Slightly revised Monogram Firebolt salt racer.

[Alan Barton]

I have one of these kits still sealed in the shrink wrap but when my friend Tom from Pennsylvania sent me a gently gluebombed example I decided I had to rescue it!

After doing a bunch of complex builds this year I needed to do something simple.  The temptation to super detail the model was huge but I held firm and just added a few visual tricks to wrap it up.  I didn't like the open hole in the top of the fin so I added an extended radar dome thingie with two protective covers from the probes off a multi meter. It also needed a jet motor so I fabricated an exhaust cone using the compression fitting from a garden hose and a piece of an old rusty cake icing tool! Finally I cut away the sides of the interior to put a fit a slightly undersized driver albeit substantially larger and more to scale than the one that came with the model.

Comments and critiques welcome.

Cheers

Alan

[ColonelKrypton]

Very cool.

 

cheers, Graham

 

[Lobo2me]

Ingenious. Bravo. Love the garden hose mixer nozzle and the guys looking on. Let her rip!

[Zen]

Too cool, awesome scratch building skills.