OldNYJim

Thanks fellas! Been finishing up a few loose ends this past week so I can get to some painting. Designed and printed some friction shocks… Figured out a simple exhaust… I was careful to leave a spot on the driver’s side there whilst running the exhaust for a brake master cylinder - I’ll look through my spares and see if anything grabs me, or print one if I need to… Ended up making a lot of changes to this frame…shoulda just started with a pair of frame rails ? Note the copper strips on the front horns there - I thinned up the styrene so I could give them that open c-channel look… Started laying down some color on the interior pieces - not done messing with these yet: And picked out some colors for the body - going mostly black with some nice simple gold flames… I’m going to do my usual reverse-masked flame paintjob on this one, so last project of the afternoon today was laying down the gradient… I’ll clear coat this with Future tonight as a barrier coat to protect the flake, then lay down masks and shoot black tomorrow. More soon! Thanks for looking!

Exciting! I wish they’d send Hobby Lobby some of the ‘30 Ford kits so I can stock up on them cheap…but regardless of where I get them I’ll be picking up some of the Deuce and 55 kits

INCREDIBLE work Scott! You did an AMAZING job on that - really impressed!

Your interiors are always great Steve - you’re an outstanding builder all round, but your interiors always catch my eye. I need to try some of your techniques (no doubt to discover that you make it look easier than it is…)

Great photos! Thanks for sharing!

Mine arrived here in Cornsville, Indiana today - looks like another GREAT issue! These recent issues remind me of Scale Auto back when it had a lot more pages and a lot more content…great work everyone!

The more the better, when it comes to your projects! Love seeing your clean, thorough style of building!

Huh! That’s a really cool Easter egg! Good spot!

That's really helpful - I wasn't familiar with this kit...thanks Garry!

Oh man, that is a GOLDMINE of useful reference pics…I’ve been wanting to build one of these Next Gen cars but don’t know enough about them - GREAT reference material. Thank you!!!

Beautiful work - one of my favorite tiny details, though simple, is the oil washes you used on the metal lines to add a little color to them…I love little touches like that! Great work so far!

Paint boo-boo aside, that color looks GREAT! Nice choice!

Yes sir - you’re right, it’s just the camera angle making them look similar size…here’s a (slightly) better pic to show the difference… Thanks for the comments everyone! Appreciate the interest! This weekend’s embarrassingly slow progress was a bunch of little things (headlight mounts, steering linkage, parts-box hunting, thinking about the exhaust, cleaning up the body)…the floor was the main project I really wanted to get out of the way so I spent a couple of hours today watching the F1 race and working on that. Used the interior ‘tub’ from the Revell 32 kit as the basis for the bulk of the floor, and added some styrene bar to add some of the embossed detail you’d normally see under there…plus a little piece for the trunk too: You can’t see this too well when it’s attached to the frame, but well enough that it adds a little… I’d normally use half-round bar for a project like this, but I was out, so I knocked them down a little with a sanding stick before priming to see what more clean-up they’ll need before paint: When I mock this thing up it looks kinda close to being ready to blow apart for paint, but I’ve still got a bunch of little things to handle and some more details to design and print… I like the general look so far though - looks like a neat old hot-rod! More soon, soon as I’ve done more! Thanks for looking!

If you (or anyone else) has any pics of what’s in the box I’d be really interested in seeing them!

Those are cool! I would vote for an Offenhauser too - can’t find a decent file for one of those ANYWHERE and it’s a fairly significant engine in automotive history to have been overlooked so far. I’d be first in line for one of those!

Ohh, AWESOME news! I never tackled this one either…building a straight replica of the 1:1, as significant as it is, doesn’t excite me too much, but I’d like to build something close to it. And yes, @Jantrix, the newer version has a an out of scale engine (this thread has a little info on it, and there’s a more in depth thread somewhere on here talking about the differences between the kits

Thanks fellas! A little progress tonight - got far enough along for a mock-up with wheels and tires to see how it’ll look! Still need to make some proper wheel backs - it’s just poster-tacked and Elmer’d together right now but good enough for a quick mock-up… Not perfect, but not TOO far off - looks like an old hot rod! ? These wheels and tires are a really nicely done design that isn’t on the market yet but they will be soon-ish…someone else’s design that they kindly allowed me early access to so I could mess with them a little. I’ll post details on them once they’re out there to buy… Not a big update, but it was fun seeing it on it’s wheels properly for the first time! Still need to work on linkages for the front axle, finish up the steering and then next major project is the floor. Thanks for looking, more soon!

I don't wanna break the chain...my Miata was my favorite car too. The perfect balance of being inexpensive to run, comfortable, affordable whilst still making me smile every time I felt like putting my foot down a little and throwing it around. My current 'stang is close, and more practical, but not QUITE as good as any of the Miatas I've owned, overall...

That’s even better news - my next major hurdle was figuring out a source for the manual trans too ?. SUPER helpful, thank you! Which year Ranger kit do you have there? AMT did a couple of years at least, is looks like…

Those seats look INCREDIBLE! Stunning! So, that paint set some with the base terracotta color, a darker shade and what looks like a blue from their website? Is the blue translucent, or is that an error on their site? Great work - really impressive!

AWESOME!!!!! Can’t wait to see that! Congrats - well deserved!!

I’m using regular old Any Cubic UV cured resin - I haven’t of any longevity issues past the same stuff you might experience with regular resin that people have been casting parts with for years (parts warping if stored wrong, left in extreme heat or printed too thin)…slightly different product, granted, but I’m fairly confident in it. Guess we’ll see in a few years! Tonight’s project was modifying some parts box early-Ford kit suspension pieces to finish up the rear end assembly: Plus, a parts box rear spring modified to suit: Starting to get somewhere now… I’m sacrificing a little scale fidelity on the rear end for having good strong attachment points when I come to assemble this thing - the resin tires I’ve got are relatively heavy and most of this assembly will be hidden once the body’s on and the exhausts are in place so I’m sacrificing a little detail for not having too delicate of a build by the end… Another mock-up to see if we’re still copacetic…needed some fine tuning but it’s starting to look like a hot rod! Next job is finishing up the front end properly…more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

I would be really interested in seeing that - thank you! Probably as close to the one in my 1:1 as I’m going to get in styrene, I’d bet… Not sure if my CAD skills would be up to the task…but I have good reference material! ?

So the 60 degree V6 engines we're talking about above are variations on the Cologne/Taunus engine, correct? I'm starting to collect some parts for a replica of my 1:1 Mustang, which has the 4.0 liter V6 that I BELIEVE is from the same lineage as, say, the 70s kits listed above. I figure I'm going to have some pretty intensive scratch-building to do to make an accurate replica, but have at least a STARTING point would be nice....

Getting closer…from Atlantis’s newsletter: Shipping next week will be the H1440 Jungle Jim Funny Car followed by the L543 Curtiss Jenny, H1371 57 Chevy, M2204 SOT Funny Car and 13101 Yellow fever along with the M3308 Bismarck, M3006 Wisconsin and 3005 Metaluna Mutant. We are hoping to ship all these kits within the month of April however with the Holiday it could push into May.