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Steve has excellent points. Simple, pretty basic things that can ruin an otherwise well built model completely. This is the only thing I think a bit differently. If the tire is sanded flat from the bottom, it looks better, I must admit that. But when looking at the chassis, the tires with flat bottoms definitely don't look good especially if the tire tread isn't re-scribed.

I'd really like to see a model kit of '30-'31 Ford Coupe. Those Monogram kits are starting to get hard to find, at least here in Finland. I may be odd, but I think that '30-'31 Coupe looks a lot better than '32.

Thanks Bob! I like it, too. It's a really nice body and I can't wait to see how it looks when I get it clear coated, polished and foiled . But then again, I'm not a greatest fan of BMF and this Fury has a lot of trims to chrome...

This will be interesting! You build very nice stuff, I still think your '57 Chevy Turbo Pro Modified was one of my favorite projects ever on this forum. This will be interesting to watch, your start looks excellent. I agree with the others, those valve covers look very good.

That's a really cool Corolla. Even if it's a Japanese car, I think this body looks really good. I bet that small car with a short wheelbase would be an interesting one to drive on a Drag Strip. I'll be watching this one with great interest, the work you've done so far looks really good. Especially I like the chassis.

Box Stock? .... You're..... Building a.... Box Stock...? Really?? Just kidding of course. But honestly, the last thing I could wait for when I opened this Drag Racing Models section was seeing you building something straight out of the box. Anyway it's interesting to see how this turns out. Cleaning up the mold lines and ejector pin marks etc can be really annoying, but you're doing a nice job with those parts. I can't wait to see more.

ScaleAutoMobilia sells those engines in resin. Auslowe Model Accessories is the manufacturer. That is the only picture I found, but the product can be found Here. The parts seem to be organized by the year, this one is in 1958. It's $17, so not a bad price for an engine kit I guess? I don't know about the quality, though.

Here's mine. '60 Plymouth Fury Mild Custom that is coming together slowly. I should try painting Alclad next to get the bumpers and grille painted so I could continue. Now it's already in color.

Sad to hear that the engine didn't fit, but luckily you were able to solve the problem. The black wash on those wheels and the body sure was worth it...Great job!

Thank You so much, Stan, Ron, Glenn and Chris! I appreciate it. I think that color should fit really nicely on Tri-Five Chevrolets, too. It will take some time before this one is painted, though. I started doing bodywork a couple of days ago and I noticed that there are lots of flaws and mold lines. First problem was the windshield chrome trim. The upper part of that trim was completely invisible, so I had to make another one. I glued some styrene rod as a new chrome trim and now it should be a lot easier to BMF as well. I started also sanding the mold lines away and found a couple of places where some putty was needed. There's still lots of work to do and it probably needs more putty, but I hope that I could spray some Primer or Spray Filler on it soon. I also worked with the brakes / inner wheels. I painted part of the wheels with brighter silver and the brake parts with gun metal. I will add slight black wash on them still, but otherwise they are done. The actual wheels need still some work. Rear wheels need a bit of black wash and I must paint the bolts and nuts, but I'm not sure what to do with the fronts. Maybe I should remove the chrome plating and paint them silver... Let's see what I end up with. Anyway, front springs and front axle are glued on place. They need still detailing, for example a couple of bolts and nuts need to be added and then I must find shocks somewhere and fabricate mounts for them. And of course I need all of the steering parts, too.

Really nice work! That chassis is a piece of art. Same thing with the engine with all of those details. I've rarely seen a Ford Capri built like this, but I must say that it looks very cool. I can't wait to see more pictures.

Great job as always, Joe! As I said in other thread, I like your color combinations. Green fits perfectly together with Gold, and that paint job looks good too. I like it, thanks for sharing.

Great work so far with the Charger Daytona. I like seeing these Factory Stock builds, too, especially when they are done as cleanly as this one. I like the color a lot and your paint job turned out very good as well. Sharp BMF work and nice engine detailing make this one really stand out! Two minor things that I'd do differently that would make this model even better. Removing those Copyright and Manufacturer texts from the chassis, as real cars never had those. And add a little black wash to those holes on steel wheels. It will make them look much better. But as I said, those are very small things and this build is looking very good already. Keep it coming.

Great thing mentioned here so far! One thing that comes to my mind is.... Lack of Research. Maybe the best example is when I see Drag Cars being built... There are lots of "Pro Stocks" that have really nothing to do with real Pro Stock Drag Cars. Same thing with many different categories, like Gassers, Super Stockers, Altereds, Factory Experimental cars etc. People spend a lot of time to build their model, but they can't spend 15 minutes to find out what class their car would go in.

Nice work with the Funny Car! Nice, clean job building this kit overall, but my favorite part is the engine. It looks so good that I could swear it was an 1:1 scale piece. Great job with the paint and decals, too.

