dino246gt

Wow, somebody liks MoPar drag cars, hey who doesn't? Very nice models Dominik.

Very nice work, I'm digging' it!

Engine will be a combo of kit parts, using the kit Y block as a starting point, blower is from Stacey's Rat Roaster kit:

With the body painted and foiled, I got the glass installed, painted the underside of the roof, added some visors and a dome light, and getting ready to put it together, no motor though!

It's supposed to be like a barn find gasser, restored for Sunday car show meetings, barely street legal.

I cut out the top of the dash, no speaker needed, and thinned it, added a drilled piece and some wiring: Did up a fire extinguisher, and pretty much finished the interior:

I had to make the roll bar from a few pieces: Here it's taking shape: I also filled the slot where the rear seat should go, but we don't need no stinkin' rear seat! I had to make these 2 small pieces to sit the front seats on: Then I "welded" some photo etched pieces onto the roll bar for harnesses: Masking tape painted black and fitted with some photo etch details, threaded through the roll bar:

The Willys gasser door panels upside down almost fit, I had to shape the dash inset and scratch some fillers for the lower front corners: It took 2 gasser kits for 2 front seats, and I drilled out the heater control knobs, the holes in the steering wheel, added a tach, and here it is so far:

I raised the kit rear axled with shims on the leaf spring shackles, and scratched some longer shocks: Rear wheel openings were cut out and the plastic thinned, also the trunk emblem will be shaved: Hood will also be "shaved": So on to the interior, or lack of one! I started by making the rear look like no upholstery: I wanted to do a roll and pleat front door panel, but I needed the handles and cranks, Dremel from behind released them: Here they are, waiting for some Alclad:

I won't be needing a heater, so I made a blank-off plate and modified the firewall accordingly: And the rad, well I do need that rad wall, just not the actual rad: Let's cut away some of the inner fenders, for headers: For the front Willys kit rims, I wanted taller tires, the stock ones from the '57 Ford kit, but I had to remove the ridges from both first: Kit rims have a ridge on the left pic, kit tires also have a ridge, right pic shows both modified to fit together (above)

Okay, this thread should be, I am BUILDING a '57 Ford gasser, sorry can't edit it, or can I? Could a moderator change the title for me?

The tie rod was also too narrow, so I found a longer piece and fitted it to the Willys kit ends" Here it is installed: And I needed some brakes, so the AMT Camaro tree was raided: I cut the backing plates out using the typical method of scribing with the back side of an X-acto blade: I did all four and painted them with metalizer and glued to the Willys kit rims:

The frame, it has to be modified for a straight axle, so let's do that, here's the stock frame set up for coil springs up front: and here's the front rails straightened: I took the straight axle from a Willys kit and since it was too narrow, cut it at the U bolts, and added a piece of tubing the proper size:

I built this old kit and think it turned out pretty good, is it a cool picture? I think so....

I've been dreaming of doing something like that for years, now you've really done it up right, so I don't have to, I can just look at yours and say............WOW!

Wow, very sharp, I like!

Very nice overall, and extremely nicely detailed and very clean pictures of the clean chassis with lots of extra details! Did I mention that I really like it! NICE!

That's true, a cool model PICTURE, has to have a cool MODEL too!

I think this thread is for cool model PICTURES, and most of them sure do work, those trucks look so real! And those rusted out hulks, and so many great pictures here, this is my favorite thread, well I still LOVE the works in progress of course!

I built the Modelhaus '49 Caddy and the Revell '56 Del Rey, both stock:

Just perfect!

Wow that's gorgeous, what a fantastic build of a beautiful car, nice!

Very cool indeed, nice!

Thanks Bernard.

The fabulous Tamiya Aston Martin, I hinged the doors, built the jambs and added some aftermarket stuff.