OldNYJim

Made it into Contest cars!

Huh, interesting - I wonder if they went with a heatproof paint or something along those lines for the block then? Would make sense I guess…

I got a new sheet of BMF on Amazon recently, and it worked just fine. Not sure if I got lucky or it was old stock, or I’m just really good at BMFing (nah, that’s not it ?)

If you have the rocket, you're in trouble - if you don't, you're all good! EDIT: On no, now I got a rocket ? EDIT EDIT: Actual helpful answer - you get different things depending on how many posts you've got. I guess a rocket is the best

Great pics, thanks Stephen! I started collecting a few myself for the same reason... https://public.fotki.com/NewYorkSpeedShop/11-cars/reference-material/mooneyes-dragster/ I believe this car that you photographed is the 'real' one and they use the newer replica for events and whatnot - although, good spot, that engine doesn't look the right color compared to ANY of the pics I collected of the real car...guess it got switched out at some point. I remember from when the 'new' car was unveiled reading somewhere that the easy way to spot the difference between the two is the little British emblem badge, whatever that is, attached to the front of the frame on the old car which the new one doesn't have.

This was interesting - thanks for the heads up on this technique! I don't think I'd use it as intended, but it would be cool to be able to do gold / silver leaf lettering, say for a vintage dragster of some kind! Cool!

Good news is - Createx comes off real easy, so it won’t be a bunch of work to dunk it in the Purple Power and then give it a fresh coat!

Oh cool! I’ll be picking up one of those lil’ dune buggies - thanks for the heads up!

Someone posted a sneak-peek of this one on Instagram today, for anyone curious: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWRiLryAsfz/?utm_medium=share_sheet “In stores next month”, apparently…

Looks GREAT Steve! And I agree on how good those panels lines look - super realistic!

Don’t quote me, but I think I saw an English seller selling these on eBay before we got them here - the shipping here was ridiculous, predictably enough, but I’m pretty certain SOMEONE had them for sale there

It’s paint day! Shot the body (plus the frame, engine dash and suspension pieces) in a base coat of Testor’s silver, first up: Then shot a gradient of white, candy yellow, candy orange and candy red over top of the silver base down the side of the body: Then, cut a couple of flame masks: Then, another coat of silver, with a little gunmetal silver shading to add a little depth: Then, finally, the fun part - candy red topcoat! You can see some of those gunmetal lowlights peeking through the candy color here: Then, carefully, remove the masks: Needs a couple of little touch ups (this Createx candy lays down REALLY nicely, but if you remove it at the wrong time in a five-minute window it’ll either chip or pull like chewing gum) and then it’ll be time to clear it! More soon, thanks for looking!

Almost related story - last Christmas Day my wife and I were driving early morning to visit her family, and we thought we’d try the local McDonald’s to see if we could grab coffee for the road. I pulled into the parking lot and spotted pretty quickly that they were indeed closed (no great surprise), but some guy who was in the parking lot flagged us down. Rolled down the window, guy comes over - “they’re not open?!” he says. “Nope - closed for Christmas I guess” I reply. “How am I meant to collect my order?” he asks, frustrated… Turned out he’d ordered like $80 worth of breakfasts and drinks and snacks for some big family gathering via their app…and there was no one there to make it. The app didn’t care if they were open or not, it still took his order and told him to drive to the store to collect it ?

I’ve been waiting for 5 years to build this kit. I saw one of the original issues in Rudy’s in Queens when it was first released, and I figured ‘meh, I don’t wanna schlepp it around all day - I’ll grab one next time’…and by the time it was next-time, you couldn’t get them any more (at least not for the kinda price I was willing to pay…) So, I’ve been excited to get one of these on the bench! I think Tim Boyd called this kit a ‘bench clearer’ - one of those kits where, when you get your hands on one, you clear the bench right away and start working on it…so soon as it arrived yesterday I cleared the bench, and started prepping parts! I’m going with the ‘version A’ from the manual, which is the Highboy version on the Deuce frame, Deuce grill (just because I haven’t built an A with one of those yet), probably go with the tuck ‘n’ roll interior like the blue car on the box and use those nice injector trumpets too I’ve built three of the roadster version of this kit already, so not expecting any surprises (famous last words…) but I’m going to keep fairly close to box-stock just to see how this variant goes together…maybe a few little upgrades and modifications but nothing crazy. Got everything in primer this morning and getting set to start the paint process here; the loose inspiration is something like this… …but in a candy red with candy flames. More soon - gotta go airbrush! ?

That’s a good deal - I saw that one seller who had them for that price but by the time I clicked to order he had sold out of them ?. Hoping he gets more stock!

Mine came a coupla days earlier than I expected - super excited to dig into it (even though I know the building experience will be pretty similar to the 29s, of course)

Been waiting a long time to get my hands on one of these! Soon as it came I cleared the bench and got going on it!

Agreed - and Tim Boyd is still owed several apologies too I think for taking a bunch of abuse for making the mistake of trying to give us all a sneak peek of a cool new kit, out of the kindness of his heart. I hope the whole experience didn’t sour them both on future sneak-peaks like we got for this one! I’ll be picking up a bunch of these to build some gassers!

Good tip Les - a toothpaste cap would work pretty well too! I just need to buy more toothpaste so I can try making a full set

That's really smart. Could probably put decals on before the paint too so they don't fall off

If you're mailing them, make sure not to wax the paint or the stamps will fall off

Some really great leads here fellas, thank you!! I’ve enjoyed finding out about some of these cool parts that I didn’t know existed!

Looks great to me Dave!! Thanks for sharing a sneak peek!

John / Preston - I for one am excited to see your work-in-progress on this kit.

Nice color! Are you intending to clear over top, or polish out the color coat?