oldcarfan Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 (edited) This is my attempt at a belly tanker. I shared it in the wrong place earlier, so I have put it here now. It's a curbside (saltside?), I never finished it inside because we moved, but maybe someday. Edited July 20, 2015 by oldcarfan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasser59 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Me likes. I plan to build one of these one day. Where did you get the body? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I also like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBorg Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 It may be your first effort at a belly tanker, but it is a great job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintagercr Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 It looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfan Posted August 1, 2015 Author Share Posted August 1, 2015 It's a homemade body, made one afternoon when I was long on ambition and short on money. I searched the internet for a profile of a P38 belly tank and printed it out to scale. I carved a body half out of Balsa, I didn't have any fiberglass cloth, so I stretched a piece of old T-shirt tightly over it. I had an old can of Bondo fiberglass resin that was still good. I made two halves and bonded them together. A little sanding, smoothing and painting and some scrap parts and I had a belly tank. I started a 1/10 scale version to see if I could make a radio control version and go really fast, but moving put that on hold. Maybe some day I'll get back to it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korsair Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Nice beginning effort. Hopefully you'll get back to it, look forward to seeing it done. I have long been a huge fan of bellytankers. I have built only one so far, a 1/32nd scale effort. Of course, I had the tanks to work from by using a Revell P-38 kit in 1/32, the rest of the parts come from either Lindberg or Monogram kits. I call her Lil' Blu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryR Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Cool. Bonneville cars are under represented in modeling and are some of the coolest, most amazing cars in racing. Nice scratch-building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfan Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 Nice beginning effort. Hopefully you'll get back to it, look forward to seeing it done. I have long been a huge fan of bellytankers. I have built only one so far, a 1/32nd scale effort. Of course, I had the tanks to work from by using a Revell P-38 kit in 1/32, the rest of the parts come from either Lindberg or Monogram kits. I call her Lil' Blu. Looks really good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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