Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Land => Topic started by: Rod The Fixer on April 10, 2024, 01:03:04 AM
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Hi everyone,
I started to assmeble this Revell kit
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to make the ‘76 Ford Torino - “Starsky and Hutch Tv serie”
A quick look inside the box:
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The cars used for the TV series were equipped with the 152-HP 5.8-liter Windsor V-8 engine for non-chase and non-stunt scenes, while the stunt cars were equipped with the 6.5- and 7.5-liter V-8s.
Here are the various stages of engine assembly:
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Engine assembled and ready for the weathering ...
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The Ford blue looks great.
I always love how those rubber belts are able to support and drive the power steering pump and the alternator. They just don’t build them like that anymore! (Thank heavens!)
I bet there is PE support brackets or something like that. I’m not a car guy so don’t pay any attention to me!
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Now there is a blast-from-the-past :D
... The cars used for the TV series were equipped with the 152-HP 5.8-liter Windsor V-8 engine for non-chase and non-stunt scenes, while the stunt cars were equipped with the 6.5- and 7.5-liter V-8s...
For us North American oldies, that's a 351 Windsor or 396FE and 460 Police Interceptor (aka 'Godzilla') ;)
Anyone else suddenly hearing Blue Öyster Cult ? ;D
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Now there is a blast-from-the-past :D
... The cars used for the TV series were equipped with the 152-HP 5.8-liter Windsor V-8 engine for non-chase and non-stunt scenes, while the stunt cars were equipped with the 6.5- and 7.5-liter V-8s...
For us North American oldies, that's a 351 Windsor or 396FE and 460 Police Interceptor (aka 'Godzilla') ;)
Anyone else suddenly hearing Blue Öyster Cult ? ;D
Yes. ;D :icon_music: 8)
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I had a 4 door 351 Windsor back in the day that embodied the B52s' line "seats about 20".
Poop brown, stripped off the chrome and spent more on bondo than I did for the car itself.
Good times, good times.
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... spent more on bondo than I did for the car itself...
That rings bells! ;D
Back on the modelling side ... ominously, I can see no obvious Federal Standard colour match for Bondo Red. Beware of FS nutbar/rivet-counter reactions to any 1/24 portraits of your old rides :o
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The Bondo spot putty I use contains red oxide so that’s the color. I’d stick with that.
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Beware of FS nutbar/rivet-counter reactions to any 1/24 portraits of your old rides :o
I don't recollect having any remaining photos, probably because "admissible evidence".
This looks to be a good brown-color starting point, then add a decade of New England salt-weathering before it wound up with me.
Rust rot was in the quarter panels, IIRC
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Now that we're triggering latent memories, I think the Bondo was more of a flat pink. Maybe that's due to how I mixed it?
Anyone else suddenly hearing Blue Öyster Cult ? ;D
All I remember hearing was what I could pull in on the AM radio, which was interesting on the maiden (solo) voyage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H56qRqHfSRQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H56qRqHfSRQ)
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Totally believable build, Story! I particularly like all the scale trees in the background ;)
... I think the Bondo was more of a flat pink. Maybe that's due to how I mixed it? ...
From memory, the deeper the colour, the more 'sandable' the Bondo. For me flat pink needed a grater :o
Rod: Eagerly awaiting fresh developments ... and sorry for the on-going nostalgia hijack :-[
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Engine completed ...
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Interior almost completed ...
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Nice! And the interior is complete with 1970s genuine imitation 'wood-grain' trim :smiley:
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A layer of white primer...
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... first coat of red ... and fitting test ..
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The car after a coat of darker red ...
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... added the white stripe ...
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Getting there! :smiley: