Long nose Shelby Cobra bodied dragster .

[cobraman]

Just wrapped this one up . Used a glue bomb body I bought on eBay and a body I had in my parts box . Cut them up to create a longer body . Had to make a plug for the difference in the hood opening with sheet plastic . Several putty and sand sessions . Using the sheet plastic I also closed up the rear wheel wells and made a small rear spoiler . Body paint is Tamiya TS 58 Pearl Light Blue , Tamiya TS 89 Pearl Blue and Tamiya TS Black . Silver Marblizer was used on the hood area and top of dragster panel . Chassis is pretty much just a stock Mooneyes kit . Added aluminum tube tips to headers I got from the parts box . I also had to cut out the rear body section to fit the roll bar . Body was finished off with Duplicolor 1K clear . One photo shows a short Cobra which I made from the two left over body pieces . Thanks for looking . 

[Chris in Berwyn]

That is great!!!  Really nice body work and love the paint, esp on the looonnnng hood.

[lucky 130]

Oh have you given me an idea. A long nosed Cobra land speed car powered by an Allison V12. I really like your builds, because you think out side the box, which gives me ideas. that could be dangerous. Thanks for sharing.  From a fellow Cobra nut.

[cobraman]

Thank you much Chris and Michael !  Hmmmm  Allison V12 you say ?  Interesting.

[DrKerry]

Great work Ray!! Love it!! At first I was wondering where the hole for the blower was!! Then I saw what you used for power plant! Good stuff!!

[cobraman]

Thank you Kerry.

[PappyD340]

That's awesome Ray!

[cobraman]

Thank you Larry.

[Dave Armstrong]

Love it! So cool!

[cobraman]

Thank you Dave.

[slusher]

Looks great, Ray sorry I missed it!

[cobraman]

Thank you Carl. I hope you have a nice Christmas !

[Zippi]

Nice build.  Great looking color.

[cobraman]

Thank you Bob.

[bobthehobbyguy]

Nicely done. Another very creative cobra.

[cobraman]

Thank you much Bob.

[Painted Black]

Paint is cool, how did you apply that finish?  

[cobraman]

Thanks.  As for the paint, I shot the first color from the front but pretty much did about 3/4 of the car. I shot the second color from the rear of the car. Then the middle color was just sprayed up and over the middle. I then applied the marbleizer using a sponge to the hood. Then all cleared. Only masking that was done was the two front fenders so the marbleizer would stay on the hood only. I hope that makes sense.

[Painted Black]

On 12/28/2021 at 8:50 PM, cobraman said:

I hope that makes sense.

Perfect sense, the sponge was what I was missing, thanks

[Dave42]

Very cool. Nice job on the body stretch.

 

[crazyjim]

What a great idea Ray.  The long and short of it looks good.

[cobraman]

Thank you Dave and Jim.

[Lobo2me]

Very cool...looks real fast!

[cobraman]

Thanks Steve. I just noticed that you have build some very cool models.

[Lobo2me]

Thanks