Rocking Rodney Rat Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 (edited) I saw this very kool Model A Coupe at a show recently and I decided it would make a good take-off point for yet another Revell 1930 Model A Coupe build (this will be my fifth one). I really should taken a few more pix of the car but I didn't. ----------- So, I started pulling some parts and mocked up what I think will be a good stance. I'm going with a '30 frame, channeled over the body, a nice rake and a bad attitude. The tires are from Modelhaus... ------ I found a Mustang floorpan in my stash of stuff, this will do nicely, I will slice it apart using the kit floopan as a pattern... ----- I wanted to fill the roof with a cloth top. I grabbed a Revell '32 sedan body that I had hacked apart for another build and will cut the roof up to fit.... ----- I decided to cut the '30 roof opening to more of a stock configuration, cutting off the front part of the opening marked as below. The '32 roof has been cut away from the '32 body... ---------- A bit of slicing, trimming and sanding gets the top to drop into the opening... ---- I trimmed the edges of top with pieces of Evergreen .040" half-round... (sorry about the crappy pix, but you get the idea...) KK sent me a W motor (just to use a different powerplant) and I will slice off the bellhousing and transmission (too wide to fit under the tunnel) and graft on the T5 transmission from the same Mustang kit I got the floorpan from.... More later.... -RRR Edited February 23, 2022 by Rocking Rodney Rat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 The stance looks just like the pictured car. I don't know just how close you're going to stay to the green car's features, but there are a few that standout to me. The firewall treatment is interesting and don't recall ever seeing one done in this way. The stacks on the carburetors are set differently as well. Usually, the opening would be facing toward the rear of the car or the front and these are facing the side. Using a Chevrolet W engine will make this different. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 You ROCK, RRR! -KK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 (edited) 45 minutes ago, espo said: ...The stacks on the carburetors are set differently as well. Usually, the opening would be facing toward the rear of the car or the front and these are facing the side... Funny how folks in the 21st century seem to have forgotten which way bologna-cut stacks HAVE to face to work right. Edited January 15, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Rodney Rat Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 52 minutes ago, espo said: The stance looks just like the pictured car. I don't know just how close you're going to stay to the green car's features, but there are a few that standout to me. The firewall treatment is interesting and don't recall ever seeing one done in this way. The stacks on the carburetors are set differently as well. Usually, the opening would be facing toward the rear of the car or the front and these are facing the side. Using a Chevrolet W engine will make this different. I'm not really planning to stay very true to the real car. I'm going to make a flat very slightly recessed firewall, intake stacks will be frog mouth scoops.... -RRR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Rodney Rat Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 26 minutes ago, Kit Karson said: You ROCK, RRR! -KK Thanks, what are you working on, KK??? 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 4 hours ago, Rocking Rodney Rat said: Thanks, what are you working on, KK??? 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limeyglue Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Great start like where this is heading 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rightrudder Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 6 hours ago, Rocking Rodney Rat said: I'm not really planning to stay very true to the real car. I'm going to make a flat very slightly recessed firewall, intake stacks will be frog mouth scoops.... -RRR Yeah, that Swiss-cheesed firewall is just weird. Beautiful workmanship! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave72 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Nice start so far! Definitely can’t get enough of these hot rod builds! Love it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I’ll follow this. I love that green one, and I’m sure yours will be just as sweet!🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CabDriver Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I love seeing your work - looks great so far! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bisc63 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Very cool! I never get tired of seeing "another" 30, 32, 34 Ford, 57 Chevy, or any model car. I am constantly amazed at the variety of approaches to builds here, with regards to re-styling, finishing, concepts, and every other aspect of car modeling. Every builder cannot help but impart his/her own personality into a build. I would say that even a same kit, straight from the box build by a dozen different modelers would still show some measure of variety in execution. With that in mind, I look forward to your progress on this one, as I will the next one! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Rodney Rat Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) A little more work on the coupe. I started whittling away on the floor pan (from a Mustang kit). ------ after looking at it more carefully, I came to the realization that the floor had too much whoop-dee-do in it. That wont work. I will cut off the tunnel and attach it to a flat sheet of styrene... ------- The W motor I'll be using has a bellhousing that's way too wide to fit into the trans tunnel. The solution is to separate the block and use the T5 from the same Mustang kit the trans tunnel is from. That will fit. I'm planning on adapting the two 3x2 log manifolds from the Nailhead in the Revell Model A kits... ------------ I glued it all together. Much better.... I tried my Molotow chrome pen on one of the valve covers. Looks pretty good... More later, thanks for following along... -RRR Edited January 17, 2022 by Rocking Rodney Rat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernurd Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Cool project. That valve cover looks excellent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestringer Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Looking good. This kind of stuff is way beyond my capabilities but I enjoy seeing others work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Rodney Rat Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 As we left off a few days ago, I decided that floor wouldn't work, so the tunnel was cut off, cleaned and attached to a sheet of Evergreen styrene... I traced around the original floorpan as it was shaped to fit the '30 body and then separated the two sides from the tunnel... ---------- I cleaned up the cut sides of the tunnel and measured a few times to get it as close to centered as I could and glued it on.... --------- I cut the pan out of the sheet of styrene and cleaned up the edges. The next step is to grab the trusty Dremel and grind out the tunnel on the underside. I have a plan for the interior, that's coming up next... -RRR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limeyglue Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Nice work. Can't wait to see the interior 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David G. Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 You have a lot of amazing mods going on this. All of them exceedingly well done. David G. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny99 Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 22 minutes ago, Limeyglue said: Nice work. Can't wait to see the interior +1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrm Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Very cool so far! I’m following. I always wanted to build a rod with a W motor. I have four model A coupes planned, I just need to find the time. Plenty of motivation on here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) On 1/15/2022 at 11:53 PM, bisc63 said: Very cool! I never get tired of seeing "another" 30, 32, 34 Ford, 57 Chevy, or any model car. I am constantly amazed at the variety of approaches to builds here, with regards to re-styling, finishing, concepts, and every other aspect of car modeling. Every builder cannot help but impart his/her own personality into a build. I would say that even a same kit, straight from the box build by a dozen different modelers would still show some measure of variety in execution. With that in mind, I look forward to your progress on this one, as I will the next one! Try this on... ACME is having a club build using the '30-'31 Coupe from Revell as a Common Kit Club Build for our Southern National NNL! Stay tuned film at 11!! -KK Cheap Ad Placement Edited January 18, 2022 by Kit Karson Text correction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Lacy Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I don’t think you can ever have too many Model A Coupe hot rods. Love the way you reworked the roof insert into the stock shape and that now it has texture to it. Definitely a detail that will make this one stand out in a crowd. Too bad the Mustang floor pan didn’t work out but that’s still a great looking driveline tunnel to graft into a new floor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Rodney Rat Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Kit Karson said: Try this on... ACME is having a club build using the '30-'31 Coupe from Revell as a Common Kit Club Build for our Southern National NNL! Stay tuned film at 11!! -KK Well, that's a little closer to home than GSL in SLC!!! -RRR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Karson Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 16 minutes ago, Rocking Rodney Rat said: Well, that's a little closer to home than GSL in SLC!!! -RRR You know that you are an honorary member! -KK btw I've sent models to a show with someone else, before!!! The way things are going with the cancellation of the WC NNL... while going to the GSL is still on my bucket list, it's not a death wish ;-)> -KK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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