Joe Handley

So here are the Raptors Dad and I built for the club Christmas Party. Dad’s is the Monster Truck built from the Raptor Make and Take kit, Lindbergh Weird-O’s Ram Monster Truck for the engine, axles, floor pan, and seat, 1/32 AMT USA-1 Monster Truck for the wheels and tires, then scratch built the frame, cage, leaves, and drive shafts from Evergreen products. He shot it in Tamiya White topped with their Fluorescent Red on the body, seat, and wheels, with a matte black on the chassis and axles. Mine is mostly box stock with the exception of the Fireball Modelwerks KMC Wheels and Goodyear Tires, then scratch built the bed bar and spare tire holder using a strip of masking time as a strap for the spare as well as a couple lengths of K&S aluminum tube for the tail pipes that I also slightly notched the back bumper for. The wheels and front skid plate are all in Tamiya’s Gold and Matte Clear sprays with Testors semigloss black for the caps and rings as well as other Testors colors over the black plastic the truck interior and bed was molded in. The body, spare tire holder, bed bar and rails, and chassis/bumpers are in two different types of Krylon Black. The main color is Matte Black while the flares and all the rest are a textured black to resemble bedliner. It’s also been lowered after being inspired by Vaugh Gettin Jr’s Fun Haver F-150 Pre-Runner that was also bagged so he could drop it low for smooth and paved surface shenanigans but could be aired up and be used off road like a proper pre-runner.

I saw a transporter truck leaving a local rail yard that had a few of those on it, first time I had seen any of them in person too. Usually I just see Teslas leaving that yard.

Here’s a couple more pics of our builds from the contest table. I am also very proud to say that Dad’s build won the contest this year too! One thing I did find both a bit funny and totally appropriate was the downloaded song in my 200’s head unit that came up shortly after we left the restaurant the party was at.

Lighting isn’t great, but here’s Dad’s and my Raptors on the table at the club Christmas party. I’ll try and get better pics in light tomorrow.

It should turn the charging part off or maybe go to a trickle charge mode, shouldn’t just keep dumping juice at a set rate until being unplugged.

I should add that my Dad is building one two, though he went further with his scratch building as well as some kit bashing with a couple different monster truck kits. The two trucks are going to be polar opposites of each other and have considerably different attitudes than the box stock snapper kit has.

Waiting on the semi gloss black I have on the wheel faces to dry and the exterior will be done. May need to play around with with that bed bar a bit more as it doesn’t want to sit square. Otherwise, it’s just down to researching what the interior looks like and painting that! Kinda wanted it to look like something that Ranger from Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum Mysteries series would have in his RangeMan fleet, think I’m pulling that off!

The Raptor is now mostly in paint, just need to take care of the interior, paint the beadlock rings on the wheels, then assemble it!

Picked up this little 1/43 Heller Citroen 11CV at the Butch O’Hare IPMS show a month ago (for A DOLLAR!) and decided I was going to build it as a mild Hot Rod, starting with getting the right stance. Since it is extra basic, the wheels are held on with just axles coming off the chassis plate, so I cut those off and replaced them with some rod of a similar diameter that will be glued to the top Of the chassis plate to drop it a little. I’m planning on shaving the handles, losing the bumpers and a few other things while cleaning up the flash.

Thanks, was busy playing g with the R/Cs over the summer and spent part of September in the hospital and 1/2 of the month sick……..plus I have been procrastinating on this build that needs to be done by next Saturday🤦🏻

My club has a group project where we all have to build Make and Take 2017 Ford Raptors and I kinda procrastinated on mine but do have it to where I should be able to start laying paint if it warms back up any. Was going to try and set it up like a hopper style Lowrider model since I was planning on building it like the Vaugh Gittin Jr Fun Haver F150 that was set up like a prerunner but had bags instead of coils and have it be able to motor up and down, but the motor that I could barely get to fit wasn’t powerful enough to get it to raise off the deck, so it’s going to Keep this as it’s default stance instead. I trimmed the front bumper along the lines of how the Colorado and Canyon ZR2 bumpers are shaped and scratch build a bed bar and spare tire mount for the Fireball Model Works KMC wheel and Goodyear tire set I’m also going to use on it.

lol, you’re welcome!

No clue who was shooting, but that radical Ford Kustom started out as a Ranchero that had been wrecked at least once and at one point had sequential turn lights almost a decade before Shelby put those on his GT500. From what I remember reading, those turn signals had caused such a ruckus that the cops nearly arrested them!

I’d be happy just finding the Revell kit right now.

No, unfortunately.

My 2012 Chrysler 200 hit 150k on the way to the model club meeting Saturday night!

Did a bit more work on this last night, planning on modifying the eyebrow portions over the headlights and smoothed over the areas that I had filled in.

I’m at the point that I’m leaning towards the self drivers at this point?

Thanks, I still find it hysterical that the older versions of this kit are now going for $45 or more, they have to be higher than their asking prices!

Could even be a Waterhouse, has the same “trunk” as the Waterhouse builds that I’m finding, just different wheels. https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/sj12/lots/r117-1930-packard-745-deluxe-eight-convertible-victoria-by-waterhouse-co/

I’m think I may strip the wheels and paint them body color, then dry brush the spokes, or even strip all the chrome and paint those a bronze color with the fenders and body painted black. I’m just trying to figure out who did the coach work on the body of the car this was based on, as it looks like there were several different names, but I’m not sure if that was for who built the body vs who first owned the cars….. I am a bit out of my element when it comes to these sorts of cars.

Anybody know much about this kit? Bought it at the club raffle almost 2 months ago and it looks like a good little kit, but other than maybe being originally a Renwal kit from 1966, I can’t find much.

Didn’t think about gauge lenses too, that’s a great idea!

Between work, going to the gym, wrenching on R/Cs, then getting a 24hr bug and Recuperating from that, I haven’t had a chance to work on this until tonight. Since the kit kindey bean wheels weren’t going to cut it for a sled and the choices are limited in 1/32 scale, I ran to Hobby Lobby Saturday and picked up this container of wiggley eyes in an assortment of sized for $5 to use for this and any additional kits. I these would work great for a custom van builds too, as there’s a pretty good range of diameters as well as oval eyes too! Found that the 10mm eyes were the right size to fit the kit wheels. Put my caliper to them, here’s what I’m using in both Metric and in Inches with a decimal point. Since the plastic these are made from us really thin, I decided to fill them in with UV resin to give them some solidity. Not worried about the opacity since I’m going to paint or foil them anyway. This was my easy way of holding the little UV light to cure those, just taped it to a big roll of tape over the dome. Then I used some more of the resin to help fill in the quarters and hood where I was going to get rid of the blower and fully skirt the quarters, used this UV nail polish curing thing to help there. and here’s how it sits for now, only needed to make 2 hub caps since the rears would be fully covered, but these should give a good idea of how the car is going to look.