Post by geezerman35 on Oct 27, 2009 5:13:33 GMT -5
Started this build on TRaK, but it looks like I’m drifting out of the parameters.
Again.
Won this kit at the NHRA S E Nats model car contest. Only kit I have on hand, so it immediately went under the knife.
This car must be the runner up to the 41 Plymouth as the homeliest car ever put in model kit form. Who the hell designed this? Some backwoods coon hunters ?
1:1 must have had some hellish long adjustment screws to get the headlights to shine down on the pavement.
But enough of this drivel:
First thing to go were the silly little rear fenders.
Headlight housings were next. Hint of coming direction is the body mocked on a 29 RPU fender assembly.
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I found this part a little tricky, but with a little fooling around and a tub of M&M's, I got those headlight buckets in place.
I had to make a jig to keep them spaced evenly until I could tack them in place w/ crazy glue.
To make a continuation of the light buckets, I used the end clips of the last two old ballpoint pens left over from the old model RR days. (New Caledonia RR. circa 1970s)
All gaps were filled with scrap styrene and the molding in is in process.
The mock up before filler.
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I'm addressing the wheel situation now. I need to get that established, because I'm scratching a frame.
A modeler on Spastic Plastic posted a fat tire he made from two water bottle caps.
spazticplasticz.proboards.com/index.cgi?
board=tpz&action=display&thread=355
The idea intrigued me and I gave it a try, embellishing it a little by grafting a lettered side wall. It was so much work that I wasn't interested in making another. I'm giving some mold rubber and casting plastic that I got from private eye Blick a try. If I can cast this tire, I'll be using that on the rears.
Its PHAT !
The censor that Bob installed in this forum is an IDIOT !!!!!
private eye Blick.... That is an art supply catalog. D I C K Blick.
Again. Won this kit at the NHRA S E Nats model car contest. Only kit I have on hand, so it immediately went under the knife.
This car must be the runner up to the 41 Plymouth as the homeliest car ever put in model kit form. Who the hell designed this? Some backwoods coon hunters ?
1:1 must have had some hellish long adjustment screws to get the headlights to shine down on the pavement.
But enough of this drivel:
First thing to go were the silly little rear fenders.
Headlight housings were next. Hint of coming direction is the body mocked on a 29 RPU fender assembly.
*
I found this part a little tricky, but with a little fooling around and a tub of M&M's, I got those headlight buckets in place.
I had to make a jig to keep them spaced evenly until I could tack them in place w/ crazy glue.
To make a continuation of the light buckets, I used the end clips of the last two old ballpoint pens left over from the old model RR days. (New Caledonia RR. circa 1970s)
All gaps were filled with scrap styrene and the molding in is in process.
The mock up before filler.
*
I'm addressing the wheel situation now. I need to get that established, because I'm scratching a frame.
A modeler on Spastic Plastic posted a fat tire he made from two water bottle caps.
spazticplasticz.proboards.com/index.cgi?
board=tpz&action=display&thread=355
The idea intrigued me and I gave it a try, embellishing it a little by grafting a lettered side wall. It was so much work that I wasn't interested in making another. I'm giving some mold rubber and casting plastic that I got from private eye Blick a try. If I can cast this tire, I'll be using that on the rears.
Its PHAT !
The censor that Bob installed in this forum is an IDIOT !!!!!
private eye Blick.... That is an art supply catalog. D I C K Blick.
nice idea on using them caps for tires! 
It's an interweb thing.....