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Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:35 pm
by HomeRacingWorld
Been working on this for awhile and had some time today to make progress.

Started with this kit from Moebius, very nice kit.

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Chassis is basic as usual. Square brass with piano wire supports on the sides. JK motor bracket.

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Chassis finished and painted. Used Duplicolor gunmetal.

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To set the body height, I sandwiched three popsicle craft sticks together and glued them with super glue.

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I sanded them as flush as I could and they created the ideal support for the body.

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For the body mounts, I took a paint stick and cut it as shown. Then I could place them inside the body on top of the chassis mounts.

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Had a chance to use the super glue station! The angled picks were perfect for dripping a little glue where it was needed to tack them in place.

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Easy to drill and used long Carrera body screws.

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All clear. Had some fun with test laps, which I need to stop doing and get back at it.

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:42 pm
by dge467
Looking good Harry!!

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:23 pm
by vins123
wow, looking really nice
Sylvain

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 3:42 am
by bigman
Harry
WOW, Great workmanship as always, got to love those guys in the shop there hard at it :music-rockout: :music-rockout: :music-rockout:
I hope you pay them enough, good help is hard to find and those old cars had heavy duty metal :violin:
Body work call's for the biggest hammer in the tool box. :laughing-rolling:
You can tell the true, you ate the Popsicle's didn't you, :angry-tappingfoot: when it's in the 9O's the grand kids
eat the heck out of them all the time. :laughing-rolling:
What is the livery going to be if you don't mind me asking. :auto-driving: :auto-checkeredflag:

bigman :flags-waveusa:

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 4:24 am
by Audi1
That looks really good!

Allan

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:09 am
by HomeRacingWorld
Thanks guys.

I have a paint theme in mind, it will be pure fantasy but hopefully look the part. Busy week coming up so hopefully will find time to finish.

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:16 am
by Mebrown
Love the popsicle sticks for body mounts.


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Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 3:04 pm
by btaylor
That's a great Kit to start with Harry, The one I got from the general made one of the best handling cars I have. Your chassis looks a good bit better than mine though!
Nice work as always, and I look forward to the paint scheme on this one! tons of chrome too.

Bob

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 5:33 pm
by GASSERMAN
Looking real good Harry. The chassis really turned out nice. Liken them wheels too. Bob...................

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 4:42 pm
by dreinecke
Got my popcorn! Get to work!

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:11 pm
by HomeRacingWorld
Sneak peek

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Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:34 pm
by tjettom
Nice Hudson build there Harry....Cool paint! But tell me...is there any correlation with the pork steaks I saw on the grill and now I see Curly's missing from the shop pics?... Huh...
Tom

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:44 am
by btaylor
Perfect paint job Harry! You really captured the light surface rust look.
There's a little bit of "Rat rod" in all of us.

Bob

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 7:50 am
by HomeRacingWorld
Thanks Bob, not sure how the rest will look yet. :laughing-rolling:

Re: Project Hudson Hornet

PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 7:13 pm
by HomeRacingWorld
All finished.

Here is the car that inspired the look.

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Duplicolor Hampsted Green Metallic over red primer. Wet sanded with 2000 grit to expose primer for effect. Gofer racing decals.

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