1973 Vega Kammback

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Another model of one of my real cars, in this case my first car. I started with the body from an older AMT funny car kit.

[das_auto]

Never seen one of these before, looking forward to seeing your progress.

Emil

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They are pretty close to being extinct now...

Ken Hart (khart) generously gave me some Minilite wheels from a Revell Corvette to work with. I cast a resin copy and machined it from a 15 inch five lug into a 13 inch four lug Western Superlite master.


I gave the wheel a sand cast texture and added machined lugs/washers and the center cap.

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Here are the copies I cast of the modified wheel.

[mrceej]

When you make the molds are using just a typical RTV silicon and say liquid plastic for the cast piece?

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Yes, I use RTV for the molds and I use a two part resin to cast the parts.

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I installed a Harwood Corvette styled scoop on my Vega. I made a resin copy of a 427 scoop/hood to start with.

Cut the scoop from the hood copy.

And since it was a smaller than the factory Corvette sized scoop, I narrowed and shortened it.

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The hood that was engraved into the body was the wrong size and shape, even for the body being a bit stubby. I filled in the missing cowl and hood area then rescribed the rear edge of the hood (with an arc instead of a straight line) as well as adding the fender lines and scribing the windshield frame.

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I continued to scribe out the hood until I removed it.

[hirg]

Nice!

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Thanks!

I cut a hole to match the one I cut into the hood of the real car.

And cemented and faired the scoop into the hood.

[tonioseven]

Beautiful craftsmanship Mark!!

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Thanks!

I also installed a sunroof to my Vega, so I cut out a hole in the roof…

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While casting some other parts I was using dye to color the resin and came up with a near exact match to the color of the spoke section of the wheel straight from the mold.

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Finding tires proved to be more of a challenge. I settled on this two piece injection molded tire from a MPC Volare Road Runner with Parts Pack.

I filled the tire with polyester filler and turned it down and reshaped on the lathe.

Then I cut a little tread pattern into it and removed the axle post. For a curbside it should be fine especially after the side wall details are added.

These are the resin parts I will detail and finish.