Here's to the Little Guys. '69 Nova F/C: Elephant Hunter

[ProModNut]

Started this in late March, early April. 1/16th scale, body from Flashpoint Resins, chassis is being scratch built (1st time trying this, turning out pretty good so far), engine is a BBC from LPH 1320 Products & a few other places. 

[Tortuga Kustomz]

Sweet Richard, this type of projects scares me a lot, lot of work and i haven't work on that scale yet, looking forward to see how this turns out

[ProModNut]

Sorry it took so long to get back & post more. To make my space frame chassis I started by taping (using scotch tape) two rods together, then made my bends for the back half of the top rails, after making my bends removed the tape & flipped one rod over, now I had my two top rails.

[ProModNut]

When I decided to try & build this, I wanted to try & make the chassis as accurate as possible, which meant to me making that "S" bend in the front on the bottom rails, not like the Polar Lights Funny Car chassis. To do this I once again taped two rods together, and made the first bend back a little on the rod, then did the 2nd bend leading into the rods going straight, I then trimmed the front back to leave the length I wanted. After that I made the bends in the rear individually, any adjustments to the rear bends would be made after attaching the top & bottom rails together.

[ProModNut]

I then made the chassis uprights out of angle tube, I measured the inside height on one of my Revell 1/16th scale funny cars ( bottom of top rail to top of bottom rail), cut the angle tube, fishmouthed both ends and glued them to the bottom rail. I decided to make my support rods running length wise in the chassis like ones I had in my reference pics ( Kelly Chadwick's '69 Camaro, he ran a Don Hardy chassis, I took a another rod and laid it against the bottom rail/uprights and used a pencil to mark where the holes were going to go, I drilled out the holes in the uprights then ran my rod thru the holes from the middle to the front of the chassis, I then added the rods going to the back of the chassis & then glued the top rail to the uprights.

[Tortuga Kustomz]

sweet