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Holly thread resurrection Batman !!!!
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I am pretty sure Pat Ganahl's roadster is a '32, not a model A.
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And this is what it looked like at the Heartland Nationals. Unfortunately, some things were not finished. Like no tail lights or license plate. There may also be some gaps in panels where there should not be any. But I will fix all that. Plus maybe add a rearview mirror and some pinstripes here and there.
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I made the exhaust from silver solder and some aluminum tubing. I kept it really simple.
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The engine came from Revell's Rat Roaster, but with few extra accessories. The valve covers and the air filter are resin pieces with photoetched tops from Model Car Garage. The carbs are from the supercharged big block in Revell's '68 Corvette Roadster. The headers are from Revell's '37 Ford. All of these have been painted with Molotow chrome marker. This stuff works great. I also drilled the distributor and added some wires and photoetched wire looms. The carbs were detailed with some braided fuel line and some linkage. It came out pretty good in typical Alloway style. It fits perfect. I wanted it tall so it could also fill up the whole space under the hood.
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Here are the scratchbuilt shocks with purple anodized springs to stay in character. And here they are attached to the trick suspension, designed to look like no shocks when seen from behind.
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Thank you David. Honestly, I rushed it and I personally could find a lot left to be desired. I will correct some things and finish others that were not done for the show. I learned a lot from attempting this paint job. And there is definitely going to be a version 2.0 LOL
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Sorry I dropped the ball on the progress photos of this model, but I was trying to finish it up on time for the show. Here is more of the body and the flames being polished. Since i wanted to use a photo etched grille, I had to make a radiator face in the front of the shell Then the grille was put together with 5min epoxy Next the dash was dressed up with photoetched instrument insert, photoetched banjo steering wheel and the floor received purple "carpet" and some nifty photoetched pedals. The seat was painted black and some seatbelts were made from photoetched parts, strip styrene and paper painted with a Sharpie
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Well, I am still partial to the orange pearls. My kids are all about the bright reds. And my wife is all about the dark shades "root beers". I think I have it figured out tho. I'll build three different '33s and make everyone happy . Always wanted to build a fenderless '33 with a '37 truck grille.
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Meanwhile, I took a trip to the local hobby shop (if 92 miles from home can be called local) with my kid and guess what? We picked up some more colors for bases. So, I have not made any progress on that frame. But because of a color I liked for the build, five days later I end up with about 200 color swatches in my kitchen. This not only pissed my wife off, but now I am definitely not sure what color I want for the build, because I like maybe a dozen different ones. But hey, at least I am done with this now and getting back to the Eliminator. So stay tuned.
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The next day I divided them into groups for each Candy color And then put them on trays and labeled each spoon on its back with the candy's name What followed was a trip to the garage, set up the airbrush and start building color on each spoon. One thin coat, next spoon, one thin coat, next spoon........When done with all the spoons, start the second coat and repeat and then the third coat. Then clean the airbrush, arrange the spoons back in the trey and go back upstairs to leave them dry under the sun on my balcony. Grab the next trey with the next can and go downstairs to repeat. So at the end of that day I did three of the candies.
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My point is simple. You can have the same starting point as this kit readilly available in your neighborhood for half the price.
