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We thought to do something really unique that no other model company has ever done before......

The process of making a master model !

follow along as we create a NEW ....

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1963/'65 CHEVY NOVA FASTBACK

WE NEED YOUR HELP

We need a '63 Nova Grill & Front Bumper to use for the new Chevy Nova Fastback A/FX
we need one asap !
Contact us at: skmodeler@sbcglobal.net

Were going back to the original Master Model and re-designing it to be more accurate and to include an A/FX Chassis !

The original resin model started as an old AFXNSCALE stock wheelbase Chevy Nova Fastback, I originally re-worked, re-shaped and corrected the roof, window openings & power bulges on the sail panels ( that was a hell of a job ).
I had to add new 1/2 round for the rear deck lid Chrome trim. I also had to re- add the recess' on the front 1/4 panel, as they were" filled in"....... for some reason ?
The original door handles were removed and new "Semi-Hollow" door handles were installed. The windshield wipers were removed and pilot holes were drilled from the wiper blade units. Some Cowl vent slots needed to be scribed in, (due to remains from the wiper blades). Then we altered the rear Wheel Wells 15 scale inches.

The inside of the original body was very thick, so it was SUPER THINNED, and now its as thin as a Plastic kit model !

We now polish our master models, so no imperfections can be left on our masters.
You will find no sink holes, parting lines, waves, dips or any other imperfections that are found on every other plastic model.
Because of that, our resin bodies ARE BETTER than plastic kit models !

The original hood supports fit very poorly because we didn't have the hood ( that's another long story ), so we added all new correct hood supports.
The Block-outs from the bumper holes in the front splash pan were added, to more accurately resemble the "Alan Green Chevrolet" car. Also, a radiator / fender support was added for strength & appearance.

The rear window was opened up correctly. Bumper mount holes were added to the rear valance, and a licence plate recessed area was put in......... (as photo of real car shows). The Alan Green car has a parachute surround on the trunk deck , so we may add that as a separate item ?

CHASSIS

We'll be adding an Altered Wheelbase Chassis to this kit, starting with an amt. '66 Chevy Nova SS, ( you'll need that kit to use as a donor for Interior, Motor & Chassis parts)........ photo shown is a stock '66 Nova Chassis (not altered yet).

15 scale inches were removed from the mid-section of the floor pan. The wheel wells were borrowed from our Square Tube Chassis, and installed at the same place as the original wheel wells. Extra frame rails were added to the Chassis using plastic strips.
The gas tank and trunk floor was removed and a new trunk floor pan was installed using some Plastruct ribbed sheet. The original suspension mounts on the frame was removed and plastic strips were added to the front frame rails. All holes were filled with plastic round tube. As a bonus were adding the wheelie bar mount !

Here is the finished Chevy Nova Fastback A/FX Chassis.
Were not adding the Firewall, Interior floor or the door panels, as they will be in the donor kit anyway, along with the other parts. ( you will need to use an amt. '66 Chevy Nova SS, as a donor ).

As you can see, it's a perfect fit !
This new chassis is what I should have done to my original build, as you can see, I cheated and sanded down the frame rails & inner wheel wells, so I could get the slicks to fit. This new Chassis is much more accurate as has room for even bigger slicks, if you choose to use them ?

MORE PHOTOS COMING SOON !

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TOPLESS "MELROSE MISSILE" A/FX

Starting with our '65 Ply Belvedere A/FX resin body, the Hardtop roof was removed and a filler panel was cut from 0.30 Plastic sheet, and was given' a slight arch to match the top of the body.

To make the tonnue cover look like sheet metal, 0.10 plastic sheet was cut and formed to the top of the body.
Just need to clean it up now !

Evergreen plastic 1/2" TUBE was used for the Canopy, the tube was cut in half, and then shaped on an angle and sloped down, to create the point. You can see the pencil tracings where the blue racing stripes would be located. This was done to insure a correct location for the canopy and hole for driver.
Now its starting to look like the" MELROSE MISSILE" !
You can also see the tracing for the bullet shaped cowl....... soon to come.

