Thanks Ms. Grumpy! I'm hoping it will be of use for others to get ideas from. :D

The hardest part is going to be joining the nose of the cowl with the nose of the hood. The cowl center line has a narrow edge and the hood had a very wide edge.

http://www.allenitllc.com/hotrods/ch...nose%20001.jpg

I formed a piece of balsa wood to fill the gap between the too edges and fade the wide edge into the narrow one.

http://www.allenitllc.com/hotrods/ch...nose%20002.jpg

I glassed the wood down to the hood and then used a thin cloth and shaped the the cowl nose to the hood. It may take more layers, but this is how it looks now.

http://www.allenitllc.com/hotrods/ch...nose%20006.jpg

Got a little bit sanded down. I need a couple more coats, but it's turning out great.
http://www.allenitllc.com/hotrods/ch...nose%20008.jpg

UPDATE:
The nose of the car has really been stubborn. I've been applying layers of resin and sanding it down for a week now. I'm getting very close to a shape that I like now. I sprayed the nose with primer to show off the imperfections and can tell I will still need to do a bit more work, but it's getting there.

http://www.allenitllc.com/hotrods/ch...se%20close.jpg

Its looking great ,keep up the progress reports.

Nice poroject, it's going to look good when you get it done.

Ray

Good choice on leaving the supports intact. If you cut them out the hood goes to crap real quick. Someone gave me the same style cowl hood for my chevelle. I thought it looked cool but when i put it on the car it was sagging in the center and it had a wobble at about 70 mph. It ended up with cracks in the paint that looked bad if you got up close. I did attempt to rebuild it and added aluminum plate as a reinforcement and bonded it in. It worked pretty good but it added a signifigant amount of weight and I just didn't like the outcome so I sold it and put my SS hood back on.

More progress today! :banana:

One more go around with some 800 and 1000 grit and it should be good to go.

http://www.allenitllc.com/hotrods/ch...imed%20001.jpg

http://www.allenitllc.com/hotrods/ch...imed%20002.jpg

That turned out great ,good job.

Well it was good for 10 minutes. :(

I bolted the hood onto the car and couldn't find my front pins so I cut a couple pieces of coat hanger and was going to stop at autozone and pick up some hood pins on my way to a little car show. I made it about 1/4 mile and the $%#%# coat hangers bent and my hood flew open. It ripped up the hinge locations pretty good so I guess it's back to the drawing board.

I feel so damn stupid. I hate it when I have a duh moment. I'm totally disgusted with myself for thinking a coat hanger could hold that pressure even though it was for only a mile down the street. :(

I'll be glassing this thing again. Crossing fingers that it turns out. I was impressed that the cowl that I glassed into place is very solid and not damaged.