The Vicky Scale Models
There’s no question that I’m fascinated with the design of the 1957 Ford Club Victoria. This interest of mine, which is way over the border into obsession – will be most significantly explored through the construction of three detailed 1/25 scale Vicky miniatures: one of the factory Vicky, one a restyled version that explores what a well-designed ‘57 Ford/-58 T-Bird hybrid concept might have been like, and an experimental 1/25 Club Vicky slot car!
The construction of a replica of the factory stock Jackson car will be covered and highlighted in the future pages of Scale Auto which article series will generously permit me the opportunity to show how various elements of a highly-detailed factory stock 1957 Victoria scale miniature can be built using an array of kit-based pieces, aftermarket parts, some commissioned parts, and a fair degree of scratchbuilding.
Take a closer look at the 1978 model that started it all below in My Original Model!
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 […]
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 […]