The interior tub & chassis was installed to measure were the dash would line up with the new cowl.The headrest was filled in with sheet plastic, the hole for the driver was cut out and New door lines were scribed in.

The Canopy was hollowed out from the bottom for realism and to save on weight and resin !

The rear valance was slightly rolled, and rear 1/4 panels were slightly re-shaped.
My initial plan was to include the rear "AIR FOIL" but, after finding this rare photo(below), it would have been to hard to do the paint job with the Air Foil on it.....So instead, I added hinges to be able to mount an aluminum sheet rear foil to the new hinges on a 45 degree angle.

At this point the master is finished, other than priming & polishing !

MASTER MODEL IS FINISHED !

This model will come with the same parts as the '65 Plymouth Belvedere & Sedan A/FX

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'66 LONG NOSE BARRACUDA FUNNY CAR

Mastered by: Ron Ramsey and Scott Kapellusch

Ron has passed the master over to us to rework some issues, such as:
Chassis / Interior tub, Dash, Front frame clip & extra body modifications.

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1965 Plymouth Sedan A/FX

Ron Ramsey stopped by to help us with this project, it was a great time and we had a lot of laughs !

After carefully planning we decided where to make the cuts on a Lindburg '64 Dodge to be grafted to our '65 Ply Belvedere AFX.

The Lindburg '64 Dodge (above) gave up its roof to put on our "Speed City" '65 Belvedere A/FX body (below).

Here is the '64 Dodge Sedan roof being test fitted to our '65 Ply Belvedere AFX body.
The rear of the '64 Dodge roof needed to be cut down the middle of the window trim & trunk, so it could be widened to correctly fit the '65 Ply body.

The master is finished and I guarantee it is the only correct '65 Ply Sedan A/FX ever offered !

NEW '65 Ply Sedan A/FX will come with "CORRECT" Body, Hood, Grill, Bumpers, Taillights, Interior Tub, Dash & Chassis.

Model is now Available !

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1965/'66 Dodge Dart A/FX

Charlie Allen's "PURPLE TERROR"

THIS ITEM HAS BEEN RE-MASTERED WITH NEW ALTERED WHEEL BASE CHASSIS / INTERIOR, SQUARE TUBE FRONT FRAME, LEAF SPRINGS & DOOR PANELS.

There were things we couldn't do to the original Charlie Allen Dart, because of all the other models we wanted to build from it. but since this will be an all new tool, we want to create an all out correct body !

Such as: Hogging out the front of both front & rear wheel wells, cutting a hole in the cowl & hood for the injector stacks and scribing a new straight door line for the flip front end.

Using the new chassis from our '65 Dart AFX, we needed to bring back the rear of the chassis (to stock wheel base position), and lengthen the front of the chassis. the tail piece was removed and we added a new section of interior/ chassis floor the the old '65 Dart chassis using a '71 Ply Duster 340 to give it length.

The area for the new motor surround has been cut out in this photo.

Here is the new fire wall with motor surround, and the updated Dash Cowl(with scoop).

Starting with the '65 Dart AFX door panels (shown on top), the chrome trim was removed, the wheel well area had to be lengthened, as well as some minor trim inserts. Old door lines were filled in and new door lines had to be scribed.

 

This Square tube frame was designed from the original frame I built for my personal build up.

Were also adding a set of "Malco Willys Gasser" Rear leaf springs, to use as the front leaf springs on the new frame.

Here is the new Interior tub !

Here is the new chassis with square tube frame (with motor mount location pins) and Front leaf springs.

The new Charlie Allen "PURPLE TERROR" body....... now with correct body modifications !

Recommended donor is an amt. '71 Plymouth Duster 340 for rear suspension. Any Hemi motor will do !
3/32" Plastic tube will be needed for the front axle.

