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Post by geezerman35 on Apr 27, 2013 5:44:21 GMT -5
A recent splurge at AK Collectibles - Monogram 30 Ford Woody and a Snaptite Z28 Camero . I wanted the Camero because for $18, I could get all the pro street goodies! Here's how nice the folks at AK are! They had the Camero listed at $18. When I called, he didn't have the Camero. He asked me to give him a day to locate one. When I called back, his wife told me he was across town checking with another dealer, and would call me back. About a half hour or so, I got a call. The other dealer had one, and AK would hold the price at $18 they had listed. The Camero comes with an upper and lower chassis. I have used the woody floor plate as a template and trimming the sides a tad, got the upper portion with the tubs, fit into the woody body. I'll have to do something about a front clip, but I'll deal with that after I get the lower Camero plate with the suspension mated to the upper tubbed half. I might have to channel the woody some to get it down. We'll see .
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Post by harron68 on Apr 27, 2013 7:27:52 GMT -5
The Monogram Woodie comes as already modified from stock, so it's easier to deal with. The more detailed Revell is stock or modified. I bought a Mono for the wide wire wheels I thought were cool due to their rarity. Good luck with your version!
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Post by tooltas on Apr 27, 2013 13:50:53 GMT -5
is it going to have fendes or highboy. and were is ak's collectibles
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Post by geezerman35 on Apr 27, 2013 17:16:56 GMT -5
I'm kicking out the wheel wells a little. I don't like to see tires protruding past the body sides without a flange or something. That pill bottle is the exact circumference as the cut out. I really don't know exactly how I'm gonna work this . :confused: I may have bobbed fenders on the rear and fenderless in front. I found an new front clip from a 5 year old Craftsman truck that I have been raiding from. It reminds me kinda like a Fatman IFS kit.. We'll see about that also. I'm really digging around in hoarded stuff. I have a Parts Pac Pontiac that I have had for several years. It just got 90% dechromed with Oven cleaner. :drunken:
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Post by geezerman35 on Apr 27, 2013 17:27:18 GMT -5
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Post by tooltas on Apr 27, 2013 20:27:08 GMT -5
thanks
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Post by geezerman35 on May 2, 2013 5:17:39 GMT -5
This will be trickling slowly for a bit, as I have joined in a community build at Skid's Place. The theme will be Bonneville.
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Post by geezerman35 on May 19, 2013 11:23:01 GMT -5
Back on the woody, I got to looking at the parts pack Pontiac 421 I was going to use, and thought, dang, that looks kinda small. I compared it with the Monogram engine that came in the. woody. They're both touted to be 1:25 scale. I'm going with the Monogram engine. Can't have no dinky lil out of scale* engine in a prostreet !! *Not sure which is the correct scale, but I need BIG !! Revell parts pac - green. Monogram - black EDIT: I looked again, the Monogram is 1:24 And I have the rear fenders narrowed and raised some..
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Post by tooltas on May 19, 2013 21:50:27 GMT -5
use revell blower put that on the woodie's motor and stick a six pack of cabs on top
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Post by geezerman35 on May 20, 2013 5:51:57 GMT -5
Not in the plan, Tooltas. She's drinkin from a pair of giant 4 bbls Fitting the cowl to set up building a front clip, caused some ugly carnage to the front of the Camero's floorsections.
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Post by geezerman35 on May 20, 2013 17:43:57 GMT -5
Here's today's mockup of the frame front being scratchbashed for the woody. I can assure you that may be rolling your eyes and groaning, that notching the bellhousing to fit between the frame rails is a standard in the manual of Imagineering.
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Post by harron68 on May 20, 2013 20:11:27 GMT -5
True, whatever it takes, that's the Farkas Rule! It's coming right along.
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Post by tooltas on May 20, 2013 20:55:59 GMT -5
i love pro street car and trucks
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Post by geezerman35 on May 23, 2013 13:58:11 GMT -5
Not much today. Dinky stuff. Setting up the intake. I had a nice magneto set up, drilled, painted, and with a mounting plate, but it wouldn't clear the intake. I got lucky and found another with a 45 ° angle in the engine salvage drawer.
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Post by geezerman35 on May 24, 2013 11:31:09 GMT -5
Engine pretty much done. Front end just mocked on. Going to use these headers. They're rough. The two halves don't line up real well, and I'll have to lenghten the pipes to get it out past the body. Might be a bit of a challenge. Looks like I'll have to blacken the lower part of those nitreous bottles
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