Terry Sumner

Wow Mark...you are so right....what a great diorama that would make. 2 of the most iconic early dragsters side by side? Doesn't get any better than that! Thanks for the photos. I've amassed quite a collection of photos over the years too in anticipation of this project. Mine are here... http://public.fotki.com/tsumner/11-real-cars/mooneyes-photos/ and you're welcome to them also!

Oh well Dan...thanks for checking. No big deal...I've got a good start going on an axle out of brass... I'm actually looking into sending this out for real chroming when I get it finished! Hosted on Fotki

Thanks for the thought Peter but that front axle has too high of an upsweep and kickout. Appreciate your efforts though! And thanks for your kind words on my resurrection...still got a ways to go though...

Neil...I had heard from someone somewhere before that the Attempt I is a good donor for the axle. Don't have one of those kits though. Maybe someone will have one this Sunday....

Bwahahahahahaaaaa Yeah...Riiiiight!

Danno: That is sweet! If you're in contact with this fellow, could you ask him what he used for the front axle for the dragster. He's got the correctly shaped axle with the curved up ends whereas the kit axle is straight across. I'm scratchbuilding a new one out of brass but I'm just curious where he sourced that axle?

That'd be cool Bob!

Me!

As I wrote the above early on in this thread I didn't realize that I had a couple of photos of the culprit who caused the aforementioned damage in my shop. I ran across these 2 photos of the interloper that I had taken with my old first generation Sony Mavica FD73 camera. This was before cameras got up into megapixel resolution, hence the graininess...sorry. This is the oldest cat we have now called "Prettygirl". Hosted on Fotki Apparently she LOVED my chair! Hosted on Fotki

What mark said!

A Tiger Tank is 20' 8" long by 12' 3" wide... or 248" X 145". So in 1/12 scale that thing has to be 20.66" long X 12.08" wide!!!! Dat's a BEEG model!

Tamiya produced it's first 1/35 kit in 1961...a German Panther tank. But I believe the 1/35 was used because 1/35 = 50mm. And of course they were using the metric system of weights and measures. And as a side note, the 54mm figures are not 1/35...they're 1/32 scale.

Very interesting...never knew that!

I had the same thought... MODEL!

Whoever did that site has the car incorrectly listed as a 1967 Chevelle! OOPS! LOL

Man! Can you imagine DRIVING that little short wheelbase sucker down the track? I bet that car was a real handful to drive...much like a fuel altered!

I have a NESCO unit in my paint room. It works really well. The unit is designed to vary in size by adding or subtracting these rings that have porous plastic bottoms. You just remove the bottoms from all the rings except the bottom one and stack them all together. I taped mine together so they wouldn't come apart accidentally. Here's a couple of photos... I find that running it at about 105 degrees works best for me. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki This photo will kind of give you an idea of the size of the dehydrator.... Hosted on Fotki

Thanks for the replies guys...I just happen to have a 56 Vicky kit which will be donating it's engine to the 1960 Ford mooneyes pickup project!

Title says it all... Looking for a kit that has a good Y-Block engine. Any suggestions?

Sure Jon....can never have too much reference! Thanks for that info Bud!

Wow! Are you kidding me!!!! Thanks MUCH for those photos....I did not have them on file and that shot of the interior is invaluable! So are the others!

Nice photo!!1 I don't have that one. I'm probably going to have someone who is good at this stuff make these decals for me when I have a few bucks extra! This photo will definitely help! Thanks much! BTW,,,,,what engine is that in there? FOrd 427???

Happy Barfday jairus!

There's 4 of them in the Showboat 4 engine dragster kit...all injected.

I'm just guessing but maybe guys don't like to have to click on a link to go and see photos? I dunno. I myself usually pass them up. I'd rather have the photos come up within the post. Anyway I did go and see the model. It's beautiful...nice paint...looks crisp. Question...where's the radiator?