Post by Dave from Pleasanton on May 28, 2022 19:45:58 GMT -5
I've been commenting for a while and thought I should post something of mine. I packed up my shop back in the fall of 2021 as part of our move. Once we moved the plan was to remodel our new house and create a hobby space for me. The remodel is not going as well as planned and so I won't have a space until late fall or early winter of 2022. I can fiddle a bit as long as it only involves a sprue cutter, Xacto knife, glue and sanding sticks.
I have trouble completing my builds, but have found if I build around a theme I get more kits finished. This is the third of my AMT Double Dragster posts. I loved the kit as a kid and have enjoyed it just as much now. There are some issues with it. The tubing is too large to my eye, the Vertex magneto has the wires out of the side instead of the front (or back as the case may be) and the tires in some of the variants aren't really correct for the period, but all in all it captures that late 50s, early 60s period really well. Here's Double Dragster - White rail.
Two chassis stretched by one section. A bit too long for early 60s, but ok by the mid 60s. By the mid 60s the roll cage would have been different, but maybe someone at a small track took an old chassis and lengthened it.
Front wheels and tires have been swapped out. Rears are Herb Deeks 5 spoke mags with the kit tires. I should have gone to the pie crust slicks, but this style of tire did exist at the time. The drag link has been spliced between the engines. Plug wire is wire wrap wire and the fuel lines are bead wire.
I included this picture only to show the pearl paint. For some reason when I correct the hue to white the pearl disappears. The color is Mod Podge Pearlized Glaze over flat white. Like my other rail builds I glued the body halves together and then cut out the bottom and installed it as a pan. Much more prototypical of the times.
I turned the fuel tank so it was inline and created the mounting out of Evergreen.
My favorite of the three I built. Thanks for looking.
I have trouble completing my builds, but have found if I build around a theme I get more kits finished. This is the third of my AMT Double Dragster posts. I loved the kit as a kid and have enjoyed it just as much now. There are some issues with it. The tubing is too large to my eye, the Vertex magneto has the wires out of the side instead of the front (or back as the case may be) and the tires in some of the variants aren't really correct for the period, but all in all it captures that late 50s, early 60s period really well. Here's Double Dragster - White rail.
Two chassis stretched by one section. A bit too long for early 60s, but ok by the mid 60s. By the mid 60s the roll cage would have been different, but maybe someone at a small track took an old chassis and lengthened it.
Front wheels and tires have been swapped out. Rears are Herb Deeks 5 spoke mags with the kit tires. I should have gone to the pie crust slicks, but this style of tire did exist at the time. The drag link has been spliced between the engines. Plug wire is wire wrap wire and the fuel lines are bead wire.
I included this picture only to show the pearl paint. For some reason when I correct the hue to white the pearl disappears. The color is Mod Podge Pearlized Glaze over flat white. Like my other rail builds I glued the body halves together and then cut out the bottom and installed it as a pan. Much more prototypical of the times.
I turned the fuel tank so it was inline and created the mounting out of Evergreen.
My favorite of the three I built. Thanks for looking.