MASTER IS FINISHED !

Model is now Available !

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1965 DODGE CORONET A/FX (HardTop )

 

Our goal is to create an all out "Correct" '65 Dodge Coronet A/FXer.

We decided not to use the Polar Lights Coronet because of all the bad reviews it received.
I personally never bothered buying one, hearing it was to toy looking and out of proportion.
Our 1965 Dodge Coronet A/FX will be designed from 2 original amt. bodies !
Don't worry, only one was worth saving, the other will be for patch panels.

The entire stock Coronet body was cleaned up of all original defects (such as sink holes, Parting lines, A-Pillar problems,Mounting Pins, Etc.) Then all the trim, moldings & emblems were removed, except the 500 trunk emblem and Rocker Panel Trim..... That was left for alignment for the wheel well alterations.

TAIL LIGHTS & MOLDING

Tail lights have been corrected for the model were designing, also adding a corrected stock trunk molding. It just needs to be fine tuned at this point !

HOOD

The original amt. hood had a Blower hole that was in-correct, so after measuring it to fit Fuel Injectors, the sides were filled in with sheet plastic.

WHEEL WELL ALTERATIONS

Rear Wheel wells were "CORRECTLY" measured and taped off.

you can see the Patch Panel we used from the other '65 Coronet amt body in the back ground.

Front Wheel wells were "CORRECTLY" measured and taped off.

We now have a totally correct wheel base (Front & Rear).

Adding a bead of super glue to all the joints, we now come to the hard part ........... sanding it all to perfection !!!

FRONT END

Every amt. Coronet I have ever seen has a factory flaw on the Hood support, This was filled in with a small piece of sheet plastic.
The Points on the fenders were too sharp and would break very easily, so we created an insert behind the bumper location.
The loops for the bumpers to be attached were also weak, so we wrapped sheet plastic around them and connected them to the new bumper molding.

SINGLE AND DOUBLE HEADLIGHT GRILLS

Because some cars ran a single headlight grill and some ran a double, we decided to include both grills with our new 1965 Dodge Coronet A/FX !

The grill we started with was too short, so it needed a small strip a plastic all around the edge of the frame, then it needed putty to re-form the lip around the sides. Also you can see were adding Cone Shaped Blockout head lights to the single headlight grill, these headlights had to be re-sized to fit the headlight buckets.

Here is the double headlight grill getting the same treatment !

New......... Single & Double Headlight grills with Correct Cone Shaped Blockouts !

BUMPERS

The 1965 License plate was removed from the front bumper and then we created the correct vent grooves.

The rear bumper had its 1965 License plate removed as well, along with the original screw mounts.
A new mount was then added.

WINDOW & DOOR TRIM

It's not understood why amt. didn't add window & door trim on their Coronet when it clearly shows it on the box art for both Ramchargers & Color Me Gone cars. After reviewing all the '65 Coronet Funny Cars that ran, it was decided that they all had some sort of window or door trim, or at least they still had the molding that the trim would have been attached to ! You will be able to build any Funny Car car you want, but may need to remove some trim, depending on the car you decide to build ?........... But, its easier to remove some trim, rather than add it !

To do the door trim, we started with .020 x .100 evergreen plastic strip, then 2 strips of .010 x .040 (shown in the middle) these were glued side by side leaving a small gap to simulate a weather strip (shown on top).

The window trim is .030 x .040 plastic strip, this will be the same thickness as the new door trim.

 

New Window and Door Trim, but still needs a little Liquid glue to fill the cracks and some minor sanding.
We also fixed the drip rails on the left side A-pillar that was barly visable on the amt. model.

FINISHED BODY

Here is the finished body ready for its first shot of primer, it will then be checked for any minor imperfections, re-sanded, primed......... and then polished to a high gloss.

