sure rock co models Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Built this thing about a year ago. Here is the video too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truck parts Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Cool looking build Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sure rock co models Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBorg Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 What scares me, this car is from 1992 and its one of the latest top fuel kits released. That's 27 years ago. Great build......but 27 years between dragster kits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisR Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 (edited) Nice build. Revell started to do the "new era" Top Fuel Dragsters in 1987 with Don Garlits Swamp Rat XXX and the last issues they did are the Kenny Bernstein Bud King and Tony Schumacher Army Dragsters from 2002. Unfortunately Revell decided to do these Top Fuel Dragsters (and Funny Cars) at a time when the cars evolved a lot each year and they updated the kits some a couple of times and the last update to the TF kits was when they did the Bud King and Army Dragsters, but they never did enough to get them to the standard the real cars had at the time as the evolution of the cars surpassed them and they didn't keep up. This was very unfortunate because if they had done all necessary changes to get them up to date back then they would be pretty much up to date even now 17 years later as the real Top Fuel Dragsters haven't changed that much visually in that time, so except for wheels, head shield, larger puke tank and belly pan wich has been required by the rules since then they are pretty much the same today as they were back in 2002. Edited July 11, 2019 by Force Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBorg Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I didn't know about the bally pan, are you referring to the engine diaper for oil downs or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sure rock co models Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 Thank you everyone. That is some interesting info right there. Its not too late for Revell or any other company to make some of the more modern kits if the demand is there. For now I have a few other old Revell / Monogram kits that I am slowly (like real slow) building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 On 2019-07-11 at 5:55 PM, iBorg said: I didn't know about the bally pan, are you referring to the engine diaper for oil downs or something else? Many have both a belly pan under the engine and a diaper, the main thing is that you have to contain all 16 quarts of oil to prevent oil downs if the engine breaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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