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Thanks Guys! Yep I'm pretty sure that Testors has something that is pretty close than the one I had. Testors has lots of paints and they are great quality. The racing went well. I did a new 60FT record again and I ran a 12.2 ET which is a good number for that car. It wasn't a new record, but it was really close. On the first Elimination Round I red lighted by .052 so I lost to Arto Sulopuisto in his B/S Pontiac Firebird, but overall the weekend went so well that it didn't matter too much. Anyway just a little progress on the '55 as well. I did some sanding and smoothing to the transmission crossmember that I scratchbuilt earlier and it looked like no putty was really needed, so I painted it with Revell Gloss Black. When the paint was dry, I glued the crossmember on its place and added bolts on it. They were made from hex styrene tubing.

This is an interesting project for sure! You do great work and you build models of unique cars, which is always a good thing. This looks very promising already, I like the Cowl Induction hood a lot, it fits nicely on Malibu's body shapes. You said the body is thick... How is it otherwise? I mean are there air bubbles or other problems that need to be fixed? I'd like to buy one and build it as a Stock Eliminator Drag Car...

Interesting! I wish there would be more model kits of '30-'31 Fords, I think these are a lot nicer than '32 Fords. That resin body sounds interesting, I might have to buy one at some point. I just read the article about this car again. It's built completely in Finland, when it arrived from California the body and frame were in original shape so all of the modifications are done in Finland. It sure is a nice car.

Wow! While I spent time at Alastaro Raceway Drag Racing with the '74 Chevelle you have made lots of progress! The body looks fantastic. The paint job and color are sweet, but those windows made my jaw to hit on the floor. Nice job painting the window surrounds black, a thing I've never succeeded in. I also like the chute and the mount on it, it looks just like 1:1 scale part. That On/Off Switch is a very nice touch, too. That has never came to my mind while building a model. Now I need to make one for my Stock Eliminator Torino.

Here are a couple of my more recent builds: '71 Plymouth Barracuda Pro Stock. Built from Jo-Han Gluebomb with some extra detailing and with some scratchbuilt parts. '62 Impala S/S. Built from Revell kit with some detailing and scratchbuilt parts. This was finished earlier this year, the Barracuda was built last year...

That turned out great! I think this is one of your best builds, the paint job and decals look excellent and your detailing looks good, too. This Jo-Han kit is a lot of fun to build.

That's incredible! Fantastic work with this Edsel, paint job looks smooth and shiny and the BMF is perfect! Thanks for the tip on those little chrome textes or scripts, I'll definitely try that in the future. Oh yes and I like the colors, too. It's nice to see something else than red cars as well and I've always liked Edsels too. Congrats on a very nice build.

Ouch, it never feels good to see a Drag Car crash. Especially when the car gets a lot of damage, or even worse, the driver hurts. I've seen a couple of crashes, too and many "close calls" and it's a shame to see a nice car crashing. Here are a couple: Super Pro Street '56 Chevy crashes to the wall. On the first gear the car didn't work, then the driver changed to the 2nd gear, he lost the traction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YChAs2GHJhc Super Pro Street Chevy Cobalt crashes to the wall and rolls over. The car ran its' first six second pass earlier that weekend, and this crash happened at the final round. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB8NUQEqRnQ This is the worst one, Super Pro ET Madza Marella crashes very hard on the wall. The driver was taken to hospital, but if I remember correctly the injuries were not as bad as we thought at first. But the car destroyed completely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ70T0BMCrE All these examples (Jason's and mine) show that even if there might happen some crashes, it is rare that the driver gets injured. Keep your seat belts tight, or at least I do that every time I go on the track!

Thanks Guys, I appreciate the comments! It was a nice Qualifying day on Saturday. We were able to run five rounds, which is pretty good as there were lots of racers. My runs were very consistent and I did a new 60 FT record, too. A complete Race Report can be found Here. Anyway I haven't had time to work on this after the race. Only thing I did was painting the engine. It's painted with old Revell's #31 red, but it's a lot darker than the new bottles of the same red. I believe this is a Custom Mix by my dad when he was building in his childhood before getting back into modeling a few years ago. Someone might wonder the cylinder heads. Yep, they are a bit rough, but it will be all covered so that roughness won't matter on finished engine. The reason I'm updating now is that tomorrow I'm going again full throttle at Alastaro Raceway. It's time for the Nitro Nationals: European Championship Drag Race Event and there should be a good number of Stockers & Super Stockers too! I can't wait! Of course it's The Go Getters playing in the background. I'm living at my relatives' on these days between the races... My "Bench" here is not a Hi Tech model. Once this red is dry, I'll paint the transmission, starter, water pump etc and start assembling the powerplant together. But now I'll concentrate on hammering the throttle on 1/4 Mile... Loud Pipes & Lead Feet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xYH1G0rBQI

Here is a 1970 NHRA Rulebook from Terry Sumner's Fotki album. It should give answers to your questions regarding the rules. Super Stock rules are starting on page 42-43. http://public.fotki.com/tsumner/nhra-rulebooks/1970/ Please post pictures of your project... Stockers and Super Stockers are my favorites!

Are you sure? I don't have the magazine on hand where was an article of this car, but if I remember correctly this is built in Finland. When I get back home I'll take the magazine and give it another look. Another Finnish car coming soon... First I need to decide which one!

