tim boyd

************ John....thanks a bunch, and I am equally impressed with all the work you've posted in this thread. But out of all of them, my al-time favorite HAS to be that outrageous 4-engined fuel altered drag boat and van combo. INCREDIBLE! I need to catch up with you sometime when I'm on the west coast....Best regards...TIM

Finally, there are several drag-racing themed On-Line How-To articles at this link...http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/tim-boyd-on-line-mo/ As an example, here's one that I started back around 1973-4 but only completed last year....a buildup of the extremely well detailed JoHan Mickey Thompson '72 Mustang kit. http://images58.fotki.com/v612/photos/6/998986/9961957/DSC_0193-vi.jpg It's a complete, 39-step article showing each step of construction and the completed project. Thanks for looking and may this thread survive and thrive for months and year to come! TIM

....from the Funny Car Folder comes this vintage '70 Charger funny car with a Gene-Snow style, completely scratchbuilt chassis. This had several features completely new for models back then....such as a fully detailed blower backfire valve and header braces....and a fully working front suspension. More pictures of this and others at the link...http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/tim-boyds-124th--12/boyd-scale-funny-cars-/boyd-funny-cars-models/

...and from my Drag Racing Door Slammers folder.... ..comes this SuperStock Barracuda that I built back in the mid 1980's. I used the article by our own Bill Coulter chronicling his Sox and Martin 'cuda SuperStock as reference in building this one... ...folllowed by a box stock buildup of the Ohio George Montgomery "Multi-Maverick" with a phantom paint scheme and Mr. Gasket livery... ...and finally, this mockup of a '56 Chevy 210 DelRay Gasser... ...much more at the link. http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/tim-boyds-124th--12/boyd-drag-racing-do/boyd-drag-racing-do/

Looks like it's been about a year and a half since I last posted any pictures here...so these are my latest contributions toward keeping this thread alive.... Before we get started, just a huge KUDO's to everyone who has posted in this thread....just spent a couple of hours going back through it and the variety and ingenuity of your drag models is just stunning. WAY TO GO for everyone who has posted in this link. OK then, lets' kick off with a couple of dual-engine dragsters from my Rail Dragsters folder....http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/tim-boyds-124th--12/boyd-rail-dragsters/boyd-rail-dragsters/ Thanks for looking. TIM

And here is a link to albums with full coverage of the NNL Nationals in Toledo....including "cult themes" from 2012 going all the way back to 2007 http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/model-car-events-co/ Best regards...TIM

Terry...that would be it! Thanks...TIM

Tom's description is very accurate except for a minor detail...the first ever NNL took place on Tom Woodruff's garage in central Ohio in the summer of 1980...Tom, Chuck Helppie and I invited all the former MPC Contest winners that we could track down to an event that would feature NO competition. In the end, six people showed up, the three of us, Andy Martin (the same guy mentioned in Tom's post above and a regular on this board, Bob Bost, and Gary Dale. We had a ball. This soon evolved into the fall event at Toledo that Tom describes, taking place the Saturday night before the Toledo Toy Show. But unlike today's NNL's that run out of steam in late afternoon, back then we would go late into the evening...maybe even to midnight or beyond...heh we were young! The 33rd annual NNL Nats was last fall....located no more than about five milles northwest ot the infamous Toledo turnpike Motel where our first hugely successful (at least for the time) NNL took place - the Merc Deuce reunion. Best regards...TIM

http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/tim-boyds-124th--12/boyd-scale-funny-cars-/boyd-funny-cars-models/ This funny car model was built during 1970/71 and finished in early 1972. The bodywork was probably done in 1970. I vaguely recall seeing a 1/1 scale hinged roof hatch that gave me this idea, although perhaps not with this offset alignment which was needed to match the entirely scratchbuilt '70 Gene-Snow style chassis you can see here. Many pix of this and other funny cars of this era at the link....TIM

Here are the decals from the '48 Ford woody from Revell. They were excellent. Virtually no carrier border beyond the edge of the wood sections, and they fit the openings perfectly. If the '49 Woody has these same type of decals, we'll be in great shape. TIM

Mike...many of the parts (other than the hull and interior) of the Rayson Craft were recycled as the 1968 "Hull Raiser" kit. This later kit was reissued three more times with the most current reissue - the circa 2005 Model King Combo kit with the MPC 1970 Bonneville Convertible - being the most readily available and affordable. Good luck with the reconstruction and please show us pictures....thanks TIM

