Let's See Some Glue Bombs!

[ewetwo]

A woman friend of mine bought this for me. Everything looked fine except for the front and rear windows. Haven’t a clue what to do with it. Missing a hood is the only thing missing.

[Snake45]

Doesn't look like that glass can be saved (unless you paint it black and go "slammer"), but that kit is a minor parts mine so would still be welcome at the Snakepit. 

[espo]

The glue looks almost like Elmer's Glue to me. You might try soaking the body in water for a time. 

[ewetwo]

I'll try the soaking first Snake. Thanks for the suggestion David. It's funny. Everything else was put together clean except for the windows. Who can figure? LOL

[slusher]

Parts are not hard to find someone has a hood and glass. 

[Mr. Metallic]

13 hours ago, slusher said:

Parts are not hard to find someone has a hood and glass. 

 

19 hours ago, ewetwo said:

I'll try the soaking first Snake. Thanks for the suggestion David. It's funny. Everything else was put together clean except for the windows. Who can figure? LOL

I do if you need them. But the hood won't match your plastic color if that matters

[ewetwo]

3 hours ago, Mr. Metallic said:

 

I do if you need them. But the hood won't match your plastic color if that matters

Thank you Craig. I tried soaking the body in warm water overnight and no luck with the glass. It's now in Purple Power to see if that will release the glass. If it does I would be interested. If it doesn't I don't know what I'm going to do with it. 

[keyser]

Time for a resin body, or a custom. Snake said tons of parts, I agree. Good luck

[RDean58]

This is right up my alley! I recently collected a bunch of glue bombs this year, here they are in no particular order.

As received.

Right now.

As received

Right now.

As received.

 

Right now.

 

As received.

The way it is now.

As Received.

How it is now

 

 

[RDean58]

I got More!

As it sits now.

As received.

As it sits now.

As received

State it's in right now.

Original look

 

Now

 

Original look.

Now

Before

Now

 

Before

Now

 

Before

Now

As received.

Now

The only one I have fixed and completed,.

As received

As it sits on the shelf.

[cobraman]

I have been working on the second Cobra I got in that lot of GB’s . This one was not as bad as the yellow one . 

[cobraman]

Second Cobra GB is now done . Gotta see what I can do with the third . 

[cobraman]

Well the third and last Cobra glue bomb I got in the bundle was not a whole lot more than a body . I had a spare body in my parts stash so I had the idea to cut them up . I am going to try and make a long nose Cobra dragster . Undecided as to a chassis for it . Still in a rough stage but you can get the idea . 

[slusher]

Real nice work Ray..

[cobraman]

Thank you Carl.

[Scott8950]

15 hours ago, cobraman said:

Well the third and last Cobra glue bomb I got in the bundle was not a whole lot more than a body . I had a spare body in my parts stash so I had the idea to cut them up . I am going to try and make a long nose Cobra dragster . Undecided as to a chassis for it . Still in a rough stage but you can get the idea . 

Nice save on the cobras, they both look great. Some chassis  ideas for the cobra would be the flipnose corvette gasser chassis or a Malco mustang chassis.  You could possibly alter a rat packer nova chassis also.

[Bullybeef]

Finally unearthed my little collection of Amt 32 fords! There are some really nasty glue marks on these, these is one that is on top of my rebuild list( the first roadster) 

there are also two badly built and painted monogram 32 roadsters that have some potential of rebuilding.

[ewetwo]

On 10/22/2021 at 7:38 PM, cobraman said:

Well the third and last Cobra glue bomb I got in the bundle was not a whole lot more than a body . I had a spare body in my parts stash so I had the idea to cut them up . I am going to try and make a long nose Cobra dragster . Undecided as to a chassis for it . Still in a rough stage but you can get the idea . 

 

They look great. Can't wait to see the long version Ray.

[Earl Marischal]

On 10/24/2021 at 3:02 AM, Bullybeef said:

Finally unearthed my little collection of Amt 32 fords! There are some really nasty glue marks on these, these is one that is on top of my rebuild list( the first roadster) 

there are also two badly built and painted monogram 32 roadsters that have some potential of rebuilding.

Lotsa potential in that lot! Bit of mix'n'match and you're looking good.

steve

[Tom99]

These three were given to me by a friend, that was going to put them in the trash.

I rebuilt all three to factory stock.

[Snake45]

GREAT job on those three saves, Tom! Model on! 

[Bullybeef]

This is one that is rescue able, 32 Ford highboy frame and engine, the body was too far gone to repair, but it will live on as parts for another rescue. The glue staining is terrible and some of the parts will not come off without destroying them, so I’ll just concentrate on removing the chrome and clean up the rest as best as possible.

[Snake45]

Yup, that's a gluey one all right. If it were a rare kit, would be worth all efforts, but it isn't really. I think I'd spray-bomb the whole mess black and look for a body that would cover as much of it as possible. Good luck with it! 

[Bullybeef]

4 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Yup, that's a gluey one all right. If it were a rare kit, would be worth all efforts, but it isn't really. I think I'd spray-bomb the whole mess black and look for a body that would cover as much of it as possible. Good luck with it! 

While not rare it is a desirable kit to me so I will spend some time making it right, the practice on this will help me save the Falcon that I scored. I look at some of your work and what you have saved and it makes it a little more inspirational. 

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, Bullybeef said:

While not rare it is a desirable kit to me so I will spend some time making it right, the practice on this will help me save the Falcon that I scored. I look at some of your work and what you have saved and it makes it a little more inspirational. 

Thanks for the kind words, but most of my "rescues" have been minor touch-ups compared to the work you're facing with that Deuce frame. The only full-on complete rework on that level I've finished I can think of was this old Revell EMPI Imp.