Best kit to build a 33 Chopped 3 window ?

[Jon Haigwood]

Thinking about building this sometime in the future . What kit would be the best to start out with, the Monogram 1/24 or the Revell 1/25 ?

 

Edited April 10, 2018 by Jon Haigwood

[styromaniac]

Paging DW Darby...

Paging Ace Garage Guy......

Paging Tim Boyd.......

 

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

   The Monogram 1/24 kit is far and away THE best '33- '34 3-window Ford ever done in plastic.

If you're OK with 1/24, by all means, start with that one. 

It's problematical in 1/25, frankly.

It's going to take two kits to do a reasonably accurate rendition of the car in the first photo.

The old Monogram snapper is pretty good, but the hood is WAY too short (length, not height)...several scale inches in fact...and it will need more chop. The frame isn't that great either. 

To get a hood that's the right scale length, you're also going to need this one....but it has a nice buggy-spring frame, a pretty good flathead, and quite nice wire wheels. You'll need to transplant the firewall and inner cowl, too.

Edited April 10, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

And here are two you DO NOT WANT. 

This AMT kit has NOTHING in the box that's usable except the body shell, and even it takes a lot of work.   

And this Revell version is WAY under-scale, and so small it's a joke. The tube-frame under it was designed for a model T, which is MUCH SMALLER than a '34 Ford. Revell's tooling wizards shrank a '34 body to fit (the smallblock Ford engine in the kit is under-scale too), for some odd reason. I can not imagine what they were thinking. (It's a good starting point if you want to build a '34 Fiat though.)

                                                           

Edited April 10, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[Jon Haigwood]

Thanks for the info. Big NNL swap meet next saturday. Gives me something to look for . Here is some more pics. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Great looking car. Chop and proportions are just right.  

[Greg Myers]

Man, just look at all the goodies on that bad boy. 

[Jon Haigwood]

Thanks for the info. Went to a NNL show and swap meet . Picked up the AMT 5 window in a raffle drawing. Found a Monogram 3 window for $10. This will be a good start. Also picked up a Revell 32 3 window that someone had chopped the top on and all the parts were there and unassembled for $3. 

Thanks

Jon

[Greg Myers]

Yer all set now Jon.