The Silver Slipper A/Fuel Dragster - Completed w/ Beauty Shots

[Bernard Kron]

Thanx everyone. As always your comments are much appreciated!

This is my 3rd build based on the Ramchargers kit and I'm finally getting to know its strengths and limitations. This era of dragsters are perhaps some of the most beautiful race cars of any sort ever created (IMHO), especially this mid-length wheelbase period - the later 220+" machines don't look half as nice. I was pleased to capture some of the grace and aggression of these cars. The rear bodywork from Altered States went a long way toward capturing that look. I was surprised that I didn't have more trouble with the decal technique and with the p/e wire wheels. Those RepMin wire wheels offer a very good solution if you aren't going to go whole hog and lace your own rims. And I'm looking forward to experimenting some more with the decal technique now that I know that the theory works.

...I have those same PE wheels that I'm planning to use on a future build of a T-Bucket rod. Is it necessary to cut apart the spokes or did you do that on your own?

As shown earlier the spokes come on a single sheet and they are attached to each other. That's what I meant by cutting them apart. Once you detach them from the sheet the individual spoke segments on each disc are separate from each other, ready to be bent to shape. The set comes with excellent instructions and a jig which make the process much simpler than it might appear.

....Does replicas and minatures make those wheels in 1/16th scale??

I checked my 2013 RepMin price list and Norm offers only a 1/24th-1/25th scale set as far as I can tell. They are offered with 3 different tire selections (Dunlop, Goodyear and Bridgestone), however. But always check with Norm. You never know...

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Great looking build

[Bernard Kron]

Broken Photobucket links repaired. For now I'm only updating completed model pics. Updating w.i.p. links is just too huge a task! I'll update them on request...