OldNYJim

I wondered about using one of those - would it be WAY too big though? Anyone got one sitting aroundwho could give me an idea of size at all? Thanks for the replies guys!

Anyone ever seen one of these in resin? Or in a kit, even?

At least they did a decent job with the instructions for the parts that you dont get One thing you do get is a couple front axles, and I picked this tube axle arrangement (bottom) over the stock axle (top) as it dropped the front a scale inch or so... I mocked up the kit flathead ready for for some detailing: The new bits in place (I found a correct grille for it in my stash!) And a mockup with the new bits: Off to work on the engine some more and research early Flatheads!

OHHHHHHH, this is going to be cool!

So, I saw this kit on eBay and thought 'oh cool!'. I've always liked 32s, I like oval cars, this kit seemed like a must-buy. Those dirt tyres, the ironwork, those wheels - awesome! Disapointment when it arrived though - its the standard Vicky kit with basically NONE of the cool parts on the box. Not the tyres, the wheels, the ironwork, those cool exhausts...the instruction sheet directs you to use styrene and resin parts to complete the build as on the box. What the.... It's LITERALLY impossible to build to look like the picture out of the box. To add insult to injury, my sealed kit didn't even have a grill shell . Anyway, not to be deterred, I'm going to build it anyway, and make some kinda clean simple 60s showcar/drag car/hot rod out of it. I dug out some parts I had and found a grille shell (not the correct one, but its for a 32 anyway...) and some wheels from an Orange Crate that I picked up for spares (the kit wheels included are pretty terrible) and before I know it we had a battleplan! I'm going with the kit flathead, and it'll be pretty much out of box aside from the missing bits and the stuff that I can't bring myself to use. Add a little detail, use the kit Flathead, focus on my paint skills and have a nice (relatively simple) build. Famous last words...

What a cool build! Cant wait to see more!

Thanks for the nice comments guys! It's kinda slow progress on this one - I'm spending 10x as much time working things out as actually building, but I've got some time off planned soon so I'll spend some more time at the bench. In the meantime, here's another shot of the front end (held together with sewing pins right now for ease of mockup) I'm going to start on hanging the rear end soon... I made a little Moon tank using a pen barrel and some resin hubcaps And I've started collecting parts for the engine, including this cool intake setup from The Parts Box in Australia - I might find some nice machined aluminum stacks to stick out through the hood More progress as I make it!

And another little update - I had to wait for some thin aluminum tube to arrive so I could continue with the front end but it arrived this lunchtime so I got right to work making a couple of bars to finish off the front suspension: It's held together with some micro drill bits right now whilst I wait for some scale fasteners to arrive, but in the meantime I'm going to work on fabricating some front shocks and cleaning up the front end parts gently to remove the flash that you can see in the pics.

A little more progress...only a tiny bit though! Working on the front end still - I need to find some really small gauge hollow aluminum or brass tube to make the top linkage and to fabricate some shocks, but it's starting to come together...

Actually, before I make the link arms for the rear end I wanted to lock the front end down to make sure the wheelbase is exactly right - it'll be easier to move the rear axle a fraction than the front wishbones. I was going to print some wishbones for this, but then I came across this old white metal hot rod front end - from R&D Unique I think? The parts look like this: So I made some little brass brackets to mount the bottom wishbone to the frame, et voila! More to come once I figure it out

Looks GORGEOUS in red! Stunning!

OK, so I took trent's advice and got some Dirt Modeller rod ends (great service - only took maybe 3 days to reach me even right before Christmas), and whilst I was looking at their site I saw these gorgeous PE brass 4 link parts - so I had to have them! I used a centre section of a Revell quickchange rear end and some styrene tube to make a rear axle, shown in progress above, as the original kit axle was too wide of a diametre to easily work with the 4 link parts that I bought. Should work great though! I need to chop the axle to width, once I figure out presciely which wheels I'll be using and the offset so excuse the rough ends, but this should work! Next, to make some link arms! I'll be back in 6 weeks with something finished hopefully

Love it! The Centrelines look GREAT!

What a great build so far! Will be following your progress!

No! I'll check them out, thank you!

Thanks for the kind words guys! You're all too kind! Sorry for the slow progress, but I've been doing a lot of headscratching here. I decided to do the rear end next, so I can move on to the front with the back end firmly in position. I had a look through my parts boxes before settling on the 'stock' rear end from the kit. it wasn't TOO badly destroyed with glue and stuff I'm going to make a four link rear end, so I wont be using those bars, so I narrowed a TONNE off this thing and called it good enough for mock up. I was worried about the rear tubs that I was planning on fabricating interfering with the wheel position (it's gonna be tight back there with so much tyre) so I worked on them next. I sliced up the kit rear interior parts to assist in making the tubs... And then fabricated some half-tubs for the rear. I wanted to have a little tyre reveal in the trunk so you could see those big meats! The trunk will contain a fuel tank of some sort (probably not the one above because it's horrible) and the battery, possibly with another reveal through to the axle to show some of that stuff off. I want this design to really show off some of the moving parts. It all looks very messy here, but with the body on it starts to look a bit more like I envisaged... All this sheet metal in the back will need some more tidying up, but it's close enough for now so that I can start on the axle. First order of business, and as far as I got today, was to design and cut some brackets to mount on the rear end. I need to find some rod ends for the linkages (any leads on who sells those and doesnt take forever to send them, anyone?) so I can work out the spacing between them on the axle but they look roughly like this: More tomorrow (maybe, if I get anything done )

It's gonna look great when it's done!

I was just saying in case they moved it and you couldn't find your thread

Really cool Floyd! Like it! The interior came out really nice! Are you planning on wiring the engine?

This is cool! Looks good with those wheels, and I like the resin bits!

Ohh, I LOVE that stance! Following!

Just FYI, this will probably get moved to the Pick Ups section at some point once a mod sees it. Just incase it disappears and you can't find it!

. Doesn't anyone proof-read anymore?

That's SUPER helpful, thanks guys! Ace - I figured that's what those ears were for! Thanks for confirming!

I can steer, brake and accelerate! I could crash that thing pretty quick too, I'm sure. Probably within 3 corners