Sunday Model Car Thread

No new stuff, but I found these pics of a real HAMBster build... well, maybe more of a rat:

I made a few mods and did some quick paint on this Stuart Little R/C car a couple of years back.

 

Just finished this Christmas gift for a friend's 9 year boy...he couldn't make it to the Hunnert Car Pile Up this year. So I promised his Mom I'd send him a little version of it...It includes a this years sticker and some gravel from Gundy County Speed way parking lot (where the show is held). I used rattle can primer and OneShot for paint.

 

Here's another one I just finished...I cut up a HotWheel and added some rubber drag tires, different radiator, modify motor and rattle can black primer.

 

I grabbed this old Aurora kit this morning, and glued the multi-piece body together.

The rolling stock may be a little new-school, but not as much as the BBS mesh alloys and road racing slicks included in the kit. Oh yeah - did I mention that the kit is actually 1/32?

You might have noticed that this Aurora kit is based on the early version of "Lil' Coffin", before it got the cantilevered roof, modified fender aprons/running boards and bobbed fenders.

I'm thinking I may actually try this body fenderless with 1/25 wide whites, the roof insert removed and some heavy flake. There's this pic Weesner did of a undersized chopped tudor with the Q-C poking out through the rear of the body... wonder why he doesn't re-produce that one for sale... he does all the others, right?

 

do you guys use super glue to glue the models? Is there a fast and slow drying? I'm trying to duplicate the 27t I'm building. TP

 

I usually use Tenax7R for styrene-to-styrene bonds, but if I'm adding painted or resin pieces, or I have some gaps to fill, I use ZAP w/ the green label. The pink label is thinner, doesn't fill gaps as well, but sets up a little faster. If you want it to really set up fast, use accelerator with any of the super(cyanoacrylate) glues - it's nearly instant as soon as you either spray it on, or just pass a Q-tip soaked in accelerator near it - the fumes will make the superglue "flash".

 

I guess I'd get this at a hobby shop? Thanks TP

 

Yeah - even Micheal's should have accelerator for super/crazy glues. I think you can get it in the Beauty shop too... they call it "hardener" for nail glue.

 

dave,
you got a pic of the box you could post?i never seen this kit.

 

This is an earlier release of this kit.

More info here:
http://www.showrods.com/showrod_pages/peppermint_fuzz.html

Here's the later version that I have:

 

Where's WHODAKY ?

 

Haven't seen Fidgiter on either.

 

When to a model car swap today and picked up a 59 Buick rag top and a monogram model A cabrolet (?). Also got a Lil Coffin reasonable too. Dang I forgot about the original 58 Impala (SMP).
Also picked up 6 resin shift knobs from Jimmy Flinstone. Jimmy is one Kool Kat.

 

I am new here, & also happen to build plastic models. Nice to see a thread here on them. Brad

 

Was that '32 originally introduced as 32skidoo? Anyone got a red unpainted hood for a Predicta? -Strat.

 

Probably was 32Skidoo - the earliest version I've seen is the Peppermint Fuzz, but I'll bet there were one or two before that.

 

Man, that Lil' Coffin is awesome. I love the later (not the lat-EST) version, but the full roof version really gets the blood flowing. You are the show-rod king my friend.

I'm in the middle of a move so all my stuff is boxed up. The new place has a nice garage and I have a feeling I'll be spending a LOT more time there. My progress on anything will be even slower than it already is...but you'll for sure see some of my work in April, though it wont be on the internet...

 

hmm...