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Yep, this one gets better every post.  Like it a lot.  Colour choice, wheel choice, the whole vision is working for me.  A very contemporary custom using very old components.

Cheers

Alan

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Some progress!  Doesn’t look like much.. but I spent a considerable amount of time redrawing the script. All examples I found would become unreadable when reduced down to the size I needed.

I did them in black to contrast with the silver paint. I had painted my first car, a 66 Valiant, a similar silver and gave the emblems a black treatment so it’s like coming home!

I’m working on final details but nothing worth a photo!

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On 2/9/2021 at 10:23 AM, Tom Geiger said:

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The trailer that comes in the kit..

I have a few of these too..

Lotsa mods here.. moved axle back so it isn’t rear heavy, added fenders and lights, better wheels and tires. Also created hollow beam axle to hide the wire one! Big issue is that the whole idea of a hitch is backwards.. a peg on the tongue instead of a receiver and a hole in the hitch provided! Had to totally redo that!

Tom, how did you make the trailer fenders?  Could you show a picture of the bottom?  Your Valaint is really looking sharp. Really nice work..

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Hi Carl- Thank you!  The fenders are nothing more than adding the ones that came in the Monogram Green Hornet kit.

I can take some pix of the underside tomorrow. 
 

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On 4/27/2021 at 10:17 PM, slusher said:

Tom, how did you make the trailer fenders?  Could you show a picture of the bottom?  Your Valaint is really looking sharp. Really nice work.

 

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Carl, here’s the underside. I moved the axle to the rear because it flipped backwards with the wheels in the stock position. You can see the original spring mount hole ahead of it.  

The kit also just has the wire axle visible underneath. I had Evergreen L shaped channel that I glued two pieces together to form a hollow beam. The wire axle is hidden inside it.

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45 minutes ago, Dann Tier said:

Outstanding custom job!!!...looks right at home!  Is that Metallic Pewter from Duplicolor?....love the kolor!!!!

Thanks Dan! Paint.. lighter color is Honda Silver Pearl Metallic and top is GM Storm Gray Metallic.  Both are Duplicolor over their gray primer 

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On 4/29/2021 at 12:28 AM, Brian Austin said:

Those Fireball 500 kits are fun for kitbashing.

A funny story- Back in the day the Fireball 500 was a rare and expensive kit. The lore back then was that it could never be done again because it was retooled into the Hemi Under Glass Barracuda. (Wrong assumption!)

Also in this era, the Little Red Wagon was a high dollar kit. It was assumed that IMC tooling was gone.

I was still fixated on collecting all the old Mopars back then. A local guy showed up at our club meeting with a box of old kits for sale. He had both, marked at $200 each.  I set out to do the most expensive deal I’d ever done. I offered him $300 for the pair.  The guy instantly went off on me! He yelled that he knew what he had and I was trying to rip him off. I told him all he had to say was “No thanks!”  I was pretty upset though. He left with the kits.

So what happened?  Lindberg found the Little Red Wagon tool and Round 2 found the Fireball 500!  I wound up buying both at new kit prices!   I saved a lot of money.

Still it feels interesting cutting one up!

Edited by Tom Geiger

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