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Thanks! The scoop was for the 6 carb setup on the exterminator dragster.
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Thanks. I just went with what I know from being a car guy. It's all pretty obvious when you get into it.
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The radiator mascot is a piece of translucent red sprue chucked into a Dremel and shaped with sanding sticks. Scrap styrene fin and a stretched amber sprue flame. Coated with Gundam marker chrome.
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I stripped the chrome skull shifter to find swirly recycled plastic underneath. I convinced myself that it looked like woodgrain and gave it a coat of rust tinted Detailer. Ill take the shine down with semi gloss. Since it's a t-bucket I thought a nod to Norm Grabowski would make a nice Easter egg. In addition to his rodding contributions, he was a talented woodcarver. His exotic wood skull shifters are pretty pricey
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The primered car reminds me of Baskerville's.
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The paint is Testors Black Enamel spray. Just as it came from the can.
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They're scuffed. The Lindberg slicks are a different plastic, PVC, I don't know. But they don't sand worth a damn. I rounded the shoulders slightly and flat cleared them, too.
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Thank you. A 1/8 scale classic first released in '63.
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Thanks. No, the Atlantis kit is a little rough. I was seeing more things that needed work than I wanted to deal with. It was not the best 57 kit when it was new. Mine is the Black Widow 150 with the straight axle from the Atlantis kit. It's a solid body. The motor is the from the AMT 37 Chevy. Standard model car blower drive, one piece belt and pulleys with a decal on the belt. The shackles on the rear and the trunk decal, that I painted over, are the only other things from the Atlantis box.
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Thanks. It's a decal from the Atlantis 57. I painted over their red car with my body color.
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It started as the gasser version of the new Atlantis 57 Chevy release. After a parts vault search, it turned into the Black Widow with the suspension from the Atlantis kit. Plus the BBC from AMT's 37 Chevy.
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Kustom Krate.
samdiego replied to samdiego's topic in All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
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Kustom Krate
samdiego replied to samdiego's topic in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
The seat and sissy bar were in the kit. I did rake the neck of the frame back a lot. The pedals were repositioned, too. -
Kustom Krate
samdiego replied to samdiego's topic in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
Yes, the larger ones started as square rod sanded to an oval shape. The smaller ones are round evergreen rod. It's actually pretty strong. -
I was about 10 when Don Emmons wrote in Model Car Science that Swirladelic paint jobs were cool. That would have been 1970, maybe. I still have most of it. Sure made the graphics hard to read.
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Possibly the best custom Merc, IMO.
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Wow, Guy. Seriously. I'll agree, the nicest build of that kit I ever seen. The 1:1 has long been one of my favorite customs and one of my favorite covers.
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Taking all of the above into consideration, just gimme it! And if you really love me, do the roadster with the accessory hard top so I don't have to build the Gunze in my collection. Now, what about the 1/8?
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The rest of it. The bumpers and windshield are missing too. If I can find the doors and hood, I can bring it back. Color matching is most of the issue if I can't. It's Testor's Silver Blue Met but this many batches later and who knows about matching. The bumpers were painted body color but I'd leave them chrome this time.
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This is the first issue of the Revell Chevelle, a combination of both both versions. I haven't found the doors and hood yet. Restore? Yes, I should. It was a nice piece when it was fresh, but many years and moves since and . . .