Building the covers Akron Arlen pro stock duster

[M W Elky]

This post is the first of my new series, “Building the Covers”. I think most of us can say as kids we just couldn’t wait to get our hands on some car magazines for our drawing and model building inspiration. I don’t want to think about how many of our dads’ hot rod and super stock magazines I massacred by cutting out the pictures.  I now think it’s pretty cool to display a built model and matching magazine cover together.  It can also be a good challenge to find the right kit, decals, paint color, and extra parts to build with. For this first one I chose the Arlen Vankee pro stock duster.  I started with the amt duster and the revell hemi dart for a Donor kit. It gave up it’s hemi, rear suspension, roll bar, hood scoop, and shifter.  The tunnel ram is from amt’s pro street  66 Nova, the carburetor’s are from the amt   67 comet. Paint color is testors Daytona yellow lacquer; decals are slixx. I think Billy Gooche also had a good set of decals for this car that were slightly different. The wheels on this are old Johann Fenton slots, the slicks are from the hemi dart, front tires are from the amt poly glass gasser.

[NYLIBUD]

Nice job.Love them Mopars.

[afx]

Very nice.

[cobraman]

Cool idea and cool model.

[Hmann68]

Nice! Looks good, just like the cover. Well done ? 

[Scott8950]

Very nice

[PappyD340]

Nicely done!

[deuces wild]

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[Swinger 340]

A nice job on the model and a very cool concept.

[dragcarz]

Very nice, love the early Pro Stockers !

[Altered Ego]

All I can say is WOW, incredible job.

[Gregg1LE]

Outstanding work on the Duster !