bill-e-boy

Hia Mathias - I apologise for hijacking your thread for a wee rant. You are doing a great job and the paint job looks kool Cheers Bill-e-boy

Such a pain to pay $$$$$ for a kit to have this sort of thing to happen. Real pain as I live in New Zealand which is even further away from Revells call centre and when I tried for a replacement part which was supported with a photo they sent me the wrong thing - once bitten etc - but I still end up with unusable kits Revell needs to sort this sort of issue out as I have two unusable 29 Roadsters with the same issue and I am reluctant to spend NZ$95 for a kit that has this sort of dog droppings in it "RANT (sheep) RANT (shina) blah (sh...) blah"

Great builds Tim The blue one is very nice with the poseable steering I note that you have used the A La Kart interior in both builds. An excellent interior but not sure how comfortable it would be in real life though. I too have used this interior in a couple of my A roadster build ups I also see that you have added the chassis reveals to the green car - the AMT frame does not have these. This would have been cutting edge back in the 70's. And a hi-boy to boot as just about all the current builds at that time were resto-rods Cool

Awesome build and well done

Kepp up the good work. Kit bashing is challenging work but, in the end rewarding too. I recently channeled a 32 coupe. The interior sides had about 5mm cut from the bottoms. The rear wall was sectioned the same amount, but the shape was too wide at the bottom. The pix show the wedge shapes removed from the sides of the back panel form the interior side to line up with the rear wall. you can see the faint line where the rear wall has been sectioned. There are most probably a number of ways to section the interior but this is what I did

Could use the Tamiya Toyoda as a starting point

It has what looks like a little V8-60 in it The one behind it is interesting too - looks like it has a Lincoln V12 for power

Built this kit recently and had to move the rear attachment points for the wheels about 3mm backwards and a little less for the front end. Both ends are misaligned This shows as a misalignment if you look at the chassis but as the rear end and front end are moulded in you cannot move these. I was not too concerned on how that looked - my main focus was topside. I did not have a 67 Fairlane GT(A) to hand so I did not concentrate too much on the chassis. I believe the kit has origins as an annual from 1969 and most probably a promo as it looks like it may have had screws to attach the chassis to the body With the dodgy chassis wheelbase alignment "fixed" my version came out OK

Looking good Nothing like a bit of pressure lol

Tribute thread

The Buttera 26 T chassis is too short to fit under the A guards - I lengthened mine after being shown a similar conversion by @tim boyd There is a similar build thread going on with lots of reference pix - look for Tim Boyd Tribute build Just not sure how to imbed a link to the thread

Nice build Bob

Just could not stand the refrigerator white paint - just does not scream hot rod. So into the dunk it goes. I use brake fluid and it took some effort with a brass wire brush, a toothbrush and a tooth pick to get all of the paint off but all the better for the effort The chop job was a good one so hopefully not too much body work will be needed to get it ready for paint While the body was going for a swim I have been working on the engine and interior The engine is wired with a prewired distributor that has been in my aftermarket box for yonks. The coil I turned up a while ago when I wanted one so made 4 or five for future projects. The valleys on the rocker covers were painted satin black as was the block and trans In the original build the interior was stripped down and painted aluminium to represent a race type ally interior. It was cleaned up and reprayed with Alclad polished aluminium The dash is a sectioned width wise from a 69 Cobra race car option - for the race car look. When I was looking for a dash I found that one from a Revell 40 coupe id a drop in for the Revell 32 rods - will keep that for another project street rod project More to come Thanks for looking

get them from electrical supply wharehouses I am an industrial electrician and use hundreds of them when I build a control panel. The ones I use have an insulated end but if you carefully cut that off you have what is shown in the OP pix You can get them uninsulated as shown as well

Narrow - the wide whites get lost by the full chrome wheel covers Mediums - so so My 2 cents worth

Another beauty Alan. The top chop is just right and what this kit needs IMO to look right Kool

" I really do not like seam lines on parts. The chrome on the spare tires had a very bad seam line. So I sanded it and repainted it with spaz stix. Came out pretty good. Better than expected. " This has been the bane of model of model building forever. I used to leave the chrome with the mould seam lines until Alcad the Molotow came along - they are a game changer. We can now clean up the seam lines and repaint and it looks so much better And good work with this ancient kit

I have seen it before. The chrome sprue is a separate sprue from the rest of the car as it is further processed. As the sprue is to be covered so it does not matter that the plastic is a different colour as the rest of the kit. The marbelling is caused by mixing different colour raw plastic beads that go into the hopper that feeds the injection moulder. It is common that a certain percentage of reground waste material is added to virgin material - usually from the runners that feed the sprues It may have been a visual sign to the plant operators that the sprue was to be set aside for chroming

What a nice build and something to be proud of. Cool colour and great choice for wheels. The effort was certainly worth it

Been struggling with the AMT Parts Pack hemi - can't get the shot gun headers to work and the emphasis has changed to a more streetable version - so I stole A hemi from a 5 window coupe as I know it will fit - more soon

"Looked back at the first posts on this thread but could not find what the donor kit was" Revell 28/29 Pickup 2in1 Can be built closed cab or roadster pickup It has been re-issued a few times over the years with the most recent being a Rat Rod version

What a cool looking Cuda. Gives me incentive to get one of mine built

Took a couple of goes at getting the rear wheel wells channeled = pix latter Meantime I have been working on the wheels. I am using the kit Americans. The rears were easy - just a little trimming on the internal tire diameter to fit the wheel The fronts were way too wide. The outer part fit OK bit overall the wheel was too wide for my wheel choice. I cut down the back rim and cut the spier from what was left and tapered those to look better And looking much more better now - just need to finalise the stance and cut the firewall Thanks for looking

Looking good Of all the kits I have this is the one I have built most versions of Modified Ala Kart Fully fendered Hiboy and Rat Rod and more to go

Another 32 Must be the year for or something in the air making us do it