gami8630

Thank you very much. Bobby Allison's red and gold paint scheme is very impressive, so I am very satisfied with my creation.

Thank you for your reply. I would really like to improve the accuracy a little more, but I always end up compromising.

Due to an operational error, I posted the same reply twice, so please ignore this reply.

Due to an operational error, I posted the same reply twice, so please ignore this reply.

Thank you for your high evaluation. Thank you for your reply. I will continue to strive to improve my craftsmanship.

MarkJ, I have never posted WIP in progress on this forum. Instead, when I publish completed kits, I write in some detail about the work I did.

Thank you for your reply. All of your builds are always very helpful.

Great build. Your WIP was a great reference for me when I was building my Monte Carlo.

Thank you both for the replies. It took a lot of work to modify the body, but I managed to finish it.

Thank you for the compliments

Thanks for the replies. Combining multiple kit bodies into one body is risky, but very motivating when done well. By the way, making one body from two pieces is called “Nicoichi” in Japanese.

Thank you all for the compliments. Your replies are always very, very encouraging.

Thanks for the reply. When converting a production car kit to a NASCAR race car, the parts from the POLAR LIGHTS kit are very helpful.

This car is the 1969 Mercury Cyclone of the Hallman Moody team, which Bobby Allison drove to seven wins from the midway point of the 1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. For the previous two years, Bobby Allison had competed in a Dodge Charger Daytona in the four-car “Aero Warriors” competition between Ford, Mercury, Dodge, and Plymouth. However, for safety reasons, the engine displacement of the “Aero Warriors,” which competed in high-speed battles, was limited to 305 cu.in. in 1971, which was virtually a ban on the use of the "Aero Warriors. Bobby Allison switched to a Charger without the huge nose cone and high wing, but the aerodynamics were not as good as he had hoped, so he switched mid-season to the Hallman-Moody team's 1969 Mercury Cyclone. The base kit is the “Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II” from POLAR LIGHTS, which was re-released by ROUND 2 in 2018 with the addition of new Bobby Allison decals. However, the car Bobby Allison drove was not the “Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II” from “Aero Warriors,” but a 1969 Mercury Cyclone commonly known as the “W-Nose,” so the first half of the body had to be modified. At first, I was going to combine the resin W-Nose Cyclone body I had already purchased with the chassis of the kit, but the resin body was not in good shape from the A-pillar to the rear. So I decided to use the resin body from the front edge of the door to the front and the kit body to the rear. I cut each body at the front edge of the door and combined the two hoddies into one body. It took some careful crafting, but I think I was able to combine them fairly well. After the body was modified, the position and shape of the fueling port was changed, and the height of the rear spoiler was reduced. For the chassis, the front frame and hoop were shortened and modified to fit the body modified to W-Nose, and the front suspension tension rod mounting area was modified based on AMT's GEN4 Thunderbird chassis. The body was primed with Tamiya Super Surfacer (gray), Fine Surfacer (white), and TS-13 Clear, then sprayed with TS-49 Bright Red and TS-21 Gold, overcoated with TS-13 Clear, and then applied the kit decals. Near completion, I made a mistake and scratched the front edge of the roof, which I repaired and repainted, but unfortunately, I could not repair it beautifully.

This is a great piece of work, very beautifully painted and detail crafted.

Thanks, everybody. The Nascar race cars of the time are good in that each car's unique body style and simple coloring give them a very “stock car” racing feel.

Thanks, everybody. My build is not an exact replica of the actual car that Bobby Allison actually drove at the time. I create them as long as I can reproduce the atmosphere of the car.

Thanks both of you for your comments. I like the fact that NASCAR race cars these days are “real” stock cars modified from production cars.

I may also incorporate a few aftermarket precision parts. However, my knowledge of the actual car is not that great, so as long as I can reproduce the atmosphere of the actual car reasonably well, I am satisfied.

I have built many NASCAR kits for various kit manufacturers and have kept many parts from discarded kits. Combining them and putting them together as one model car is like completing a puzzle.

Each manufacturer's NASCAR kit has its good points and its shortcomings. I like to combine the parts of those kits well and make the missing parts by myself to create a car that satisfies me in my own way.

Thanks everyone for the compliments! It motivates me to create more and more.

This car is Bobby Allison's Chevrolet Monte Carlo, which won 10 of the 31 races in the 1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. This was the beginning of the “modern era” of NASCAR, when the number of races was reduced from the previous year's 48 to 31, all dirt tracks were eliminated, and the minimum race distance for oval tracks was set at 250 miles. The base kit is AMT's “BOBBY ALLISON MONTE CARLO STOCK CAR,” which was re-released by ROUND2 LLC in 2017. The packaging design follows that of the original 1972 release, with all-new decals added. This kit is not a 3-in-1 kit, but a kit that can be assembled only as a full display NASCAR race car. The body style is a good reproduction of the real car design, but the chassis and cockpit had to be modified in various ways. 1. Body Looking at the photos of the actual cars that Bobby drove during the 1972 season, most of them looked like the 1971 model with the narrow radiator grille and the turn signal lamps in the bumper. Therefore, I cut both ends of the radiator grille and filled the gap inside the headlamps with plastic plates. The rear window was cut to fit the window opening of the body and fixed. In addition, a vent hose and an overflow hose outlet were added on the left side of the rear of the body. 2. Chassis This kit does not reproduce the engine compartment pipe frame or front suspension. Therefore, I created a front hoop with Evergreen rods and incorporated upper A-arms, twin shocks, and a radiator diverted from AMT's GEN4 nascar kit. The engine is unmodified, but the exhaust pipes were replaced with plastic pipes. The chin spoiler was made by myself with thin plastic plates, and the ride height was lowered a little. 3. Cockpit The roll cage of the kit was not very realistic, so I made a roll cage combining parts of AMT's GEN4 nascar kit and Evergreen rods. The dashboard was similar, so I replaced it with a combination of plastic sheets and monogram meter panels. The gauges are made from Powerslide decals. The shifter was modified and installed from parts of an old JO-HAN kit. 4. Wheels and Tires The wheels are 5-hole type wheels found in a junk parts box, and the tires are PPP 1965-1969 Goodyear Tires. 5. Painting and Marking The body was painted with Tamiya Super Surfacer (gray), Fine Surfacer (white), and TS-13 Clear, then sprayed with TS-49 Bright Red, TS-21 Gold, and overcoated with TS-13 Clear, then applied the kit decals. Finally, after the decals were sufficiently dry, I sprayed a final coat of GSI Creos water-based topcoat premium. As mentioned above, I made various modifications, but since I could find few images of the engine and cockpit of Bobby Allison's actual car, the images reproduced are only based on the specifications as a NASCAR race car in 1972. Note that the Coca-Cola glass bottle in the image was sold in 1981 by the former Tokyo Coca-Cola Bottling Company, established in 1956, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the company's founding.

Thanks,Jim N !

Thank you Trevor. I have always loved the traditional Wood Brothers coloring as well.