axles. Set the body with tires in place to see how it will kinda look. The wheels will be black on the finished model so I think that will help the overall look. This car had all the chrome on it so I will be doing a lot of bare metal foil.

[Bob P.]

Looking like an interesting project Mark. It will be interesting to watch this project move along.

Bob

[MarkJ]

Ok, guys. This has never happened to me before. I guess i'm getting too old. I'm going to have to put this project on hold for a while. It seems that I have purchased the wrong kit. I did not realize that Hudson had two 2 doors in 1954. And of course I bought the wrong one. I should have bought the club coupe instead of this one. Luckily I figured it out before I got too far along in the project. The decals I already made will still work on the club coupe. I just need to find one. Probably pick one up in the spring at the ipms show in Stafford. No bigee. I will just move on to the next project.

[Dirtman]

LOL, thought I was the only one who did that sort of stuff!!!

Rett

[David Bogard]

The Herb Thomas car was indeed a club coupe. With your skills, whatever you end up doing with the sedan one day will be cool!

[MarkJ]

The Herb Thomas car was indeed a club coupe. With your skills, whatever you end up doing with the sedan one day will be cool!

Probably just make it a street version someday. I don't think anyone raced this type of Hudson.

[MarkJ]

Ok guys, I finally purchased the correct kit and will be resuming the wip in a few days.

[MarkJ]

I finally got the right kit to finish this build.



The raw body is very rough so it will have to be block sanded before it can even be primed.

[MarkJ]

painted the body. Using testors enamel out of the small bottles with an airbrush.



Got the engine built.

[oldgi]

hey mark,glad to see you're doing another old school build(retroeguy from randys nascar site)

[MarkJ]

Thanks, Oldgi. I'm really liking how this kit is going together. It's a well engineered kit as far as how the parts fit together. The instructions are a little challenging though, but I think I can figure them out. This car doesn't even have a roll bar, so basically I will be building a street car, and adding decals. No modifications will be necessary except for eliminating the muffler from the exhaust system. At least that's what it seems from the limited ref pictures I have of the real car.

[MarkJ]

Got the frame done.





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