Ok, haven't seen this thread in a while so I thought I would drag up an old project. This thing is a real Hodge podge collection of parts, the body from an old Revell 55 Juke Box Ford drag car, the roof is made from the front half of the old McEwan 57 Chev Flopper roof and the rear from an old AMT 57 Chev roof. The chassis is a narrowed NASCAR item and the motor is from an old 'Orange Crate' kit with a scratch built Lenco. The roll cage is all built from brass. The car is going to be some sort of lakes racer, just have to find a class it fits into!! Just decided to use up some of those spare parts. Doc.
I bought some kits recently, want to build a gasser or two; still working things out in my head, haven't actually started anything yet.
Here is my Chrysler letter car. I chopped the top with a roof from another kit. At the time I didn't understand a frame Z. So I cut the front and rear off this frame, and the front and rear off another but cut back further. So now the frames could stack on top of each other. I used a kit that was a custom so I used that kits front spindles and rear axle with lowering blocks. I didn;t get around to finishing it and most of it is lost.
as promised. You guys probably wont like it this is my first time doing a weathered car like this. The orangeish areas are still drying so when they are dry it should be more of a brown colour like the rest. To be honest i dont really like it either hahahah low
Not my work, but too neat not to share . . . NorCal scale modeler Bruce Miller just finished a 1/8-scale model of Vern Tardel's Deuce roadster, commissioned by Vern. Bruce is building a glass case for it and it will ultimately be displayed in Vern's office. I'd seen the model a couple of times recently as it neared completion, and asked Bruce if he would allow me to photograph it when it was finished. He agreed to my request, and we met at a park in our neighborhood last week to document the little beauty. Bruce worked from an extensive collection of photos of the actual car, including large closeups of the tons of details that make the car unique. Bruce has been building scale models for 50-plus years and is highly regarded in the scale-modeling community for his highly detailed traditional hot rods. Mike
i gotta start building again.....I suck..I got a ton of open kits, none even touched, or little done....
Heres one i've been working on for awhile, but haven't made much progress. Not for sure i'm gonna use those wheels or the stock ones, leaning towards the stockers. But its gonna be a mild custom, slamed, maybe sectioned, maybe chopped. We'll see. Pat
I did a bit more work on my chevy I started almost a year ago. Still on the fence on the caddy dagmars, they need a lot of work to make them work with the flow of the car.
Guys, those are a fine pair of deuces... not the best hand, but I'd stick and see what I could draw to them.
Did this kit about 5 years ago, forgot i had it actually, so i slapped some sprue straight axle, and some wheels and tires, and called it done. Its only a shelf model anyways.
Wow, great stuff this week! That big duece engine is happening! Eric, you suyre have an eye for stance! Chad, good to see you work again. Like a Batman ride from a Kool Universe. Some of you may have seen this on other message boards, so sorry for the redundancy. This is a 50 Ford with a Carson top that I'm working on. I removed all dash knobs & replaced them with resin copies of one I made. The horn ring was thinned out quite a bit, & the steering column & shift tube was scratch built. Door handles & window cranks are resin copies of some I scratch built. The armrest is from Replicas & Miniatures of Maryland, cast from a pattern I made. There is a groove around the outer edge of the armrest, & you can attach the armrest to the door by running a piece of wire in the groove & passing each end of the wire through holes in the door panel at each end of the armrest. Steering wheel parts. Comparing the kit part to the scratch built one. The rest of the interior. The car as it was about a month ago. Today it is wearing Variprime, & hopefully will get some dark blue pearl on it soon. Steve http://www.sbkustoms.com
Steve, it's truly an honer to have you on here. You are one of the best model builders of our time. If you have not, click on Mr. Boutte's link, his models are a work of art.
i know it's kinda OT but here's one i did out of ceramic...yes, clay. it's about 18 inches long and it's a (hopefully obviously) '71 riviera. the top is real vinyl and it's got a real auto laquer flake job with hand formed aluminum trim around the wheel-wells, the top and the windows. i tried to get everything perfect, i measured all the proportions and everything from several photos before starting. took me almost an entire semester and hours upon hours to complete. i did get an A outta that one though side view... grille... back... 3/4...
Great stuff again fellas... Soon i will post some of mine - Finally got the studio space set up and the old kits are starting to see the light of day! - some very groovie 80's kustoms unfinished - should be fun. Cheers,
i've actually had a lot of people tell me i oughta make copies of peoples' cars but for the time and effort involved, it probably wouldn't be worth it to most.
ALLRIGHT!!!!!!!!! that is just perfect , sorry I may be a shoe box fiend and all , but that is one cool model Buzz Bomb
Just started work (I'm a "Last-Minute Louey" to be certain) on the "#1 Mopar" award for our Gold coast NNL next weekend. I always thought that the Ramchargers' "High and Mighty" should have been included in Polar Lights' "Snap Draggins" series: Looks like I need to re-work the front suspension, wheelbase, add pipes and induction, inner rear fenderwells and figure out if I can fake up a set of reversed steel wheels for the front and rear... (from a previous thread)
Got a new project today, cant wait for sunday so here it is. Its a 1/5 scale belly tank based on an Aussy GAF Canberra bomber tank. Everything will be scratch built for it. This is a project I have been planning on doing for a long time and I cant wait to start on it, give it a nice early belly tank look. Cheers, Doc.
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