railsat2 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 \New project: 1/24 scale '57 Chevy jet F/C complete with modern Toterhome and 53' race trailer. Started with Revell McEwen kit and a 1/25 fc kit for chassis. So far just a lot of tearing apart chassis and rebuilding parts of it to my liking. long way to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booboo60 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 This is going to be a wild ride,,best of luck an skill friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintagercr Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 This should be cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DumpyDan Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Ya this will be neat, we will be watching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Great start. What are you going to use for the jet engine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsat2 Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 Closest i could find in size and roughly looks scale is a 1/32 jet engine out of a Chinese f7mg roughly a mig21 by trumpeter it is nicely detailed and in process of painting it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsat2 Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 New pics almost done chassis. Jet engine painted and temporarily mounted in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsat2 Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 (edited) finally got these things to work. Edited June 29, 2015 by railsat2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthehobbyguy Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Coming along nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmaracing Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Looking good!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custompainter Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Great built. I thought of doing a jet funnycar myself. What kit did you say the jet engine came from? Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Woodruff Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 finally got these things to work. What jet engine did you use Jerry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsat2 Posted July 4, 2015 Author Share Posted July 4, 2015 The jet engine came out of a 1/32 scale Chinese F5MG basically it's a mig21 sold to China. This kit is made by Trumpeteer and it's usually a $100 kit but my local hobby shop does consignments and had this kit missing some rocket launcher parts so i got it for like 30 bucks. Also apparently Trumpeteer included detailed engines in a few of thier kits in 1/32. I know its a 1/24 scale vehicle but if there is a jet engine that size i imagine it to be oversized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsat2 Posted July 4, 2015 Author Share Posted July 4, 2015 Also i used the fuel pod with the ends cut off and made flat to make the fuel tank for the car and bombs with the wings cut off to make parachute pods since they are usually tubes in jet cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Woodruff Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Thanks Jerry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedfreak Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 That is wild Jerry, zoom, zoom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korsair Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Looks pretty good Jerry. I too am a huge jet car fan, have had multiple opportunities to take photos, and have been working on a spreadsheet to work out different jet engines available and their scales. Just from the looks of it, looks like that matches pretty well. My biggest concern in modeling those is just to be sure the "details" such as wiring/plumbing look right since those would be more scale sensitive. Look forward to seeing yours getting done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsat2 Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 Haven't had time to work on this week. As far as plumbing and piping go. I will try my best at that as this is my first attempt at this jet engine car and im researching as I go. Will give it the old college try. Finding some thing to use as tubing may actually be the difficult part as you said it is scale sensitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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