Furiousgeorge

Thanks! I just couldn’t built it out of the box like it was, and I have a few of the ‘71 Chargers, so I figured I’d give it a shot.

Thanks! They’re factory printed.

Thanks! The paint is Tamiya rattle can metallic red.

The first try on a cut fender. Not terrible, I needed to make the cut line a bit more random, but I think I can fix that.

I picked up some of the aluminum tape, and started messing about with it. I think it’ll work nicely with some practice. Made a full fender and bent it up some. I’ll do the front 1/3rd or so if each fender, the rad support, the bottom panel under the grille, and the front bit of the inner fenders. I ended up sticking the tape to some regular tin foil to strengthen it up some without making it too thick.

Not sure why the Monaco parts (I hear the chassis is Monaco as well?), but it’s the only game in town so a guys gotta make due. I have ged our the tires and wheels, went with stock rallyes and the pad printed Polyglas tires from the ‘68 Roadrunner. Much better.

Thanks! I’ll give that a try.

Where can I get some? That sounds way easier then trying to wrinkle the plastic.

It’s a resin piece from Fireball Modelworks. As good as it looks in the picture, it’s way better when you’ve got it in your hand! His stuff is fantastic!

Thanks! I still have the rally wheels that it came with, but the tires are terrible. I’m looking for better ones, might go with the Polyglas tires from the AMT Roadrunner.

Any suggestions are welcome! I’m not so far along that I can’t add/change things. The pictures willl help greatly, and I’ve added them to my pile. The rad and fan are next, being copper they all seem to tend to just bend with the rad support, and get chewed up a bit by the fan hub more then the fan, as you’d mentioned. It’ll be a tight squeeze with this car, with all the bending and twisting, there isn’t much room in there anymore!

Thanks! I may change out the tires and rims though. When I started it, I was going for a ‘70’s street machine type of look. But seeing the pictures, the fronts just seem too big.

Oh man! I’d cry myself to death if that would have been me! Great inspirational pics though! I think on the next one I’d remove fenders and mess with buckeled doors and whatnot, but this one is more of a “let’s see if I can do it” build. I’m pushing myself quite a bit with this one, learning and figuring out all kinds of stuff on the fly. I hear you on doing the inner engine bay structure! Gives me headaches trying to figure out “if the fenders bent this way, what would the inner fender do?”

Thanks! I was figuring they’d be fiberglass. Now to just figure out how to break the scoops so’s they look convincing.....

I mixed up a grime wash, then just as it was nearly dry, coated it in real powdered rust.

After years sitting in the corner of my bench, finally got this one done! Has a ‘71 Charger engine bay, chassis and engine. Not the greatest kit, and added issues with the Charger parts, but I got it together!

Ingot a bit of a break, and got some engine work done. I know it should be orange, but I wanted to try out a new brand of paint. Still have to make an open distributor, broken fan belt, and exhaust, but it’s coming along nicely. Moving slowly, but still going. I did finish a ‘74 GTX that I’ve had going for years. Good to get that one off the bench!

Got a bit done on this, some rust holes and primer.

I think that would be beyond my skill level! It’s hard enough getting the rad support and inner fenders to match the little bend that is there!

Got some work done on the grille, tedious business, but I like how it’s turning out.

Ha, forgot about them! They have the scoops as plastic “just like the originals”, it don’t have the air box listed that I could find. I did find on a few for sale adds and other places that have them as a composite plastic of some kind, so I’m going with that.

Does anyone know if the under hood air grabber set up is plastic or metal? And the dual hood scoops metal or plastic? Google tells me they’re each both, so not helpful.

Started this one last night. I’ve rusted a kit before, but wrecking one is completely new territory for me! Should be fun! I tried hot water, but couldn’t get much from that method, so I’m using one of my wife tea candles and needle nose pliers.

How is the Daytona a 2n1? Stock car or drag car parts? I don't recall any of the previous releases being anything other then stock.

Looks great! One of my favorite cars!