Started with this grey Revell 32 Ford Roadster body and removed the door hinges and built it into this black 1940s style roadster with a resin chassis and a flathead from the Revell 32 Ford Tudor kit. And also this black 29 Ford Roadster street/drag car I finished
They look terrific, the two highboys, side- by- side. The new one is fine stuff. And that old 'A'- was it visited upon after today's drag meet, by any chance?
I posted this last week. But incase you didnt see it. Heres a 1959 Impala LowRider built in 1/87 scale. [/QUOTE]
Some good stuff so far, this Sunday. Here's an 1/8 scale supermodified I recently completed, plus a picture of the real car.
Good Morning Guy's ! Here's my contribution for this week. It isn't painted, it came molded in that color back in 1964 . Monogram did some nice kits in the 60's !
Morning, everyone. Been prototyping some chassis & suspension pieces for the 1:8 deuce. I didn't have the appropriate sized rod to do this in scale, but wanted to get a visual of what it will look like, so bent these quick out of 1/8 silver solder. Will do the actual axle in 1/4" which will scale up to 2". Coil overs for the rear end & tubular crossmember, as well. A quick mock up with the body channeled the depth of the rails & with the stock front crossmember still in place.
what he said, and btw Ognib, you have put more work into that deuce than most guys do on their 1:1...great work! here's a few pics from yesterday's Derby City Shootout:
Pscott, thanks. The scratch building is really what draws me to modeling. No time frame for completion on the car, so as long as I keep seeing things I can build for it, that's what I do.
Work in progress. This was going to be my entry for the last build-off, but I didn't have time to finish it.
My 9 year old nephew wanted to come over and build a model. He asked if we could do a Lamborghini. I showed him my boxes of models to sway him and he warmed up to the 30s ford trucks. We went to the craft store and picked up the Lindberg 34 Ford truck kit. My first time buying a Lindberg and perhaps my last. A day and a half was what we had so I had to talk him out of some custom stuff he wanted to do. He was happy to get the wheels from my old ice cream truck kit "with the spikes like the guys in Grease had", the big blue oval on the back window and the stacks through the bed. I spray canned the black and oversaw the rest of paint. He had me do some of the gluing too.
Nice work everyone. Love the show coverage, want the '40 Ford pick-up in teal and love those deuces that kicked things off. Tweed, the coupe is looking great. You may have convinced me to pull the trigger on sectioning my '40 custom. The '34 tow truck looks killer too shades...
Cool stuff. Wow, I wish they still molded them in beautiful glossy color like the '40 truck. I find no time now for building, so instead enjoy a look at well molded color kits. I recently bought a Tom Daniels BADMAN reissue, but it wasnt quite the same. The original USA kits had superior finish (gloss). The reissue was a lil' flashy on the drip rails too. They were always a bit ho-hum on that kit. The rest of the new kit was OK, pretty crisp with good chrome & good red glass.
Here's a truck I just built. I managed to get 3rd place in the rat rod class at derby city shoot out on Saturday.
Got my bending jig, for the front axle, finished & bent up a couple of them. First bend is made up from the "smile" of the lower axle, the pin is set & held while the second bend is made. After the first set of bends is made, that end is positioned in the pocket to maintain proper location while the second set of bends is made. Black mark indicates approximate cut line for fitting the king pin boss. I can flip them end for end & they still stack straight, indicating continuity of shape between the ends.
Thanks for sharing some of your secrets Ognib. I really look forward to seeing the finished model and it is really neat that you enjoy this fabrication so much.
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