Lindberg 1937 Cord Part One

I am really working hard on building this car.  Really, I am.  This is a good example of why I can be less than thrilled with some of the Lindberg car kits.  This one has a 17 piece body.  It is a 17 piece body which does not all fit together as well as they need to.  It has been real interesting to put parts of it together.  Here is a shot of the box.
Everything pictured on the box is not actually part of the kit.  There is no roof, no side windows.  No fog lights.  The tires are not the type with the cut out that allows you to insert plastic white walls.  I am probably going to leave the wheels chrome rather than try to paint part of the wheel red.  Although I might attempt the paint.  No windshield wipers.  No chrome pieces to cover the bottom front of the rear fenders.  Waiting on some Bare Metal Foil to come in the mail right now.  Put some of that on the fenders and the outside door handles.  No rear view mirrors included in the kit, either.  Photo of the kit on the box makes me wonder if there is another version of the kit floating around that has all the parts this one seems to be missing.

This is part of the body and most of the interior.  I have a bit of touch up to do on the frame and on the interior of the door as can be seen in the photos.  The minor details included in the kit can be painted up a bit, and I really don't love this kit enough to buy or scratch build interior details.

Below is a prime example of the work required for this kit.  The fat fenders are literally molded in halves and they do not fit together as well as they really should.  Prime, putty, sand, paint, putty, sand, paint, putty, sand...and it is about time for another coat of paint.  If the fenders are not really perfectly smooth by this point, I am tempted to just slap them on and press on.  We will see.  The headlights on this car rotated up out of the fenders but the only evidence of that on this kit is the bit of an outline on the fronts of the fenders.

Yeah, you are seeing correctly, except for the radiator and fan, the entire engine is chrome.  It is totally hidden so I am probably not going to strip it and try to paint it I don't think.  Have to do the silver tips on the ridges on the engine cover.  Silver is already painted on the front of the hood.

The instrument panel is chrome, but only part of it is supposed to stay chrome.  If you look at the shot below the roughed in instrument panel, you will see the decal sheet with the gauge decals.

With all the stuff this kit needs added in order to look good, I am probably going to continue working on the '34 Ford Pickup/Wrecker before I finish this one.