Post by Grandpabeast on May 11, 2019 11:21:01 GMT -7
When I was a kid I was drawn to the Revell Street Demons line-up and ended up buying them all. I only built three of them back then and this was one of them. It's funny how when the hobby follows us into adulthood we see how much we either overlooked or just how bad the kits were back then. But hey, we were having fun back then right? lol . I took this project on in January of this year and although this kit does suck, I've had a great amount of fun with it and learning opportunities left and right over the course of the last 8-1/2 months. Although I was drawn to this car as a kid (and still am), as an adult I didn't care for the gasser stance for a "street" car and wanted something a little more jazzed up and to have some fun with it. Sooooooo, I created a dropped down party mobile. I mean .............with all that room in the back the possibilities were endless. I started out with my eyes being a lot bigger than 1.) my ability and 2.) what there was room for back there. Over the course of the build while my vision/ goal was always the same, I had to modify the ideas somewhat and my abilities got a tune up but I'm very happy with the end result.
I won't go over every detail of the build but I will say that there were 7 different kits and a lot of aftermarket involved in its making. What really blew me away was the fact that there weren't any headlight bezels/ buckets (and there still aren't to this day with the latest release of this kit!!! ) and the hood hinge cut outs at the back of the engine compartment just make you want to slap the original kit engineers.
The kit:
Money Shots:
and here's a look at what's inside:
.. I mainly build race cars, but every now and then I lose my mind and try to build a street vehicle ..... although not very well
..... the only wagon in my collection ..... A box stock build attempt of an AMT 1941 Ford woody
work bench 09-15-2015 008 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 009 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 012 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 013 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 014 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 015 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 016 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 017 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 011 by David Keim, on Flickr
work bench 09-15-2015 018 by David Keim, on Flickr