Stuff I Haven't Finished...Yet

[Straightliner59]

Thought it might be fun to see what's sitting around your shop that's maybe been sitting for years (or, in my case,  often decades!). Who knows, maybe you'll run across something perfect for the next round of Snake's "Bring Out Your Dead" thread. I think that thread has prompted me to push three old projects across the finish line. I'll start with a couple. I'll add more, if this takes off!

First up, one of Grumpy's Toys based on a promo. I will likely go curbside, on this, and build an interior for it, but no chassis or engine.

Next up, a Monogram Midget, sort of converted to a "big car".

Lastly, for now a streamliner loosely based on the "Coca Cola Stand". It's an old lakes runner whose guts became the Chrisman #25 dragster. Bottom plate is some old, thick sheet I had lying around. Body is made from aluminum step flashing, which is one of my favorite scratch building materials. Panel lines are scribed, rivets were made with an awl/scriber.

Let's see what's been languishing on your work bench!

 

 

Edited June 26, 2020 by Straightliner59

[LDO]

Three Duesenberg projects. The resin conversion has not been started. 

 

 

What is a “Coca Cola Stand” streamliner?

[Tom Geiger]

Boy did you ask for an avalanche!

Barracuda long roof

1951 Chevy Traveler

 

1960 Plymouth airport limo.. started back when this was a cheap kit!

[espo]

1 hour ago, Tom Geiger said:

Boy did you ask for an avalanche!

Barracuda long roof

1951 Chevy Traveler

 

1960 Plymouth airport limo.. started back when this was a cheap kit!

I remember when you were working on the '51 Chevy with the camper, always wondered what happened to it. 

[Tom Geiger]

29 minutes ago, espo said:

I remember when you were working on the '51 Chevy with the camper, always wondered what happened to it. 

Sitting on the shelf over my work bench. I’ve been thinking about it lately so it may get back on the bench

[espo]

Just now, Tom Geiger said:

Sitting on the shelf over my work bench. I’ve been thinking about it lately so it may get back on the bench

One of my first cars was a '51 Chevy so that added to my interest. I have seen some 1:1 vehicles done in these manor years ago and some were really well done. Others looked like they were tailgated by a trailer. This one the proportions looked correct. 

[Tom Geiger]

Just now, espo said:

One of my first cars was a '51 Chevy so that added to my interest. I have seen some 1:1 vehicles done in these manor years ago and some were really well done. Others looked like they were tailgated by a trailer. This one the proportions looked correct. 

Thanks! Words like that will get it finished!?

[Tom Geiger]

  A few more..

 

Lindberg Trailblazer.. I have a Jeep chassis under it. Left one is stock 
 

 

Gull wing Studebaker... my first attempt at a major mashup some 30 years ago. It didn’t sit straight and the paint sucked. Was assembled at one point then taken back apart as above. Below is how it looks today

VW project to match Sketch Pad drawing

[Snake45]

I might have dozens. 

Here's two I definitely need to get back on. AMT '41 Willys pickup, and '67 Vette sedan delivery. 

[Draggon]

This has been on the bench, like most of my stuff, for a long time. 

Edited June 27, 2020 by Draggon

[Rocking Rodney Rat]

Some day I gotta finish up this '33 Willys delivery that's a mashup of the chopped coupe and original delivery.... -RRR

[Rocking Rodney Rat]

KK and I started this build of the Barry Setzer rear engine wedge dragster several years ago. We went to the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala and took a bunch of pix, then repaired to a hotel room in Tampa during the NSRA Street Rod SE Nats and hacked away....still sitting in a box in my shop...Slixx has the decals... -RRR

[Snake45]

46 minutes ago, Rocking Rodney Rat said:

Some day I gotta finish up this '33 Willys delivery that's a mashup of the chopped coupe and original delivery.... -RRR

That's pretty cool! I wish you could do the exact opposite and get to an unchopped coupe, but I guess I'm gonna have to buy somebody's resin body. 

[Mark]

20 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

That's pretty cool! I wish you could do the exact opposite and get to an unchopped coupe, but I guess I'm gonna have to buy somebody's resin body. 

I've got a de-chopped coupe that someone did starting with two early issue bodies.  The box it came in had some sedan delivery parts too.  The guy bought one of those for the windshield frame, in part to determine how much to un-chop it.  I cleaned up the bodywork a bit--not much was needed though.  I'm planning to set it on MPC snap delivery fenders as they have running boards.

