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A little color this weekend and touched up the chrome wheels. I decided to use all original kit parts only, except the decals , they will be aftermarket. Even tho' the kit came apart pretty good , I still have alot of glue and paint residue on most parts that need clean-up , and chrome parts need some minor attention.

Looks really good. You get more satisfaction scratching one out vs buying one then altering it to fit .Keep up the good work.

Sprue cutters and x-acto knife is all I use. Sometimes the parts come off in bad shape and either have to modify or turn to the parts box. As far as decals go , no I dont do them. This BedBuggy was one of the tougher rebuilds.

Picture from Ebay

Nice looking Raiders coach and grouping. I saw some place a person cast the original kit figures of Paul Revere and Raiders.

I have 2 of these,1 mint and 1 builder. Im going to do the builder as a USPS ShowRod a little different than the Barris design. Its complete except the decals but I have some modern USPS signage to use. The original builder ,as usual with these old showrods, used way too much paint and glue but most of the paint came off and it actually came apart nicely, the steering still works. I have the original tires and wheels for the kit but I may try using wrinkle wall slicks and a more shallow spoke wheel . May also paint 50% blue bottom and 50% white with a red stripe to seperate the colors. The MPC/AMT 29 Ford Woody shares alot of chassis parts with this MPC kit.

Kit #2 from the MPC Hall of Fame 3 car set . This kit can be done 1 of 3 ways, Clarks green #92 or Gurney White #93 or a developmental version with a early double overhead cam . Kit come with all decal versions. This kit ,so far ,is pretty straight forward. The 2 pc plastic tires are a little lame but at least they are not the vinyl ones.

Alot of super type glue with a kicker then add in some epoxy then sand smooth and hope it holds. ?

From the MPC 3 car kit from the 80s built from the box. This is a slow build as most parts need an adhesive with a kicker as parts not big enough to pin and some locations points are sketchy to mount . This is the first Indy style car I've ever built and now onto 1963 Lotus.

Motor, chassis done and ready for completion. With all the engine pipes and chassis tubes going on, unless its 100% spot on in place the top body wont fit right, I needed to trim a little off both sides around the engine. The high area of the seat behind the driver fit way tight into the body so I had to trim it also.

The first thing I did was prep the body and get it painted, then start on the engine. The chrome on this one is very limited so that means everything gets paintedand I like it that way . It was a slow go on the engine as most parts just had a contact point rather than a pinned joint so an instant adhesive and insta-set accelerator was my choice of glue.

They may have been Monogram decals, maybe 39 Chevy or one of the Fords, not really sure.

I have never built an Indy car before , its always custom , drag or an odd kit, I've had this 3 car set for along time so Im going to give it a whirl. The #98 Willard Battery kit is probably my favorite from this set. I have the original AMT Agajanians Indy winner from the Checkered Flag series and noticed the tires back then were solid and had a tread pattern, this MPC is a 2pc plastic with out detail. My 2nd favorite is the #92 / #93 Lotus . The #92 Lotus is the 1963 IMC kit. The last and the one Im going to start with is the Johnny Rutherford 1974 McLaren with driver.

Pretty simple build , no interior but I made a cradle to hold the driver in, cant see the motor so I quit spending time on it, I made a 2 pc. skid plate but really no reason to put back half on. The chassis fit fine the way it was, I lowered the stance by installing chassis stops (mounts) higher. Paint and decals and a few extra parts. This body needed multiple cleanings,it looked and felt slick. I could not get paint to stick even after bleach, SuperClean or SimpleGreen. Finally hit it with a wet 320 grit then another bleach wash to knock down that mold release.

Pretty straight forward, I wish I didnt put an engine in, curbside is the way to go unless you do a flip up body. I do like builds with drivers tho'. Only thing I did different was run exhaust out the body and add 2 more fins plus the driver. Chassis is Revell 57 Ford, engine is AMT 409. Chrome front and rear are Molotow chrome. Color is Tamiya racing white

Something magical giving a discarded kit a new lease, well done.

Way to think outside the box, I really like the way it turned out.

Looks really good. Interior works and looks good in the bigger opening. Yours is the 1st one I ever saw completed.

409, it fits great in this Ford chassis. Just a few body mods. I will run the exhaust out of the rear of the body. Dont know why I put an engine in, have to turn it upside down to see it. This Hudson just screamed for a driver , so I made a small interior and filed down an old Monogram Nascar driver. Got the body down about as low as I can go.

3 trades that all went smooth as can be: Khils TarheelRick Fordf-100 All 3 are trusted stand up guys Ken

I have another Jag with only 1 Jaguar decal plus this MG. The Phantom I dont have.

I dont have many...but I do like the odd ones.

I actually have just what your talking about?

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Resin SaltFlats ,all the hard stuff has been done by J/F so all I have to do is fit in a chassis and somewhat of an interior with a driver. Chassis choices are 62 Chevy or Revell 57 Ford , the fit is pretty good on both. Hopefully this one will be straight forward with out problems ,yeah right?