1/43 Monogram Corvette question

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Quite sometime ago in a mag somewhere there was tutorial on cutting the roof from the old AMT kit and mating it the Monogram kit. Does anyone remember this and where I might find it?

[Len Woodruff]

I would like that information too!

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I would like that information too!

I would also like a scooped hood for the Cobra also!!

[Darin Bastedo]

Someone at one time did a resin body for that also.

[Mike Kucaba]

I'm into 1/43 and read all the build ups by Wayne Moyer and others. I seem to remember a trans kit to convert Mono's roadster into a fastback build up. The memory is what it is and I think the trans kit was by Andy Martin.

[Darin Bastedo]

I'm into 1/43 and read all the build ups by Wayne Moyer and others. I seem to remember a trans kit to convert Mono's roadster into a fastback build up. The memory is what it is and I think the trans kit was by Andy Martin.

that sounds right to me but my memory isn't what it used to be either, or is it? I don't know perhaps Andy will chime in.

[Mike Kucaba]

Yup It was SAE #69. Wayne did a build-up of the Aardvark fastback transkit for the Mono vette roadster. Curiously, there was an article by Wayne a couple of issues earlier where he DID cut the top off a late model Mustang ertl diecast and built a replica of his own car.

[Modelmartin]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I did sell a handful of 1/43rd coupe bodies. The pattern and molds are gone. I hardly sold any, maybe a couple of dozen. The conversion was very easy. AMT's 1/43rd custom Corvette (it can't be built stock) was identical to the Monogram dimensionally and I think even the door lines lined up. It was spooky that it was so easy. If you do make the conversion cut the entire window section out. Don't cut at the posts.

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I did sell a handful of 1/43rd coupe bodies. The pattern and molds are gone. I hardly sold any, maybe a couple of dozen. The conversion was very easy. AMT's 1/43rd custom Corvette (it can't be built stock) was identical to the Monogram dimensionally and I think even the door lines lined up. It was spooky that it was so easy. If you do make the conversion cut the entire window section out. Don't cut at the posts.

Thanks Andy!