chuckinredneck

Last time I talked to Ed was at the Fulton show back in Nov. At the show he had a sign saying he was going out of buisness which he confirmed while I was talking to him Said he was looking to sell everything as a packaged deal. He said that when his stock was gone that was gonna be it. I grabed some of his resin parts as much as I could afford at the time. I haven't talked to him since then. I did talke to a person who knows him much better than I do a couple weeks ago and what he said was that Ed never found anyone to buy the buisness so when he can afford some more resin then he will make some more stuff, But like I said that is word a of a friend of his friend so I can't say that is the full truth

nice looking Mopar I started one of these gonna have to pull it back out. sharp looker

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the compliments. Got to say sorry I'm not sure where the pictures went to the are still on my Photobucket account http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/chuckinredneck/34%20Ford%20Altered/ Getting started on a Johan Comet Prostock kit not sure what I'm gonna do with this one, but pictures will be coming soon

Took awhile but I got the 34 Ford Altered Done and added it to my stable of Drag Cars. The base kit is the WWB "Winged Express" which was built up as instructed but then I added a few details to it like the spark plug wires and fuel lines as well as the Throttle linkage at the rear base of the injectors. The headers were drilled out, Most of the chrome peices were stripped and repainted with different shades of metal. The wheels had valve stems added to them and the rear tires are the kit tires but they were sanded to give them a better look also the I rounded up the square edges of the tires. Jimmy Flintstone supplied the 34 Ford Rat "T" body used in this build I picked it up at NNL East last year. After soaking in Westley's Bleach White for 24 hours I sanded off the drip rails, hinges and door handles and door lines were filled and I shot with a coat of Plasti-Kote Primer and the blue is Dupicolor Pre-Mixed shot through my airbrush then the dry transfer decals were put on. I shot 4 coats of clear Lacquear sanding after each coat except after the first coat. After the last coat of Clear I worked my way up to a 12,000 grit sandpaper. Then buffed it out using two cuts of polishing compound then wax. Hope you enjoy the pictures of the "Freedom Runner" 34 Ford Altered Hope you enjoyed my build if you would like to see more picture of it during the build check them out here http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/chuckinredneck/34%20Ford%20Altered/

I had to take the wheel wells from the WWB kit and graft them to the 34 body but I felt this opened the wheel wells too much so I grabbed some plastic and filled in front of the wheels about 0.040 inch, behind the wheels gained 0.100 inch. now the wheel wells look about right. After getting the body all smoothed out again it got taken to the paint shop, lol my garage, where it was shot with a nice metallic blue then I layed down some dry rub decals that were meant for a pine car that the Boy Scouts build and race. When I first put on the graphic they were less than Impressive to me, but after shooting on the first coat of clear I changed my mind and am no longer thinking of tossing the body into the purple lake. I still have to lay down a couple more coats of clear and take care of some minor details before I can call this one done

A couple shots of my Groovy Grader I picked up the kit at the local flee market for $5. The decals were shot and the chrome tree was rough but all the pieces were there. I stripped the chrome from almost all the pieces then shot it with Alclad. The end of the headers was drilled out before it was treated to the Alclad. The bottom side of the body closed up with some plastic and body filler. I filled the engine block with 5 minute epoxy to give it enough weight to keep the front wheel off the ground, but then it will also set on all six wheels. To give the build a little character I added fuel lines and spark plug wires

Everything so far is looking great I'll have to watch this one now

Just a quick Update the engine is now mounted in the chassis I got fuel lines to and from the tank. The kit didn't supply any brakes for the rear axle so I'm checking out what I have that I can use. My progress has been slow but it's still progressing. I'm Gonna start preping the body for paint I've already soaked it in Westley's Bleach White, it has a few pinholesto take care of and I've got to fix the rear of the wheel wells. I'm half temted to cut off the rear of this body and put on a reguler 34 Ford. this body looks like they used a Truttle deck from a Model "T"

I've been working on a altered project using a Winged Express kit as the basis and a 34 Ford resin body from Jimmy Flinstone. For starters I mocked up the chassis, engine and body As I detailed the engine I fitted the body to the chassis I just finished up on the engine with the throttle linkage I'm looking through some parts trying to locate an external oil filter

I have to appologize to everyone. Due to unforseen circumstances no Advertising ended up in any magazine this year for the Syracuse Mini Nationals. I t is still going on the weekend of July18,19,and 20. at the New York State Fairgrounds in conjucntion with the Syracuse Nationals. It will once again be in the Horticulture BuildingAdmision to the contest is free and will include atwo day pass for the Syracuse Nationals,(You will have to pay gate Admissions when you enter the grounds. The building will be open each day from 9 to 5 pm, Contest models must be entered by 4:30 pm on Saturday, Awards will be at 12 noon on sunday. I f you want more information you can contact me at Chuck Jorgensen 315-695-7194 or Jack Grosso 315-454-5643 Thanks Chuck

I was able to do some wet sanding and shoot some clear poly on the body and it don't look too bad, it won't win any awards for best paint but I wasn't going to start over, LOL. I'll learn from the mistakes I made on this one and do better on the next one. When I got done with the body I decided the chassis wasn't right so I changed it a little bit After a few touch-ups and a couple more little changes I'm going to stamp this one done.

Looking real good should be sharp when done Chuck J

Excellent build you got going the nice paint and details Chuck J

Ineeded to do a little more cover-up work from my attempt to letter the body so I added to the flames. I think they look a bit better now as well. I figured this was going to be about as far as I would go with the paint job so I shot the body with clear. the paint on the cherry on the rear cracked up for some reason while everthing else came out fine. All the grafics were done with the same paint. and here is the front Going to have to figure a way to fix it or at least make the best of a bad situation Chuck J

Good to hear it Kully55 sounds like an interesting build. I have a 41 Plymouth setting on the shelf waiting to do something to it. I was thinking fenderless with a hemi and huge meats in the back. I tried to paint Cherry Bomb on the side of the Fiat and I turely messed it up. I was able to cover it up with some flames that don't look too bad. The body needs to be cleared and I'm making a couple changes to the Chassis then this build will be done. Chuck J

Kully55 I made the headers from aluminum tubing I picked up at a local hobby shop in the train section. It's from K&S Engineering or K&S metals I'm not sure which it was now. To bend it I stuck a piece of wire the same as the inside diameterinto the tubing then bent the tubing and pull the wire out or else the tubing will collapse on you. After the tube was bent and cut to size I drilled the end out as much as I dared to. Good luck with your project.

I've had some good times and bad times that combined to keep me from this build but things are settleing back down so here I go. Even though I've only had a little time here and there to work on this build over time a lot got done. I didn't like the injector line that I had on here so I changed them and ran a line down to the fuel pump. On the body I had to strip all the paint of Because i didn't get it clean enough the first time then I shot it with more primer a silver base coat then 4 coate of Candy Apple Red As part of the good times I got to meet Larry Henley at the Syracuse Mini Nationals and he did a seminar on painting graphics. I gave it a try and here you go I introduce to you the Cherry Bomb. Thank you Larry there will be more graphic in the works Chuck J

here's what the headers looked like now they are done Chuck J

Got some more work done on the Fiat. I finished the front suspension and all the steering components. The wing was painted Testors Aluminum Plate Metalizer. Not real sure I care for this big wing on here so I will have to look for the smaller wing from the Bantam Blast and see how that looks. The Headeers from the winged express kit wouldn't fit under the body so I'm making some new ones from Aluminum tubing. These need to be shortened up a little bit. I need to make up some kind of firewall but I haven't been able to find any good pictures of the inside of the body yet, to see how they built them back then

Got a bit of work done on the Fiat. I filled the door lines on the body. The chrome on the blower was messed up so I stripped the chrome and painted it back on. fuel lines were run for the injectors, but they may get redone. The fins on the valve covers and scoop received a red wash, Spark plug wires with boots for the plugs were run. When I set the body back on the chassis it sat on the Magneto so I'm going to have to cut the whole in the hood a bit more. Chuck J

That is looking great nice job good looking casting Chuck J

Good luck with this buils it'll mean a lot to you

your truck is looking good I've been wondering about them Lindberg Kits, Looks like I might have to try one Chuck J

I recently went to a swap meet and came up with my new project. The body is a Jimmy Flintstone fiat and the Winged Express Altered kit. With this build I get to do 2 things I've been wanting to do for a long time. First is build a Fiat Topolino bodied drag car, second is I'm finally giving resin a try. When I was cutting out the windows and roof I learned resin is softer than plastic luckily it wasn't a real bad opps and I was able to fix it easily. Next I assembled the chassis and taped the suspension in place so I could fit the body to the chassis and cut the hole in the hood for the blower. I wanted the drag slicks to look like they've done a burnout or 2, so I used 220 sandpaper to take the sheen off the tires and then 80 grit to rough them up and I finished them up by turning them on 40 grit. After I got the suspesion permanately in place I found I needed to remove more material from around the wheel wells, to clear the roll bar, and the blower belt. This picture gives a good idea of how things are going to look when the build is done. The slicks were mounted in the direction they were turned on the 40 grit sandpaper. For right now the engine is just set together in place and that will be my next project on this build. Chuck J