Golden Commando AWB

[papajohn97]

This is the excellent Moebius kit of the '65 Plymouth altered wheel base Hilborn FI A/FX aka "one of those funny looking drag cars".  Other than gold decals from Fremont Racing Specialties (the kit decals are tan) and a Detail Master distributor/ plug wires and tach and misc. wires, I built this one OOB.  I didn't like the kit supplied chrome plated injector velocity stacks and stripped the chrome with oven cleaner and painted them Alclad Chrome over black gloss lacquer. I painted the front bumper with Tamiya bare metal aluminum and the body paint is airbrushed using Scalefinishes.com base paints with Tamiya TS-13 clear coat.  These Moebius '65 Plymouths assemble really nicely.  I wish they also made a '65 Dodge AWB that I could put some Dick Landy decals on.

[Scott8950]

Very nice

[Matt T.]

Very cool! Beautiful build. Last I knew, Model King Dave Burket was planning a ‘65 Dodge AWB…

[TransAmMike]

Very nice replica build?

[cobraman]

Very sharp and your right, they are nice kits.

[Brutalform]

Excellent job. Big improvement on the injector stacks. 
Too bad the only 65 Dodge version is in resin. 
Nice model. 

[larman]

Excellent work! Great paint, decals and detailng!

[PappyD340]

Super nice Mopar!

[Zippi]

Nice looking ride.  Well done.

[Phildaupho]

Very well built replica of a great subject of drag racing history. 

[espo]

Beautiful looking finishes. 

[High octane]

A beautiful job on that AWB car John, really beautiful.

[plasticprime]

Fantastic build! Everything about it is first-class!

[deuces wild]

Nice work John!!!!!.. And a big thanks for allowing me to post those pictures on the hamb... 

Them guys on there love this stuff....?

[james220]

Never was much into any kind of drag racing, except maybe street racing, but with that said that is one of the nieces altered wheel base cars I've ever seen. Clean as a pen. Really super work. 

[drodg]

Yes looks fantastic.   Moebius needs to do a few 65 Dodges 

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[slusher]

Outstanding!

[Nacho Z]

Wow, John, that is such a nice looking AWB!  You’ve really nailed it.  Great job!

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[bogger44]

Dude that looks killer, very well done!  Those velocity stacks came out beautiful.  This gives me more inspiration to build mine.  Been looking for a color that's close to that burnt orange in aerosol (don't have an airbrush) but haven't found any to my liking yet.

[papajohn97]

Thank’s guys for the kind comments. Bogger44 - I used Scalefinishes “Dodge Viper Stryker Orange” basecoat along with a white basecoat.  Scalefinishes basecoats work great for two-tone paint schemes, I rarely get any bleed thru at the masked edges (I use green Frog tape). I’ve given up trying to use gloss lacquers for two-tones, the solvents in the lacquers just laugh at my masking barriers and bleed right thru!

[dragcarz]

Just beautiful 

[echo]

Nice clean build. I have the kit and have built a couple of resin AWB kits.  You did an excellent job on the kit.

[wrenchr]

Going to have to start building mine!!