AMT 1:25 Garlits Swamp Rat 6b Wynn’s Jammer Dragster

[Oliver77]

After a careful assembly and cleanup to the frame and body panels, I sprayed Touch-Tone black enamel from a spray can. I stripped much of the chrome in purple Super Clean, and cleaned up the moldings to remove casting seams. I used Molotow chrome to recreate the shine. Other parts got Model Master or craft acrylic brush painted.

Motor, transmission and blower have metal weight hidden inside to give a more realistic weight distribution. I drilled the magneto and epoxied fine copper wire for plug wires. The wires are individually solder tinned a bit on one end, then a drop of solder securely bonds the wires so they can resist being pulled and tugged. The bundle is then epoxied into a hole drilled in the magneto. Not sure about the firing order! I used metal wire to pin the magneto and blower belt pulleys.

I use a primitive alignment fixture to square the axle positions.

Instead of cleaning up the drag link rod, I replaced it with brass rod. Also, I placed decals without regard to center link location, so I was able to adjust that better.

I like the way it looks with the front panels off, but I did not modify the shell to frame-mount radius rods and steering link, so it is glued in place.

There are a variety of decal options depending on which reference photos you see, I kind of split the difference with England and Museum details.

[dwc43]

Looks good. Firing order is 18436572 for Mopars.

[Oliver77]

Thanks on the firing order! Really I was just slack not to do it right. The time consuming part of wiring the plugs like I did for this kit is to secure the individual bare copper wires, then epoxy (J B Weld steel slow set) the bundle in. I changed the magneto mounting shaft to metal, then epoxied it to the motor. It is way strong, I had no worries tugging wires into place. 10 minutes research and I could have done it correctly!

OK next one! And I'll post close-ups so the eagle-eyes here can verify it LOL!

[dwc43]

Welcome anytime. Chevy is the same too. The thing with Mopar is the big blocks are counterclockwise and the small block are clockwise.  I forgot to mention that one. Nevertheless, it looks good.