10thumbs Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Nope!The tank is good, just hanging on the stock headlight bar is not so good.My opinion, the bar has to go.Better mount the tank lower, towards the frame rails.Seems to me also, the headlights are too large for your application.I really like the theme here, I have a similar build in mind as well.
James2 Posted January 4, 2017 Author Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) The nice thing is making what ever size needed and I hope to add some kind of lower support brackets. The lights are smaller diameter than the kit lights and going back to the pic of the black roadster you can see tha tank hanging on the light bar. Thanks Edited January 4, 2017 by James2 Moinfo
6bblbird Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) Scratch made some suitable headers yesterday. Not the best collector but I did not glue them yet, I think with some smaller tubing I could make them better. It's tough to make a collector that encloses all four tubes and does not look clunky. What I do is force a piece of drinking straw over the tubes, It's very thin and conforms to the creases between the pipes. If I heat the straw in boiling water it will slide right over the header tubes.I used that technique on these headers: Edited January 5, 2017 by 6bblbird
10thumbs Posted January 6, 2017 Posted January 6, 2017 The nice thing is making what ever size needed and I hope to add some kind of lower support brackets. The lights are smaller diameter than the kit lights and going back to the pic of the black roadster you can see tha tank hanging on the light bar. ThanksYes I saw the black car, the silver one too. The headlights appear to be a lot smaller on the real cars, that's what annoyed me somewhat in your mock up. Also on the black car, the bar appears to be smaller. Maybe a real piece of metal wire instead of the thick plastic?I don't mean to criticize, just you'd asked for an opinion.I like the theme of the model for sure.
James2 Posted January 7, 2017 Author Posted January 7, 2017 Yes I saw the black car, the silver one too. The headlights appear to be a lot smaller on the real cars, that's what annoyed me somewhat in your mock up. Also on the black car, the bar appears to be smaller. Maybe a real piece of metal wire instead of the thick plastic? I don't mean to criticize, just you'd asked for an opinion. I like the theme of the model for sure. Annoyed or not I'm not sure what your referring to but this is what I'm trying. This pic is in a previous post and I have since added some brackets for support
rsretroman Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Annoyed or not I'm not sure what your referring to but this is what I'm trying. This pic is in a previous post and I have since added some brackets for support
rsretroman Posted January 7, 2017 Posted January 7, 2017 Here is a picture of the front of the roadster. I'm building a version of this car. I'm stumped on the intake manifold. Which one do you use to modify?
10thumbs Posted January 8, 2017 Posted January 8, 2017 Annoyed or not I'm not sure what your referring to but this is what I'm trying. This pic is in a previous post and I have since added some brackets for support Well Rooster I've tried to convey my opinion, since you asked for an opinion on the headlight bar with the tank on it. Sorry if my opinion doesn't seem to sit well with you. Not to worry, it's all good, and I'll leave it be. Good luck with your future build.
James2 Posted January 8, 2017 Author Posted January 8, 2017 Well Rooster I've tried to convey my opinion, since you asked for an opinion on the headlight bar with the tank on it. Sorry if my opinion doesn't seem to sit well with you. Not to worry, it's all good, and I'll leave it be. Good luck with your future build.No problem at all, I simply sought clarification to the source of your annoyance. Whether it be the light bar or something else?
10thumbs Posted January 8, 2017 Posted January 8, 2017 Rooster, my choice of wording was off. Annoyance was not good, my fault for fogging things up.What threw me off a bit was that it appeared the headlights and bar were out of scale, not your fault. That's why I think in this case the tank would look better down on the frame rails.The real cars shown, also the latest entry from Rick, all look good in my opinion. All three cars are different too. Just my preference would be to not have the tank hanging from the bar.Sorry again for my lacking ability to come across properly.
James2 Posted January 8, 2017 Author Posted January 8, 2017 No problems Michael, just trying to keep things on the up side. Thanks for your interest. The intake is FRW split in half and reworked to fit the Ford engine. I also added the fuel rail from the Revell 29 kit and made a new locator for the distributor. Here is the chassis and respective drive line parts, a real mix of kit bashing and scratch building. I'll be hoping for some warmer weather so I can attempt some spay painting.
James2 Posted January 8, 2017 Author Posted January 8, 2017 Here is a picture of the front of the roadster. I'm building a version of this car. I'm stumped on the intake manifold. Which one do you use to modify? Looks very interesting Rick, would like to see the build! This is what I came up with for the intake. Crude by some standards but I feel it will do for this build...
James2 Posted February 26, 2017 Author Posted February 26, 2017 Been a little while since I posted an update for the Street Roadster Pick Up, but here you go. Some close ups of the chassis...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now