Looks like this kit has some very interesting parts that are perfect for kitbashing! What I like is the roll bar, which has that crossbar so that seat belts can be installed there. The headers look good, too and seats are perfect for many different builds, too. Decal sheet looks nice as well, but those decals that try to represent burnt rubber on rear quarter panels don't look very realistic... I'll prefer real rubber. Anyway with all of the complaints this kit is getting, I'll surely buy a few. I will even build a couple of these.

Great looking Ford. You sure build these fast, but that can't be seen from the end result, as your models look very good. I agree that this is one of your bests. The paint looks good and BMF is sharp, too. I like the style as well.

That turned out really nice! I like the color a lot, something that could have been in original Bronco as well. Great job fitting the body on that chassis, it looks like it rolled out from the factory lane like that. Very nice job.

After reading your first post I was going to write that this will turn out fantastic! Body looked very good and I liked the color a lot. You're doing exactly the same upholstering on the seat as I'm doing, only differences are that my kit is a regular Coupe, not a Fastback and I'm doing the upholstering in a much harder way... But it's sad to see what happened for the body. I hope you can get back to this with another body really soon...It looks so good! I must remember to shut the light from my bench always when I leave so that same thing won't happen to me, too.

Okay I've never tried this trick on square headlights, but it works with round headlights. Just paint the lenses with gloss white (I've used Revell, Humbrol and Tamiya and they all worked) and wipe off just a little paint from the center so that the chrome can be seen through the white paint. It's very easy trick and works nicely. Here is an example: So as I said I haven't tried it on square headlights, but it might work? Some people have used white glue for the same thing so I guess that will work fine, too. I've never tried that, though.

Thanks Glenn! I was going to post an update yesterday, but now when the second Finnish Championship Series Drag Race event is starting on Saturday, we were building our car to get it race ready. Vallilan Takomo built a rear sway bar for us and yesterday with dad's workmate and a good friend we were (or actually he was) machining some parts for the sway bar. We were back home at Midnight so I thought I should update this thread in the morning instead, so here we go. I painted the frame with Humbrol Gloss Black. It turned out pretty good, but I still need to paint the fuel tank mounts silver. Anyway I mocked up the engine and noticed that the kit doesn't have a frame crossmember where the transmission would be mounted. First I was looking for one from my parts boxes, but I couldn't find one that fit, so I thought it's easier to scratchbuild one. It's still in very rough stages, more sanding and a bit of putty will be needed. I also need to add a couple of details, but before that I must paint the crossmember. I hope it'll look alright when it's "fine tuned" a bit. Edit: As the race is on the weekend I'm not able to work on this then. But on the next week I'll get some more work done with this. Currently I'm on the third place at Finnish Championship points, which is a huge surprise. I hope I could run a new ET record now with the sway bar.

This makes me speechless. I think I'm with Glenn here, I'll need to fix my floor too after seeing this!

Nice work on this one! These kits are not the easiest to put together cleanly, but you have done just that. Your paint job looks really nice and smooth, too. I haven't seen many of these, but this is definitely one of the bests! Ray: There actually is ! Just paint them with gloss white and then start removing the paint from the center so that the chrome can be seen through the white paint. It's actually very easy and it works, even if it sounds so simple. These headlights on my Super Bee were chromed:

I just wanted a share a couple of pictures with you guys. I've seen lots of cool stuff in this section and I think this is worth sharing. It is a '31 Ford Model A from Finland, with an original steel body that has been chopped 4,5" and channeled 4". The frame is also modified to make it lower. The engine is an Early Hemi with six chromed Stromberg carbs. Those pipes are Loud! Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH0K2my3H4I There are more cars I can post, too if anyone is interested in seeing more of these from Finland.

You do great work with each build. This one is no exception. Very nice paint job and sharp detailing on the engine. I like the new wheels and tires, too, I think they look much better than those that came with the kit. Very nice work overall.

Thanks Fellas! I appreciate the kind comments and it feels very good to have this one back on the bench! This is a very tiny update, but I decided to post it anyway. While my scratchbuilt parts for the '55 Bel Air were drying I painted the water pump. I had sanded the putties smooth earlier and when I painted it there were no flaws that would need more putty or anything. So after I had painted most of the water pump with Tamiya's Red, I painted the end of it with Humbrol Flat Black just like real Proform parts are painted. Now back to the '55. Stay tuned as there should be an update coming later today in that thread if everything goes alright (I remember to post the update, take the pics, and of course...Get the part done! ).

Sometimes that solves the problem, that's right! On a street car it's not a problem, but I build mostly Drag Race cars and they very rarely have air cleaners. And that causes the problem. But again, very nice looking Charger!

I have a Cobra Jet Super Stock Mustang in the works and my base kit is Revell's 2010 Mustang GT. You'll need to get a blower from 2007 Shelby Mustang kit by Revell to be correct, maybe the whole engine from that kit would work as well? It's a bit of work to build that kind of a car, but it's a neat challenge. My Mustang is coming together very slowly, though.

I agree completely! Carburetor is absolutely the most unrealistic part of every kit and there are only a few that are realistic. I haven't built any of those three kits, but I remember seeing a carburetor from that AMT Duster and it looked really good. Another one I like is the Rochester from Revell Black Widow '57 Chevy and Jo-Han's '71 Pro Stock Barracuda has decent Dominators. I wish someone made detailed aftermarket carburetors, too. I'd definitely buy them!