Rocking Rodney Rat Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 (edited) Alright, alright, alright....I haven't been posting or lurking much lately. Been super busy...KK and I ventured west to the City of Angels (Orange County to be precise, but you can smell LA from there and that's close enough) the other weekend, January 26-28 to be exact, to hang with our pal ADL (Dennis Lacy) and attend the Grand National Roaster Show at the Ponoma Fairplex. Wild time was had by all. In addition to the show we got to tour five (!!!) hot rod shops while we were out there. We hung out with the Rolling Bones guys and went on their garage tour to see some AMAZING historic cars, met celebrities such as Bruce Meyer (of Meyer's Manx fame), Dennis Varni, Gary Schroeder (of the steering box company) and others.... We stopped by the Brookville Roadster Company booth at the show. They make steel versions of Ford cars. Their latest is a Chip Foose designed phaeton they are dubbing the Phanton (phantom Pheaton). Only 32 of the real cars are being made and I just had build one more in 1/25th scale.... do it in scale. As you can see, it's a roadster cowl, with 3 window doors and a wagon rear end. No problem, just drag out these three Revell bodies.... Next choose the pieces of the three needed to make the Phanton.... Now drag out the Sawzall and start hacking.... Now put the pieces all together like this.... The body came out an RCH short so the firewall didn't quite snug up to the body and sat a bit high. I cut off a skoshe (these are all technical terms here) on the top of the interior tub's toe board (from the sedan version of the kit) and then added a .020" strip around the back edge of the firewall where it meets the cowl. There, I fixed it. You can see where the firewall doesn't quite line up here. The rest of the build will pretty much be out of the various Revell '32 kits. I'm using the blown SBC from the Rat Roaster kit. Fenderless. The ragtop from the Revell '30 A Phaeton will be modified to fit..... That's where I am today.... -RRR Edited February 11, 2018 by Rocking Rodney Rat
Bernard Kron Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 (edited) Yowza! 3D Chess in action... Edited February 6, 2018 by Bernard Kron
bobthehobbyguy Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 Nice start. Thats some serious slicing and dicing.
Dennis Lacy Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 What a great weekend that was! So glad we were able to make it happen. Ya know, the fendered version in the rendering looks pretty dang good, too...
PARTSMARTY Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 Looks like an awesome project-can't wait to see more !!!
Lowlife ! ! Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 Wow some serious chopping up, looks amazing you've captured the proportions perfectly ! Must admit I prefer it with the fenders, but hey who cares ! ! Be watching this, should be another masterpiece in the making !
Mr. Metallic Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 When the guys from K+R share anything you have my attention, but especially with a 32 Ford. You're off to a great start.
dino246gt Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 Wow, that looks so cool, never even knew the real one existed! Of course it's out of my price range, but not in 1/25th scale! Show us more progress, when you have time please, love it!
GMCMAN52 Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 nice start to your project, really like the fender less version
GerN Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 And some builders complain about a kit multipiece body. . .
Muncie Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 RRR - That looks real good - I saw the prototype in bare metal and wanted to build one in scale. My project was held up by a case of knowing too much and that brain blocked looking at the other available scale options... All of the metal is sections from tooling for existing Brookville bodies - If I remember correctly, the rear of the body is from a roadster pickup cab - which is not available in scale. The roadster quarters that were used on the prototype extend past the wheel openings - could see where it was welded in bare metal. I like your solution, it's looking great. will be watching.
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 6, 2018 Posted February 6, 2018 Interesting. Nice start. Muncie (above) answered my question as to how only 32 units (in full scale) could possibly justify the tooling cost for pressing the rear body panels: "All of the metal is sections from tooling for existing Brookville bodies".
Rocking Rodney Rat Posted February 6, 2018 Author Posted February 6, 2018 Yeah, I guess you're right, all the pieces are from existing tooling...gladly in scale, too!!! The rest of the build is pretty much straight forward pieces from the existing kits. The sedan interior tub as well as side panels pretty much dropped in. I ended up using the Rat Roaster roadster body and chopped windshield. It is a completely different body than the original roadster body. I will be using the rat roaster dash as well....Figuring out engine mounts now, for the Rat Roaster blown SBC (block hugger headers from the Revell '37 will be used). I did mock up the blower belt assembly with the front cover/water pump etc and it does fit lengthwise in the engine compartment. More to follow.... -RRR
espo Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 That is very impressive surgery. This is going to be a great looking Phantom.
modelfink Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Cool project! Looks like you got to hang with some great folks out west. The roadster show is on my bucket list.
damodelguy az Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 run with it, off to a great start, keep the pics comin
Lancer Posted February 10, 2018 Posted February 10, 2018 Looks great ! I’m amazed how easy you make this look, definitely impressive. How about a thought, Revell’s next variation on their ‘32 ford tool ?
GlennS Posted February 10, 2018 Posted February 10, 2018 I don't think thats what they mean by a 3 in 1 kit but what ever works for you . It's going to be cool fendered or not , nice build. P.S. maybe you can Frankenstein something together with the leftover body parts
slusher Posted February 11, 2018 Posted February 11, 2018 On February 6, 2018 at 8:22 PM, espo said: That is very impressive surgery. This is going to be a great looking Phantom. Totally agree!
Rocking Rodney Rat Posted February 11, 2018 Author Posted February 11, 2018 Slowly working on the tub and doing lots of little stuff that's not too exciting or picture worthy, getting the interior side panels to fit and rescribing the rear door lines on them, engine mounts, cutting down the airbags so the rear axle sits lower, stuff like that... Since the body was a skoshe (I believe that's a metric measurement) short, the hood and sides need to be lengthened that amount. Fitment is better than the pic would indicate... I'm using an SBC so the block hugger headers from the Revell '37 cabriolet are being putv to use.....exhaust system all one piece, not sure I've ever done this before... Today I started on the ragtop which was sourced from the Revell '30 Model 'A' pheaton. Some cutting and gluing going on...much more to be done here but I have a fairly good start on it...the triangle shaped side curtain needs to be worked on, seams will receive half-round Evergreen pieces... -RRR
Modelbuilder Mark Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 Looking forward to more on this one
Rocking Rodney Rat Posted February 21, 2018 Author Posted February 21, 2018 6 hours ago, Modelbuilder Mark said: Looking forward to more on this one It's painted and being assembled now. Next installment over on the 'under glass' page... -RRR
Snake45 Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Very interesting! The first question I had was, can you make a second custom body of some kind out of the leftovers?
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