Big Rat A sedan

001  ...another thumbs up !!

Up on wheels ! ;D

Looking good Clay. What color is that on the wheels?

Hmmmm. Left rear looks kinda blue in this foto, left front more true color. It's a mix I cooked up with 1 Shot sing enamel.

My camera plays tricks like that sometimes also.

Looks good Clay   

It's looking great Clay. Wheels look different colours to me too. Probably just a lighting thing.

Like what you are doing to that 1/16 scale BIG RAT 'A' sedan. Here are some photos I took last summer of a car that looks a lot like what you are creating, hhmmmm, welllllllllll almost. My fave details are the doorknob and slanted grill.





Cheers Eh!

OH, YEAH !!! That is sweet !!!!

The doors on the A bone
Have been hung with some slop.
The fit is atrocious
From bottom to top.

Minicrafts instructions
Are all but ignored.
'Cause bassackwards their going
On this large rat rod Ford.

That this is a junker
Is my saving grace.
I can go all out sloppy
Without losing face.
::)



Happy New Year. All

Kewl !!

And now we have a POET who thumbs his nose at instructions..........yesssssss LOL.

Cheers Eh!

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 Lookin great Clay!

Rat's looking good
Just as it should
Hell bent for leather,
It's coming together.

Nice one Clay.

I love the rad expansion chamber on the real deal above. It reminds me of the same on my kit car:

I'm posting this, because y'all already know what a colossal screw up I can be.
Now I know better than to use open flame, and I have had some luck with boiling water before. But in trying to get a little warp out of these doors, I got the right one a little too hot in boiling water and totally FUBAR'ed it.
Here, I have started to cut it apart. Hopefully, I can get it rebuilt good enough to redeem myself.
There is a reason I like to build junk !

That sucks. Good luck Clay. I know you can pull it off.

I echo Buck's post, but it's not the end, I'm sure.
In a way it's lucky it's a rat rod and 'welded' in repairs will still look okay.

dadooronron wrote:I echo Buck's post, but it's not the end, I'm sure.
In a way it's lucky it's a rat rod and 'welded' in repairs will still look okay.

Yep. Also lucky I had made an inner door panel for the left side and intend to use one of the model 's upholstered for the right side, so the repairs will be hidden on that side.

Sorry to hear Clay. Just remember the last two lines of your poem!

Yeah, Skid. But not THIS sloppy !
  

Hi Mr G,

I guess this is how us humans learn from our mistakes, I'm sure you'll soon have it sorted Sir...

Andy...

I'm workin' on it.   

Have a new front half of the window area scratched, ready to go on.

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Repair's looking sunny
Right on the money
Isn't it fun
Soon you'll be done

Nice one Clay.

So now its Skid's Dead Poet Society....