Dragline

Since I'm now hooked on cup cars [Thanks JustBill], I have taken to building them.

 

 

Car needs side windows, hood pins foiled and lower effects painted but for all intents it's finished.

 

 

 

Windows are loosely fitted at the moment.

 

 

 

You all know I'm a NHRA kinda guy, so how'd I do?

 

 

Bob

 

 

 

 

 

I Googled, I Googled some more.... Then for good measure, I Googled about 20 more times.


I cannot for the life of me find ANY decent shots of the motor/tranny/chassis for this beast.



I'm doing a sorta quick build on the latest reissue and am adding fuel oil and plug wires only but cannot find any reference on it.


Of sure, i get loads of die-casts out the bazooka but not much on the real thing.


Anyone hogging a few choice shots???



Bob

A bit of a slumpbuster after taking the summer off as i usually do. This was such a fun build I bought quite a few others in the series off eBay. Built in perhaps non traditional colors with foil trim. OOB  these kits are hard to beat. Detailed, they would be contest winners i'm certain.



Sorry for the lame background but I'm limited for space these days so the bench must pull double and even triple duties at times.



Comments, good or ill are always accepted.










Paints are all Duplicolor from either my NAPA store or another local I won't mention since they are the competition..







Thanks for looking.


Bob

Not so much a review since I have yet to build it, but more of a "What's in the Box" type of thing.


This is my first ROG kit so I was not certain what to expect. They do not shrink wrap their kits, they simply tape them shut. i like this idea and find it just a bit "greener" than the old shrink. Since I bought this off eBay it took a week to get here but I was very pleased when it arrived. If you decide to get one you will be as well.


First off are the chassis trees. Here we see Tamiya-ish moldings divvy'd up amongst 4 silver styrene trees. SUPERB castings that make up the running gear are here for you gawk at






Next up are the Interior/Exterior trim trees. Once again, SUPERB moldings cast in three trees of an off white styrene.







Next up are the one chrome tree the clear parts and EXCELLENT tires..






Next Up.... What A Body!

Having built a couple back in the 80's with wonderful results I decided to pick up a few recently and ply some hard won skills to these wonders in 1/24th scale.


I don't have pics yet [not sure a WIP will be forthcoming] but I do have several kits that I won on FleaBay. First off, if you're not into late 60's mid 80's Euro cars read no further. These kits are strictly a bunch of Supercars and hard to find gems in 1:1. BUT, if you're into high parts count renditions of some serious muscle then you are going to be a fan.

Before I go further I will address the eventual "they are fiddly to assemble" complaints. I have had ZERO problems assembling every part on these and this is when I had skills that were less than today. I'm not saying I'm some Ace builder mind you. I'm just saying I had no problems building them back when they arrived on the scene.

Now admittedly, a 1/24 scale Ferrari GTO with a 235 parts count is going to be a skill tester, but the rewards have been overwhelmingly positive for me. The parting lines are slight, the overall accuracy is to be envied by the ENTIRE industry. Think of it this way. What if Revell put out a 1/25 or 1/25th scale Ford GT or perhaps a 72 Cuda? Would you line up for one? A strictly rhetorical question naturally. Of course you would!


So it begs the question.... Why not? It seems Fujimi had NO problem beltiing these out. Last I checked there were 36 different 1/24th scale kits in the Enthusiast range. I sort of discount the 1/16th kits since they actually had lower parts counts in some instances and were of a marginally lesser quality. But certainly not boat anchors either way. I thnk they really blew their wad with the 1/24th kit and kind of coasted on that for the bigger kits. Feel free to correct me of course.



My point is this [If I actually have one].


These are still the rabbits to chace in my ever so humble opinion. But opinons are like bellybuttons, everyone has one.



Bob