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Thanks Bob! I knew you'd like the 1:1 car . It's true that the engine is really nice in that Nova kit. I built one of those Novas a couple of years ago as a Stock Eliminator Drag Car and when I started looking for a kit that has a good SBC that Nova came directly on my mind. Luckily I was able to find one cheap at local model car show. Here's a minor update on the '60. The chassis has a spare tire bulge (Whatever it is called in English) and last time it was on X-Frame Chevy was in 1959. So I cut it away and started doing a styrene piece to cover the hole. It still needs some fine tuning, so I didn't take a picture of that yet either. I will work with it tomorrow and probably post a couple of more pics. Some Bondo was also put on the engine.

Here's a little update to the Charger Daytona. I shot some Primer on the body today. It looks pretty good for now, but of course I can't say it for sure until it's fully dried. Tomorrow I will have to see how it looks and if it's good, after a couple of days I will shoot some orange on it. I hope I don't have to do more bodywork with it as the deadline is gettin' closer and closer every day...

Thanks Jeremy, Carl, Richard and Charlie! I appreciate your kind words and I agree that the colors work well together. I've always thought that red & silver is a perfect combo and this one proves it. Today I headed to the garage and continued the painting process of this Oldsmobile. The hood was painted red and it turned out decent. It needs some minor sanding and a new coat of red though as there is a bit of dust on the paint. It's not too bad though. I also started clear coating the body. As I've had lots of trouble with the body paint, I thought it's better to clear coat very carefully. So today I sprayed a very light coat of clear on the body and so far there are no problems detected. I will spray another coat of clear tomorrow. It will take some time, but hopefully it doesn't end up in paint stripping... I have also painted some engine bay parts so detailing should continue soon...

The second FHRA Swap of the year was held in September. The weather was better so of course there were more American Cars than there were in March. Here is a link to the Picture Gallery. And here is a Teaser Shot: Also here are a few pictures from Rekola Cruising Night in May 2014. This is one of those smaller Cruise Nights, but there were some really cool cars present anyway. Picture Gallery.

I just saw this on TRaK and I thought I should post it in here too. As speculated in another thread, looks like Moebius Models is reissuing two old Jo-Han kits, '59 Dodge and '64 Turbine Car that will be the promo version without an engine. I'm really looking forward to these, I gotta get several of both of them. More info here: http://www.scalemodelnews.com/2014/10/marvels-from-moebius-sneak-peek-at-2014.html

Gene: Yep the filler primer is a good stuff for sure, it covers easily minor flaws that still are present and it is easily sandable, too. James: Uh oh I've always used a round wooden stick to mix up the putty and it has always worked perfectly. I think it makes no difference in what you mix it up with, but of course it needs to be mixed up properly so that the putty has a nice and even color on it. Filler Primer is a good stuff too. If you spray too much of it, yes, it will cover all of the details. Important with that is to spray a very light coat of it and then all of the details are still present. It makes the prep work so much easier when you don't have to put Bondo on dozens of places when the body is getting near paint.

I think that Amazon would be a really cool to have as a model kit. AirTrax has made a resin kit of one, but I've heard rumors that they are being sold out and the molds need to be redone to produce more of those copies. That Amazon has lots of building options, I'm thinking of a Chopped Custom, Street Machine with a V8 under the hood and my favorite would be building something like the Hemizon:

Thanks Gene! The prep work can be really frustrating at sometimes, but now I somehow had inspiration to work with the hood as fast as the filler dried. The underside is another story though.... It will be a pain to get right as the shapes make it difficult to sand. I found this picture from the Internet. It shows how the Bondo looks when the actual filler and the hardener paste are mixed up. For applying it on a surface I use a piece of thin styrene sheet or then a piece of thicker cardboard. It's the best way I've figured out anyway. It works like this, but of course just in a smaller scale.

