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    Boyd Coddington’s Chezoom

    in WIP: Model Cars

    Posted

    On 8/1/2021 at 4:38 PM, CabDriver said:

    I’m a big fan of Boyd Coddington but never did a Boyd kit, so I’ve been slowly collecting the various Testors and AMT offerings the they did of his cars (some nicely done, some not so much…).  I wanted to actually build one of them this year rather than have them sit on my shelf, so I’ve been picking up some old books and magazines for reference material and decided to start with the Chezoom:

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    The car debuted at SEMA in October of ‘92, and was built for a guy named Joe ‘Mr Gasket’ Hrudka after Boyd showed him a sketch that Thom Taylor had done, and featured a LT1 Vette motor, Vette suspension, a custom tubular frame and about 10% of the bodywork of the 57 Chevy they used as a starting point.

    The Testors full detail kit is pretty well done - but the detail is lacking in a few key areas and there’s definitely room for improvement.  On the flip side, they have some nice heart-warming words of encouragement in the manual to give you that warm fuzzy feeling if you screw something up…

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    First thing I’m going to tackle is the engine, which should look like this:

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    As a sidebar, researching this car for good reference pictures is hard - there’s plenty of photos out there, but the car was redone later and has some fairly substantial changes to about everything but the body.  For instance, here’s the engine as the car is today:

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    As such, I need to do some figuring out and make some assumptions when it comes to detailing this build…I suspect they just didn’t take a bunch of photos of this car as they were building it so they aren’t out there to find…

    Here’s the engine parts as they come:

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    A good starting point, but there’s some little details missing that I’d like to add to make this thing a little more accurate:

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    That hollow air filter was first thing that needed to go, so I scratchbuilt a replacement, then turned to that little catchcan that you see on LT1s that sits between the passenger side valve cover and the pulleys.  Now, the Chezoom has a little cap atop that can that (somewhat) matches the one on the valve cover so I made a Silly Putty mould so I could replicate it:

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    Actually, a bunch of them:

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    And then after the first batch got smart and added some gray dye to the resin so I could actually see the finished piece properly.

    Next up, drilled the engine for hoses, added an alternator bracket and made some plug wire looms out of brass so I can route the plug leads nicely, then scratchbuilt that dipstick that you can see on the 1:1 that looks like it’s maybe for the trans fluid?

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    Starting to look like the real thing a little more!  I was surprised how little unpainted billet there is on this car considering Boyd’s reputation for using it for everything…won’t need the lathe as much as I thought for this build!

    That’s about where I’m at with this one so far - just getting rolling.  If anyone has any good detail shots of the original version of this car please feel free to post them below…more soon! 

    I've been looking for a product that can be used for making molds year round,how big of a piece have you made...

    Testor's is No More

    in Model Building Questions and Answers

    Posted

    On 2/24/2021 at 4:20 AM, kurth said:

    MCW, and Scale Finishes  have engine colors. You can also find spray cans of actual engine paint.

    https://mcwfinishes.com/shop/ols/search?keywords=engine&sortOption=descend_by_match 

    http://www.scalefinishes.com/Engine.html

    https://www.amazon.com/VHT-SP119-Engine-Enamel-Orange/dp/B0028V6SI2

    Hope it helps. I know it is not as easy as buying a bottle of model master at the hobby store, but there are plenty of alternatives.

    thanks for the info

    Cooper barn find

    in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers

    Posted

    On 8/9/2017 at 6:39 PM, absmiami said:

    Wow - my first build blog - finally got an "eye phone" - and learned how to take pictures - and even download them.

    So into the modern world we go ......

    Buried somewhere on the workbench is a 1/24th Merit Cooper FIII.  Kinda rare.  Bought mine years ago as semi-built-up.  Started but not painted or finished.  Gonna actually build this with a thin-cast resin body from Guido or ScaleKraft fame.  It's a knock-off of the Merit body with a nice thin casting.  Also kinda rare - I've never seen another one.  To the best of my knowledge, Guido stopped casting before he actually produced a resin kit of the Cooper - which is a shame.  Anyway, I'm a complete sucker for Merit kits - got a bunch.

    Delayed this build until I found some photo-etch that could be used for the chain drive - which I finally stumbled upon recently

    - more on this later.

    This is not a "real time" build.  The work on the body and chassis was begun earlier this year.  I'll post as I have time and sort of catch up on the build as I near completion.

    Here goes .

     

     

     

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    now this is workbench I can relate to...

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