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That’s about what I figured - I tried finding good reference pics online of the exact model that it might represent, but no joy as yet…thanks for the reply! And thank you too, @Daddyfink!

Anyone know what the transmission is supposed to represent? This one attaches to the Hemi in the kit:

Same here - was slow for a few days but all good now. I wish they’d add some features to their app to make it do a little more, but it DOES work reliably, even when the ‘regular’ site is slow or having issues…

I’m impressed at how bright that red is over GRAY primer - a lot of reds will darken up some over even a light gray. Is that paint acrylic?

What mrm said! Really impressive!

Whatever works! Personally, I use the putty to get in the little crevices that would be tough to tape, then tape whatever’s left…but there’s no wrong answer if it works!

The truck is cool

I think I preferred it when they were just sending their creepy spy balloons ?? Forum is super fast, working great for me - thanks to all the MCM staff for all you do!

Good eyes fellas! Of COURSE the ones I liked best are probably near impossible to find in 1:25 ?

Thanks for all the replies everyone - and for the heads up on the Miss Deal engine…I’ve got that kit in the stash, I need to dig it out and take a closer look… A little more progress this past week - I had intended to do some modifications to the body on this thing since the start, so I’ve been piecing that together for a few days…my idea was to take as much of the fat out of it as possible, basically…the long overhang on the front end, and some of the length out of the rear. The front was easiest, so tackled that first… sliced the ‘hood’ into some pieces so I can shorten and drop it low over the frame with a notch for the front spring mount: Something like this: Just enough room for the engine, just clears the suspension linkages, and no giant overhang past the front axle. That gave me this: Next step was removing some of the length of that big overhanging tail - no easy feat given all the shapes and curves which didn’t leave many options for nice easy cutting and shutting…what I settled on was slicing right at the back of where the door would be (if there was a door), notching the tail, widening it to match the front half of the body and sliding it forwards. Sounds fairly simple, but I messed with it most of the weekend to get it about where I wanted it… Here you can see the cuts and slices more easily: And I added some material to the top of the rear of the body to blend the sharp edge at the back up into the roof to stop that area looking too wide and bulky where I’ve widened it: I started messing with fitting the glass canopy too, and I know WHY it’s important on a streamliner but I really don’t like how it looks… It’s too wide, too long and not organic enough of a shape compared to the rest of the car, even with the stock body. Luckily, in my research I found plenty of historic precedent for similar 1:1 cars not running any kind of glass or canopy, so I have some wiggle-room if I decide not to use it… Just a small update, but this part took me most of the week to get to - thanks for looking! Next step will be cleaning up the hackery I did on the body and getting it ready for primer…More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Couple I spotted while we were out getting breakfast…

BTW, if anyone knows what the flamed 093 car, the 'Lucky 13' and the blue 212 car are (were), I'd be really interested to know...

I did some design work for the local fair this summer and got some free tickets to the figure of eight / demo derby, so I took the opportunity to get track side and photograph some of the stuff there... Some highlights below and a bunch of pre-destruction, during-destruction and post-destruction photos at the link here

Amazon Japan was selling them - they appear to be out of stock now; or at least not selling to the US right now - but they’re on Prime for $40 shipped… https://a.co/d/9po6c94

Yep, regular as clockwork!

Weird thing, not sure it’s relevant, but a thing none the less…at 11pm every single night, I can’t access the site for a minute. A minute later, no probs. I’m sure it’ll happen again tonight. It’s not hurting me any, it’s my daily reminder that I should probably go to sleep, but it’s a weird thing that I always notice, regular as clockwork…

