Project Hudson Hornet

[HomeRacingWorld]

Been working on this for awhile and had some time today to make progress.

Started with this kit from Moebius, very nice kit.





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



Chassis finished and painted. Used Duplicolor gunmetal.



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



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



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.





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.



Easy to drill and used long Carrera body screws.



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

[dge467]

Looking good Harry!!

[vins123]

wow, looking really nice
Sylvain

[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:

[Audi1]

That looks really good!

Allan

[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.

[Mebrown]

Love the popsicle sticks for body mounts.


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[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

[GASSERMAN]

Looking real good Harry. The chassis really turned out nice. Liken them wheels too. Bob...................

[dreinecke]

Got my popcorn! Get to work!

[HomeRacingWorld]

Sneak peek

[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

[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

[HomeRacingWorld]

Thanks Bob, not sure how the rest will look yet. :laughing-rolling:

[HomeRacingWorld]

All finished.

Here is the car that inspired the look.



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