Revell- TV Tommy Ivo "Showboat" Four-Engine Dragster (Completed 12/29)

[Terminator-Fox]

Thanks Jeff, I hope it all comes together at the end. Lets pray the decals hold up as that is tonights task and possible clear coat on the body panels. The paint came out real nice.

Edited December 18, 2013 by Terminator-Fox

[Old Buckaroo]

Great looking build, nice to see model tires being used the same purposes as the 1/1 scale .

Fantastic work !

[cobraman]

Nice work. That was one crazy dragster.

[Speedfreak]

Awsome build Steve, I started this kit back in the late 90's, still have it in the box.

[Terminator-Fox]

Thanks a lot guys. The engines were mocked up in the above pic. I got the chassis complete tonight and some of the decals done.

Hopefully I'll have the car done this week

Edited December 18, 2013 by Terminator-Fox

[Terminator-Fox]

Anybody got an extra set of decals for this car they can spare?

[Nitrozilla]

PM your address and I'll have them in the mail tomorrow.

I don't need them for the version I'm doing.

Yours is coming out great.

[Terminator-Fox]

Message sent Joe!

[Art Laski]

Nice job, Steve.

And Joe, thanks for exemplifying what's so great about the model building community.

[Terminator-Fox]

Nice job, Steve.

And Joe, thanks for exemplifying what's so great about the model building community.

Agreed I can't thank Joe enough for sending me the decals for the car. The Valvoline side panel decals didn't turn out.

We all like pics right? I got the left bank engines mounted in the chassis. Hopefully it wont be too much of an issue stuffing in the right bank engines. I do really like how the car is turning out thus far.

[John Teresi]

Steve…….looking really really nice!!!!!!

[Dinky]

Cool machine, like it. Looking forward to the end result

[Roadracer]

Wonderful work Steve!

[Terminator-Fox]

Thank you guys! I got the right bank engines mounted in the chassis now too. I'll have to get a pic

[jbwelda]

yes man great work there and its coming along nice.

hope I am not the bearer of bad news but your middle exhaust stacks don't look right. from all photos I have seen they are supposed to form a straight line of 16 pipes right down the middle and yours looks like maybe you got some of the left/rights installed incorrectly giving them a staggered look down the middle. hope that a) that's on purpose because I don't know what I am talking about or they are easily removed and reinstalled.

great work there on a major headache sort of project

jb

Edited December 23, 2013 by jbwelda

[Terminator-Fox]

The instructions do stink but I triple checked everything to make sure I was assembling everything correctly. I'm sure I have all the headers mounted correctly.

Yes it was a pain getting all four engines to sit correctly, too much going on! But it does look killer. I'll get a better pic sometime of a direct side shot, the exhaust pipes flow quite well down the center. I am anxious to get this all done

Edited December 23, 2013 by Terminator-Fox

[jbwelda]

well I cannot copy and paste things here anymore (nice business decision I would say, right up there with ridiculing those who complain about their subscription mags arriving all torn up but I digress) (EDIT: ok foot in mouth time: turns out that "compatibility" thing under the "tools" dropdown solved my cut and paste problems so kudos to Casey for cluing me in on it) but I guarantee you that if you do a google search on "tommy ivo showboat photo" you will see they are not correct. don't even bother with that...look at the pic on the box top.

just sayin

jb

Edited December 25, 2013 by jbwelda

[Terminator-Fox]

I see what you're saying now. hmmmm, notw how to fix it?

Edited December 23, 2013 by Terminator-Fox

[jrherald420]

Looks almost as both banks of engines need to be tilted inward more.

[jbwelda]

yeah it does look like if you can rotate each engine inward (toward the center) about 10 degrees they will line up...but whether it is easy or even possible to do that at this point is questionable. I thought I was the only one found themselves in this position!

still very nice work there

jb

[Crazy Ed]

I see what you're saying now. hmmmm, notw how to fix it?

Just a bit of a side bar. The guy to Tommy Ivo's right became even more famous in Drag Racing than Tommy did. He drove the truck and push started Tommy. His name is Don Prudhomme.

[RIC417]

WOW... ESPECTACULAR MODEL AND BUILD!!!!!!

[blackbeard]

very well done

[DavidChampagne]

Looks great. I hope to build one also.

I am curious, how did the parts fit?

I saw the comments about rotating the engines in a bit so all the exhaust pipes line up and I would agree. If possible now.

Also, if I read his book correctly, There should only be 14 exhaust pipes down the middle. The two last ones went under the cockpit.

I never saw it mentioned on this car, but I know he also liked the pipes at the same angle as his rollgage. I can't tell from the pics if the kit comes this way.

If any of you are interested, his book is a real good read. Lots of pics too!

Edited December 24, 2013 by DavidChampagne

[Terry Sumner]

Looks great. I hope to build one also.

I am curious, how did the parts fit?

I saw the comments about rotating the engines in a bit so all the exhaust pipes line up and I would agree. If possible now.

Also, if I read his book correctly, There should only be 14 exhaust pipes down the middle. The two last ones went under the cockpit.

I never saw it mentioned on this car, but I know he also liked the pipes at the same angle as his rollgage. I can't tell from the pics if the kit comes this way.

If any of you are interested, his book is a real good read. Lots of pics too!

14 pipes down the center is correct...

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