Geezerman

Iff'n I had a nice lathe, I coulda whipped out a neat symmetrical tank in a matter of minutes. Geezerman don't got no such luxuries. Instead, I spent a pleasurable couple of hours making this not so symmetrical tank. Coupla Ticky Train barrels, top off of an acyetlene tank and the noise end of a horn. Hubcap rounds off the bottom end. ;D Going slo, but I haven't stopped. Working on little stuff that adds to the whole. NOS gauge is off the acetylene tanks, and the smaller gas tank is the smaller tank off of the same torch outfit. I'm thinkin, "More bottle, less throttle" :

Now that I have myself reinstalled on the board, please let me bore you with my latest adventure. This 50 never pleased me, even tho I had got a pretty good chop on it. SO, I tore it apart. the wheels and chassis went on my 40 Ford beater 'vert. The cab is now in black primer and I am working on a slammed frame. Was going to use a blown engine salvaged from a different build. but instead am planning on a new nailhead Buick with 6 Deuces on a log manifold. Here's the carcass. Stuff for this build. Nailhead and intake parts in the forground. Other engine and parts will return to the salvage yard ;D I decided to open up the cowl vent for this baby. Sitting next to the stock body thats from the new kit I got for xmas. Don't know what I'm going to do with that kit yet. Almost too new to mess with. Here's the scratched frame ready for engine mounts and other thingies that I'll need to get on it before I paint it. I have a LOT of small stuff to do yet. Haven't even touched the engine other than getting the block together, but the mind is whirling !! ???

Nice work, Raul. You sleeked that pig down perfectly !! I know you had good and valid reasons for extending the rear pan, but I liked the bobbed look it had (excluding the gaudy exhaust tips, of coarse). Beautiful model.

Thanks, Everyone. Found the skull under some bushes in the yard. I knew instantly what was in store for it!

This model features a genuine rodent skul as well as a lot of scratchbashing. Base ingredients are the skull, 36 roadster body, custom top from the salvage yard, 50 Ford windshield, and a bunch of other stuff. Build fotos in my Fotki if you care to look. http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/1/clay_gratz/1/rodent/

Hi everyone. Have been off the board since the update rejected my browser. But I haven't stopped building. Heres my take on the 39 Chev coupe. Gave it a Bonneville chop and ratted it a bit

Minor update : The axle dried crooked and I had to rip it out and then repair it, but it's setting good now on the 5K castings. ;D Foto shows how I modified the trunk lid to clear the back of the frame kickup. Used the bottom of a pill tube. Spare tire will still mount ok. Working on the front axle and getting some filler on the body.

Go for the gusto, Crank. On the roll-a-way.

Interesting project. You Florida boys, get it on !!

Casting sessions have got me the parts, now I can get on with some building. None of my models stand up to any scrutiny from underneath, But I always try to install a suspension, however brutally imagineered it may be. This one is about the most blatent impractible one I've done. But it holds the tires. It hits the spare tire recess in the trunk lid. I'll have to address that somehow.

Super job, Bernard !!

Looks like a great start. Repetition of large file size fotos too much for me (dial up), I 'm leaving the thread halfway thru the 3rd set.

That's cool. If you're gonna cast it, I, personally, think you lost a lot of it's indentity and flavor by squaring off the front of the side windows.

Thanks, all. That Cammer came in the Willys kit. great looking engine, but I'm considering putting a couple of 4 bbls on it instead of the lame looking FI knobs. Letting glue set up, I tinkered with the rear of the body a bit. Roll pan is a leftover from a 50 Ford vert kit. The tire carrier is a glue bomb parts box find. I hogged out the cast in wires and will have one of my castings in place (matches front wheels)

That's a great reference foto, Fletch. If that ain't pure grass roots hot rodding, nothing is. I say go for that look !!!

Scrabashed a front end, and am piddling around getting some castings done for the rolling stuff, so I can determine dimensions for the frame. And the beginning of the frame:

Nice work !!!!

Nice start. Thing's riding just right !!!!

Met Dave and seen these cars in person at that show. pics don't do the paint job justice, its beautiful !!!

That's a sweet looking coupe. Nice work !!!! Personally, I like the 34 grille. Quad headlights on a hot rod don't work for me.

I found this part a little tricky, but with a little fooling around and a tub of M&M's, I got those headlite buckets in place. I had to make a jig to keep them spaced evenly until I could tack them in place w/ crazy glue. To make a continuation of the light buckets, I used the end clips of the last two old ballpoint pens left over from the old model RR days. (New Caledonia RR. circa 1970s) All gaps were filled with scrap styrene and the molding in is in process. The mock up before filler.

Won this kit at the NHRA SE Nats last weekend in Tampa. Only kit I have on hand, so it immediately goes under the knife. This car must be the runner up to the 41 Plymouth as the homliest car ever put in model kit form. Who the world designed this? Some backwoods coon hunters ? 1:1 must have had some hellish long adjustment screws to get the headlights to shine down on the pavement. But enough of this folly: First thing to go were the silly little rear fenders. Headlight housings were next. Hint of coming direction is the body mocked on a 29 RPU fender assembly.

Not big on gassers, but I like the looks of this baby!

Project is awsome !! NICE WORK !!!!

Thanks, all. Tintail copped an honorable mention (Ace award) at the NSRA SE Nationals in Tampa this weekend. Model car contest was put on by the local MAGS group. great show !