What He Said! Especially I like how the turtle deck looks and probably because it's missing, I've never bought the earlier reissue of this kit. I was very close of buying it a couple of times, but then I found something more interesting. Maybe now it would be a good time to pick one of these up...Even without the turtle deck. Anyone knows if those Turtle Decks are offered in resin by someone?

The hood is starting to look smooth now from the top side. After the last set of pics I have put a couple of coats of Bondo on it and sanded it smooth each time. Now it should be ready for a coat of Spray Filler or Primer, I'm not sure which one I'll be using. The underside is still rough, though. It needs to be smoothed out before I can shoot anything on it.

I got these from a Local Model Car Show today. My plan was to keep my budget low and surprisingly I managed to do that! The '62 Impala Convertible is missing a chassis and the body is painted. Complete engine and interior are there, though and that kit has a great 409 with Cross Ram intake and Offenhauser's finned valve covers. It was cheap so I had to pick it up. SMP's '60 El Camino is missing all of the Custom parts and some smaller items, but it doesn't matter me. I will use a chassis from AMT 1959 El Camino and engine bay from another source to make it a Mild Custom. It was pretty cheap too so I had to get it. More pictures Here. Then I bought some smaller stuff, a bottle of Tamiya Blue, three pairs of 9" Slicks, inner wheels and some valve covers: Original ones for Chevy W-Block and Generation 2 Big Block, Offenhauser valve covers for W-Block and Weiand and Corvette valve covers for SBC. Those magazines I got for free.

Really good looking Dragster and a great description, too. Especially I like the front wheels, as the wire wheels in these kits are really poor quality and I think they would ruin an otherwise nice build. Those look perfect. Nice paint and assembly work and sharp detailing all over. For example the valve stems seem to be one item that many builders forget (Me too!). Really nicely executed build of an interesting subject.

This is interesting! There can never be too many X-Frame Chevrolets and this one is turning out spectacular. I've always liked this engine combination fitted in these X-Frame Chevys, even though my favorite engine would be... Well I think you all know that it would be a W-Block. Anyway great looking Impala you have there. The color combination looks very good and paint job is really smooth too. I like the tires and that engine detailing is super nice. I can't wait to see this one done.

First, I'm not sure if this is the right category for this thread, but as I see other 1:1 car related posts in here, I thought this might fit here too. If not, I'm sorry and please move it somewhere. Anyway I think this is really one of a kind Drag Race crash, I know that it has never happened before at least here in Europe. This happened at European Drag Race Championship Finals where a Top Fuel Bike racer Filippos Papafilippou crossed the center line and lost the control of his bike. The driver made it to the finishing line, the bike didn't... See youself, this is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgh_nEbZi8s

Actually, I believe it was correct on the first pictures. That pulley tightens up the belt and it should be installed just like it is on the pics. Interesting project. I can't wait to see more as that body is looking really wild like that!

Here are two pictures of the rear suspension on the new COPO Camaro. If you're going to build an actual COPO Camaro, I wish you good luck. I have the same project in mind, I have the kit already but currently I'm searching all of the parts I need before I can start the project.

Incredible work! I've always thought that this '70½ Camaro looks much better than '67-'69 Camaros so I'm really glad to see one built this well. Fantastic work overall, but my favorite is that interior. It looks very realistic, especially the seats that don't look like plastic at all. I can't wait to see more of this.

Thanks everyone for the comments, they are appreciated! Bill: Yep these are great looking cars. I did a little mock up with the engine and as I'm going with a Small Block there is a bit more space to move the engine just a little forward. It won't probably be perfect, but at least it should be better than if built box stock. I have already built one as a Mild Custom with the 348 Cid engine and I can remember that there was no space to move the engine forward enough. Philip: I'm glad this brings memories! My 1:1 has some rust issues too. Currently the rear quarter panel from co-drivers' side is partly disappeared... Needs to order a replacement quarter panel for that... Carl: I used a Razor Saw to cut the transmissions. It works really well and makes straight cuts. I can't remember for sure, but it wasn't very expensive either, maybe something like $15 here in Finland. I think every modeler should have one of these on their toolbox, mine is made by Zona and it looks pretty much like this: Thanks for the interest guys, I'll have more updates soon.

