[The most northern 2021 recap?]

On 1/5/2022 at 1:33 PM, Mattilacken said:

Hehe! Might be a thing 😉 and put LKAB / Hybrit down the side but then it have to be a EV! Might be a thing though to build, a electric dragster or some thing.

Perhaps based on one of the huge dumpers ? With all the regular drag paraphernalia added ? imagine the parachute required ...
Sort of a "Malmberget Gasser", a very contemporary one.

[1958 Ferrari 250 Testarossa]

Beautiful car(s) and build(s)

[Ford v Ferrari]

Beautiful both

[1955 Mercedes-Benz F1]

Can only agree to the comments above
Just before Christmas I got the Revell 3000 SLR Mille Miglia. Hope the wheels are as good

[The most northern 2021 recap?]

11 hours ago, Mattilacken said:

Thanks! Worked better at least with a pod! 🙂

 

Thanks! Haha yes that’s also a thought! Haha! The iron ore is even darker 🙂 

Perhaps a colour for 2022 build(s) : Ore Grey ? Or perhaps more correct Ore Black ?

[1965 Ferrari Delivers to Le Mans - revised]

Gary : A very very fine collection
Imagine the value of these cars in scale 1 : 1

Reminded me of similar photo on the net of the Ferrari transporter loaded for LeMans 1964
With
- the winning Guichet/Vaccarella 275 P, ch no 0816, actually the same car, which won in ´63, but that year with the smaller 250 engine
   The only Ferrari, as far as I understand it, winning LeMans outright twice, think there are in total only three cars which have done this
   And this was the last factory Ferrari to win the LeMans, the ´65 winner was entered by NART
   The 0816  was out for auction around 2018, have not seen anything about the outcome, but speculations were, this would be the most expensive car ever
- the Surtees/Bandini 330 P, 3rd
- the Ireland/ Maggs 250 GTO, 6th  
With such provenience and current prices, the value of this load would be ........

[Three More '60's Super Stocks]

John: Can only express my admiration for your beautiful builds

And re discussion on a ´63 Catalina SD: such a kit is very high on my wish list (as apparently for some other forum members)

[Revell 427 Shelby Cobra]

One never get tired of these. Nice.

[The most northern 2021 recap?]

A very confident pair

The steel grey colour is very appropriate also considering your nearby huge source for that raw material

[My 2021 Collection of misc builds]

A most impressive and productive year. Impressed / G

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

Thanks James for the info about the Randy Ayers forum
Did not know about that, saw a lot of interesting things there already

Saw also on the net a preview of a book how to build Nascar model cars
Also there a lot of useful info

Think I now know what the hoop is

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

1) Re James info on the Ford front structures ´65/´66: where can photos be found how it looked ?
   So far I have not been able to find on the net

2) Re Anton´s comment
  Yes, have noticed the presence of a few fellow Swedes in this forum
   Have actually taken the liberty to take a couple of direct contacts  and recieving valuable help, 
   both a few parts needed and info on missing facts of the actual cars
   Much appreciated and very nice to have this opportunity and dialogue

   Concerning Tradera (Swedish auction site): After a long pause taking up modelling again during the pandemi,
   there have been a number of visits there, perhaps a little too many...
   The stash have grown quite considerably.
   My wife looks slightly concerned ; where to put the finished products ???
   Began modelling in college ca 1963, a friend there had found out how to buy directly from Auto World.
   In those years very little available in Swedish shops, now we got the latest releases of the newest cars (+ quite an assortment of older ones)
    Among my first ones were ´63 Pontiac Bonneville, ´64 Corvette Coupe´, ´64 Falcon Futura Sprint Monte C rally car
   And the first generation of the AMT kit of the Cobra 
   In 2014 we sold our house, hence needed to "reduce inventory" and sold a few of the surviving models.
   To my surprise, the Corvette I built in ´64 and sold 50 years later, appeared for sale at Tradera last autumn,
   from what I could see completely intact as I once built it
   Concerning the Cobra, that was also sold in 2014.
   Two years ago, I bought and built a newer generation of the kit.
   Was rather disappointed ; compared to what I remembered from the original kit , the newer one had "degraded" in several aspects.
   But, late this autumn, on this Tradera-site came up a kit from the very first generation.
   And I could by it.
   Look very much forward to build that, hopefully it meets my memories (though the decals probably may be brittle, the kit is OLD now)
   But first I have to build/ finish  a couple of pre-war Fords and a MiniCooper;  for children and grandchildren;
   thus also in a way transferring the space problem
   

[Ford ´34 Tudor in low winter sun]

Thank you all for kind words on my little Ford

With best wishes for a good modelling year 2022

Gunnar

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

Thanks James for interesting info on the "hybrid" Galaxie/ Fairlane

Question(s): When did the "tube front end structures" come into use in the NASCAR cars ?
I have impression the cars in the late ´60s hade that kind of structure
So : what kind of front structure did the´65 and ´66 cars have?
The standard type made from pressed steel sheet metal? Or tubes ?

To build a ´66 "hybrid" car is certainly an intriguing idea
Hmmmm .....