[LDO]

Another Duesenberg 

 

[LDO]

I’m into more than Duesenbergs. I have all kinds of unfinished projects. 

[Spottedlaurel]

I did mention some of these in another topic just yesterday, but to avoid repetition I'll show a different (and terrible) photo here as it includes some others I must get on with.....

This shot was taken in 2007 and only one of them (the '57 Chevy) has been completed. I think they were all started in the '90s.

Corvette has been stripped of its Humbrol brush paint, ex-Ghostbusters Cadillac hearse still awaits a window repair/replacement, '55 Chevy needs a couple of body repairs and enthusiasm and the Maserati has recently been resurrected and I'm looking at completion this year!

[1967RMP]

Lots of creativity going on here. Good work!

[TarheelRick]

I got a 'few' sitting in the to finish pile.

61 Ford Custom bubbletop, 57 Chrysler 300 C custom, Escort Pro-Stock,  '65 GTO AWB, Magnum SRT8 RPU  and there are several others.

[Rocking Rodney Rat]

On 6/27/2020 at 6:56 PM, Snake45 said:

That's pretty cool! I wish you could do the exact opposite and get to an unchopped coupe, but I guess I'm gonna have to buy somebody's resin body. 

The '33 Willys coupe is one of the few cars that looks better unchopped, IMHO.... -RRR

[Spottedlaurel]

11 hours ago, TarheelRick said:

I got a 'few' sitting in the to finish pile.

61 Ford Custom bubbletop, 57 Chrysler 300 C custom, Escort Pro-Stock,  '65 GTO AWB, Magnum SRT8 RPU  and there are several others.

All look like interesting/ambitious projects! The Escort particularly stood out to me, is it based on a real car? I'm pretty sure there was one here in the UK back in the mid-late '80s, I think it was on the cover of Street Machine magazine and metallic maroon in colour.

[Tom Geiger]

The good news is that this thread has made me realize how many of my unfinished projects I’ve completed in the past few years!   Still there is more to be done.  

A few more..
 

Don't ask why I decided to build from this photo!  I realize that the car is different from my kit, just capturing the essence!  

It’s one of those “Do I think I can?...”  projects to see if I could credibly create the inner structure.

My personal Heller Hell!  The kit overall is very nicely detailed and fiddly like an early Revell kit.. like one of the Roth kits. The body is supposed to assemble onto the chassis as a final step after paint. Well, it didn’t do it and I screwed up painted surfaces. I have a second kit to try again. 

 

After I did my 59 Chevy convertible junker this was the follow up. This is as far as  got..   again the fun of scratching out the inner structure.

And a fun little project. The kit is a little van body and most the ones you see are flatbeds.  

 

 

[Straightliner59]

On 6/26/2020 at 5:49 PM, LDO said:

What is a “Coca Cola Stand” streamliner?

 

It was a big, slab-sided thing that somebody said resembled a Coca-Cola  stand. I have only ever seen one photo of it.

On 6/30/2020 at 10:18 AM, Tom Geiger said:

After I did my 59 Chevy convertible junker this was the follow up. This is as far as  got..   again the fun of scratching out the inner structure.

That's cool, Tom! That's just the kind of fun I like to have with my models.

On 6/27/2020 at 4:14 PM, Rocking Rodney Rat said:

KK and I started this build of the Barry Setzer rear engine wedge dragster several years ago. We went to the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala and took a bunch of pix, then repaired to a hotel room in Tampa during the NSRA Street Rod SE Nats and hacked away....still sitting in a box in my shop...Slixx has the decals... -RRR

I always  dug that Setzer 'liner! Nice start on that!

 

On 6/26/2020 at 9:30 PM, Draggon said:

This has been on the bench, like most of my stuff, for a long time. 

That's neat. Looks so long and low.

Here are some more of mine...

Just playing around with some gold  leaf,  on (yet another) Revell snapper '34.

The nostalgia fueler is brass with an aluminum and tin body.

Finally, is a Studebaker powered dragster built on the frame of a Heller BMW. I thought the chassis resembled some home-built jobs, from back in the early days.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Straightliner59

[LDO]

A Big Deuce body, with 7 1/2 scale inches of extra leg room. It might be a better idea to combine two Deuce bodies, rather than adding filler plugs to one. 

[Scott Colmer]

Some great projects here. Seems like some of the most creative stuff gets stalled. Here are most of mine. They range from 7 to 20+ years old.

This is the mock up for my 1:1 Sprite. Also stalled for years.