OldNYJim

Interesting! I got on the Any Cubic train but I’ve heard great things about those too. What has you experience been with having to replace the LEDs on those? I understand they only had a certain number of hours life before they need to be changed, but I suspect by the time mine needs changing it may be time to upgrade the whole machine anyway…

Thanks buddy! Yeah, it sure can! I’m pleased with how well it does, considering the price… Me too! ??. Thank you! My stuff’s not good enough to sell…maybe when I get better at this stuff…but there’s a really good one on the market already! https://www.shapeways.com/product/MFSMNC2QL/2x-1-25-quickchange-rear-spring-and-crossmember MUCH better than I can do! Speaking of which… Hope you consider putting your parts out there too for people to print at home - you do beautiful work sir! Thanks for all the nice comments everyone! Good spot! Thank you!!! I couldn’t tell what was bugging me about that front end…you helped me figure it out without having to exert any brainpower ?. Thanks for the tip on those rear wheel-wells…I should look and see how visible they’ll be on the finished build - I never knew about that issue - appreciate you bringing it up! As for the crossmember… I couldn’t bring myself to pick up a Revell 40 kit to get the crossmember, only to modify it beyond recognition to get what I had in my head…so I just drew what I had in my head in CAD. My idea for this build was to simplify and cleanup as much as I can and really boil this build down into a really nice clean flowing design, but not in the street rod sense…just a SUPER cleaned up traditional-inspired build. Not lacking in detail, or something that wouldn’t be feasible in the real world (hopefully), but super tidy. So, here’s my simple crossmember design: And installed in the frame: I’ve got a more detailed version that I’ll mess with for some future builds, but this was a good test and perfect for what I was going for on this one… Back on the suspension; here’s my solution to the implausible spring…ended up using a slightly modified kit part from something or other…I also moved the crossmember on the kit frame up a couple of scale inches to drop the nose down somewhat - it won’t be super low but I was trying to stay fairly traditional and close to a ‘standard’ setup Not much progress for an entire Sunday and most of this evening…but I can get into some bigger projects now these are done - need to either design and print or modify a rear spring and get this thing on it’s wheels. Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Beautiful work! Those wire wheels are beautiful!

Yessir…I’m not sure how accurately scaled it is, but it was always marked as 1/24th scale on the box

My wife has a side-job in Michael’s a couple of nights a week, and I stopped in last night and spotted this on the shelf, with the cellophane cut open and loose Manager on duty offered me 50% off if I wanted it when my wife asked her…brought it home for $14 and change. Looks like it IS complete too - score! I’ve been wanting to build the kart in particular, and the truck will make for a fun project at some point I’m sure…

The Deuce is 90 years old this year, and I’d been wanting to build a Roadster from the Revell kit for a while, so here goes… I’m going for a super clean, traditionally-INFLUENCED build…probably not particularly accurate to what an early hot-rodder would’ve come up with but not the street rod on the box either. I’m thinking a Flathead, no Z to the frame at either end, and nothing too fancy or flashy - just all the stuff that makes a Deuce a Deuce. Started off with the frame…I’m actually going to use the one from the 29/30 Revell kits - but modified for a leaf spring. I didn’t have a spare Revell Model A frame to steal the crucial spring arch from, so I drew one up in CAD and printed a few: Whilst I was printing stuff, I printed a Matty’s Custom Scale Flathead Check out the detail on those heads! Gorgeous! I know I said no flashy stuff on this build…but those heads are SO nicely done… Next batch of parts was front and rear axles and some radiators for this and future projects: I really didn’t NEED to print any radiators, I’ve got a bunch of the kit ones, but I had the file sitting there and space on my print plate - they’re nicely done though! Rear axle mocked up with Elmer’s: I didn’t wanna run disk brakes on this car, and the GORGEOUS finned parts you find in the Revell Model A kits were a bit too fancy for what I had in mind, so I printed some simpler drums: And once I mocked up the 3D printed axle… …we’ve got a decent start on a chassis: I was really trying NOT to 3D print every single little thing on this build, especially as I have another complex build like that on the bench already…but in my defense the donor kit was missing a couple of parts and the rest needed backdating anyway ? Thanks for looking…more soon!

A lot of negative Amazon reviews for model kits seem to be that they’re neither painted nor assembled already…so I bet they’re trying to minimize the number of dum-dums who don’t know what they’re buying and then complain about it…

Looked it up today - it was actually only taken care of by the LAST owner last year…but handled regardless. Thanks for the heads up! Funny thing - the previous owner was named Shelby ?

Thanks buddy! I’m having a blast with it!

That’s a great tip, thank you! I had been meaning to register with the local dealer to see what history they had on file for it (or do a Carfax or similar if not) but I hadn’t read about that particular issue. Will look into that this weekend - thank you!

That’s exactly what I did too! ? Not certain I got ALL of it, but I sure got a lot on the floor of the car wash ?

Don't worry Rob - they're Moon disks - they pop right off! ? (These ones actually DO - I made little tubular receivers on the back of the disks to mount them, and I don't think I even actually glued them on). Thanks for all the nice comments everyone!

That's a smart way to handle that - none of the edges of the hood meet the body nicely (or at ALL in some cases - there's some pretty big gaps as it comes) so anything you can do to improve fit there adds a lot to these kits I think

Huh, I had no idea! Thank you!!! Great insight

Oh nice! I’ve been wanting to build a Badman forever! I assume it’s that same kit? If I remember right, from looking at one of these a few years ago, it’s not the most accurate kit but they’re meant to be a great fun build!

Yeah, the conveniently-located tow hooks on my wife's Civic really helped a couple of times this past winter where it got stuck in the snow...there's really not a great spot underneath this Mustang to hook anything on to that I could spot. Was ideally trying to hook up to the back somewhere but I really didn't want to crawl under it in that mud puddle to get to the rear axle - and even if I had, I think the exhaust and gas tank would've been in the way somewhat. Ended up wrapping straps around the rear wheel and outermost edge of the axle and dragging the poor thing out sideways....luckily the mud was so slippery I don't think I really had to put too much load through anything and I did it REALLY gently but it definitely wasn't ideal. Ford's recommendation in the manual, for anyone curious is to call a flat-bed and let them handle it...but I'm not sure what they could've done differently to drag it out of there either ?

Had five hours of extremely heavy rain that started right after I got in to work this morning. Car got stuck in the mud…actually, it looked like it was stuck before I TRIED gently coaxing it out of the mudpit that is our company ‘parking lot’. Was not successful. Then discovered that this generation of Mustang has no obvious spots to hook it up to tow it. Then, because of the severity of the storm, a lightning strike on our building and subsequent loss of power and internet, the company sent everyone home at lunchtime with pay for the day. Spent the remainder of my ‘free afternoon’ getting the Mudstang freed and got out of work at basically the same time as usual (but wet and muddy). Will park elsewhere in future ?

It amphiviates

What did you get?

Ha - I was just searching for this thread to reference for a build I'm about to start on - and here it is on the first page of the board! Some EXCELLENT tips on building a better period-correct hot rod...thanks Bill!

I'll be interested to see if they update that airbagged rear end - have we seen shots of the rear suspension yet?

That paint looks great! I meant to comment on your last post but got distracted…this is an OUTSTANDING build!

You do such nice, clean work JC - always like seeing your projects!

That Divco body pictured immediately above is available from Jimmy Flintstone right now, for anyone desperate to build a slammer of one: https://jimmyflintstonestudios.com/NB277--1948-Divco-Chopped-Delivery_p_344.html It IS chopped though, but I suspect it's the same body as in that Testor's kit pictured above...

Oh wow! That’s really impressive @Brudda - nice job!