Winter time model building thread.

ocdart said
For the past couple of days I've been looking at the '70 Super Bee pro street chassis that homecloned spliced onto an A-body chassis and thinking I should do that with an upcoming '69 Dart build. So today I decided to take a drive to one of the few remaining hobby shops in the area.
They have a good assortment of older sealed models but they can be mighty proud of them. I found the '70 Super Bee pro street kit with a price of $45 on it and thought "no freakin' way" I'm paying that amount!
So I thought as long as I was there I'd poke around and see what else they had. I found a lot of older kits that took me back a lot of years but all with what I considered to be hefty price tags. More searching found a few more '70 Super Bee pro street kits with different price tags - all the same kit. Finally found one that was marked $25 so snagged it.
Hard to believe what some of the older kits are going for now.
They had some neat old Mopar and AMC kits but not for the prices they were asking.
I'd love to find an old MPC Charlie Allen Saddleback '69 Dart funny car kit. I saw one at a vendor at a car show about 5 years ago. He wanted over $100 for it. He can continue to keep it at that price as far as I'm concerned.

Man thats steep ocdart. I haven't been to the hobby shop in over a year. I was lucky with mine. Back in the mid 90's I was buying the green pro mod kits for $5 at Big Lots(discount closeout store), gave a bunch to kids as gifts but still have some. The DOHC set up is cool. I think someone here has grafted two of them together in a raodster.

fstfish66 said
thats where i was thinking the cut is,,but the splice is so good i cant tell how you did it,, like i said havent built a kit in years,,and never did any of this type of mods,,

even tho the bee kit has torsion bar front,,ill still use it,, im not going that crazy,,to make it perfectly realistic i would need a mustang front kit,,my cuda is coil over and rack and pinion.

the body im using is an orignal 1966 kit body,,the 65/66 b arracuda kits have never been re released as far as i know,, and from looking at the kits im using parts from,the morden kits are made a lot bettter,,,

this older body used a screwed in chassis and steel axel, so ill redrill the bee chassis and screw the back of it in to the 66 cuda body,that will add support due to chopping and splicing it to make it shorter,, ill get a few pics soon wish me luck,,

I used a small hacksaw type saw to make my cuts so I loose probably 1/64? material. Its pretty thin.
The newer Revell kit is are alot better detailed then the 80's AMT which were ahead of thier time back then.
I have some stangs if you need a front clip. let me check if you want.
Here is another pro mod stang I built back in the 90's. It has a modified Matt & Debbie Hayes T-Bird chassis modified under it. Its need some work and cleaning. Most of my models are painted with DuPont Emron.8)