Bobby Unser's 1974 Olsonite Eagle

[ratnasty]

Hi guys this is Chuck I have gotten bored with the drag cars so I thought I would rebuild my third model I ever built as a kid. My model was the Bobby Unser Olsonite Eagle indy car. I remember it didn't go together very well and turn out to be a glue bomb , so I'll try again 40 years later

I remember that that car built up and was too tall through the belly section and the front nose was raked to much so I have done some mod to it

[ratnasty]

Here are some pics of the body mods

[ratnasty]

While letting body filler and primer dry I have started on the motor and here are progress pics

thanks Chuck

[ratnasty]

I got around to putting some paint on the body and the kit decals didn't look very good . I found a decal maker that make Indy car decals and very well priced and very very good Alps quality decals and its called Indycal. Here are some pics painted and decaled with one 1 thin coat of clear to set the decals . later I shot a couple more coats of clear and sand it out with a final coat of clear

thanks Chuck

[Sixgunner68]

Wow! Great job on this one. Love the engine.

[bobthehobbyguy]

X2 on the engine. Great start.

[peekay]

Really nice work so far. Looks like you're going to really Nayl it. (Get it?)

[ratnasty]

thanks guys , I decided to build my own rear suspinsion from aluminum tubing , heim joints and coil overs from RB Motion . Here are some pics

thanks again Chuck

[ratnasty]

I couldn't help myself , with all of the parts I built I needed to do a mock up to see if it all fitted and if the car had a good stance to it . I have had fun with this build except for the mounting of the rear wing with the instructions are about clear as mud and you have 6 pieces that have to all be glued together almost all at once correctly or the wing won't sit right or even mount on the car . Well here are the mock up pics

thanks again Chuck

[Mike Kucaba]

Looks good Chuck!! You've got a few more to do!

[Monty]

Nice to know I'm not the only one who likes Indy cars from this era. Looks like yours is coming together nicely. I wondered if the AMT decals would still be usable after all this time, but I'm glad to hear you found a decal source that you're happy with.

Have you found it difficult to find reference pictures for the engine? When I first started one of these kits over a decade ago, there didn't seem to be much info about it on the internet, so it went back in its box.

Thanks for the link to your decal supplier.

[Bernard Kron]

What a great demonstration piece for modern modeling techniques and what they can do in skilled hands! The motor is breathtaking and the silhouette of the car, thanks to your re-fabrication of the tub, is gorgeous. These were beautiful cars and your model is sure to capture their graceful lines and efficiency. I'm glad you succumbed to the temptation of doing a mockup. Looking forward to more...

Edited September 11, 2014 by Bernard Kron

[om617]

Looks great. The engine and rear suspension would be a nice display even alone.

[ratnasty]

Hello guys thanks a bunch , I didn't like the dash board with the raised gauges so I sanded then off and made a decal for the dash board .

[ratnasty]

well guys I finally got the engine assembly married with the body , now I'll start on the front suspension. I'm waiting on some coil overs from RB Motion I thought I had enough of them .

Chuck

[RancheroSteve]

Wow - excellent! Nice to see this one being done so well.

[slusher]

Great work so far.

[Art Anderson]

So far, so good! Interesting build of a not-all-that-accurately-nor-well-done-kit (I've built perhaps a dozen of this kit, in various markings from the several years in which the Model 6 Eagle was still competitive).

It's not an easy build to make look good, but you are coming along very well!

Art

[drodg]

Looks very good and I agree about the quality of Indycals decals.

[Curt]

I can only echo what the others have said about this kit being a bear to build out of the box and then not turning out to be a very accurate model. You are turning it into something very special.