Dragline

Let's see some pix man. I think Slixx has this set if I'm not mistaken... I have the Reher Morrison and Iaconio cars in my closet. I may build them down the road. Let's see the progress you've made. Bob F

How interesting that the night I decide to add a couple of progress shots I get a comment. Lotsa looky-loo's but no real critique. I can take it, good or ill! Be that as it may I indeed have a couple new shots and I will take your wheel placement ideas under advisement. I was LOLing when I read it. I wasn't sure where it was going till I scrolled down....... I have installed a starter bracket and throttle in this pic. This stuff is soooooo tiny I nearly lost it 1/2 a dozen times. I pray it can be seen. Got the tins cleared so I carefully mocked em up to see how it'll look. I now have to button up some of the controls [not in shot] and finish the Alcladding. I have to shoot the interior tin Metalizer Alum which is coming in a few days. then it's time to route some control lines and get the fuel delivery [including pump] finished so i can install my premade AN fittings. I'm thinking a Tom Daniel box stock build for my next so my eyes will have a vacation. Bob F

Great background music and super weathering on all the cars. Oddly enough, the car with the bodies in it was the worst of the lot IMHO. It took dilligence and vision to create such a boneyard, and until you have tackled such a project I'd hesititate to be critical. EPIC might be to grand a word but I happen to think it is worthy of a display of this scale [no pun]. It also [if you must] be judged on its own merits. To say a fully detailed shiny car is more difficult might not neccesarily diminish this effort, but it's not apples to apples and the work involved can never be known till any one of us has taken such a task on. BRAVO to Mr MO, whomever you might be. My .02 Bob F

Very tight build. The mixture of old and new works well. The color is outstanding. Clever how you blacked out the chrome as well. Well done indeed. Muy Bein Caballero Dragline

You can bet I will Doc. Thanks for the encouragement. Bob

Some update pix here. As can be seen I've installed [hard to see frankly], the port injection and block as well as painted the expansion tank lines. A decent look at the primary injection lines as well. Here I finally got around to installing spark plug boots and I installed a set of turned aluminum breathers. The kit breathers are more correct, but were murder to clean up and these were just laying around in their package sooooo.... I built another fuel block for the primary injection of a more realistic proportion and installed header gussets to each bank. Tins are painted and decaled awaiting clearcoat. Frankly, the decals are not very crisp but they are all I can find. Here we can see the brake lever and it's plumbing. I plan on building ALL controls, so throttle, clutch, chute and fuel shotoffs are next on the list. Comments are welcomed of course. I think my pix are clearer as well which is a good thing. I'm also going to have another go at those dots on the Mag. just not quite right. Fuel pump is on deck as well as PE throttle bits. I have a PE starter bracket and wonder if it should be against the blower case or held out on rods. Either way, it should be fun replicating all that stuff in the coming sessions at the workbench Bob F Dragline

I have a couple of old revell chopper kits I am gonna bring to life but I must say this. Make it NASTY!!! I am assuming you'll get to the nasty finish down the road so I'll save comment for then. Please make it like the photo. Gritty and unkempt. That's the only way it'll work for me personally. The paint through the mask is quite sexy. OH! And it is a rigid............. Yours is not.. Make that happen as well. Only a rigid commands respect. Keep it up.

Put the BLOODY wheels on it! Nice build......................... Bob F Dragline

That's good stuff there RR. I saw your stuff on eBay and almost pulled the trigger when I got the second set of decals. You have some stuff up I'll prob get soon. I didn't have any probs with the parting lines as can be seen, just those pesky decals. I'm certain the Slixx ones will be fine. Not knocking yours as they look excellent indeed. I plan on building a full detail version of at least the Mongoose after I finish my Garlits Swamp Rat 1R project I am working on. Update pix on that soon as well fellas. I got the primary and port injection done. Put plug boots and several other additional details as well. Pix of those soon. Bob F

Looks great! Mazmanian's cars were always so clean and shiny. You captured it. Keep building. Dragline

If it's accurate this will be landmark. I'm getting one. Strada?? i need to order one. Website? Bob F

Awesome David!!!! Big Daddy is truly a softy it seems. I for one will use these pix for my builds and they are greatly appreciated. The kit came out great BTW. I haven't had opportunity to say so, so I'll do that now. Gotta make my way down to Ocala again some day. No Swamp Rat 1R??? Wonder where it is??? Bob Frias Dragline

Hmmmm... Let's see... MORE Detailmaster AN fittings and line.. A Lindberg 330 Charger [gonna model the very first funny car thanks to Hot Rod magazines latest issue.] 2 Polar Lights Funny Cars. Various paints and bits and the feeling of well being every time I drop dough at that little hole in the wall. Dragline

That 1:1 is killer! I know one thing about race cars if I know nothing else. All it takes is time and money. My stepfather and I went Super Gas racing in the 80s/90's. I'm glad it wasn't my dough, because i watched him sink a LOT into that car. All I did was wrench.. The scale one was a tad easier and less costly I'm certain................ They are both sweeeeeet.. Bob

Indeed, more than you could build.. But clearly you have forsight and these will make fantastic trading fodder in the future. This the best representation of the Logghe chassis I have ever seen in styrene. I have a few now so I'm happy. LOOK at that pile though! Perhaps we can trade in the future if you ever post something you need. I have my share of unbuilts... Bob