 

INTERIOR TUB

Starting with our '65 Plymouth A/FX interior tub (bottom of photo) , the door panels were removed.
Then the door panels from the amt. '65 Coronet were removed from the tub (top of photo).
The arm rests and window cranks were carefully removed.
Holes were drilled for the locations of the arm rests, window cranks.
The door handles were taken from the Ply AFX door panels & glued to the NEW Coronet door panels for more realism.

We have a new '65 Dodge Coronet A/FX interior tub !

 

This master is finished and I guarantee it to be the only "CORRECT"

1965 Dodge Coronet A/FX Hardtop ever offered !

The master is finished, Unfortunatly my photo's dont do it justice.

Resin kit includes correct: Body, (with window & door trim & Corrected Tail Lights, ). Hood, A.W.B. Chassis, Interior tub, Coronet Dash, Single Headlight grill, Double Headlight grill, F&R Bumpers.

You can set the hieght of the front end by adding plastic blocks as "risers" to the kit suspension, or use a dropped axle from a Revell '51 Ford Angelia, '51 Henry J, '29 Ford or Custom pick up, kit.

Model is now Available !

We will be doing the '65 Dodge Coronet "SEDAN" A/FX also !!!

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"FLYING DUTCHMAN" CHARGER III F/C

This is not a direct copy of the MPC kit, but has been Re-Mastered to an accurate body !

 

This is the original mpc. body parts.

A- Pillars were added to the the body mid-section.

The rear Valance Panel was removed & will be a separate piece !

The original rear wheel wells did not have a flare, so masking tape was applied and was cut out for the shape of the flare. Then it was puttied, after removing tape, it was sanded and shaped !

New Re-shaped wheel wells !

The front wheel wells were moved forward 12 scale inches, just as the real car was !

A piece of sheet plastic will be needed for the patch panel.

This is what the stock mpc.body looked like before Wheel well alteration.

Here's the New "ALTERED" Front Wheel Wells, Now its looking like a Funny Car !!!

A filler panel was needed for the cowl, as the original mpc kit was incorrect.

Shown on top is the original mpc. Flying Dutchman F/C frame, the lower frame has been stretched to fit the new Altered Body and a new mount was installed to fit the Radius Rods from a "Model King" GTO Funny Car or the Kenz & Leslie Cougar F/C........ Either kit can be used (and will be needed as a Donor model ) !

Master is finished !

Resin kit comes with Accurate: Body, Floor Pan, Interior Tin, Fire wall, Rear Hinge, 2- Frame Rails, Splash Pan, Rear Valence,
& Roll Bar.

Model is now Available !

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1965 PLYMOUTH BELVEDERE A/FX

(with all new Chassis, Interior parts and Correct body mod's)

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This body was mastered by someone else, and although it was still better than the competitors, It wasn't perfect.

A new mold for this item needs to be made and after closer examination, some issues needed to be addressed.

The front & rear wheel flares were somewhat washed out, so Evergreen putty was used to build them up.

Also the front wheel wells were moved forward by another 3 scale inches.

The entire body went through a complete re-surfacing.

I wanted to have a separate grill & front bumper, so one bumper was scraped to save the grill and One grill was scrapped to save the front bumper !

Of all photos I've seen of these A/FX car's, not one had headlights, but all had cone shaped headlight covers.

Thankfully I have these, so the headlights were drilled out and the block-out's were put in.

 

Look at a real '65 Plymouth Grill, notice the middle body valance..... under the grill.

This was not on the original Johan '65 Ply model kit body, and it wasn't noticeable on the" Grill / bumper part" either !

Count less hours were spent on redesigning the front of the 1/4 panels to perfectly match the new separate grill !

The correct spear molding was not on the original kit, so a little putty & carefully taping & sanding and there it is !

Windshield wiper holes were drilled in place too !

 

The cowl vents were really washed out on the original kit, so I cut out a cowl from a Johan '63 Ply Fury

resin body I had laying around.

Hood supports were put in, But later realized that the hood supports on the cowl need to be removed so the Lindburg Firewall would fit !

