Monogram's "Slingster"

[2002p51]

First thing I did when this new kit arrived the other day was start going through my collection of Hot Rod magazines from the late fifties/early sixties to find some inspiration. I stopped in my tracks when I found this:

Perfect!

I didn't want to try to make an exact replica of this car but I just let it provide me with the inspiration to build this:

Since I had two of these kits it was an easy matter to simply rob the engine from the other kit and turn out this twin engine A/D.

It really couldn't have been easier. A piece of Evergreen rod made a connection between the two engines and some smaller pieces of rod created a second set of motor mounts for the front engine.

About the only thing I was really disappointed in was the headers. They're pretty rough and the attachment points to the sprue are pretty big and in plain site. That's why I didn't even bother trying to drill them out or remove the really bad mold seams.

I made a seat belt from paper that's painted with Testor's flat Rust to simulate leather. I was just looking to create an effect more than any sort of precise detail. In fact, due to the simplicity of this kit it would take quite a bit of work and scratch building a lot of stuff to make it into something that was contest worthy. But that's not a criticism, the simplicity is part of this kit's charm.

The overall color is Testors Ford Engine Red and then just a bunch of detail painting with various shades of Metalizer.

If you want to see the whole article from Hot Rod with all of the photos, here;s the link:

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=84021

As usual, comments, critique, and criticism, are welcome

[cobraman]

Very cool. Can't wait to start mine.

[Daddyfink]

_{Nice Rail, Drew! But you should at least but a Drag News decal on it!}

[2002p51]

_{Nice Rail, Drew! But you should at least but a Drag News decal on it!}

Yea, Jesse, I know. It does need a few decals.

[Apriliadan]

Beautiful

[PappyD340]

Very NICE Drew!!

[Roncla]

Thats an unique interpretation of the Slingster. Well done

[Ira]

_{Looks Great!}

_{That kit brings back some memories...}

[Chris White]

nice work Drew

[realgone58]

That's "two" cool! We chose this kit as our club build this year, so I am looking forward to building one too.

[slusher]

Very cool, and great looking build Drew,,,

[Danno]

Nice!

[RatRod]

This kit is just awesome, and what you did to it is just COOL!!! Very nice Drew.

[bondo bill]

double cool