That’s really helpful, thanks Bill! I just finished going down a rabbit-hole of researching old early-60s dragster frames, and learning about early Hemis was next on my list…you gave me a good jump on some of that learning there! I was also considering the AMT Blueprinter parts-pack 392 as an option - there’s some nice parts in there, but the block is actually even more ‘spartan’ than the kit piece… Seeing as I’m replying anyway, a little more progress today, although not as much as it should’ve been considering how much time I spent… Got the steering box mounted (or, made a bracket for it anyway) and then replaced the clonky kit linkage with a more in-scale one… Still need to make a bell crank for the axle end, but I did lay out some hubs in CAD because I didn't want to spend all day scratchbuilding them…plus some rear drums, and cleaned up the front suspension linkages: A couple of people have warned me that even built box-stock it’s tough to get the body to fit one of these successfully, and I can believe that…but I’m intending to make the entire body removable somehow on this one, which will either make it a lot easier or (more likely) even harder. Guess we’ll see! I already know that after two rounds of tweaking the frame to get it perfectly straight as best I can even the kit parts don’t all line up right so there are plenty of adventures ahead still I’m sure… Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Thanks fellas! A little more progress - just working thru each little piece, one at a time… Those of you who have built this kit already probably noticed that my frame is missing the crossmember that doubles as a steering rack from the upper mid curve of the frame. That was the first part where I wanted to improve on what the kit provides and add some detail…here’s the kit piece in place: Soldered a couple of pieces of telescoping brass tube for a more in-scale steering link (coupled with the kit wheel here): Then designed and printed an approximation of an old Ross dragster steering box… And we’ve got a pretty decent improvement over the kit piece: Just needs a mount to attach it to the frame, which I didn’t make yet… Whilst I had the printer running making the steering box, I printed an MCS 392 Hemi - the kit block in particular is pretty bland, but I’d like to use the pan and heads that come in the box I think. Scaled the block to match the kit part and printed a couple for some mixing and matching later… And whilst THAT was printing I started taking a look at the front axle. The kit part is pretty nice… Except it’s designed for a wire axle, and I won’t be using a wire axle… Making a start on a scratchbuilt version: Making the brackets for the suspension links: Made a little jig to get the holes in the right spot every time… Then, while the glue was drying on the tabs I made a start on a brass leaf spring, just as a challenge to myself to make one… Still some more work to do on these parts and this work didn’t add much compared to filling in the opening in the back of the kit axle but I’ll make some metal bolts to clamp the spring to the axle and clean up the edges and do a little more and hopefully it’ll be a worthwhile improvement… That’s all for today - thanks for looking…more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

That’s AWESOME @Bainford! Amazing work!

And a second mail call for the day…another Amazon deal - one seller had these at under $20 shipped and I’m a sucker for a showrod…

A fun Amazon find…$18 with shipping from Amazon Japan. There’s some cool deals on there if you don’t mind waiting a couple of weeks for shipping… Also… “Pic-Up” ??

I’ve been really excited to start work on the first of an (eventual) series of AMT Double Dragster builds; I’ve been researching for a few months now, on and off, and this one finally made it’s way to the top of the queue… I’m going to try and keep this one pretty close to the spirit of the kit - no super crazy modifications, but I’d also like to spend some time on each and every part and see how far I can push myself (and this old kit…). Progress probably won’t be super fast or exciting but I’ve been messing with it a few days now so I figured I’d start a thread now… Traditional “first step in the manual” to get this one rolling…I’m going to use the 392 Hemi for this one…I figure if I’d gone to all the work of making some crazy enclosed fibreglass body, I’d probably want to use something more interesting than a Small Block Chevy, which is the other option this kit offers… More on that as I get to it… Last couple of nights were spent on cleaning up the frame. I was excited to start gluing some stuff, but I figure it’s a lot easier to do all this cleanup now and do future-me a favor. Plenty of little mold lines to handle but no flash and a minimum of ejector pin marks to deal with: I did some pretty in-depth research on trying to figure out what this frame is…I did find some good suggestions online and a lot of SIMILAR frames, but I didn’t find an exact match. The second (smaller, lower) bars with the triangulation seems to be the thing that makes this frame unusual compared to a lot of the examples I found…anyone ever seen a perfect match for this frame anywhere? I’d love to see pics if you have! Anyhoo, a couple of evenings of clean-up later and time for some careful assembly… I used the thick Tamiya cement to tack everything together just enough to start getting it straight, then spent some time tweaking and getting it all aligned and perfect as best I can before using the thinner Bondene to fuse it for good. I needed a tiny bit of pressure between the rails to get everything to sit perfectly square, hence that little green piece of a toothpick sitting in there… And…that’s it so far! If anyone has any building tips or heads-ups on this kit I’d love to hear them! I’m also planning a LITTLE tweaking of the body - I think it could be a lot prettier with some subtle slicing and dicing…nothing major, but some little tweaks just to make it my own. Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

About 15 years back the Traditional Rod and Kustoms board started a CBP for AMT 34 Ford trucks, and I just finally got around to completing my entry ? I used half of a Revell 29/30 kit Deuce frame mixed with the rear half of the kit frame, swapped in an AMT Nailhead, scratchbuilt a shorter bed, used some Revell parts pack wheels and painted it with (mostly) Createx acrylics. Had this one in my head for a long while - glad to get it out of my head and onto the shelf! Thanks for looking!

You realize this post is 13 years old, right?

I don’t watch Stranger Things, but I’m in for one of the VW buses! If it’s anything like the Revell ‘68 Beetle then I’ll definitely enjoy it - those basically fall together