Welcome to day 2 of 'Crazy Lime Green Builds Week' here on AutoModelling Blog. And boy have we got a cracker for you today, courtesy of Harley Richards. Another Coffin Corner regular, Harley could easily qualify as the nicest guy you're likely to meet (he sold me a TONNE of kits at IPMS Telford this year and did me a great deal on 'em too), he's insanely knowledgeable (even what I gathered from just a few minutes talking to him at said show I decided he knows more about everything model related than I can hope to learn in a lifetime) and to top it off he built THIS! Whatta guy!
Based on a Tom Daniel sketch that never got outside of the pages of a hot-rod mag, Harley decided that a gull-wing T was just the kinda project he'd like to sink his teeth into. After my favourite part of a build, parts collecting, Harley had decided on, in his words "MRC wheels and tyres, rear end from a Revell Buttera T, the engine block is an AMT Lincoln, blowers are from the Creepy T, pipes are Bathtub Buggy, front axle and radius rods are from the Milk Truck, the main body is an original AMT Tall T with a later-issue pickup bed grafted on (no, I have no idea why I did that!), while the grille shell is AMT with pretty much everything else came from the parts box or was scratchbuilt. The radiator grille is from an old electric shaver!". Clearly a man not afraid to mix and match, even with some pretty rare components - have you seen a Bathtub Buggy for sale lately?
Now, when I see or hear about a lime green candy model I immediately think of Tamiya's rattle can colour. But, in common with yesterday's build, Harley decided against 'going off-the shelf', deciding on "A lovingly custom mixed artists’ acrylic that took about ten coats to get a smooth covering, but which bears more than a passing resemblance to Tamiya’s rattle can lime pearl". Similar, but just different enough to be cool, no?
Wish such a mammoth job of kit-bashing and paint-mixing and gull-winging, it'd be easy to skimp out on details. Every good hot rod has them - those little things that make you go 'wow, that's cool'. Stuff you might not notice at first, but that catch the eye on repeated views. See those headers that run through the footplates on either side? Just such a feature. The matching pattern on said plates, the rear bed cover and interior. The photoetched (I think?) discs brakes, suitably plumbed. The single coil spring up front. The single brake light at the back. I could go on for hours.
Better though to just direct you to the pics. Check 'em out and prepare to be blown away.
JB
Based on a Tom Daniel sketch that never got outside of the pages of a hot-rod mag, Harley decided that a gull-wing T was just the kinda project he'd like to sink his teeth into. After my favourite part of a build, parts collecting, Harley had decided on, in his words "MRC wheels and tyres, rear end from a Revell Buttera T, the engine block is an AMT Lincoln, blowers are from the Creepy T, pipes are Bathtub Buggy, front axle and radius rods are from the Milk Truck, the main body is an original AMT Tall T with a later-issue pickup bed grafted on (no, I have no idea why I did that!), while the grille shell is AMT with pretty much everything else came from the parts box or was scratchbuilt. The radiator grille is from an old electric shaver!". Clearly a man not afraid to mix and match, even with some pretty rare components - have you seen a Bathtub Buggy for sale lately?
Now, when I see or hear about a lime green candy model I immediately think of Tamiya's rattle can colour. But, in common with yesterday's build, Harley decided against 'going off-the shelf', deciding on "A lovingly custom mixed artists’ acrylic that took about ten coats to get a smooth covering, but which bears more than a passing resemblance to Tamiya’s rattle can lime pearl". Similar, but just different enough to be cool, no?
Wish such a mammoth job of kit-bashing and paint-mixing and gull-winging, it'd be easy to skimp out on details. Every good hot rod has them - those little things that make you go 'wow, that's cool'. Stuff you might not notice at first, but that catch the eye on repeated views. See those headers that run through the footplates on either side? Just such a feature. The matching pattern on said plates, the rear bed cover and interior. The photoetched (I think?) discs brakes, suitably plumbed. The single coil spring up front. The single brake light at the back. I could go on for hours.
Better though to just direct you to the pics. Check 'em out and prepare to be blown away.
JB
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