MPC Chrysler Hydro-Vee "Charger" Boat Kit and Other Boat Kits

[dimaxion]

The first Boat is an AMT Original I rescued from pieces and parts I gathered at the Toledo Shows over the years . Ford V/8 .The Wooden Cutlass is an AMT '90's Re-Pop . Kris Craft Inboard w/Chris Craft Flathead Marine 6 . Hemi Hydro . Revelle SSP , '90's release .I coud not come up with the Cream Accents . I went with 'kinda Gulf OIL Scheme . Yeah , It's gotta a Hemi & color me  Metal Flake Blue .  Thanx 

[espo]

This is a few years ago. Built the Hemi Hydro boat kit and used the interior / jet drive conversion  kit with a big block Chevrolet engine instead of the Hemi. spare parts super charger and home made headers. Got to have a tow vehicle right. 

[dimaxion]

On 5/29/2017 at 1:17 AM, ChrisBcritter said:

From looking at the photos of the kit's engine, I'm not sure what that thing is supposed to represent. The main offering from Century was the Gray Marine engine, which is based on the AMC 327 V8. I've found other images of them with Cadillacs, Chrysler Marine Hemis, Ford Y-block and FE marine engines as well, so you can probably swap in whatever you can fit to the bellhousing and scratchbuild the marine parts.

Here is one I found on EBAY . The MC V/8 .. Thanx  

[slusher]

On 3/18/2021 at 9:44 AM, espo said:

This is a few years ago. Built the Hemi Hydro boat kit and used the interior / jet drive conversion  kit with a big block Chevrolet engine instead of the Hemi. spare parts super charger and home made headers. Got to have a tow vehicle right. 

Outstanding!

[alan barton]

Been some time since we saw new posts on here but I think I have something to fix that problem!

I give you my 1957 Ford Thunderboat!  No 2 in a series of 3 car/boats in my collection.  It started life as an approximately 1/28th scale pullback toy car.  The proportions were very accurate and the smaller size suited my plans perfectly.  Sometimes it seems that a scale speedboat on a trailer looks way bigger than the scale tow car.  Its just a trick of the eye - we  don't notice it so much in real life because we know roughly how big each item should be.

Over the years I have collected various boat related toys and items to help with marine projects in the future.  Unfortunately I did not take a picture of either of the toys that I started with but the other part of this project was a large ( in real life) battery powered cabin cruiser in maybe 1/32 scale?  As it was, I still needed to narrow the hull to mate up with the T Bird. body.  I spent a lot of time on bodywork because I wanted the T-Bird fender peaks to continue to the point of the bow.  A good friend, Jackson, 3D printed me some replacement taillights with the exhaust going through the centre.  I had lost one of the original taillights and shortly after he printed me these cool new ones, he lost the other one so I guess the stock items were just not meant to be!

The trailer is scratch built from Evergreen rectangular section styrene with cycle fenders from the AMT 25 T kit.

The towcar is still under construction - a 1956 Ford Crown Squire.  In other words, a Crown Vicky with a Nomad style roof.  It will receive the same orange and cream colour scheme (Tamiya) as shown here.

Cheers

Alan

PS Espo, I never saw your boat way back in 2021 bur just saw it now and I love the entire combo.  I especially like the trick seating arrangement!

[eastown]

[eastown]

2 minutes ago, eastown said:

More Pics in, All the rest category  under " Narrowed a Bit "

[alan barton]

23 minutes ago, eastown said:

More Pics in, All the rest category  under " Narrowed a Bit "

That is very very cool - keep em coming!

Cheers

Alan