Ace-Garageguy

I like cheese. And pie.

Actually, the AMT '29 roadster frame isn't bad. The only things molded-in are the lever-action shocks and battery box. The '34 5-window and sedan have very nice frames...no blobular stuff whatsoever...while the '36 and '40 frames have only the exhausts molded in. This is a far cry from AMT's MUCH earlier '32 roadster, which has the entire rear suspension and exhaust system as part of the blobular mess. The AMT '32 Victorias and Phaetons, by the way, have separate rear suspension.

I did HO eons ago, lost it all, then started acquiring interesting pieces again a few years back. For whatever reason, I don't need to be as "prototypically correct" with trains, so it could possibly be a more relaxing hobby for me to return to in the future. In the back of my mind, I have an old locomotive and rolling stock graveyard layout envisioned, with a restoration shop in the middle of it, loosely based on the Lima engine works. It would let me mix time-period equipment plausibly, and allow shiny-new and rusty-crusty as well. Roundhouse, lots of switching, turntable...yeah, I like the idea. Getting the mechanical and engineering details right on the car models can drive me quite crazy sometimes...just like building real ones.

They share chassis and guts.

It's Allison 1710-powered. Originally built and campaigned by Jim Lytle and named "Big Al", it was re-bodied with a radically chopped fiberglass shell, and later sold to Ray Alley who ran it as "P-51".

Actually, the '28-'29 Ford uses entirely different sheet-metal, body panels, fenders, grille, etc. To the best of my knowledge, nothing on the '28-'29 Ford (body-wise) interchanges with the '30-'31 Ford. Other than the basic chassis, running gear and engine, they're two entirely different cars. '29 '31

Well, ya know, this IS an American-based forum. put up by an American magazine, aimed primarily at the US customer base. And the recent issue of newly-tooled oldies like the Slingster (Sizzler-based) vintage dragster, the partially-retooled and back-contented kits like the '32 Vicky and the '36 Ford, and the all-new older cars like the Revell wagon and the upcoming Revell '28 and '31 Ford hot rods is a pretty good indication that somebody, somewhere, is hearing what the more vocal modelers want...quite possibly from perusing forums like this, at least in part.

Wow. Gold IS a good color for a full-fender '32 roadster. I never woulda thunk it.

I got nothin'. Looks kinda French...

As you say, it's a nice kit, very well proportioned. Looks right. Interested in seeing your take on it here. I have a metal one I bought as a built-up, doing a dry-lakes sports car with it. Very heavy casting lines on it too, but it cleans up nicely and looks just like bare metal. Imagine that.

...you mean they copied each other's homework?

Yeah man...I tried to smoke a brisket wunst, but I cooden keep the dang thing lit.

OK...I checked. The body shell from the '28 Tudor in the OP photos fits on the AMT '28-'29 roadster fender unit very well. The rear of the roadster fender unit needs a little mod to adapt it to the differently shaped Tudor body...that's all. The roadster hood is the right length and height, and the curvature matches the Tudor exactly. All this means is that it you want to do a more detailed, separate frame version of a '28 Tudor (or maybe a Tudor A-V8) all you have to do is use the AMT '28 roadster fenders and frame. It also means that both MPC and AMT's tooling designers got things measured and scaled right, way back then. How interesting.

That's a 5.0 Coyote engine (see post 10). 420 HP, I believe. Yes, but 5.0 pushrod Windsor engines.

Monogram's very first plastic kit was the venerable Midget Racer, somewhere around 1/18 or 1/20 scale, molded in acetate. I have a red acetate built-up, nicely done but somewhat warped, and a first-run unbuilt acetate one still in the box. It's been re-issued a bazillion times, with the later versions molded in styrene. And no, it shares absolutely nothing with the Kurtis midgets of a few years back.

Me four.

It's only recently that my tiny little mind realized Revell did a '58 Chebby, too. Dumbguy. Looks like a great kit.

Yeah...when I first got back into this stuff around '05 or so, I started buying up everything that looked interesting, vintage, that I'd missed when I was young, or that I had when I was young. I bought one of the Mk II Continentals and didn't bother to check the scale on the auction site, assuming (stupidly) that because the packaging looked kinda like the 1/24-5 scale Caddy (OP photo). it must be the same scale. Wrong. I was pretty bummed when I opened the box. Oh well. Pay attention, Bill. Anyway, I sure wish there was one of these in 1/25 styrene. I'm pretty sure there was a Buick and an F-100 in the 1/32 lineup too.

Nope. Nothing shared, but I'm fixing to see how well the body shell from the Tudor fits the Ala Kart '28 frame/fenders (and its reissues)...right now.

man, I knoes what eclectic meanz. I gotts me a eclectic car dat I plugz in to chaage the battrees.

I have a couple and think it's a decent kit. To me, the only downside is the frame molded as a unit with the fender assembly, rather like the old Revellogram 1/24 '32 roadster kits. The Mopar cast-iron headers for the optional engine were pretty heavy-handed too, if I'm remembering correctly. Gotta look in one...

Pretty cool indeed. If the body shell and door tools still exist, what's to stop them from getting packaged with the old '28 roadster frame, guts and fenders? Shouldn't take too heavy mods to make that work...assuming there's more than one tool for the roadster extant...or if all the drawings exist (pre CAD, I'm certain).

Of course, if I can clear some real-life BS out of the way. Somehow I haven't been able to focus on model-building lately, because of one lingering kinda big-deal problem. If I can clear the negotiations soon, I can get back to some bench-time. I'd really like to finish the '28 lakes car. It's close.

This thread has got me kinda fired and wired to do quick bashups of more accurate full-fendered '34 Fords using bits from all the AMT kits and the chopped Revell snapper. The good AMT frame (5W & sedan) is a plenty good enough base (I'll do some measuring to verify that statement too), so it's basically some "sheetmetal" mods. I currently have access to an original '34 3-window, in the shop, gutted, so measuring what needs to be corrected is a snap.