Model Car Building

[The Cuda Guy]

OK, I put the gloss coat on with out the stripe as advised.  All I can say is WOW!!!  That paint job looks INSANE!!!  Im going to let the car sit till Saturday and then Im going to finish the detail painting and the stripe and then finish any other details so with any luck and not unforseen trips to the bar I should finish this car by Sunday night!!!  Im kinda excited after all these years!

Cuda Guy

[Super Blue 72]

Maybe this can go under "Member Restoration Projects"!

Take lots of pics! 

[The Cuda Guy]

LOL!!!  I will try to get out tonight to Wal-Mart and buy up the rest of the wire I need to complete the project.  It should look pretty good I think (Baring any screw ups on the detail LOL!!!) I will to borrow a Digital Cam so I can get good pics of the finished product!

Cuda Guy

[Super Blue 72]

Walmart has some interesting stuff lately for models. 

I was at the one in Natick, MA yesterday and they have these $10 circle track cars that can be scavenged for tires, rims, shorty headers with dumps, and engines.  I found a 1/24 scale Pinto (you have to build it) diecast metal kit for $1 there on clearance and will be combining it (one day  ) with an AMT '35 Chevy Sedan (tires, rims, engine, exhaust) to make a Franken Pinto!!!!! 

They also had a '70 Challenger R/T convertible amoung other stuff.  Thier prices are cheap enough that you can just buy kits for parts.  Unfortunately, the '67 GTX 2-n-1 kit didn't have the Keystone Klassic tims I was told it was supposed to have but had Cragar S/S rims. 

[The Cuda Guy]

I dont think I have ever came across a set of keystones in all my time building?  I have came across countless sets of crager mags and A/R 5 star type rims.  I always tend to stay with the stock type builds as that is more my style.  I would love how ever to get some nascar kits to scavange for headers/carbs and things of that nature to beef them up with out compromising the stock look. 

Cuda Guy

[Super Blue 72]

If you get a NASCAR kit and want to be semi stock you can kit bash it with a Challenger T/A kit and make the Sam Posey T/A car.  I sort of did that when Walmart had the NASCAR kits for like $7 and had a junk '71 Road Runner and I made a pseudo Richard Petty car out of it.  Just used the RR body, nip, tuck....

[The Cuda Guy]

That is a pretty cool idea as that TA kit is pretty common now a days.  I might concider that .

Cuda Guy

[The Cuda Guy]

Not done but serious progress made.  Once I get the engine bay detailed I will put it togeather and start to wire it up.

Cuda Guy

[Super Blue 72]

I just finished my Super Bee.  I put some pictures for your inspiration!   I think it's the same kit that bentpshrods did on the previous page.  I swapped the wheels and tires from another kit because I wanted to make this model look like a real Super Bee of a guy that sold me my Magnum 500s for my Challenger.  He sold his Super Bee to a guy in Florida so I made this to give to him.  His car was a 440 Six Pack, column shift car.

[The Cuda Guy]

The challange has been laid...  I will finish my Superbee as soon as I come out of the field in a week! 

Cuda Guy

PS Looks great!!!

[Rare_T_A]

I just finished my Super Bee.  I put some pictures for your inspiration!   I think it's the same kit that bentpshrods did on the previous page.  I swapped the wheels and tires from another kit because I wanted to make this model look like a real Super Bee of a guy that sold me my Magnum 500s for my Challenger.  He sold his Super Bee to a guy in Florida so I made this to give to him.  His car was a 440 Six Pack, column shift car.


SWEEEEEET!!!

[Super Blue 72]

Thanks for the compliments guys! 

It was actually you, Cuda Guy, that inspired me to get off my butt and do this model!  I had it lying around for a bit.   Stay safe in the field!

[The Cuda Guy]

Ok here is where I stand, I have to run the heater hoses, and run brake and fuel lines and I can begin puting this thing togeather!  Looking foward to finishing this car.  I have been working on this car on and off for a few years!

Cuda Guy

[JH27N0B]

If you get a NASCAR kit and want to be semi stock you can kit bash it with a Challenger T/A kit and make the Sam Posey T/A car.   

Around 10 years ago I got the model car bug again and one project that had been in the back of my mind ever since the Monogram Challenger T/A kit first came out in '84 or '85 was a Posey T/A.  I worked on this project over an 8 or 9 month period and I bet I have over 200 hours invested.  Fortunately I am a packrat, I saved a lot of my spare model car parts back in the 70's when I built alot of models as a kid.  The Minilite wheels came from the spare parts box, I think they where common in many mid 70's MPC kits.  I kept checking out tires until I found some that looked about "right" and used dry transfer Goodyear decals on them.  I had to use model putty and sheet plastic to flare the wheelwheels for the tires and to customize the hoodscoop so it looked correct. I also made the front spoiler out of sheet styrene.  A guy called Fred Cady designs makes a decal sheet with #77 and #76 markings.  The longitudinal stripe on his sheet looked too big so I used the stripe from the AMT Challenger convertible kit. The interior took alot of customization too, with a rollbar made of styrene rods, racing seat from the parts box, and I cut out the back seat and used sheet stryrene to get a more correct looking rear portion of the race car interior. I can't imagine ever putting this much work into a model again! 
 

[Lunchbox]

I mocked up a 1:18 Challenger to look like my own. It is pretty close but it does have 426 hemi and R/T badges on it. I will stay like that unless I can find a place to make them.

Lunch