[Ford ´34 Tudor in low winter sun]

Thanks for kind comments

A little more info I forgot to mention

The kit is the AMT

The moulded colour, which I used unpainted/just polished, is a light grey
The actual Ford colour was called Cordoba Grey, a shade more yellow compared to this

Ford offered, as I understand it, two reds as trim & rim colours during the course of 1934; a rather bright Vermillion red and a darker, more brown Aurora red.
The Humbrol no 20 I used seems to be a compromise somewhere in between
Before the introduction of the reds, the trim & rim colours available were Tacoma Cream, Cordoba grey and Silver Grey

Concerning latitudes and late sunrise/early sunset: we are at a latitude corresponding to 400 km south of Anchorage
 

[Ford ´34 Tudor in low winter sun]

Tomorrow is the shortest day, the sun raises at 9 : 01, sets at 15 : 24
But thereafter we go in the right direction again.The photos were taken ca 11 : 10 today

Perhaps not the best fit of the rear end of the hood despite some sanding and other adjustments,
otherwise a quite nice kit

Box stock with addition of a few cables and fuel lines

Roof and running boards . Humbrol dark (anthracite) grey no 32, matt (thought this was better than the black, too hard contrast)
Exterior otherwise unpainted, just polished the plastic, the inside painted with light grey to avoid "shine through"

The rims and decor line : Humbrol crimsom red no 20

The interior/ upholstery : home made mix matt beige and light grey to simulate the mohair + a little dark wash "in the creases"
BMF on the lock handles and cranks
The instrument panel and a moulding below the side windows should be walnut ; the matt Humbrol no 73, here and there a little diluted to make it lighter, + clear gloss worked rather well.

The engine : home made mix of satin green and grey + dark wash

Unfortunately some dust on the windows, sorry

Thanks for looking

 

 

 

 

[Cobra 427 SC : Oil pan]

Thanks Rex, JC and William for comments and nice photos

The 427 engine photos were very instructive for future builds

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

16 hours ago, Misha said:

I do believe that the that is the 1966 full size Galaxie that was superceded by the Fairlane with the front clip from the Galaxie.
Cheers Misha

 

Second thoughts coming:

What was the reason to put the larger Galaxie front end clip on the presumably smaller Fairlane in -66 ?

And how was that accomplished ?

Assume the Fairlane dimensions (narrower) were intact from the fire wall and rearwards,
but what about the difference in width in front of the firewall ?
Guess some "transitional modifications" could be done on the front structure to get the fenders in the right position.
If the front bumper from the Galaxie was a little to wide probably did not matter so much
But the hood and the grille ? 

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

The -66 Fairlane having a Galaxie front end was interesting and new info for me, had not seen that before.
Explains why i have had difficulties to understand/ differentiate which -66 car was a  Galaxie, which one was a Fairlane.
Hence my obviously erratic comment on John´s photo above.

Sorry for that John and thanks for your fine photo and kind words

Also thanks Misha for your help with clarification

/ Gunnar

 

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

Three more comments

1) When I "trawled" on the net for information before building my model, I also got the impression , that, in -65, more than one Galaxie was used, perhaps two or three (?)

2) Thanks for encouraging comments from all of you

 3) Like the NASCAR-cars from this era. Very expressive also in thetable-top  scale, and still with stong connection to the actual stock cars
     Imagine these large cars crusing at 150 mph, a couple of years later considerably faster.

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

2 hours ago, papajohn97 said:

Boy that car look’s familiar! Just saw the car below last week at a drag racing museum in LA, I assume this one is the real thing?

 

You did very nice job on your build, particularly the big decals which are never easy to do without damage or bubbles. Makes me want to build a ‘60’s stock car, nice!

I think this might be the intermediate sized Fairlane, driven in -66, perhaps also in -67, the kit I built was the full-size -65 Galaxie.
If I have understood it correctly, they in -66 also used a Galaxie, which actually had the engine, frame, chassis transferred from the -65 car.
The reason for the swap of only the body/ maintaing the underpinnings, was perhaps that Ford wanted to have the newest body visible on the tracks.
But this is (somewhat uncertain) understanding from me, sitting very remotely from the actual centre of action and knowledge.
Perhaps other forum members can bring further clarity/understanding ?

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

forgot to mention it is the AMT kit of the Galaxie -65 / Gunnar

[Fred´s Ford in light frost]

Slightly frosty morning today
Photos of one of my first builds during the pandemi

Finish not the best but nice kit, only real problem was the large decals were prone to cracking, particularily "28" on the roof

Additions to the box kit

- a little exterior foiling.  actually my first try with foiling, obviously not very good but anyway it´s there now
- some cabling in the engine bay
- battery with cables moved to the right side of trunk
- fuel filler cap added and filler pipe in the luggage compartment to the tank
- cut away the moulded exhausts/mufflers ( hence the underside a little grubby)
- seat belts of own manufacture
- in the kit there was a fairly long/large part with a number of instuments
  according to instructions an accessory thing
  cut away the area around the regular instruments and inserted this part, fitted well
  gave at least a better rendition of a NASCAR panel.
- "THINK ! W.H.M.?" on the right side of the instrument panel

 

 

 

 

[Shelby cobra 427]

Just Fantastic/ Gunnar

 

[Cobra 427 SC : Oil pan]

Thank you Bill so much for your efforts and information to clarify this

/ Gunnar

 

10 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

In the only Revellogram 427 Cobra I still have here...

...the oil pan, though incorrectly modeled, represents a steel wet-sump pan, probably built by Aviaid.

The bungs on the end of the pan could conceivably be used as scavenge ports for a dry-sump application too.

EDIT: Though in practice, I don't know if it was ever done.

EDIT 2: The "real" dry sump pan is an entirely different animal, with a dedicated front cover: