Tom Geiger Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I have been watching the 24 Hour Build for years and this year I was in a position of being able to dedicate a weekend so I went for it. This goes from noon on Saturday until noon on Sunday so you have the rest of Sunday to re-cooperate! I decided to give the old Revell Miss Deal Funny Car a go since I know guys who base a lot of their drag builds off this chassis. Plus it looked like a fairly simple build.... wrong! It's from that Revell era of over complicated kits with poor molding, poorly fitting parts and vague instructions. I started at noon, but I had taken all the parts off the trees on Friday and cleaned up the mold lines etc a bit. I stripped the bad chrome off a lot of the parts. I started to get frustrated that several hours into the project, I still didn't have anything assembled. By 2 am I had the chassis pretty much done and on wheels. I had spent way too much time doing this two tone on the chassis, carefully masking off the gray frame with BMF. Next quick build I won't do that! When time is short, simple is better! Another 2 am photo. Roof was masked off for the two tone. I planned it all out with Duplicolor because it dried very quick. I managed to do this body with primer red, then primer gray and then color coats over that all within a few hours. Part of the deal was working smart. I had two of the kit open and while the chassis was drying, I was mocking up the roll cage on the second kit's chassis. I also was mocking up the second kit's body onto my near finished chassis while the paint on my project's body dried. If a part in my main kit sucked, I just tossed it and grabbed one from the second kit. I had a mishap with the rear axle while painting. The toothpick I had in one axle end to hold it up wouldn't come out and I wound up breaking that axle shaft side. So out came the second kit's axle. I also had some supply issues. My Alclad spray can ran dry as I was touching up the chrome front suspension. I grabbed for my Metalizer Aluminum and it was empty too! I had the engine painted red and I used a red prewired distributer with blue wires... why? Because that was the one I had! Next post down will be 5am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted January 28, 2013 Author Share Posted January 28, 2013 And here's where we were by 5 am. This being a quick project gave me license to make snap decisions. Paint colors? Just because I had them! That's the metallic green I used on my new Camaro. Also that's about the same green my father had on his '54 Studebaker. Endurance... the day from noon onward went quickly. Every time I looked up another hour had passed. I was getting tired around dinner time and broke for tacos and a beer. I went back upstairs after an hour and the evening again went quick. Once I started to see real progress... like finished sub-assemblies. I got new energy. But by 5am there was no further good to be done. Everything I touched upset something that wasn't quite dry yet. As tired as I was I started fumbling parts and dropped the finished body, breaking both A pillars. So I gave in and went to bed at 6:30. I never did muster up the energy to get it finished. It's essentially a car at this point, still needing to assemble some minor stuff like steering gear and other chassis details. I got back up at 10am and was so tired I felt like I had a hang over. So I ate breakfast, checked the boards for the other builder's progress and laid down from 1-4 pm. That got me feeling normal again! So as soon as I can muster up the energy, I'll finish 'er off. I wanted to add some rust to the body corners etc as is my trademark. It was fun pushing the limits and getting about a month's work done in 18 hours! I'll post in this thread when I get back to it this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny1973 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I know still you have to finisher her up by adding your trademark rust on her but she still looks good Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mikrut Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 An amazing twist on this car that, turns out I really like! This car looks more belieivable, built this way than any I've ever seen! Beautiful work Tom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogfish_7 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Great Job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Interesting build, I like it a lot. I think what you accomplished in 24 hours is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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