Lobo2me

Super duper! KAPOW!!! Well done....

Very cool. Love the lights. Great job, nice tribute!

Exceptional! Phenomenally well done in every way.

Beautiful! Nice job all around and spectacular motor!

Wicked! Nicely done!!!

Super! As in super clean, nice build, with just the right mix of ingenuity and creativity.

Now that is "slammed." Well done. Nice build, beautiful engine!

Beautiful! One of my all-time favs. Well done!

Excellent! That is the car I first learned to drive. I duplicated my first love (attached) as best I could at the time, given my rusty modeling skills, but I'd like to give it a refresh. Where did you source the straight six...?

Super job, on a super Super Bee. Love the older Mopars. Well done!

Well done! The TV show and the great job you did on this model never go out of style.

Thank you Garry. Happy modeling...

Thanks, Steve. Now, what's next? I'll probably float around in limbo for a few weeks till something else bites.

Good morning David....thank you for the nice review. As you can tell I enjoy trying to come up with creative fun personal projects. All the best

When I need a break from straightforward, well-organized model kits, I prefer to take on something challenging and a little bit nutty. While stewing for a couple of weeks after completing a rather complex Le Mans racer, I decided to take a deep dive into the parts bin to see if I could come up with enough fodder to build a convincing Rat Rod. Almost! I salvaged a body and chassis from an old Lindberg, ’38 Ford Custom Van kit, but then decided this one deserved a more fitting motivator and had to have the right seats, so I ordered a resin Chevy 572 Twin-Turbo crate motor and bomber seats. And I ordered a resin beer keg for a gas tank, semi-truck wheels, and tires. Then, I set about rounding up all the other parts and supplies, such as styrene sheets, rods, and tubes. I used a lot of scale diamond plate, gave it suicide doors, and scratch-built other whimsical goodies like the 12-volt battery and sliding fabric sunroof that is fixed open. The shift lever is a hockey stick, and the straight exhaust pipes are aluminum tubing with heat shielding made from foil butter wrappers. I printed a dozen or so license plates (with personal initials and dates), road signs, and my favorite hockey team’s logo. This one is named “Biggy Rat & Itchy Brother” after one of my favorite cartoons, and decals of the mascots are on the doors. The Lindberg kit already had a 4-inch chop to the roof, but I removed another three and slammed it for a more appropriate stance. I added “sort-of-vintage Corvette-like” taillights with red plex lenses out back and mounted turn signals on the shock towers up front. The headlights and grill are from Revell’s ’37 Ford Pickup 2’N1 kit. The grill is mounted upside-down. I made coil-over suspensions, North and South, and the steering is poseable. The resin bomber seats are mounted on springs, upholstered with Mexican blankets with some stuffing, and painted in Rust-Oleum Metallic Finish. Using various rattle can paints, I gave it a god-awful rust bucket look and experimented with a weathering technique using Elmer’s glue and salt. First, I ground away small areas and drilled holes to create rust damage, then covered everything with Mr. Surfacer 1000 Gray Primer, then flat black (Ace Hardware, Premium Flat Black Paint & Primer) undercoat, followed by a coat of Red-Oxide Primer (Ace Hardware), then one more coat of gray Mr. Surfacer 1000. Elmer’s glue and salt were used between coats and on top of the final coat of Tamiya, Black, TS14. After curing for four days, I sanded away nearly all the black, exposing most of the red oxide and the Mr. Surfacer Primer in some areas. Here’s what I ended up with….. Thanks for looking and comments, please.

Very nicely done. Love those amazing Altereds and the Burkholer Bros. Fiat was inspiration for Plum Crazy.

Love Rat Rods. Excellent work on an authentic rust bucket! Weathering is well done and just right!!!

Beautiful! Nice job!!!

Nice collection from the last GSL event. Great builds each and every one! I agree with your choice Tim.

The late 70s were a real challenge for Muscle Cars. Chocked V8s coughing out less than 200hp were slowpokes compared to today's daily drivers and most of the creative designer touches did little to improve performance. All of the Big3 suffered the same fate from poor boardroom decision making. But this is a very good model and interesting subject matter. I like your paint scheme and all of the excellent details. Well done!

Hi Claude; You may be right....but until we can fire up those twin blowers we'll never know. Steve

If it weren't for the performance exhaust sneaking out under the back, the bold SRT blazing across it's flanks, and the brash color, I'd say you created the ultimate sleeper. After seeing this baby I'd be afraid REM would toss me out of bed onto my head! Another winning creative concept in supurb executiont!!!

Thank you Claude. I would be curious if the eight skylight widows would have to be removed to keep the twin blowers from sucking the air out and turning the body into an empty sausage casing....hummmm?

Very cool! Exceptional creativity and execution. A fitting tribute to the genius of Ken Block. You gotta paint him.

Nice save!