The way I would go at building a hatch Citation would be to pick up a Cavalier of the same vintage. The hatch on the Cavalier is VERY close to the X11.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Johann! Unfortunately though, I don't have near enough time to cast it myself. Shortly, I will be making a shift change to 1st (FINALLY!!) and then my building time will be cut in half. I mostly build during the day before work and when my wife and daughter are sleeping.
He claimed that the roof was crooked, that I would have to remove the firewall, cut closer to the window openings, make new windows for it, headlights, taillights, and a grille to name a few.
I tried to express to him what he could be potentially walking away from............I mean, he had never even heard of this car but has done countless Merc chops, and Fords, and etc.
There really are a lot of people that would be interested in this vintage styled/pro touring style Ferrari. I DO want others to be able to enjoy this model body I have put together but I don't even want to think about doing some of the mods he said he needed.
I know what is in this body and I don't want to risk making it weaker......afterall in the end, this S.O.B. didn't even exist in 1/24 or 1/25 scale EVER before this!
Thank you sir! You are too kind.
Thanks Bernard!
Not sure right now after today if it is going to get cast anymore..........he found fault with several things on the body.
He did not want to do any extra work on the body.....I would have to do it all. Besides, who knows when I would get it back.
Just finished scribing the door lines and installing the rocker trim moldings.......it is getting dropped off by Jimmy Flintstone today at 12:00 noon.
It is small steps away from reality folks!!
Actually having thought about it now, the two airboxes are going to get mounted near those inlets so the vents will feed air into them.
Hadn't got that far being the body was taking all my thought up till now.
Putting the finishing touches on it, trying to get it ready to drop off by Jimmy this weekend. Hopefully.....
Thanks Don! You know I never thought about the air situation......I liked the way it looked coming into the fender like that. There will be a separation bar (like the 1:1) on my finished car body.....I wont be able to get the separation bar on the resin body because it would be too hard to pull from the mold being that resin would get behind it. Thank you for the interest.
Thanks to all for the words of encouragement guys!
This car NEEDS to be available to anyone to use as part of a build......that is why I am doing this.
The fact that the only known example of this car is still $150 is just unacceptable to me.
There is a guy I just met that would have his gears turning over that photo Dan. LOL
A guy from the Kustom Kemps group who likes to build drag cars out of things you would not expect.....
Already sized it up with the remnants of Cobra parts I have left from the Ferrari build......The Cobra front end is too narrow and rounded for this. The ideas are helping my thought process though.
Thanks guys! I am pretty close where I am at right now on the build, and I don't even have the front end glued together yet. I feel confident that I can nail this if I can get the front end together. Been looking for an Aston Oscar, but I may have a line on a Maserati 3500gt that is rather close to what I need.