Rommel's Rat Rod - Modifying Hood - New Fotos

[Dave Mikrut]

The day I bought my Rommel kit I knew I would never build it right out of the box. You'll haft bear with me, because I am not going to give away the whole design here right off the get go.

What I am showing today is what I have so far. I have grafted an old Monogram Sizzler bantam body to the front fenders of the Rommel body. I filled in the spare tire well and the big rear

slick openings of the bantam body using various levels of sheet styrene for strength. I'm also filling the holes in the other fender the same way as you can see. I always try to make

precision cuts, use minimal amounts of putty and Duplicolor makes an awesome primer that is a High Build Formula, scratch filling sandable primer. This stuff works great!

Edited April 1, 2010 by Dave Mikrut

[RodneyBad]

I don't know what your doing

But ya got my attention..

Looking Perty interesting so far..

[Railfreak78]

I got one guess but I'm not sayin that way if I'm right I can say HA! or if I'm wrong nobody will know

[rustybill1960]

Hey Dave!

You go Man!

Later

Russ

[Dave Mikrut]

I can just hear ya saying, "Hey Sooop, how do ya make all them fancy cuts and modifications and they all come out so smooth lookin?" Well it's a simple little trick I'm gonna share wit youse cuz ya just never know how long we gots hehe!

I had to cut this hood down the middle, and on an angle tho, so the front is the same but the back matches up with the body. Ooops forgot to take a foto of that. So the first picture you see is I got the two halves together and backed them up with some styrene. No matter how precision you make your cuts, it's always a good idea to take a file and make a triangular groove like you see I done in the second foto. Next you glue in a tiny piece of triangular styrene available at yer LHC. I used Plastruct plastic weld on this. Soften it up real nice and you can even squeeze it some so it's sure to go down in them crannies. Now let this dry real good. Sand and prime...seams all gone and its STRONG and no putty used. Too many times a repair like this patched with putty will crack somewhere in time.

Edited April 1, 2010 by Dave Mikrut