Wild Child

Nice 109. I love the WW2 fighters, and the WW1 biplanes. Always good to see them on here.

Beautiful car Jeff. I have the Hardees Raineer Racing Salvinos car I hope to do some day....after I get all my Funny Car projects done. Sharp!

Beautiful build, really has 'the look'. Out of curiousity, are the pinstripes from the actual kit, or did you use pinstriping on it? If so, what striping did you use? I have not found anything I like that is readily available.

Great looking car Scott. Love the look.

Hi Todd. I primarily use rattle cans, and over the years I have learned a lot of techniques to achieve different results. I also have old bodies I often use as test mules. In the case of this car, I first applied a coat of pearl white (for base effect). I then used Tamiya transparent orange. This stuff is really watery, and first comes out very yellowish looking. After several coats to build up the color I wanted, I finally got the right shade. The real car is a bit like creamsicle orange, so the yellowish orange worked out great. Then a coat of Pearl clear, followed by decals, then lots of clear. Cool result.

Mike, I never knew the car moved on to John Force. I do know a lot of these cars were reused by other teams often, but that is great historical info. Thanks for the input.

One of my favorite Funny Cars in my Charger group is the Beaver Brothers cool LA Charger. Originally owned by Nelson Carter, this car was featured at the '69 Winter Nationals as the Super Chief. Not long after, it was sold to the Beaver Brothers and turned into the LA Hooker. A little known fact is that the brothers were professional competitive fisherman, hence the Hooker terminology on their cars. This car is based off of the Polar Lights Hawaiian Charger. It features a nicely detailed 426 Hemi and a high gloss finish over the Slixx decals and pearl paint. I always liked this cool creamsicle type pearl orange color. The LA Hooker and Chi Town Hustler Chargers were said to have done the loudest and smokiest burnouts of the day.

Nice car Grant. I have one of the Rainier Racing Yarborough '83 Pontiac Hardee's cars I have been itching to do. I like the orange and white.

Thank you for your comments. I have been asked a few times about the hood/deck pattern. Initially I laid down a couple light coats of gold, then masked off the lines and shot a couple more heavier coats so I could get the ghost line pattern. I then did the red pattern by hand. As a side note, I have found a lot of gold pattern box decals are a bit transparent and do not show well.

Cool Digger, love the nostalgic dragsters. Great vintage look.

Sharp Vette, love the overall look. Is the chrome on the blower stock from the kit, or is it spray chrome? I only ask because I have never used the spray chrome, and often wonder how it looks.

You have some cool drag cars. I am new to this site, and I love the whole Building the Covers theme.

Thank you for the kind words. It is fun to see what other folks think of all these various cars fellow builders do. Variety is what makes our hobby cool. Thanks again.

Hello, I am new to this forum and just tried to post a topic under Drag cars. Everything went well, and I hit submit, but topic did not show up under Drag cars. Pics are in my attachment area though, but no post. Do the posts go up immediately, do they take time to appear, or is there a problem? Just curious, 1st post.

Hello All, I am new to this forum, but after seeing all the cool builds, I decided to join. While I had mostly built Muscle Cars and Customs in my younger years, I have more recently rekindled my love for building and have been doing a lot of Funny Cars and Dragsters. I focus on groups of cars that can be displayed together, such as in dioramas. Below are two Cougars I did for my 1969 Winter Nationals diorama. The Dyno Don car was built as box stock and won that class at the Detroit Motor City NNL event a few years ago. The high gloss paint features a hand applied paint pattern which really accents the Candy Red. Schartman's '69 started off as another Dyno Don car, but I modified the nose and tail, then fabricated a spoiler, scoop and fuel tank. The SOHC motor has been nicely detailed, and the paint finish has been buffed to a nice luster. The figures I custom made, including the ABC remote camera, and are also part of my '69 Winter Nationals diorama.