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So, you may be wondering why no updates. What is this guy doing? That frame should have been done...... Yup. It should have, but......... So I am sitting on my throne (that's the toilet in my bathroom ) going through a stash of old Street Rodder Magazines. And I see this great '34 Chevy, that Boyd Coddington built to be the PPG sponsored Road Tour car for 2006 (if I remember correctly). And it is painted in this awesome orange-goldish-metal flake-shifting color. First thing through my mind was that this is the color I want to paint my '33 that I am building. They are very similar shape with the Chevy and the paint will shift just the same way on the Ford. And there is the name of the paint. Of course it's in the article - it's PPG sponsored project. Lion's Mane. What a cool name for a color. And since I can shoot golfballs in the local PPG dealer's front yard from my balcony, I paid them a visit. Normally their policy is minimum of 8oz (without reducer) on custom colors. However, I know them and they have done smaller amounts for me before. So this is a tri-coat and I could have 2oz mixed. Of course that is 2oz base coat plus 2oz mid coat. For the lovely price of $80!!! Let me put it this way. It is like paying $60 for a Tamiya spray can. Well, I did not buy it! But I figured I walked over anyway, why not drool over the color swatches in the Vibrance collection from PPG where the Lions Mane color came from. And i am noticing these unbelievable candies that are over "sterling silver", "pure gold", "fine gold", "charcoal grey" etc. And I am thinking - I have these at home. Maybe not the PPG Vibrance ones, but I have spray cans of Tamiya silvers and gunmetals. And One coat lacquers of golds and reds and greens......So I asked how much was a book with the swatches. $ 250. Seriously?!?! So an idea was born. A challenge. I end up ordering 7 candies. 2oz of paint plus 2oz of reducer per can at $16 a pop. I picked them up the next day and on my way home stopped by Wallmart for three packs of plastic spoons. Together with the ones I had at home I would be at close to two hundred pieces to play with. First I gathered all the metallic spray cans I had at home that I thought may be used as bases. And then sprayed seven spoons with each one. every spoon was labeled with the manufacturer and the color. Some even with the number of the color. This took about a day
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Really? Which detail? There is no engine. The whole thing is sealed. There is a flat bottom, covering everything. There is no suspension. And if there is, it is not visible once assembled. You make a model like that of a 250 Testarossa and I will agree with you, that the Bburago/Maisto 1/24 model will be lacking accuracy and detail. Even the franklin Mint would. But I am willing to bet that if I invest $130 in aftermarket on top of a Maisto model from Hobby Lobby, I will have no problem to build a model that will be just as good if not better than this resin kit.
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Thank you Dan. My hobby shop has a few of them and last time I got an extra one from Hobby Lobby. Check there first. If you get their app on your phone you can get it with 40% off. A model for under $20 our days is not bad at all.
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Rob, Bill, thank you both. I hope I don't run out of gas on this one....LOL
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Well, I am a '32 guy, but I can't really answer the question. The "32 I guess is more iconic, because is more exotic in a way. Nothing else has that grille and it was only made one year. Also it is the only one to use its exposed frame as a design element. Maybe the Millner car has a lot to do with it. I don't know. If I hit the Jackpot tomorrow, I will have several of each in my garage. And some '29s and '30s and '36s, '37s.....They are all great timeless designs. But if someone came and told me "I'll give a street rod of your choice, but you can only have one", I'll take a Deuce without hesitating.
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If you are going to spend that much work on a sealed kit, I really don't understand why the same results could not be achieved from a $15 Maisto diecast kit, which is available in every Hobby Lobby.
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can you elaborate a little bit on how did you fix that?
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Nice build of a subject we don't see often.
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'40 Ford Tudor – Late '50s Style! In Paint At Last!
mrm replied to John Goschke's topic in WIP: Model Cars
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I guess everything lines up..............for now. I'm happy with the look so far
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Bob, Dennis, thank you both. Next i turned my attention to the front end. Without measuring or anything I just cut the ends of the AMT Phantom Vicky front crossmember and glued them on each side of the Eliminator's crossmember. This allows me to use the IFS from the Vicky Now, it occurred to me, that by doing all this I have widened the front track, compared to what originally came in the AMT kit. The solution? Find the proper wheels. I hope everything can get tucked the right way under the front fenders.
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Thank you. The idea is the Caddy's big block with some scratchbuilt air cleaner cover. Independent suspension on all four corners. Big and little wheels/tires. Hot metallic paint. Thinking orangy or reddish. In the interior staying simple, but updated. Pretty much that's the plan.
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I did not mention this earlier, but using the Caddy's frame center section has two great advantages. a) it allows the use of the motor in the Caddy kit, which is basically a modern big block chevy and the transmission that comes with it. b)it is already precut to allow the exhaust to go through and mate perfect to the nice headers that come with engine. This reminds me that I also had to shorten the Caddy's center section in order to fit. Looks like everything fits perfect.