Moebius ' 65 Comet Body and Chassis Joined 04/18

[smellyfatdude]

to start yet another project, with so many sitting here, some nearly complete. But if you're like me in that you have to wait for winter to go away, in order to paint ourdoors, you'll probably get it. When the warm days come, that bug hits hard! That's sorta what happened here. This is going to be a scale replica of an actual car from my past, the story of which I'll relate when it's finished. Plus, I'm taking some liberties with reality. The color is Testors one coat purple-licious, with Tamiya TS-13 clear over top (liberty).

Black interior, and this will be a console delete, like the 1:1.

The 289 will be wearing a set of headers, like the 1:1, and a twin 4 setup (liberty), both which came from the Trumpeter ' 64 Falcon kit. And yeah, dig my custom purple street machine type rear end, he (liberty).

 

 

Edited April 18, 2017 by smellyfatdude

[crazyjim]

I have that kit.  How does it go together?

[KWT]

Looks good so far...

[smellyfatdude]

I have that kit.  How does it go together?

When I first snagged one for myself, I took the unpreedented (for me) step of gluing the interior, firewall, and radiator support to the frame, and test fitting it in to the body. I found a couple spots where the floor pan needed a little trimming along the sides. Once that was done, the two halves fit nice and snug. I test fitted the front and back windows, after the paint was applied. Both look like a perfect fit. I am going to lower the front end, a bit. From the builds I've seen so far, it sits up a little high. I'll leave the back end as is, and hopefully that gives it the slight rake I'm after. The real car had Cragar SS rims and blackwalls, so I'll use the kit 5-spoke wheels, and call it good. No liberties there!

[espo]

Looks like a great build. It is always fun to build a copy of something from long ago. Was yours also Purple ?? That is a great color.

[PARTSMARTY]

This looks totally awesome and I have a hemi cuda in that exact color and love it-can't wait to see more.

[MeatMan]

Love the color combo! Nice paint work.

I know where you're coming from with all of the open builds. I have that kit as well and its so tough not to get started building it.

Must...resist.

[smellyfatdude]

Thanks for the interest, it's appreciated. Just finished a quick mockup, minus the interior to check for hood fit, and ride height. I wasn't anticipating any hood fit issues, and it's always nice to see there aren't any. I'm glad I lowered the front end, 'cause I would have been quite unhappy with it the way it sat, straight out of the box. What I did was cut about a millimeter and a half off the top of the kingpins, then put some shims underneath them, so the spindles sit higher up. Those MRC wheel sets? What a great collection of assorted shims, some of those wheel adapters make! With the chassis sitting in the body where it will reside once it's joined, the car has that ever so slight rake in the back, which is exactly the look I'm after.

The chassis, with it's lovely purple rear end, and yellow shocks. The kit exhaust needed only minor "adjustments", to work with the headers from the Trumpeter kit.

I did a woodgrain treatment for the panels, steering wheel, and dash. Just have to add the guage decals, and do a little bit of foiling. Should have it done today, hopefully.

The 289 wearing it's headers and twin 4 setup, nestled in the bay. Again, the manifold is from the Trumpeter Falcon, and the air cleaners are out of a Polar Lights ' 64 GTO snap kit.

Interior, then foil, the assemble parts. A plan, I have . . . . .

[smellyfatdude]

The interior is all done, and assembled. Just your typical b & b, black and basic interior. The car I'm replicating was not a Cyclone, and was originally built with a bench seat. Hence the lack of a console, since the 1:1 car had none.

A little better view, showing the adjusted stance. Still too high for a factory stock car, but with the lowered front end it's just about the perfect street machine height. Win!

Now, a quick final polish, foil and assembly. So far, no serious fit issues with this kit.

[David G.]

Looks great!

David G.

[crazyjim]

Looks GREAT sitting up high.

[Ron Hamilton]

I like that one! It's going to make me get back to my Cyclone!

[smellyfatdude]

Finished all the chrome trim, just have to paint the door locks. The portion of the front and back windows that needs to be foiled is also done. Once I glue in the vent windows, sun visors and mirror it'll be time to let the body and chassis become close friends. Should happen tonight, at least that's the plan.

[mustang1989]

Verrry nice paint and foil work D.W.!!!

[Davewilly]

Looks really nice!  I like the Purple color.

[kelson]

Excellent work so far!looking forward to seeing how it all comes together.

[smellyfatdude]

So here they are together, hopefully never to be seperated (after epoxy and superglue, I don't think that'll be easy!) Again, the stance is too high for factory stock, but thankfully . . . . that's not what this is . . . . .

Edited April 18, 2017 by smellyfatdude