Did the usual search and came up poor, so I will start this week with a couple of pics that I just stole from another model car forum, reckon the owner wont mind. Great to see a Willys that is hot a Gasser, and this one is a really great build Cheers Rod Wouldn't mind seeing 1,1 Willys not as Gassers
I'd like to show a few more of my 1/87 scale builds starting with a 1935 Pontiac Silver Streak Coupe. The model was painted with gold and then oversprayed with transparent red. The next is a Ford Model AA wrecker with a scratch built bed and tow unit. And lastly is another big Mack in the RD800 heavy haul tractor.
I'm building a tow truck from the AMT Double-T kit. Just finished up the chassis this week. The metal front axle was replaced with scratch built brass steering knuckles, tie rod, drag link and steering column to add full working steering. Also scratch built the battery, exhaust, hand brake, pedals, engine details and numerous other detail parts.
Just about to wrap this one up. That recent thread about 70's street machines got me going on this one. Modelhaus body on the venerable AMT 57 hardtop chassis. Please excuse the crappy cellphone pics.
A great start to this Sunday! Alyn, that T chassis is a little jewel. It'll be great to see what you come up with for the rest of it. And those HO builds would look stunning in any scale, let alone 1/87th! Here's the latest off my bench, just completed last week. It's my "revisit" of Revell's newly released '32 Ford highboy roadster kit, Stacey David's candy lime green "Rat Roaster" which, to my eye, needs a litlle calming down... So I got rid of the grotesque portholes in the hood and the chrome side trim, substituted a deep metallic blue paint color, and drilled out the fake stamped holes in the interior and substituted drilled out Speedway Motors bomber style seats from ThePartsBox,com. I 86'd the the blower and carbs and continued the sprint car theme with Hilborn injectors and K&N conical filters courtesy of TJs Custom Castings . Here's the result... Thanx for lookin', B.
And here's what's in the works right now. Sort of the opposite of the Rat Roaster Revisited, a traditional show-style radically lowered Deuce roadster, early 60's style. Built from the older Revell highboy with a 4" Z in the back, radically lowered front end including a wedge cut to the frame rails in front of the firewall and metallic maroon paint. The motor is from the Monogram Li'l Coffin. Again, thanx for lookin', B.
Folks , this is confusing. There seems to be an earlier Model Car Sunday topic posted as "Projects " . I posted the Zeppelin diner I'm still on there .............. scrubba
This is an 1/8th Scale 1948 Ford Flathead Engine cast by the late George Zurowski. Not sure when I'll get to it, but it's nice to know it is there.
Boy, all kool stuff this week, this T chassis is a work of art by itself; it looks like the real thing; can't wait to see the finished truck!
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