40 you say???........ You can model vintage funny's till the cows come home. I assume you got them when they were the correct price,? Ill wager you got a few deals as well. Blast......... That's what I get for leaving the hobby for an extended period. Dragline

That is tight! I'll echo TxRat and ask about the wheels. They look great in particular. Well done indeed. Dragline

Since it's been a while that I have bought kits and now I'm buying quite a few i noticed this. Are these currently out of production? Since everyone and their brother is making resin bodies for these chassis it stands to reason to keep these going. Of course that's not why they produced them in the first but they are clearly missing an opportunity. I just bought a couple of sealed kits off evilBay and they are no longer at the initial asking price I see. In fact, some people are asking STOOPID money for them in some cases. Those are not selling but it leads to me to believe these are no longer anywhere on shelves for retail sale. It's a shame that we have to pay extra for kits that are of a recent vintage. They look like they will make excellent kit bashing fodder and I already have 3 bodies and decals coming from Slixx for the projects i am planning. I have a JJ car in the works and I also bought a Blue Max reissue [not the revell one, blech.....] as well as the Challenger from the old Soupy sales kit as well. Can't get a line on a set of those Soupy Sales decals though. I have some vintage Dyno Don Mustang II decals of same vintage for trade if someone has those. Minty.... Bob F

So I bought several of these kits a while back. I wasn't prepared for the fact that they didn't have correct decals so I let them sit there, then perusing eBay I cam acrross a guy selling repro decal sets. Well, they were horrible but it did get me bulding again so for that I am grateful. I asked on the wanted section on this site for some and was answered. So I built them and they came out OK I guess. The paint is Tamiya Racing white and French blue respectively. The decals were good quality but the white section of the Mongoose had ripple like printing on them. I perservered and the clear coat attacked the decals a bit. They aren't perfect [the assembly is hehehe] but they are very cool indeed. Slixx got the OK to do the Mongoose, let's hope The Snake says OK as well. I have 4 more kits awaiting those decals. Oh BTW, they are available for pre-order on Slixx website. Dragline

Looking very nice indeed. I have a Ramchargers kit I've been hoarding. After I finish a few of the things I have going I'm gonna tackle it. I'll be watching this one. Dragline

I have that very issue HRS. I ended up with a very nice copy that I use as reference. It's funny to me that after 2 weeks of Googling and what have you that I have ended up with only a dozen pictures of what is one of the most historically significant cars in all of Drag Racing. Sure, it isn't the first rear engine, but it's the one that worked. I really need shots of the front of the motor. I have PE linkage and I want to represent the throttle as it was. I am a dilligent guy if nothing else and I will get them. The rear wheels are from the Swamp Rat XXX kit. Thanks to Big Daddy for not changing things, These are the same rims that he used for this car [more or less]. I am using Pegasus resin rear rotors and they are drilled out. I'm sure Big didn't use drilled rotors, buy I couldn't find it in my heart to putty up the holes they are so nice. Tires are Satco I just got a 2nd kit from eBay and am in the process of dechroming the controls and running gear. I'll get rid of all the parting lines and Alclad it all this week. for some reason i lost quite a few parts over the years and the decals as well. They'll turn up somewhere perhaps but the kit was only 7.00 and there are no aftermarket decals for this car that I could find. I also pirated a chute from a revell T/F car as well. I do need a set of PE front wheel for this thing. MAS.com seems to not be taking orders. Any word? Dragline

This site and a few magazines have gotten me back into modeling full tilt. I've been here trolling a bit, offer this and that but nothing of my own. So here is a car I started many years ago. It has sat in the box that sits in a bigger box full of kits and my tools and supplies. And while the spirit occasionally hit me to break em out and start crafting it usually faded behind Battlefield II, my once big bad band, guitar playing in general, drinking brewskis, chasing girls, blah, blah, blah..... So when I picked up a magazine [i can't say it, but you know which one], the bug hit me. I saw great craftsmanship and was truly inspired. I picked up a couple of back issues of Model cars and I was off to the hobby shop and eVilBay. I bought lots of stuff over the last few weeks and have been on here regular like. I enjoy seeing the WIP stuff especially so I have gotten my camera together. It was in need of an overhaul and I have 1 Staff photographer and another enthusiats in the family but they never did come to my rescue. I got it all squared today so here are only a couple of shots of where I am in the build. Lots of work to do clearly but she is coming along pretty well. I'm going for mostly correct with maybe a few artistic changes. Enjoy them and I will post progress here as it may come. Bob Frias AKA: Dragline

Off the web I bought some MORE Detail Master fittings and sanding sticks. The reissue Soupy sales kit. Locally I bought some Satco TF rear tires, some killer 5 way shoulder harness sets by some unknown [to me] company. Got to drilling my Garlits SR 1R fuel lines for the top of the hat. I'm building a chute for it today but I had to go outside and wash my car since it was FULL of salt. My SS has looked sad all winter. Took a skate around the block to break in a new set of 70mm downhill wheels. I'm wearing shorts and Vans!!! WooHoo! Dragline

I have been watching this thing quietly, BUT NO MORE! THIS THING IS OUTTA HAND!!!!! They actaully make a pill for your exact ailment. May you never take it! UNREAL! Dragline

Smithsonian trip postponed till tomorrow due to a 1/2 dozen people who also want to go and cant till then. Always willing to accomodate, so Sunday it is! I was pretty keyed up for it too. I'll have to temper it till the morrow. Bob