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TG Guest
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 5:00 pm Post subject: Resin bodies question |
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Has anybody used either of these Big Donkey bodies? If so, what kit did you use under them?
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Mack
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 732 Location: deep south
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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I guess it would depend a little. If you're going for accuracy, both would have used the factory frame. I'd grab an AMT 55 Chevy for the 55, and a Revell 65 Chevelle for the 64 Chevelle. That would be my starting points. I'd rob door bars for the cage from an AMT stock car kit. You may want to build the bars that travel down the A-pillars out of styrene tubing. I'd say the kit dash would be correct for the 55, maybe for the 64 as well. Maybe some others will chime in with some advice. _________________ life is hard, it's harder when you're stupid. John Wayne |
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TG Guest
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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thanks Mack |
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Tom M. Board Moderator
Joined: 01 Feb 2018 Posts: 604
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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Most of those cars were seriously gutted out, with no floorpan behind the rear firewall. I would use the AMT new tool '57 Chevy for the '55 and the AMT '66 (NOT '67, that's the former Lindberg kit) Olds 442 for the Chevelle. Both of those have separate frames. You could probably also make do with the AMT '68 El Camino, it has a separate frame and a big block Chevy engine but the floorpan isn't long enough, it barely extends to behind the back of the front seats.
This is my Friday Hassler Plymouth from that era showing how I gutted out the back part of the chassis area:
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TG Guest
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Tom, that's good info. I'm glad you said to use the 57 chevy, I've been looking for 55 and 56 and they are hard to find and VERY pricey. |
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Tom M. Board Moderator
Joined: 01 Feb 2018 Posts: 604
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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TG wrote: | Thanks Tom, that's good info. I'm glad you said to use the 57 chevy, I've been looking for 55 and 56 and they are hard to find and VERY pricey. |
Glad to help. Make sure you use the new tool AMT '57, I'm not sure which one is in current release. They have one that was tooled back in the mid '60s and another one that was tooled in 1998. The '98 version has a separate trunk, that's the one you want. |
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