Boyd woodie

[kennb]

I am waiting to materials for my next big project and ran across this at a flea market for 6 bucks, everything inside was sealed. I was thinking it would make good trading material,,,whoa there......Then on the way home a started thinking.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lets have some fun with this one.

I drew up on a sheet of plastic a concept for a fanciful woodie and cut 2 sides out.

I cut some strips for the outlineing.

With my saw I scraped all the parts to give it a wood grain look to it.

KennB

Edited August 11, 2011 by kennb

[crazyjim]

Did I miss something? The pics are from next year.

This looks like an interesting build. Don't remember anyone scraping the plastic before for a woodgrain effect.

[Dr. Cranky]

Actually to get deeper grooves, use a hobby knife to score the plastic . . . it's looking good, please keep it going.

[MikeMc]

Hope your frame isn't twisted like both of mine are, good luck with the interior!!

[Jantrix]

Interesting! I'm looking forward to seeing this come together.

[GeeBee]

Nice start, I'll be watching this with interest, we still get "American Hotrod" on our satelite T.V

[kennb]

The basic body is roughed out and ready to cut into the Boyd body. There will be a short peice of "metal" at the running board under the wood body. If you look at the previous set you can see the pencil marking for the cut. I put in some blocking inside the fenders to hold everything square. I also dug out some bigger rubber and redid the rear fender openings to match. I am probably going to have to get more massaging of this after the frame is done and ride height adjusted. At some point there will be some chrome imbedded into the wood parts of the wood body.

Thank you for the comments, they are always welcome.

A dry assembly of the "stock' car revealled that the fit of the parts does leave some to be desired. I was surprised that Testors would have such a problem, they are far from novice to kits. I have not started the frame but with the dry fit problems I saw I am looking forward to the challange .

KennB

[Ryan S.]

There's a lot of potential where this is going and you're off to a great start. Neat idea on scratching in the wood grain. I'm curious to see how that turns out.

Keep it up!

[kennb]

The body has been mated to the Boyd body, Axels have been changed to fir the Revell tires and rims that I am using and the ride height in the rear adjusted raising the body a bit. I also sarted putting in the fender inserts inside as shown on the rear fender. I am doing the same to the front fenders to give a more finished look to the final product. Still to do on the body is the front windshield which I am thinking now as being a split window.

More pictures can be found at photobucket

http://s126.photobuc...!cpZZ1QQtppZZ16

Kennb

[Jairus]

Looking good so far!

[Malard]

I have very fond memories of watching American Hotrod every week with grandpa when I was in my early and late teens (about to turn 21 lol). I love this build already and I'll keep track of it!

[Dr. Cranky]

Good going. Sometimes from the side it looks like a Citroen, but that's cool.