Mr. Metallic Posted March 10 Posted March 10 The Little Drag Here's another design proposal for what Monogram could have done but didn't. It's designed after the Big Drag, but 1/24 scale. This project started last year when 3D Scale Parts announced they were going to produce a set of 1/8 parts to turn the Big T kit into the Big Drag. I messaged the owner and asked him to please produce the set in 1/24 too and he obliged. I immediately ordered one and when I told my fellow vintage Monogram enthusiast Chuck Darnell about it he ordered one too. We decided to build them simultaneously as a fun challenge. The build started in earnest in February. I soon realized a couple things. The biggest issue was the supplied headers were much to wide to fit the Monogram block. Rather then modify the brittle printed parts I decided to fabricate my own by stealing the headers from a couple Revell 29 Ford pickup and cutting them apart and pinning them to a flange made from Evergreen. I also shortened the height of the roll bar by about 3 scale inches (I realize the one in the Big Drag is quite tall, so the printed part matches it well) I also don't care for the chrome reverse up front so I decided to swap in a set of 12 spokes from a Slingster. The blower came from my parts box, and the scoop is from the modern Revell 30 A kits. I scratchbuilt the interior floor, and cut apart a Little T seat to get the single bucket seat. The decal on the trunk was provided by Bob Spedding @TooOld Rear turtle deck is resin, I don't recall the supplier. Paint is Tamiya Blue Pearl, with lots of Revell Chrom used to make things chrome, especially the 3D parts. Magneto is from Morgan Automotive Detail. The darker blue build is by Chuck Darnell. thanks for looking, and on to the next phantom Monogram build. 9 1
happy grumpy Posted March 11 Posted March 11 Very clean build. Nice work putting this all together. Beautiful results. 1
deuces wild Posted March 11 Posted March 11 Very cool.... I do have it's big brother in kit form....😉 1
Mr. Metallic Posted March 11 Author Posted March 11 9 hours ago, deuces wild said: Very cool.... I do have it's big brother in kit form....😉 I do as well. Got it from Chris Chabre who is a member here. It will take a bit of work because most of the chrome is shot. But I will be building it to match my Little Drag, including the 12 spokes 1
mustang1989 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 A really cool shade of blue on this one Craig. LOTSA chrome and detail work brought 'er home verrrry nicley. 1
alan barton Posted March 12 Posted March 12 I really have to do this! I knew that already but seeing these two finished projects convinces me big time! Cheers Alan 1
Mr. Metallic Posted March 12 Author Posted March 12 3 hours ago, alan barton said: I really have to do this! I knew that already but seeing these two finished projects convinces me big time! Cheers Alan Honestly not sure in the end that the 3D parts were worth the money. I'm sure someone with your talents could pull this off. The hardest part would be fashioning the rear push bar out of brass or plastic, and even that shouldn't bee terrible. The rollbar should be pretty straightforward to fab, and as you can see I didn't even use the supplied headers, I made mine. Everything else should be pretty much available from kit sources (which you're the hot rod kit king of Australia so I bet you have all the parts already 😉 )
ea0863 Posted March 12 Posted March 12 Total beauty Craig! Thank you in particular for sharing what parts came from where as it allows me to put my shopping list together 1
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