Top Fuel Dragster, Revell 1/25 scale

Does look a nicely moulded kit, I like the look of the engine.

Your starting with a super engine, already with dual plug "holes" and dual magnetos. Wire each magneto to plugs as if it were the only one. Organizing wires, hmmmm, check fotos on the web to see what they do.

harron68 wrote:Your starting with a super engine, already with dual plug "holes" and dual magnetos.  Wire each magneto to plugs as if it were the only one.  Organizing wires, hmmmm, check fotos on the web to see what they do.  

lol, i dont care that much,....as long as each hole has the right colour wire i will be happy and sod the firing order lol

The build is really looking good ........... beautiful work so far   

so all i got done today is the motor. used 0.3mm jewellery wire in red and black for the plug wires





i know the maggys are not strictly correct but its good enough for me at the moment

just need to touch up the red in a couple of places

Tidy job.

Eng. looks good    Ya gonna do the fuel and oil lines also ??

That thing looks like it would crank and run. Good job.

john2308 wrote:Eng. looks good      Ya gonna do the fuel and oil lines also  ??

if i knew what went from where and to i might lol

Looking good!

quick update

motor is in the frame




cant do much more building wise as i have made a start on the decal job.....not proving to be easy as the decals seem to be quite old, the carrier is cloudy, dosnt show up on the white body shell but dosnt look too good on coloured parts. the long ones going on the shell are requiring loads of microsol to get the to lay flat

and finished..............
all came together at once.......made a little stand for the body shell since it seemed a shame to display it on the vehicle and hide everything underneath
went with a black spoiler. it seems there was black, white and green ones that were interchangable depending on track conditions
more pics in the finished thread

Very strange looking, but evolution takes the path that works! Looks great and is a vital element in motorsport history, rear engine ultra long dragsters are part of it all.