Nice Belly Tank Racer!

Very cool scene Dave!  Is the belly tank and flathead Ford scratchbuilt?  The truck and garage have the look of being extremely well worn.

CW

Really Sweet

I like it.  Was that all scratch built, rapid prototypes, or a little kitbashing and scratch building?

John

Nice drop tank car

Got to ask though, you have aluminum heads, yet a stock intake.  Any hot rodder would have offset the generator and put on a muti-carb intake, Edelbrock's first intake was a duel 2 barrel,  everyone had a tri-power and Navarro had a four duce set up. The only single carb intake that was used (rarely, and my dad has one) was the Edelbrock 4 barrel. 

I don't know of any 1:87

I don't know of any 1:87 scale high performance parts available for Ford flatheads. Sorry my model doesn't meet your approval.

Dave...

It's a great model, I just love old Ford Flatheads

Is the carb a separate casting?

As small as ho scale is, if you took the carb off and made a silicone mold you could cast up 1 or 2 more carbs and install them.  I don't think anyone could tell that the manifold was wrong if it had extra carbs. without a magnifying glass.

Tilted Flatbed?

Dave,

Nice model, as all of your efforts are.  Don't let one nit-picker get you down.  Please keep posting!

Question:  Why did they build those flat bed trucks with the tilted bed?  Was it easier to unload that way?  I guess they would winch the car up onto the tilted platform, then let gravity assist in unloading?  Just curious...

Al Carter, Mount Vernon, WA

The bed is tilted that way

The bed is tilted that way because if it was flat the bottom of the car would hit the end of the bed when they unloaded it. The boards on the side are the ramps to unload it.

I built the car as close to the 1:1 car as I could. I'm not going to change anything.

Thanks

Dave,

Thanks for the explanation - makes perfect sense, now that I see the reasoning behind it.  

Al Carter, Mount Vernon, WA

Don't Chase Good Modelers Away

Wow- Dave, first they nit-pick your awesome KFC model a few months ago, and now you've got the wrong details on that wonderful scratch built  hot rod.  Hopefully this won't deter you from continuing to post as I always enjoy seeing your models, learn something from each one even if its not my era. 

Craig

very nice

Love it.  Looks great

Don't think I've seen anything like that before...

Very neat looking, especially with the tilted bed!

I also expect my Dad would be able to go on about it in rapture.... I didn't get the car gene.

nitpicking

That is fantastic work. I thought it was O scale at first. Then the nitpicking started. Which underscored how good the modeling is. It made me notice a level of detail that i hadn't seen before. Now it looks even better. So, the so called criticisms, clearly made in jest, were, in my experience, complimentary to the modeler. Also, as a car guy, valid. Not too often i see an ho scale model of a non railroad vehicle accurate and detailed enough to rivet count. And a tiny one at that. For those of you that didn't take it as humor, well... It is a tough year.  Excellent work. Well done.

Michael

Beautiful!

It's great to see a modified/kitbashed HO race car -- you've done a fine job of it and the truck.

For the nitpickers about the stock engine in the lakes racer:

The car has no markings on it, not even a shoe polish class and number, and it's on a truck. So, that tells me that it's a not-quite-finished car that is on the way to have the race engine put in. The builder used a stock engine for fit and operation to get it sorted out first. It's perfect.

Nice

Great scene, very nice modeling.

Would be interested in both where you sourced the tank and details on the truck & build. A personal goal on my RR is to avoid the same old same old-same old, ,cookie cutter, straight out of the box stuff and that extends to vehicles, so the more I can learn from guys that pull this off with scale vehicles the better.

BZ

Thanks,

Bill

...

The reality is not everybody could afford that nice big racing engine...

Some had to do with the engine they have.

This was the era before money ruled the sport, after all.

Let’s keep it light

I agree with Michael D. Great model. But we all need to keep it light. I took Bremer’s remark as humor with a bit of info. model railroading is supposed to be fun and we shouldn’t assume comments were meant to be negative.