Rocking Rodney Rat

the worst drivers in the western hemisphere...

My favorite cover of all time, from my favorite band...RIP Grant Hart...-RRR

Sorry, I guess I missed that one. I've been storing pix on fotki for years and have never had any problems. Apparently my pix were stored on servers that were on stilts. Lucky me. -RRR

you mean photobucket.... -RRR

Good for you! Support local independent businesses. -RRR

It's painted and being assembled now. Next installment over on the 'under glass' page... -RRR

Right...I remember now...-RRR

I keep coming back this truck!!! Every part fits together perfectly, the grille and shell lead the way, the flipper caps... and rest just flows...... Did you section that body? I forget.... -RRR

Sweet indeed!!! Glad to see this one FINALLY finished! Paint came out great!! And your'e right, didn't need the door decal! -RRR

I haven't posted up a finished build in a while. This creation started with the AMT Phantom Vickie [sic] body with the cowl from a Revell '32 sedan grafted on for the windshield. A cabriolet has a fixed windshield as part of the body whereas a roadster has a separate windshield that is bolted (or otherwise attached) to the body. Buncha buildup pix here http://public.fotki.com/jferren/32-vicky-cabriolet/ ... -RRR

Welcome back to the hobby. I've been to this place a few times when I've been out your way. Cool store: http://www.pegasushobbies.net/catalog/ -RRR

Sweetness...love me some FED...well done.-RRR

Welcome! I used to live in Maine (the only state whose name is one syllable), still get up there most summers. Beautiful place....-RRR

Slowly working on the tub and doing lots of little stuff that's not too exciting or picture worthy, getting the interior side panels to fit and rescribing the rear door lines on them, engine mounts, cutting down the airbags so the rear axle sits lower, stuff like that... Since the body was a skoshe (I believe that's a metric measurement) short, the hood and sides need to be lengthened that amount. Fitment is better than the pic would indicate... I'm using an SBC so the block hugger headers from the Revell '37 cabriolet are being putv to use.....exhaust system all one piece, not sure I've ever done this before... Today I started on the ragtop which was sourced from the Revell '30 Model 'A' pheaton. Some cutting and gluing going on...much more to be done here but I have a fairly good start on it...the triangle shaped side curtain needs to be worked on, seams will receive half-round Evergreen pieces... -RRR

This kit:

Yes, it's a Lincoln V12 flathead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln-Zephyr_V12_engine It went into this build: http://public.fotki.com/jferren/a-boner/ -RRR

Interesting subject matter....That is one of the cleanest builds I think I have ever seen. Put that in a diorama and most people would think it's 1:1. -RRR

I like it. -RRR

Nice clean work going on here. -RRR

East Coast Style, channel, no chop. Never really liked the look, too top heavy to my eye, but it is a thing. Your rendition is looking good. Will be watching. -RRR

Yeah, I guess you're right, all the pieces are from existing tooling...gladly in scale, too!!! The rest of the build is pretty much straight forward pieces from the existing kits. The sedan interior tub as well as side panels pretty much dropped in. I ended up using the Rat Roaster roadster body and chopped windshield. It is a completely different body than the original roadster body. I will be using the rat roaster dash as well....Figuring out engine mounts now, for the Rat Roaster blown SBC (block hugger headers from the Revell '37 will be used). I did mock up the blower belt assembly with the front cover/water pump etc and it does fit lengthwise in the engine compartment. More to follow.... -RRR

Alright, alright, alright....I haven't been posting or lurking much lately. Been super busy...KK and I ventured west to the City of Angels (Orange County to be precise, but you can smell LA from there and that's close enough) the other weekend, January 26-28 to be exact, to hang with our pal ADL (Dennis Lacy) and attend the Grand National Roaster Show at the Ponoma Fairplex. Wild time was had by all. In addition to the show we got to tour five (!!!) hot rod shops while we were out there. We hung out with the Rolling Bones guys and went on their garage tour to see some AMAZING historic cars, met celebrities such as Bruce Meyer (of Meyer's Manx fame), Dennis Varni, Gary Schroeder (of the steering box company) and others.... We stopped by the Brookville Roadster Company booth at the show. They make steel versions of Ford cars. Their latest is a Chip Foose designed phaeton they are dubbing the Phanton (phantom Pheaton). Only 32 of the real cars are being made and I just had build one more in 1/25th scale.... do it in scale. As you can see, it's a roadster cowl, with 3 window doors and a wagon rear end. No problem, just drag out these three Revell bodies.... Next choose the pieces of the three needed to make the Phanton.... Now drag out the Sawzall and start hacking.... Now put the pieces all together like this.... The body came out an RCH short so the firewall didn't quite snug up to the body and sat a bit high. I cut off a skoshe (these are all technical terms here) on the top of the interior tub's toe board (from the sedan version of the kit) and then added a .020" strip around the back edge of the firewall where it meets the cowl. There, I fixed it. You can see where the firewall doesn't quite line up here. The rest of the build will pretty much be out of the various Revell '32 kits. I'm using the blown SBC from the Rat Roaster kit. Fenderless. The ragtop from the Revell '30 A Phaeton will be modified to fit..... That's where I am today.... -RRR

It's giving me a woody....-RRR

very realistic weathering, well done. -RRR