The Straight Six Community Build Rides Again

[Chuck Most]

The turbo 300 F-150 is done, there will be an Under Glass post shortly.

And the '50 Chevrolet will have a rear mounted fuel tank, with a filler sunk into the bed floor. Here's the beginning of that.

[slusher]

Beautiful F150, Chuck!

[Mattilacken]

Nice builds every one! 

I have a couple of I6 builds going but I was thinking of making a quick build out of one other that i bought partly built. Here is a teaser..

 

[Chuck Most]

6 hours ago, Mattilacken said:

Nice builds every one! 

I have a couple of I6 builds going but I was thinking of making a quick build out of one other that i bought partly built. Here is a teaser..

 

Go on.... ?

[JollySipper]

13 hours ago, Mattilacken said:

Here is a teaser..

That looks very promising..............

[Mattilacken]

Well the engine looks promising! But the Tamiya body and I am not on the same page so I try to massage the body to my liking by putting flairs and adjusting the rear quarters. The roof still feels to tal but nothing to do about that, when I make it wider it should look lower. Give me your two cents! 
 

[JollySipper]

Looks twisty curvy to me!  

[Chuck Most]

Found a home for the Pontiac 250 OHC I stole from an MPC drag transport truck.

[slusher]

5 hours ago, Chuck Most said:

Found a home for the Pontiac 250 OHC I stole from an MPC drag transport truck.

Cool idea!

[slowbird]

No deadline eh, that's good news for me...I just bought this resin Ford 300 with ideas of putting it in a "parts box" hot rod made up of a spare Revell 29 roadster pickup cab and whatever else I can throw together. Kind of a T-bucket but with it being a Model A it's an A-bucket I suppose. The frame was bought in a parts lot but turned out to also be a Revell 29 pickup frame. The body was notched so it can sit down on the frame lower. The axle is Revell with an AMT T-bucket leaf spring grafted onto it, to sit lower than the tall Revell spring that was originally there. Now the hard parts: assembling this engine with no instructions just by looking at reference pictures...weathering it without going overboard...and trying to figure out an interior...

[Chuck Most]

The '50 Chevrolet is starting to look like... A 1950 Chevrolet. So that's promising. ?

[Falcon Ranchero]

I've got a Chevrolet Inline Six, but it's a '60. Looks like one too. Built thisun a while back; one of the very few 6 Cylinder models I have. The colour shows up really light for some reason but it's darker and more appealing in person, believe me. One of my favourite truck models I've built.

[JollySipper]

That looks good Nathan! I'm working on an old Dodge pickup that will get painted a very similar green and white treatment.......... How did you do the silver around the bottom? Looks nice and neat.

[Falcon Ranchero]

15 hours ago, JollySipper said:

How did you do the silver around the bottom

Very carefully with a small brush! ?

[slusher]

On 9/1/2024 at 1:34 PM, Falcon Ranchero said:

I've got a Chevrolet Inline Six, but it's a '60. Looks like one too. Built thisun a while back; one of the very few 6 Cylinder models I have. The colour shows up really light for some reason but it's darker and more appealing in person, believe me. One of my favourite truck models I've built.

Great lookinng Chevy!

[Chuck Most]

'50 is done. I'll post the finished photos later.

[slowbird]

The VCG Resins straight six is really nice, but I thought the distributor angle looked a little odd.

Some googling and looking at engines suggests there should be a raised area of sorts there and the distributor is a bit more vertical.

Then I discovered that Iceman Collections has a 300 now too. Theirs has a nicer looking distributor mount. (I went ahead and ordered one because I can't help myself but I'll use that for some other project.)

So I hacked up some plastic to serve as a rudimentary approximation of this because otherwise I do really like this engine.

I guess I need to buy some smaller drill bits because I don't have one that will work for this yet.

 

It's interesting the differences between the two 3d printed 300 engine blocks and I'm not sure which one is more accurate overall. I think either one would look convincing enough to most people.

[slusher]

Real nice work on your Chevy Chuck!

