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Psychographic

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  1. While sprints are my absolute favorite form of racing, I don't enjoy building something out of the box. So I decided to build a cartoon sprint car. Other than the driver figure and two hubcaps from a Mercedes, this is all scratch built.
  2. http://jalopnik.com/kurt-caselli-not-killed-by-booby-trapped-course-compet-1465895717
  3. A little more progress on the front suspension.
  4. I think they are from a Jada Big Time Muscle diecast. Sure is.
  5. I made some bags for the rear and will use one of the crossmembers from the kit as the upper bag mount. I decided to scrap the straight axle and go for independent front suspension. It's starting to take shape.
  6. Here's the two chrome trees from the Pepsi truck.
  7. More work on the rear suspension.
  8. I took quite a bit out of the "Z" and started on the rear suspension.
  9. Thanks for the comments everyone. Before going much further, I wanted to be sure the engine will fit OK and that the cab will tilt. The engine is fine and with a little trim off the front of the frame rails, the cab tilts nicely. I did a temporary Z to the frame to see if I like it. I think it's a bit too much and need to trim it down a bit. I also have about 3 ideas of what to direction to take this. One idea is to combine it with a current build I have going.
  10. As I'm stalled on a current build, I decided to do a build I've had in the back of my mind for a while now. I've wanted to do either a mild radical custom or a hot rod truck. I picked up the C-600 at a local show and decided to make it my victim. Without any direction in mind I figured I'd start with a chop, I took a 1/4" out of it. Then filled the back side windows and headlights. Next I made a rollpan, relocated the headlights, and added a bit of trim to them so the bottom of the cab was not a flat slab. I also closed up the front wheelwells a bit. Filler pieces were made for the back of the cab to fill in the new extended wheelwells. Cut the first door out and fitting the inner wheelwell to the interior tub.
  11. I'm using the transmission from SW 30 and would like to know how the linkage works. As for offsetting the engine, the body is just too narrow.
  12. Some paint on the body. Click on the pic below.
  13. Fitting the engine. After a few tries on making four matching pipes for one of the zoomies I decided to make one, then mold and cast it to get eight that match. Now for some bodywork. The back was entirely too wide, wider than a stock Corvette, I removed a wedge out of the center of the body which narrowed it up 3/4 of an inch. After laying out the cut I cut the roof right behind the windshield so the stock one would fit, then I made the wedge cut and cemented it back together. After that was dry, I made a series of vertical cuts along the bottom of the body, pushed it flat and taped it down to the bench. Then I filled in the cuts, let it dry. The bottom halves of the body needed a little massaging to fit, then I added the rockers to it. The last body mods included filling the engine compartment with a L-88 hood scoop, extending the rockers a bit, reshaping the exhaust cutouts, and making the splitter for the front.
  14. It goes through the seat! OK ya got me on this one. I used busted up Swamp Rat 30 as a reference for my frame. As that car is rear engine I had to get creative on the rear. Remember now, I did say somewhat realistic. After thinking about how to solve this, I thought of the gears in a quick change. if that design can hold up to a 410 sprintcar, why couldn't a similar piece be machined to drop the driveshaft lower.
  15. I almost forgot to ask for some help. I really don't know much about drag cars and could use some help trying to detail this a little. If you know much about dragsters and specifically Swamp Rat 30 and are willing to help, please PM me.
  16. As life gets in the way for a lot of us, so did it for me in the spring of this year. I just plain lost the drive to build anything and started concentrating on some painting. I got an email inviting me to a smaller sites 2nd annual contest. I thought maybe if I threw my hat in the ring it would inspire me to build something. I wanted to build a bit out of my comfort zones. As I usually build customs, I thought I would do a drag car I had in mind for about a year. I wanted to take a showrod and try to make it into a somewhat realistic racecar. The kit in mind is the Stingaree, if you're not familiar with it, a good example of a stock build is about half way down the page on this link. http://www.modelbrouwers.nl/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=33007&sid=9244eb0ff87a67e95f977bd67490b751 My plan was to scrap everything but the body and make a streamliner style front engine dragster out of it. The first design on a frame. The stock kit frame in the back, the new one in the front. Scratchbuilt front wheels Parts box rear wheels and the back halves of the kit wheels. Scratchbuilt seat Rear cast from a Swamp Rat 30 kit. I need to cut the seat down. The frame just about ready for paint. The front axle assembly is also from the SW30 kit.
  17. Bill, I'm not going to pretend I know anything about Offy's other than they are very cool looking engines. The engine provided in the old Monogram Midget kit is pretty big. Although it lacks detail and accuracy, it can be modified to look pretty good. Here's one I did for a 48 Ford Woody. It starts about 1/2 way down the page. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=64504&page=3
  18. Yes they do, here's one I've been working on.
  19. Let me introduce you to Chuck D. http://coffincorner.proboards.com/thread/18120/uncertain
  20. You can sand and polish it out if you are careful about it. Use one of the multi step sanding kits that goes up to 12000 as it's finest and final sanding, then polish with 3 grades of Novus.
  21. First, do a search on Acrylic Gel Shellac, you will quickly see that it's not the same as nail polish we use for painting models. Second, how would you fit a body in that thing? Third, nail polish doesn't dry fast enough?
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