Thanks for the information! I'll give those a try.

Very good looking Poncho! Nice to see you building these GM cars, too (There's nothing wrong with Fords, though). This is maybe the best Catalina I've ever seen as a scale model. The wheel and tire choice is perfect, those fit spot on to the look and your paint job is excellent, too. Also great job painting part of the grille with body color.

That's Fantastic looking Barracuda! Just like I'd like to have it in 1:1 scale. Your color choice is simply perfect and I like body colored steelies a lot. They fit on almost every car, and this is definitely one of them. This is one of the best builds of this kit that I've seen, makes me wanting to buy one! I might have missed it, but what color did you use?

Thanks Guys, I highly appreciate your kind comments ! Yep, it will be painted blue. Actually my paint arrived yesterday, it's Tamiya's TS-23 Light Blue. It's really close to the interior color, at least when looking at the bottle top. The other color will be white, so I'm planning to go with Two Tone paint job, just like in the interior. Thanks Again!

That's a very neat Corvair. Corvair body with Rat Packer chassis seems to work nicely and I have to agree, I prefer the front engine version. Very nice job.

As I promised, here are a couple of pictures of the front axle. The axle that comes with the kit has one problem: The wheels could not steer with that axle, as it has no spindles (Or whatever they are called in English?). To make them, I took a piece of the kit's roll bar that is way too thick and some silver that I bent to shape. The spindles are really simple, made out of three pieces and glued together. Tomorrow I will modify the front axle to fit those spindles on place, add a couple of bolts and paint everything. It should look better once it's done than the original kit's axle... I had to remove the chrome plating, too. The axle had mold seams in it so the chrome would flake off anyway, but even without those seams, I would have wanted to paint the axle...

Glenn: Thank You! I believe the problem was in the new tires. Mickey Thompsons maybe just don't fit under that car...Maybe. There is another Drag / Street Race event at Pori Airport next Saturday, so we'll go there and do more runs with those tires to see how they work. I will have to try different burnouts and different air pressures to have enough traction. I did some work and I have an update. I said I'd work with the engine or chassis, but I worked with both of them instead! Jason: Thanks! That Reaction Time was by far the best one I have ever had in my time slip. And I must say that this was the correct place to get it, otherwise I would have lost because I wasn't that close to my dial in, as I had traction problems at the start. I had 12.37 dial in and I ran 12.42. But adjusting the dial in is hard. But I like to set the dial in so that it's a bit slower than what the car might run. Then I can hit the brakes before crossing the finishing line... So as I said I made some progress with the engine and chassis. I started from the engine by installing the spark plug wires. They are made from Scale Dreams' material, which works great. Someone might notice the little holes where valve covers' bolts are. Yes, I have Pro Tech's T-Bolts for them... I must repaint the transmission, the silver paint is coming off because of handling... I also worked with the chassis. Some modifications were required in front and rear suspensions. On the back, only thing I had to do was to modify the inner wheels / wheel backs to fit with the rear axle. Originally, there were kind of "tubings" (Hey, now I used correct word !) where metal axle would go into. With the rear axle from this kit, those wouldn't work so I cut them away and drilled new, bigger holes to the inner wheels. Now they fit perfectly with the rear axle. Unfortunately though, I was too exited to work with these, as I forgot to take pictures of them. Only picture is from the finished parts that still need paint. Front brakes (or inner wheels) are taken from AMT '70 Camaro. That will be built as a Stock Eliminator car that could race nowadays, so I must install disk brakes on it. Anyway those brakes were too wide for these tires, but I narrowed them by sanding the excess material off. Now they fit nicely to the front tires. Narrowed brake assembly on left, original one on right. Finished brakes test fitted on tires: Now it was time to do a first Mock Up to see if the stance was what I was looking for. I installed the axles and tires on place and everything looked good! Ride height was just correct and tires were on correct position, too. Now when the car looked good, I could move on to the front axle, but more on that in the next post.

Yep that purple one is the one I was talking about. It is true that the Ed Roth version is a re-issue of that kit. I should get back to my Hot Rod series kit, but I've started it long time ago and I'm not happy with the quality of work I did back then, so basically I would have to start by unassembling everything.

This is interesting! I like GM H-Bodies a lot and this Vega is really rarely seen as a Scale Model. I can't wait how this turns out. What kit did you start with?

I bought Lindberg's '64 Dodge 330, The Ramchargers version. I will use it as a donor kit for Jo-Han '64 Dodge Polara Super Stock and some of those decals will be used on Ramchargers Dragster by MPC that doesn't have all of the decals the real car had. At the same time I visited in another Hobby Shop and bought AMT's '70 Chevrolet Camaro. I bet this will surprise no one when I say that it will be built as a Stock Eliminator Drag Car. I also bought some Dymo-Tape to scribe in panel lines. It works really nicely.