Moebius 64 Comet protour

[Mr. Metallic]

I've been conversing with my friend Frank Luque (well known on the Spotlight board) in text messages and he inspired me with his recent build of this new Moebius kit. It seems like a great kit, perfect to kick off the new building season. Started carving on it this weekend at my friend Chuck Darnells Build N Bull. I do not care for the snorkel hood in the kit, so the first order of business was to cut the flat hood out of an AMT 64 Comet. The hood in the AMT is slightly narrower then the Moebius opening so I had two options, cut it out and add styrene strip to the edges, or cut it out wider and sand to fit. The second option sacrifices the AMT body, but requires less work so I went with option 2.

 

Here you can see what is left of the AMT edges of the hoods (highlighted in black. The difference to the Moebius opening is minimal.

Mission accomplished. At this point I needed to sand the back edge a bit more to even up the front with the fenders. 

 

 

I decided to open the trunk as well, even thought there's nothing back there to look at lol. Haven't decided if I'm going to build a top for the fuel cell or just add a smooth piece over the entire rear section. Not much more planned as far as mods except possibly slightly lowering the front ride height and replacing the undersized master cylinder.

Edited 4 hours ago by Mr. Metallic

[FoMoCo66]

Nice work so far, that stock hood is looking good. I cant wait to see what you do with this awesome new kit!

[Bullybeef]

Nice start Craig! I’m not much of a full body kinda builder but I’ll follow along. 

[Mr. Metallic]

Spent a little time last night doing a few small items. First up was lowering the front suspension a tad. I used the notch in the ring (highlighted with a black mark) as my locator hole for the new height. I know this is no prototypically correct (obviously) but you won't be able to see the mod once everything is assembled, and it's way easier than altering the kit piece because it is very small (but nicely detailed for it's size). I drilled three progressively larger holes until I got the correct size to accept the pin from the steering arm. Then I removed a portion of the ring to the left and right of the new hole to allow the arm to rest flush against the disc. This should result in about a 2 inch scale drop.

I don't think a modern protouring build would keep the stock 3(?) speed trans, so I swapped in a C6 from one of the plethora of leftover engines from a Revell 32 Ford that I have.

I also stole the master cylinder from my Revell 32 stash, and the rear dif cover because the Moebius part has a big seam running through it. So i removed the molded dif cover and the new one fits perfectly. just have to smooth the seams on the dif itself.

That's where it stands for now, probably the last activity until the weekend. Thanks for stopping by.