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Jantrix, I understand where you are coming from, but the three of us are just getting into or getting back into the hobby. We realize this isn't much of a challenge to most of the guys here, but to us, it most certainly is. We don't have the bins full of parts, and plenty of leftover paint. We are just starting out and figured we'd challenge each other to get better in a way that is conducive to our situation, and we decided to open it up to anyone who wants to join us in.

Oh. I understand. Sorry I was unaware this was the case. I'm just sort of used to dealing with the rest of the goons here with massive collections and spare parts left over from 30+ years of building, it didn't dawn on me you guys were newer builders. My apologies. Starting from scratch, $50 is a reasonable limit then.

Left over paints? you plan on scraping paint off of a rebuild, and re- applying it to a project? The paint is in the budget, left over or not. It evens the playing field for guys that have been doing this since before I was born and guys that are casual.

Nope was refering to the plethora of 1/2 full spray cans I've got all over my garage.

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I haven't built a small scale model in years but this sounds like fun so let me ask a couple of questions to see if I fall within your "rules".

I bought a 1/25th "Revell Muscle" '71 Plymouth Hemi Cuda a few years back (as reference) for a 1/8th scale Cuda I'm working on, I was somewhat disappointed as the kit has no shocks , clunky inner wheel halves, wrong interior pattern and to top it all off just doesn't just doesn't look right.

I bought it a Hobby Lobby with a 40% off coupon so the kit cost me about 12 bucks. I also have a resin Gibson Super Stock engine. The engine was given to me by a friend but they cost around twenty bucks or so depending on where you buy them.

I have plenty of paint on hand from other builds including tubes of acrylics (used to be an artist) that occasionally I dip a brush into for weathering etc.

Like I said....I don't normally build small scale so I have no large stash of parts.

The only kit bashed parts will be disc brake calipers taken from a broken die cast model.

You all are familiar with the Plymouth "Super Bird" I'm sure, what I have in mind is turning the Cuda into "Super Fish" as if Plymouth had built it as a street muscle car in the '70's to complete with the Judge, Boss etc, cars of the era.

I have no way of figuring scratch built parts as I generally use scrap plastic, house hold throw aways and I buy fillers, sand paper etc, in bulk for full size stuff.

So it's up to you guys... do I qualify?

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You all are familiar with the Plymouth "Super Bird" I'm sure, what I have in mind is turning the Cuda into "Super Fish" as if Plymouth had built it as a street muscle car in the '70's to complete with the Judge, Boss etc, cars of the era.

you mean like this one (i call it chicken of the sea)

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The only thing keeping me out is the Vehicle age I have a post '79 car that would be perfect for this build and would not get built otherwise.

Nick

About paint also, what If I can prove the spray can was cheaper than the $3 general cost?

Nick

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I haven't built a small scale model in years but this sounds like fun so let me ask a couple of questions to see if I fall within your "rules".

I bought a 1/25th "Revell Muscle" '71 Plymouth Hemi Cuda a few years back (as reference) for a 1/8th scale Cuda I'm working on, I was somewhat disappointed as the kit has no shocks , clunky inner wheel halves, wrong interior pattern and to top it all off just doesn't just doesn't look right.

I bought it a Hobby Lobby with a 40% off coupon so the kit cost me about 12 bucks. I also have a resin Gibson Super Stock engine. The engine was given to me by a friend but they cost around twenty bucks or so depending on where you buy them.

I have plenty of paint on hand from other builds including tubes of acrylics (used to be an artist) that occasionally I dip a brush into for weathering etc.

Like I said....I don't normally build small scale so I have no large stash of parts.

The only kit bashed parts will be disc brake calipers taken from a broken die cast model.

You all are familiar with the Plymouth "Super Bird" I'm sure, what I have in mind is turning the Cuda into "Super Fish" as if Plymouth had built it as a street muscle car in the '70's to complete with the Judge, Boss etc, cars of the era.

I have no way of figuring scratch built parts as I generally use scrap plastic, house hold throw aways and I buy fillers, sand paper etc, in bulk for full size stuff.

So it's up to you guys... do I qualify?

How about list it as say...$30 for both the model and the motor. That way you have some plenty of room to add paint. Sound fair?

About paint also, what If I can prove the spray can was cheaper than the $3 general cost?

I think to keep it even, I'd have to say count it as $3.

I'll be posting mine up this evening hopefully :lol:

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Here's mine :) 1968 Le Mans GT40.

Model: $23.10

Paints: $19.50 total (5 sprays, 3 bottles)

Total: $42.60

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Alight then, being 63 and figuring 30 bucks for the kit and motor, a couple cans of spray paint and few of those small testers paint jars I guess I qualify.

Here's a few pics of where I'm at. Sanded and starting assembling the resin Gibson engine.

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Detailed the kit wheels with a little paint.

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Assembling the chassis and adding a bit of paint detail.....a little rust and road road grime as this is intended to be a driver not a trailer queen.

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The addition of the disc brakes was a pain in the butt but sure looks a lot better that the kit "toy" back wheel half.

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GT40 is finished, but I'm not happy with the way it turned out. This kit, at least for me, was a nightmare. It'll look good on the shelf, but it really fell short of how I wanted it to look.

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Got a little more done on the "Super Fish".

I scratch built a distributor from scrap as the resin one was too difficult for me to drill out individual holes for plug wires.

I cut the grille from the valance as I won't be using it with the Super Fish nose.

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I'm in the process of modifying the kit intake manifold as I don't want to use that big super stock one that came with the Gibson engine. Also added a little more texture to the valve covers after drilling for the plug wires, hopefully a light coat of flat black will give me that "factory" wrinkle paint look. It's also good practice for the vinyl top I'll be adding later.

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There's a couple of slightly blurry pics coming up as my club fingers inadvertently switched off my macro setting and I didn't want to take the time to re-shoot them....sorry 'bout that. I'm not going to go with the "shaker" hood. I'll be turning it around backwards and molding it into the hood for a little more slippery shape.

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Started cobbling up the nose...you can never have too many clamps.

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It's difficult to see in the photo but the added nose extention is peaked in the center and turned upward at the edges.

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As you guys that have built this model know, the front end of this car sits way too high.....rather than weaken the kit torsion bar suspension I'll channel the body down a bit in front. You can see in the pic where I'll be trimming the inner fender panels. Probably will have to cut the floor pan from the interior tub and shorten it's height a bit also. Still, all in all it's easier than moving the spindles up.

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The next two pics show the mocked up nose and "swing set" rear spoiler. Sure it would have been easier to pick up a junk Superbird kit and modify the nose and spoiler for this build but where's the fun in that? Perhaps I'm just a glutton for punishment.

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Eelco, I won't be using the scoop as a "Shaker" air cleaner.

I'm lowering the front of the car by channeling the front of the body down on the belly pan and will add Super Bird type bumps on the tops of the fenders for tire clearance. The shaker will be molded into the the hood with the openings facing the windshield.

I'll fab up an air cleaner for the carbs under the hood.

The nose and rear spoiler are all intended to make the car slippery and provide down force at high speeds....that shaker (as it comes) is just top end wind drag...that's why it's becoming an integral part of the hood and turned around, it'll act more as a vent for under hood trapped air and heat and add a little bling.

My intention is to make the Cuda look like an attempt by Plymouth to build a race inspired factory "baby" Superbird for the muscle car crowd of the period.

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