OldNYJim

Roadster pickup would be cool too! I'm sure all these options are available in resin anyway, that said...

I’d like it if they brought back the roadster version - I wish I’d stashed more of those away when they were cheap and readily available! A new body would be cool too - although I’m not sure what they could do next that would sell in decent enough numbers....

This looks cool!

Really enjoying this build! Love all the little details!

Great start! I’ll be following! I’ve wondered about building one of these but I can’t quite visualize how big a 1:20 kart is...is it kinda 1:25 car size-ish?

Great review, thanks for sharing! Just ordered some of his parts for myself - looks like nicely made stuff!

Really enjoying this one Dennis - nice work on that front end!

Thanks fellas! Appreciate the nice words! I airbrushed it right on there! A little drop of thinners and blasted it on - I was worried it would be fragile or chip off easily but it seems fine! A little update on this one - got the body on the frame, and the wheels and tires on: And got the tank mounted to the grill, along with the little mini radiator I found in my spares box and got that mounted too: Made a little catch-can for the radiator, seeing as this thing would almost certainly overheat easily with that Flathead and a covered-over grill shell and a tiny radiator, and mixed up some translucent neon paint to represent a little anti-freeze overflow: Looks like it got hot enough to leak some out of the hoses too: Stupid impractical hot rods, always overheating... More soon!

$640 plus shipping ??

YES!!!! ??? I also like this one that I saw: http://www.2040-motos.com/Chopper/Chopper/1972-roth-style-vw-c-cab-show-trike-97561/ Meanwhile, some slow progress - I wanted to remake the forks, and stretch them a little. Here’s the kit parts: And here’s my in-progress stretched remakes: Still need to make springs and bars, and figure out a headlight - quick mock-up for my own amusement: Im thinking of going with a nice candy red for this one, but with some graphics hidden in the red...not totally sure what yet, but I like the idea of it looking like a nice simple paintjob but then if you look a little closer a load of extra detail pops out of the paint. Need to finish remaking every little thing for no particular reason first though ? More soon!

Kit came today! They certainly found a bright enough plastic to mould it in ?

Amazon has the Fury kit for $15 delivered right now - just grabbed one for a fun little quickie build. Hope they go through with reissuing the whole set!

Chassis assembly day! Some of it anyway - got the axles and linkages in place, along with the machined bits I made for the steering, and dropped the engine in there just to see how it’ll all look together: Need to do some plumbing and wiring before the engine can go in for good, but it’s a fun looking frame I think! And, borrowing a trick from John Teresi, painted the tires with some craft paint to give them a more realistic look - got some more detailing to do, but I like the effect of the craft paint compared to plain old vinyl tires! Just a mini update - more soon!

I can't take the credit - just copying what @Impalow did on his identical build (and I had to ask him where to get the photo etch too - good thing he's a nice guy ) I'm pleased with the difference though!

I’ve been thinking about tires a lot this week - I saw these two images of an entirely computer-rendered car, and I was really impressed with the detail in the tires: The slight scuffs and grit on the sidewall, the lighter grey on the radius of the tire versus the darker grey on the edge...I’d like to try airbrushing a vinyl kit tire with some similar shades and see how much realism it adds and how it looks! I know this isn’t a model OR a real car - but it’s done by an artist trying to do the same as we are, just in the digital realm, and it looks good to me!

Thanks buddy! A little more progress this past week - not as much as I’d like, as usual but I got a bunch of clean-up and little jobs done at least. Got the carbs painted and fuel lines in place: Machined a set of pulleys: That belt is too big, but I wanted to try it anyway - I’ll make another out of something more in-scale... Cleaned up and prepped a bunch of chassis parts for chrome: Then chromed them! ? And got some more of that Createx orange and Testors Hot Pink on the interior tub and dash so I can start assembling and detailing them: Got plenty to paint still - if it’s not chrome or real metal...it’ll be candy or flake or both! More soon!

That color is amazing! Nice save!

Yeah, how DID you make that Kurt? ?‍♂️? Made an all-metal MPC trike wheel today:

That’s good to know! Thanks Steve! I mocked up the body to make sure I could get the interior in ok, which I can, so at least I can get the bodywork all smoothed out without having to modify anything too much. Got delayed somewhat waiting for the alu tube to arrive so I could machine the front wheel - and it took me 3 evenings of failures before I got a good one but I got there in the end... Tom’s Modelwork center (which is REALLY delicate) and a couple of machined rims, plus the kit tire: The photoetched pieces are too big for the wheel size we’re making here, so what I did is glued one of those to the inside of each rim, going round each spoke individually to glue them in place then I carefully sliced off the excess. Worked ok I think - kit part on the left, remake on the right: What would’ve been cooler is if I had a little hub sandwiched in there to angle those spokes out somewhat, but I was happy to have got one of these made without ruining the tiny little spokes for now...I’ll keep working on getting these better and better for the subsequent builds. Looks ten times better than the kit part anyway, I think... Now that’s done, I guess the next biggest scratchbuilding projects are a hub for that wheel and the forks...more soon!

Now I need to make a 25:1 scale quarter! ?

I saw this online recently and thought of this post Someone actually made the big coin we always hear about! ?? Thank you sir!

Really enjoying this build - beautiful work!

Quick Hobby Lobby run before the 40% off voucher ends...got a couple of bottles of Testors enamel metalizers, a rattle can of their gloss clear, some green embossing powder that I might never find a use for, some clear plastic tube for fuel lines and the reissued AMT Model T kit Really impressed with the T kit - I figured it was the standard 2-in-1 deal but there’s actually enough parts to build two entire kits...wish I’d grabbed the other one on the shelf now!

No paints marked down here in Cornland either - but I found a couple of lonely bottles of the Testors enamel metal finishes and grabbed those, and they just seem to have got the AMT Model T coupe kits so I grabbed one of those too. Model selection was better than it has been lately, but nothing much new except for the Ts:

I always enjoyed his work too - hope he's doing ok!