The next step was painting the door panels. My reference pics showed that on the door panels the white areas are actually light grey. So I painted them with Humbrol #56. Later on after I had painted the red, I noticed that the grey areas are a bit too dark, but since they look decent like that I thought I'm going to leave them like that. It's not too wrong anyway. Then some BMF and detail painting with silver and black wash to the door lines and they are done.

If that was for me, Thanks! Uh I guess I have enough glue bombs on my own right now. Finishing all of them will take probably a couple of decades.

I thought I wouldn't start a new project before my '50 Oldsmobile Mild Custom is completed, but it seems that I can't keep my hands off from this one so I'll have to get started with it. The Olds will be done soon, though. So the plan is to build an Impala that my 1:1 scale Impala will hopefully be in a few years time. This means that I will install a 383 Cid Stroker Small Block Chevy from Revell '69 Nova kit as that is what will be under the hood on the real thing when I get the money to build the engine, tranny, driveshaft and rear axle. I'm planning that the real thing should look a little like an old Junior Stock Drag Car with front end a bit higher than the rear end, high profile blackwall tires with black steel wheels on the back and whitewalls and Chrome Reverses on the front. I took AMT 9" Slicks for this project as that's what I would use on the 1:1 car when driving at the Drag Strip, front tires come from AMT Firestone Parts Pack. The wheels are resin cast by a friend of mine. The front wheels will be painted with Alclad Chrome. As I said earlier, the engine is taken from Revell's Special Edition '69 Nova kit. I'm planning to use aluminum heads, Victor Junior style intake manifold (Where to find one in scale?), Mickey Thompson valve covers and of course headers. No kit seems to have correct headers for this car so I will have to scratchbuild them. Of course the engine needs to be detailed properly. The kit has some flaws in it, even if it is pretty good quality. Originally the engine sits way too far back and there is the spare wheel cover next to the fuel tank (It was there in '59 but not in '60) etc. But more on those modifications later as I go.... First Here are a few pics of how the real car looks right now: And here is the kit. When I bought it, the first thing was of course to get rid of those horrible wheels and tires(How could someone ever install them on a '60 Impala?! :lol: ) Luckily a friend of mine bought them. As you can see the rear wheels are actually meant to be installed on the front. I need to try removing the center knobs somehow. Buying a new set of wheels might be another choice, we'll see which one I'll do. The real car will probably have a TH350 automatic trans (Currently it has a PG) so I had to try finding one. Luckily my friend Matti (ChevyCoupe41) had a "junk engine" with a TH350 transmission molded in. So I cut the transmissions separate from the engine blocks and now I have the engine from the Nova with TH350 trans. Thanks For Lookin'!

Thanks Philip and Darryl! I appreciate it! Yep I know many people who don't like to build 1/24 scale models. I think it makes no difference, so for me this is not a big deal. I got the hole on the hood done. A couple of pieces of sheet styrene and some rough sanding and now it's covered in Bondo. I also drilled holes to the scoop and now the carbs get some fresh air, too.

Here are four pictures from FHRA Swap that was held in March 2014. The weather wasn't very good so there were not that many American Cars present. Anyway here are a few:

It can't get much better than this. Very realistic looking Altered all in all, but that detailing must be my favorite. It looks like the engine could be fired up at any moment. Combined with good looking paint job and very nice and clean assembly overall make this one an incredible model. Congrats.

WOW! Those Quadrajets are Beautiful! As a 1:1 Stock Eliminator Drag Racer I like to build lots of Stockers and Super Stockers where you can't hide carburetors under air cleaner... I will buy those soon for sure. So.... Thank You for making those carbs!