DougS

Thanks everyone for all the encouraging comments.

Thanks Kurt, I started with the tractor first and lost interest but had the screen sitting on the workbench and thought I should try to work it in on the turbine. The screen happened to be on my tea infuser (see picture). it turned out so good I continued with the rest of the car. Some day I will get back to the tractor.

I finally finished a car! I have so many models started and never finished that I finally forced myself to finish one before starting anything else. This is the MPC STP turbine car in 1/25 scale. I thought it was going to be a quick job to finish it up but the longer I worked the more things got changed or added. There's only one shot with the body on because I just couldn't get everything to fit right so I decided to display it with the body removed. Has anyone else built this and had trouble fitting the body or is it just me? I added some wires, hoses, tubing, some details at the very rear that were completely missing, replaced all springs on the shocks replaced clear pieces on the turbine with screen. Seems like every reference picture I found everything was just a little bit different so this isn't any specific car but a combination of all of them.

Thanks guys! I had been working on the 1/8 scale Revell Knucklehead and these 3D print engines make my attempts look like a child did them.

Several years ago I had big plans to build a 1/8th scale Harley. After hours of searching for reference photos I was able to come up with fairly accurate details and made this drawing to work from. I found out about half way through scratch building the engine that I just wasn't up to this big of a project. I'm still pretty proud of the finished drawing though.

Thanks for the comment!

Thanks for all the positive comments! Yes, it is an actual license plate.

Correction: Not the 32 Chrysler, it was the MONOGRAM 1934 DUESENBERG which can be picked up on e-bay sometimes pretty cheap.

I am using wheels and tires from the gangbusters 1932 Chrysler on my 1935 Gilmore Special that is from this same Indy series. They're not perfect but I think they are a great improvement over the kit wheels. My original tires were very brittle and cracked. On the replacement tires I painted the whitewall inserts flat black and still need to add the knock-offs to cover the center of the wheels. These wheels are a little smaller than what are on the car you're working on but may look OK.

Here's what I'm working with. It will be a long time before I start rebuilding. I've got the frame cut down and now disassembling everything trying to remove all the excess glue and straightening every part. It seems like everything was put together at the wrong angle and flooded with glue. When finished I will post this build on its own post. (probably years from now! )

Thanks for the compliments everyone. I have a 1/6 scale Harley FLH basket case that I'm thinking about chopping off the top half of the frame and making a companion for this Honda.

Thanks Jim

I've always wanted this kit but couldn't justify the price. But then I found a box of parts on e-bay and after studying all the pictures thought it looked fairly complete. I won the auction fairly cheap and after inventorying found it was missing the base, right side cover, one exhaust clamp and the intake manifolds. It had a few modifications like velocity stacks instead of the air box and the wheel spokes had been removed. I made new pieces to replace everything missing and was about to make a wooden base when I noticed an old cycle license plate on the work bench. The plate turned out to be the perfect size and made the whole project unique in my opinion. I have always tried to find incomplete models or glue-bombs to get get the models I wanted for as cheap as possible (I've always been a cheapskate, I guess I get it from my Dad always trying to get a bargain..

I've been collecting models now for too many years to count including the Testors visible engine thinking I would have plenty of time to build them when I retire. I've been retired now for about eight years and haven't built much of anything yet. I finally decided I need to make time to have a little fun. Here's a couple of pictures of the finished engine. I bought it as-is and it was missing about half of the internal parts so that's why it is only half visible. I thought the carb was pretty poorly done so I did an internet search and found out it isn't a carb but fuel injected, but still pretty basic. I did quite a bit of modifying to make the efi a little more realistic by adding screws, making springs, installing choke plate, opening up air cleaner mounting holes and electrical conections and reshaping other areas. I've left the air cleaner off so everything can be seen. Now I'm inspired to keep going on my hundreds of projects.

Does anybody have one of these kits in their stash. I am missing one part and need detailed pictures and measurements so I can reconstruct the part. It's the back half of the cylinders. It's the part where the carbs attach and the main part that holds all the other parts in position so without it I just have a crankcase with nothing above it.