In addition to the Mark 1 and Mark II Continentals posted above... 1. The '72 Mark IV - the second generation modern-era Mark, available for just one model year before it grew Nader era railroadtie bumpers. 2. The '87-92 Mark VII LSC with the 5.0L SEFI and the factory BBS wheels. I actually had several of these as leased cars and they were fabulous. I'll never forget seeing Jack Telnack's Silver LSC with BBS's sitting in the circular drive at Meadowbrook Hall....looking as though it fit perfectly with some of the high buck classic era restorations it shared the driveway with... TIM

Don...in one of the Round 2 Newsletters lase year, they hinted that the '69 version might be reissued with the clear body....TIM

I am building the kit right now. There are suprising changes from the earlier Blue Max release. The entire front suspension is different, being a variation of the original Locgghe coil-over design rather than the torsion-bar style in the Blue Max kit. Like J noted above, the front axle appears to be just a skosh too wide to allow the tires to tuck under the body - I removed the axle hub flanges on both sides of the axle to allow the wheels to move slightly inboard, that will appear to do the trick. I like the body, I find it far more period- accurate than the one in the Revell Blue Max reissue a few years back, at least from what I remember (always dangerous, that). Of course, I still like the original JoHan Mickey Thompson Mustang as well.... TIM http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/tim-boyd-on-line-mo/tim-boyd-on-line-ho1/

My own "evil twin" to the '32 A/SR posted elsewhere on this board... Thanks for looking... Oh how I wish we could line up all the drag racing Street Roadsters shown in this thread for our own mini-NNL event! TIM

James...if you do go ahead with that one, please post in progress pictures! Best regards...TIM

From the 2012 NNL Nationals.... http://images51.fotki.com/v299/photos/6/998986/11162415/DSC_0453-vi.jpg It wears "B/A" (B Altered) NHRA classification livery, which means it is a post-1971 or so replica, but to my eyes this one is a classic 1960's A/SR drag racing machine. Darrell Peters' "Altered States" is based on the MPC '32 Chevy Cabriolet kit, but wears all the appropriate A/SR modifications. They finishing touch is a sharp 409 Chevy engine, a terrific choice vs. the so-commonly seen SBC's out there. And yes, this is the same Darryl better known as "Doctor Darryl" who makes some pretty cool aftermarket drag and Midget decals for us....TIM http://images50.fotki.com/v1573/photos/6/998986/11162415/DSC_0459-vi.jpg

Hmmm...now where have we seen this one before??? Well actually, back at the beginning of this very thread. Here's a picture I took of Jame's A/SR when he displayed it at the 2011 NNL Nationals. Sweet! Tim

In the spirit of keeping this thread going....here's one from the 2011 NNL NATIONALS... http://images57.fotki.com/v256/photos/6/998986/10122006/DSC_0893-vi.jpg Chris Waroner is the builder of this '32 Ford AA/SR dragster. He told me it was well along before my article in the same subject appeared. Thanks for looking...TIM

Mike...this is an entirely different kit that when assembled looks like anything but the Revell kit. The Good News is that of all the 1/25th scale drag and ski boats, the one you just scored is my most favorite kit. I actually did an article on this exact kit in Model Cars back around 1987 or so - IIRC it was pictured on the cover of that issue. I think you'll have a ball putting this kit together. Congratulations on your score. TIM

To add some personal insight here...Revell sent me test shots of all three - the three window, the Speedwagon, and the Roadster Highboy, approximately August of 1996. There were no instructions for any of them. The decal sheets for the three window and Speedwagon arrived a couple of weeks later. I immediately built the Three Window and it appeared on the cover of the other model magazine we love in the December, 1996 issue (sent to subscribers around mid-October). Bill Bozgan also built a kit and his review ran as a sidebar to my article. By the time these articles appeared, the kit had just been introduced, followed by the Speedwagon a few weeks later. But the Highboy Roadster wasn't released until May, 1977. Mind you, doing this all from memory so take it with a small grain of salt.... TIM

Dan and the rest...if anyone figures out what kit this is, please let me know! Thanks...TIM

Neil...have at it! Glad you liked it....Best regards. TIM

JB - Good question! I actually glued the fenders to the tires using five minute epoxy applied along the centerline of the underside of each fender. Then I added the fender supports which tie to the kingpin on the axle, and expoxied them to the fenders. Because the fenders wrap the tires so tightly, it is impossible to tell that I glued them to the tires. The Rat Roadster kit now has the parts to accomplish the same result, albeit in a far easier way. Thanks for asking...TIM