I'm keeping this build under lock and key, away from Bruce!
Using 3mm green tape as my chop lines, I gave the body a full 4mm chop using the top piece of tape and the bottom piece of tape, gives the body a 7mm pie-section. That's 7mm measured at the door hinges, by the time the angle reaches the grille, I'd say the pie-sectioned will be more like a 11mm forward rake. Indicated chop lines with red arrows.
Not sure about colors yet as I only bought this kit yesterday!

For a days work, you certainly hacked a lot of plastic. This is going to look nothing like it's original! Good luck on this build, you have your work "cut" out for you.

Looks pretty good so far, and for only a days worth of work!

Hacking plastic is easy, getting it back together is the hard part.
Really it was two days work. I did the chopping the night before and glued it together in the morning. The roof wasn't glued on and was only held with support beams and the back of the body wasn't attached either.
Over the past two nights, I've attached the roof, trunk/rear section and continued the pie-chop to the grille. I haven't chopped the grille, just the grille supports and got the hood height sitting right. The hood sits about 4mm above the front fenders.
One of my favorite things about the '36 is how the door line flows into the rear body line. Because this kit is optional hardtop, convertible, I've had to glued the hardtop to the body. This left a nasty join line on the top portion of the doors. Happens to be right on the flowing body line. I've done some filling and sanding but I have much more to go!
Also thinking about widening the rear fenders?

Super job on the body work. What wheels you planing for the rear? If you go with really wide tires, I would diffidently widen the fenders.

Excellent job so far Joe! Your builds are always a highlight to watch... weathering, sectioning, etc..... You do some great work! Will be watching...

I like what you have done so far, I too am curious about the wheel chioce.

These past two weeks have been all about getting back on track. I'm embrassed to say, would you believe my dog Bruce ate this model. That makes it three models he has chewed up and spat out. If you remember, he ate my '48 Ford coupe which was in my desk draw. He opened up the draw, chewed off the handle and pulled out the model. Unfortunitely this time around I can't blame Bruce as I left it out for him to chew on at his leasure. I forgot to put it away and when I finally remembered, it was too late. Another one bites the dust!!!!
Instead of throwing in the towel, I just simply went and bought another '36 Ford and started again. I follwed the same steps as before which seemed a lot easyer second time around.
The hood sides have been sectioned to follow the body section. The front is 9.5 scale inches lower than before.
Starting to think of a colour to paint this thing (if Bruce will let me get that far), all that comes to mind is bright metallic orange?

You are having the worst luck with this model and Bruce's appetite for plastic. As for the color. How about a bright metallic red with bright yellow/orange flames coming from the front end? Although a nice sunburst orange might be a good choice too!

Get Bruce a whole bag of rawhides !