Rat / Rod Model Kit Bash Challenge 2023
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I had to pause that several times…
I finally finished this itty bitty 1/43 scale vintage Heller kit. 1/43 is hard enough with old eyes, but brittle plastic makes the tiny parts near impossible, and the water slides turn to dust. Anyway:
Now I’m back on this Mercer Runabout that I’m converting (three years now!) to a barn find raceabout, sort of:
Now I’m back on this Mercer Runabout that I’m converting (three years now!) to a barn find raceabout, sort of:
…oh, and the recently released Matchbox ‘62 Savoy needed a trailer, so I modded an orange state highway construction truck. Converted LED sign to a tire rack and extended flat bed.
MattiThundrrr
Rattus All Terrainus
Man, this is a bike forum model thread. How are you not highlighting that Campagnolo support truck and Yellow Jersey model in the background?
Haha, sorry. Ya, I have a small collection of TdF diecasts. The MAVIC van was a DHL van.
The smallest plastic model I’ve ever built. 1:87 scale bicycle
The smallest plastic model I’ve ever built. 1:87 scale bicycle
What? Not mine, saw this and knew you all would appreciate it.
MattiThundrrr
Rattus All Terrainus
Oh snap, that is quite the haul! I recognize a few of those, especially the fire engine rod on the right...
Pretty sure in a bin somewhere, I have a battered old hotwheel version
Pretty sure in a bin somewhere, I have a battered old hotwheel version
After three years I finally finished my Dad’s 1911 Mercer Raceabout 1/16 scale kit. I went with a patina look. Tried to make it look like a barn find. This was my biggest accomplishment of the last week off from work.
Excellent work. Looks like you could get in it and drive away.
Great job, and barn find reminds me of a 1956 mk1 jag I bought from a family preferred Toyota Dealer. My mum was making noises about my 1974 Toyota Crown that had been customised with mag wheels and custom paint job and dark tinted windows being ‘a bit old’. Unknown to her my younger brother had it up up over 90 mile a hour the weekend before. But when you are back living with folks after working far away…. So I saw this jag at back of used car yard with no price. Asked the owners son what they wanted for it - $1500. Which for a car with 6 different paint colours loud checked fluffy chessboard seat covers on obviously non jag front seats, but the legendary twin cam engine purred like a kitten and it drove well. Funnily enough the jag was not ‘too old’ when I bought it home. Chased up a former jag club president local who I knew a little from his son I went to school with 8 years before. Over the next 2 years chased up original interior redone in vinyl out of a wreck we split parts off. Started sanding back to paint and discovered every panel had hail dints every 4 inches. Chased up original clips for chrome and painted it ford Windsor Blue with 20% more fine metallic in it. With the curves emphasised it looks sweet. Had the most fun on the highway before it’s transformation. With the moss gearbox it had a sound all it’s own and the smallest version 2.4 litre engine when it got on cam etc at about 3k just took off like a jet. Lots of newer cars could not believe the sight of the jag passing then at highway speeds after they had pulled past it earlier and disappearing into the distance. Definitely a car made for highway travel. Loved bends and mountains too if you kept in low enough gears to keep revs up.
It was the perfect sleeper early on once finished it looked much more its capabilities. Only car I made money on after owning a number of years.
Like the rat rod bikes age or looks does not define capability
Yes pretty much except my spats were straight across at the back. The chrome was a series of fine strips along edge of bonnet back to the tail along the body line. The later mk2 had thinner chrome surrounds on door tops which made it look much finer and two coloured brake/indicator lenses.
Not mine but a similar colour etc.
Detail on the engine looks great. In the second pic the screens in the velocity stacks look real.
