M W Elky

These short wheel base dragsters of the early 1960’s are the bomb man. They are so much fun to build, and kits like the double dragster, the Tony Nancy double kit , the slingster , and all the old revell kits being reissued by Atlantis are great sources of parts for theses builds. We are living in a great modeling era. Your builds are awesome thanks for sharing them with us. Mike

I built this right out of the revell box sometime in the late 1980’s. I painted it with krylon gloss white and testors French blue . At the time it was the closest shade of blue I could find to match the decal color. During this time we only had the paint displays at our local hobby shops . Sadly these shops are almost all gone. Out of the 10 or so in my area only 2 remain .

Wow great attention to detail cool subject matter

This great jungle Jim funny car is made from the polar lights barracuda f/c kit a comp. Resin body, and a slixx decal sheet. The body is sprayed with testors candy blue over silver with a testors light blue chassis . As always thanks for looking ?, Mike

Wow that’s a cool pair I want to drive them both, and I’m a drag race guy .very very well done .

Ford built these 427 fairlanes just for super stock. Billy gooche made Hubert platt decals for a different version which is harder to build with the addition of the side trim and vinyl top thanks for the nice complement, mike

This was built from the mpc soapy sales kit. straight from the box sprayed with testors diamond dust with Italian red lacquer. And a few coats of clear. Then topped off with slixx decals. The mpc funny cars of the early 70’s build up really easy and can be detailed to any level . It would be a really good idea for round two to tool up or reissue a couple more body’s to fit this chassis. Like the dunn&reath cuda , the Vega body, and a newly tooled camaro body. They would sell well imo. A cuda with snake decals with the white paint scheme would be huge they have the prudhomme licensing. I guess we can dream. thanks for looking ? all questions and commentary are appreciated, mike

I think it was a light ivory color that I picked up from lowes or home depo with testors clear coat. Tamyia makes a color called racing white that might look close to this. I think the real car was a real pale yellow almost ivory. Ever since the collapse of testors and the pandemic some colors of spray paint have been hard to get.

Lucius , that’s one cool mustang funny. That’s one of my favorite kits imo the best 1971-73 mustang f/c kit. Nicely detailed chassis real nice job , mike

Scott , Try stores.smhracing.com . yesteryear drag decals . That’s not what I used but they are one piece not over laying like the ones that I used. There decals are pretty good I’ve used them before. Good luck building, Mike

Yea that’s the same kit

John the body dimensions on the amt kit are almost the same as the moebius body. You could cut off both quarter panels at the sharp crease body line. You might ever to use the stock location quarter panels on the leftover amt hard top. I used the front spring/axle and radius rods from the amt 1966 awb mustang on my old Doug thorley creation . I don’t think this conversation would be that hard. Good luck with it. Mikr

Hi John yea it flips it’s just a pain in the neck to get it to sit right on the chassis with the body closed . I’ll open it up and add some pics when I get back from vacation. I just snapped a few quick pics before I left. I don’t build as fast as you might. Sometimes real work gets in the way. All I build is drag cars and I think I have 300+. So displaying them with the magazine can’t happen yet.space restrictions my den is only 8’x10’. To do it right would be to build a long pitcher frame attached to a shelf. I built the prototype for this type of frame 20 some years ago oh how time gets away from me. Thanks for the good words, Mike

Hi John, yea I just flipped the spindles there were no other suspension mod’s. It’s always real important to me to get the right stance . You have a sharp eye to notice that thanks for the nice complements , Mike

Sean thanks for the nice complement. I use to get the paw catalog and dream of the day of ordering a 440 wedge crate motor. Of course I’m still dreaming for that day. Great memories

This build is mostly box stock with the addition of parts box front wheels rear slicks, headers from the 69 Torino , and smp decals. This was a nice easy fun to build kit. Thanks amt for putting it back on the shelves. As always thanks for looking ? , Mike

It was my favorite magazine of the not to distant past just like super stock & drag illustrated I guess all good things must go.

This is built from the revell duster funny car kit . With the addition of the polar lights font wheels, and the excellent decals from chuck boener . I also moved engine forward and lowered the front of the body. sometime in the future I will add the chute. I’m really happy with the stance on this one As always thanks for looking ?, Mike

Really nice chop it really flows nice with the body lines

I like it .These look great in satin or flat black I like your splash of color on the bottom. I’ve had at least a half a dozen of these amt 40 fords they are such a pleasure to build not real complicated or over detailed . Nice job

Hi David the amt Willy’s builds up real nice to, and it’s not to hard cut the hood from the fender’s then glue to the back half of the fenders that are molded to the body. I’ve done this with the pickup body and it came out really nice. If you look back several pages on these topics somewhere around February of this year. I posted one of my early building the covers with the silver dollar Willy’s pickup, and you can see how well it came out. Good luck building yours , and thanks for the nice complement, mike

Awesome stance color wheels back drop headers and oh yeah everything thing else

Great job I like a good ol” kit bash. This old amt favorite offers so many possibilities

I finally got around to building one of these Chevy 2 gassers. I Had decals for about 14 years then I ended up putting the white overlay on the bottom instead of the top oh well a brain freeze I guess. I kit bashed this kit with the amt awb kit. They are scaled the same and all the parts I used interchanged just fine. I cut open the back window opening to match the earlier year’s Chevy 2 ‘s. I like the look of the injected big block better than the kits blown small block. I also used the amt kit’s traction bars, front axle, and rear wheels I picked the front wheels from my parts box. Thanks to moebius and amt for issuing these great kits at the same time. as always thanks for looking ? , mike

John thanks for sharing another great super stocker. I love the detailed afb carbs. Did you have a good color picture to match the shade of yellow? I built this car but with much lighter shade of yellow as I only had one grainy color photo to work with. Also my decals were from a different maker , and have different markings then yours. The ones I used were not as sharp with more pixels. I gotta agree this kit build’s up nice you do nice job with a strong attention to detail. Keep ‘em coming. Mike