Draggon

Whats the story on the Manta-Ray?

Thanks Doc!

Thats looking great Rob. Perhaps too great. Wheres all the mess on the bench?

Rustoleum primer, well, I cant say it without warning points, but saying I dont like it is an understatement.

The Tweedy Pie has a great windshield frame, correct carbs with the frogmouth scoops, the chopped 32 grille shell, and hairpins. Frame and body are easy things to modify, but I cant tell a lot from google pics. Seems like the wheelbase on the Tweedy pie is close, but body and engine would need to be pushed back several scale inches. Taking the basic shell from that kit and adding the back end from the AMT 27 Phaeton would work, as well as the really short bed in the Tweedy pie. Modelhaus t-100 tires would be perfect for the front, but I'm not sure about wheels, nor rear tires. Having both the Tweedy Pie and AMT kits, I can say that theres not much from the AMT kit that could be used, save for the front axle, but its set up to run the famous 60's wire axles so it can roll.

One of my neverending projects...

Imagine if Jeff Allison's work became models!

Hey Doc, ya might be sorry ya started this. Heres only a sampling of my primer projects! First up, 32 Ford Next a 34 Ford And a 23 Tee Cop Art show car Boxart 32 dragger Milners Revenge, Yellow primrer base for gloss yellow Finally a Mongram 40 Ford, chopped, and the doors still work. That was a freakin bitch, done in the 80's with only tube glue and testors putry.

This might set the record for stalled projects. I started this in the early 80's following a chop tutorial by Tim Boyd in Street Rodder Magazine. Nothing but testors tube glue and body putty in this one!

Harry, Harry, Harry.......if our info wasnt part of our posts, I would swear you lived in Fremont, CA. I'm used to all that stuff. Dont get me started or I might get banned. A town of a quarter-million cant support one hobby shop, yet we have noodle-houses on every corner, and in most strip malls you cannot find anything written in english.

$619 is a bargain!! Before my local Hobbytown closed, they were $8.99.Perhaps thats why they folded.....

I love what ya did with the hubcaps. All these years I never realized they were caddy caps. Awesome!

Go for it Bill! Heres the post for B's great build. http://www.modelcars...topic=58341&hl= The only thing I did different from Bernard was to kick out the axle vertically in relation to the radius rods. I gave me about 2 scale inches of stretch, but looking at it overall, it accentuates the long and low look. Using the 27 spring is super easy, after modifying it all I had to do was clearance the kit radius rods a touch, however, it brings the axle back to where is on Bernard's model. This is how it looked with the Bernard style axle. As you can see, the axle centerline is just in front of the grill shell to hood side lines.

A long time ago I posted my wip on a Revell 34 Ford snap kit using the technique Bernard Kron did on his fabulous "simple 34" After an epic fail on the front axle, I learned that super glue and baking soda is not always my best friend. I finally found a replacement axle, the custom one from AMT's 27 phaeton. After slicing some of the spring mount off, and reattaching the spring to the axle, its almost as good as the original. First pic is of the axle slicing, second is of how it sits now. Good enough for government work! Next pics are of paint. I grabbed a practice body, and started playing with Testor's new line of airbrushable acrylics. I gotta tell you, theyre fantastic! This is pearl gold fogged with pearl green. The second picture is with their clear, lightly polished. It lays down super smooth, dries rock hard, and polishes up great!

Perhaps the Tweedy Pie, the recent reissue.

Yup. These days photo skills are everhtying. I looked to the suspension mounts...........

I've got this dumb kit. Your verision gives me new inspiration. I love that color, and the torq-thrusts make it awesome!

Nice! Bet that looks great on someones shelf!

Thats a great looking kustom you've got there. I love that front end treatment!

Beautiful workmanship, so very clean, great job!

I love it, great job on all the modifications, and that injected engine and the beautiful yellow paint make it all that much better.

That is really great! It looks so mice in yellow, and I like your change in rear wheels and the scoop for the blowers.

I'm partial to raspberry, but since you want yours blue, I vote for pastel/black

Nice! Those stretchwalls look great on this.

I was a construction equipment mechanic, now retired. Worked on a lot of these in my time.