[slowbird]

Now that I think about it, I'm also working on another inline six build. (I can't stay focused on one build at a time. Or two, or three even.) Some time ago, I picked up the XR6/1927 T double kit. Lots of neat parts in there, it's a shame that it's never come back. (I assume the tooling for the XR6 no longer exists.) I don't love the styling of the XR6 but it's got fancy suspension (for the time) and a low-slung body with a hopped-up slant-six. I got to thinking about the old sports car "specials" of the 50s and 60s, when they would throw an American engine in some sporty chassis or another. So, what if the XR6 had been a race car instead of a show car? So, I'm hacking out some of that asymmetric styling and fancy stuff and making it look kind of like a no-nonsense sports car. But with that hint of Model T roadster styling still in there.

Unfortunately the tires were in a bag with other loose parts when I got it so there are some mangled and melted spots to fix on the body, engine and transmission among other things. I have started on these (hack off the lumpy bits that stick up, jam styrene into the melty holes in between, glue, sand, repeat) and also took a swing at removing the raised hump/vent thing behind the cockpit.

Need to get some paint that would pass for the red/orange these had on them from the factory, as my backstory would be a Chrysler/Dodge engineer plucking one off the assembly line for his skunkworks racing program.

 

Aaaaaand now that I think about it, the last *completed* build I did would fit right in here too. Started it early this year, finished it in July for a group that I'm in that was doing "European cars" as their theme. Not something I do a lot of, so I had to go hunting for subject matter. I ended up going with a BMW 635csi from Monogram. (I'm not sure if this is really a 635csi or some other 6-series, but that's what the box said. It looks like an early car based on the bumpers and only having one side mirror. The engine looks to be US-spec and probably less powerful than the versions for Europe etc.) Testors rattle can, one of those fancy metallic ones. Painting the trim by hand was a nightmare and there are lots of places I didn't get it smooth. Added some custom 80s style wheels from a parts pack, I think maybe made by Fujimi but I forget. It came with a really big rear spoiler but I left that off, so the rear has no badges because those were molded into the spoiler. The ride height is a little tall but overall I was satisfied with it when all is said and done.

Edited September 13, 2024 by slowbird
added more stuff

[NOBLNG]

On 9/13/2024 at 2:49 PM, slowbird said:

Now that I think about it, I'm also working on another inline six build. (I can't stay focused on one build at a time. Or two, or three even.) Some time ago, I picked up the XR6/1927 T double kit. Lots of neat parts in there, it's a shame that it's never come back. (I assume the tooling for the XR6 no longer exists.) I don't love the styling of the XR6 but it's got fancy suspension (for the time) and a low-slung body with a hopped-up slant-six. I got to thinking about the old sports car "specials" of the 50s and 60s, when they would throw an American engine in some sporty chassis or another. So, what if the XR6 had been a race car instead of a show car? So, I'm hacking out some of that asymmetric styling and fancy stuff and making it look kind of like a no-nonsense sports car. But with that hint of Model T roadster styling still in there.

Unfortunately the tires were in a bag with other loose parts when I got it so there are some mangled and melted spots to fix on the body, engine and transmission among other things. I have started on these (hack off the lumpy bits that stick up, jam styrene into the melty holes in between, glue, sand, repeat) and also took a swing at removing the raised hump/vent thing behind the cockpit.

Need to get some paint that would pass for the red/orange these had on them from the factory, as my backstory would be a Chrysler/Dodge engineer plucking one off the assembly line for his skunkworks racing program.

Cool!? I picked up a built one a while back. The tires have softened the rims badly, so I cast the best one. Do you have a build thread?

[Chuck Most]

Idea I've had for a while. Jaguar Mk II infused with a little R32 Skyline GT-R goodness. 

The Jag's original inline six with end up in a hot rod of some type.

[slusher]

Cool looking build Chuck!

[Chuck Most]

The Jag has a tentative name now... "Limey Samurai".

I have a firewall fabbed up, still considering flares or maybe even a wheel and tire swap. The idea is to have the outside rundown looking.

 

Chassis still needs a little fine tuning and I need to make a new exhaust intermediate pipe, but it's getting there.

[Sam I Am]

This is a cool idea. I may have to add another build to the bench....

[Chuck Most]

'64 Malibu SS and '65 El Camino cut and pasted. Power will come from a '63 Nova six.