My Original Model! The original ‘57 Club Victoria model was essentially kit-based, of course. I started with the legendary 1962 AMT kit (rather than one of the re-issues) because it was handy at the time. In that build, I converted […]

I’ve said elsewhere on this site that this project will be one of just three of my “Legacy” Projects by which I intend to best exhibit my skills and through each of which I want to advocate for an expanded […]

The Victoria GT The second ‘57 Victoria scale miniature I’ll be building will be of might have been a Ford design study that was proposed in 1955, that represented what at least one (fictional) styling team may have conceived of […]

The third of the Victoria models will be a functional, highly-detailed, hopefully near-authentic 1/25 scale slot car. I want to explore the possibilities of creating a highly-detailed, 1/25 scale 1957 Ford Victoria model that can be “driven” on a slot […]

Replica (Sort of) of Gemma Jackson Car! The first model in our 1957 Ford Victoria Project will be a replica of the Gemma Jackson Ford as it was delivered in late 1956 (with the exception of the presentation of the […]

The Mercari In the late Eighties, I decided that I wanted to build a fantasy styling study triggered by the failed early Sixties effort by Ford to buy Ferrari. In a moment of speculation, I designed a model – a […]

Among other steps I’ll take, I’ll be doing the following to build the three Victoria models! Parts Sources I’ll be purchasing the incredible small bolts and washers from Bob Breslauer’s company, Scale Hardware. Bob is one of the hobby’s great […]

As other work proceeded on the car, I noticed that there were some bodywork problems on the driver’s side of the car. So, because we’re going to respray the front clip in blue, it wasn’t much more work to re-spray […]