Terry Sumner Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 The Yahoo email group I belong to, Straight Line Modelers, has decided to do a group build and the subject is to be a 60's gasser. I have chosen the King Kong Anglia due to the fact that I already had an Anglia kit in my stash and some very nice decals are available from Slixx. Now I've built this kit as a youngster but I knw it's a tough one to build so I hope my skills now can do a little more justice to the build. I dunno though...maybe with my bad eyesight it will be worse! Who knows... LOL But here we go.. this is what I'm trying to recreate... Hosted on Fotki When it ran in A/GS with the Big Block Chebby... Hosted on Fotki Next up....the beginning....
Dr. Cranky Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 Bring it on, Terry. Those headers are BEAUTIFUL. Hope you can get your hands on all the parts you need. Including the decals.
Terry Sumner Posted December 13, 2011 Author Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) And heeeeeere we go! First up is the body front end. On the real car, the hood is separate from the grill shell and the grill shell is attached solidly. On the kit hood, it's all one piece and is supposed to be hinged at the bottom...which is incorrect for King Kong. So it had to be cut apart first. In this pic you can see where I've used a scribing tool to partially cut through the lines where it needs to be separated... Hosted on Fotki After using a dental flosser to cut through the remaining plastic, I had the pieces separated..... Hosted on Fotki Then I glued the grill shell to the body and filled in the front grill hole because King Kong's grill was solid. Hosted on Fotki Edited December 13, 2011 by Terry Sumner
Terry Sumner Posted December 13, 2011 Author Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) After the grill shell was sanded smooth I spent some time cleaning up all the flash and mold lines on the body. This tooling is kinda old and it shows. Then I added the sheetmetal from .010 plastic sheet that goes at the rear of the grill shell. I also spent some time thinning out areas in the engine compartment so the big block Chevy would fit in there! I then laid on a few coats of Cobracolors VX Primer, which is simply Dupont Variprime... The engine is the BBC from the 70 Camaro...and I've fitted it with a Torqueflite transmission from a Polar Lights funny car kit. Photos of the engine later... Hosted on Fotki Edited December 13, 2011 by Terry Sumner
Terry Sumner Posted December 13, 2011 Author Posted December 13, 2011 The front axle on King Kong is a straight axle with an overhead single transverse spring. The kit axle is almost right...except is the curved-like-a-smile type of axle. So I cut the spring and the kingpins off the kit axle and grafted them onto a length of tubular straight plastic. This one looks a lot more like King Kong's. Also in this photo is the air scoop. King Kong's was a little unusual in that it didn't have the customary fins on top. At one time it was chrome and at another time it was painted the body color. So I stripped it and sanded off the fins and I intend to paint it the body color like in the engine picture I posted... Hosted on Fotki
Greg Pugh Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 OH YEAH!!! Popcorn is popped.......I'm in the front row for this one!
gasser59 Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 That is a great candidate for a gasser build. Where will you source the big and little Cragar SS rims?
Terry Sumner Posted December 13, 2011 Author Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) I have a set of those Cragar SS rims from that set that was issued a number of years ago that included the soft rubber tires and all kinds of mounting options. I forget what company made them but they had some Keystone Kustomags as well.. These Cragars are really nice but I'm going to have to thin the ones for the front if I use them because they were sized to fit the tires that came in the kit and they're too wide... Edited December 13, 2011 by Terry Sumner
Terry Sumner Posted December 13, 2011 Author Posted December 13, 2011 Here's the Slixx decals... they are really well done! Hosted on Fotki And here's the Cragar wheels. Disregard the tire...it's not being used. This pic also shows the beginnings of the engine. The torqueflite is attached. The valve covers have to be modified a bit. The round breather caps are wrong as King Kong had 2 of the rectangular upright breathers on each valve cover. So I cut the round ones off and rescribed the fin lines where I had cut them off. Next will be to strip the chrome and then mount the 4 new breathers from the Willys kit. The blower came from the Willys kit and the 4 port Hilborn injector unit came from the Willie Borsch Altered kit. I plan on turning the blower pulleys from aluminum on the lathe. Hosted on Fotki I just need to source this part for the engine now....anyone now any resin caster that has it? Hosted on Fotki
W-409 Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 Well this is going to be really interesting build. Great to see you on the bench, and the subject is more than interesting. Really nice job so far with that grille area. Wheels look very good too. Can't wait to see more. I just need to source this part for the engine now....anyone now any resin caster that has it? I have seen some parts, which are close, but not 100% correct. I'm not sure though.
mcandela Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 Company that use to sell those wheels was MRC. Great looking wheels, both the Cragars and the Keystones.
Terry Sumner Posted December 13, 2011 Author Posted December 13, 2011 That's right! MRC...thanks for jogging the old memory!
kylexgore Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 The rat packer nova has a timing cover similar to that one but I don't think it has the script.
crazyjim Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 Looking good, Terry. A build to watch for sure.
Terry Sumner Posted December 16, 2011 Author Posted December 16, 2011 Spent some time scratchbuilding a simulated aluminum front timing cover for the big block. The first photo was my feeble first attempt. Not good but I learned a lot. Second photo is the one! Some .040 sheet stock for the base, then some .010 stock cut into thin ribbons about .015 high and glued with Modelmaster liquid cement and some really thin tweezers! The round parts are discs punched out with a Waldron punch and die set... Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Here's the real one I tried to emulate.... Hosted on Fotki And this is the Waldron Punch and Die set.....front cover on the box.... Hosted on Fotki And the actual set itself.... Hosted on Fotki
Truck parts Posted December 18, 2011 Posted December 18, 2011 Terry, Great looking car,and keep up the outstanding work on it. I have always like that car.
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