redzed Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 amt grant king my first sprint and maybe my last as this sometimes tested my patients. box stock except for tried and true masking yape seat belts and i added a windshield because the pics i found online had one. i've got to hand it to those of you that do build sprints especially the winged cars . (the body is 5 pieces) this is is going on the 'back burner' as it is now steelhead season. 2
sflam123 Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 You've done a nice job on this kit so far. This kit is known to be a finicky kit to build and has tested the patience of builders on a regular basis. The Monogram winged sprint kits are also patience testing but IMO somewhat less so. FWIW, the tires on this kit are slightly out of scale for what they ran back in the 70's. This car ran primarily in USAC from 1972 until about 1976, and was driven initially by Sheldon Kinser and then by Jerry Weeks.
bobthehobbyguy Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 Nice. Doesn't look like it will take much to finish it.
iBorg Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 Thanks for posting the pictures. I've always thought the driver was undersized but from your pictures it appears its closer to the right size than I thought.
redzed Posted December 21, 2022 Author Posted December 21, 2022 11 hours ago, sflam123 said: You've done a nice job on this kit so far. This kit is known to be a finicky kit to build and has tested the patience of builders on a regular basis. The Monogram winged sprint kits are also patience testing but IMO somewhat less so. FWIW, the tires on this kit are slightly out of scale for what they ran back in the 70's. This car ran primarily in USAC from 1972 until about 1976, and was driven initially by Sheldon Kinser and then by Jerry Weeks. having a hard time finding proper scale rear dirt tires-have you ever used resin tires ? i have not
sflam123 Posted December 22, 2022 Posted December 22, 2022 12 hours ago, redzed said: having a hard time finding proper scale rear dirt tires-have you ever used resin tires ? i have not No, I have not. I have some friends that have used dirt LM and dirt Modified tires from a company called Plastic Performance Parts. They seem to like them, but I have no experience with them. Part of the problem is the AMT Grant King kit actually scales out closer to 1/24 than 1/25 scale. So 1/25 scale tires look slightly too small and the kit tires are a little too wide, although they got the diameter appropriate for the scale of the rest of the model. Honestly though, with all it's flaws, I'm just glad AMT and Monogram made the sprint car models they did!!
redzed Posted December 23, 2022 Author Posted December 23, 2022 i have the PPP tires but they make the grant sprint look like a midget sprint racer
redzed Posted December 23, 2022 Author Posted December 23, 2022 i have several PPP tires both dirt and ashphalt but are too small i think even with the smallest tires from my parts box on the front
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