 

The sail panel trim was also washed out, So on goes the reading glasses and magnifying lamp for some

" Plastic surgery" !!!

The top window trim was not very noticeable, so plastic 1/2 round was applied and sanded down to match other trim.

You'll also notice that the B-pillars were removed............ ( because they didn't have the proper angle )

The new B-pillars will be done last so they don't brake during all the construction.

 

The top front window trim was also barely visible, 1/2 round plastic was added and sanded to match !

 

The licence plate area was totally incorrect, so I cut one from the same Johan '63 Ply Fury resin body,

Along with some plastic sheet filler panels.

The molded in Taillight bezels were also removed as I want to have separate Taillights !

The lower spear molding on the trunk was washed out ( sanded off ) and was built up with Evergreen putty.

( The only putty you should ever use !......... BONDO will not hold up )!

 

Bumper bolts were added to the rear bumper using PRO TECH's - PTMC 7 .040 bolt heads.

A nice added bonus feature !

.......... Heres how the new '65 Ply A/FX Chassis was designed .........

I wanted to make an all new chassis for this kit as the other one didn't have good detail and the rear

section of the chassis looked too much like a modern pro stock.

With trying to keep a stock '65 Ply chassis look, I started with a Lindburg '64 Dodge 330 Chassis as the '64 Plymouth's had

brake lines and just didn't have the detail as the Dodge had, but there basically the same !

the gas tanks were removed on both chassis' and rear frame rail on the master was removed.

The other chassis lent its trunk section floor pan and both gas tank holes were filled with sheet plastic.

the pieces were glued together, to add length to the new A/FX chassis.

Because the rear wheel wells were moved forward, the chassis had to have some of the Uni-body
floor pan removed.

The Front wheel wells were moved forward and so the chassis needs to be moved as well !
Keeping the K-member locations the same, so you can use the supplied Lindburg kit suspension parts !

 

Suspension Risers (shackles) were added to the frame, Along with Shock risers...... So the( Lindburg Dodge or Ply. kit ) suspension parts would have the proper ride height. Another fine addition, saving you tons of time by not having to add it yourself.......... SEE, We think about you the builder !!!

.......... Heres how the new '65 Ply A/FX Interior tub was designed .........

After getting some requests for an "Interior tub" with door detail and personally test fitting the Lindburg door panels to this this int. Floor pan, It was decided that a new Interior tub would need to be made to save you builder's a lot of frustration !
An old amt funny car chassis gave up its rear wheel wells, to add to our existing floor pan.

This is the new '65 Ply Belvedere A/FX Interior tub !

The door panels were reworked from a Lindburg '64 Ply Belvedere and are very close to '65 Ply door panels !

( I've since taken out the window cranks )..... after reading the story about the Belvedere A/FXer's ( it pays to do research ) !

 

New motor Mounts were added to the stretched frame, by measuring the displacement of the original

Motor mounts on the K-member, This will keep the motor at stock displacement and height !

To raise the front suspension, you can add pieces of plastic to all location points on frame !

After doing extensive research !!! None of these cars had a stock hood, So after carefully measuring where the Injectors will come through, the hole in the hood was cut out !

Note: A hood scoop ( if needed ) can be found in the Lindburg '64 Dodge Ramchargers kit .

 

Finally, a 1965 Ply Belvedere A/FX Dash !

It was made by starting with a Lindburg '64 Ply Dash and adding Plastic Sheet to fit the '65 Ply Cowl. (photo 3)

A new plastic insert was made to fill in the area from the original kit Instrument Cluster. (photo 1)

New Gadges, Including a Tachometer, Oil Pressure, Temp. & Voltage Meter. (photo 2)

 

 

Master model is shown before installation of motor mounts & before hood was cut out.

Body & Chassis are sitting on Lindburg '64 Plymouth / Dodge Suspension and Firewall kit parts.

You can set the hieght of the front end by adding plastic blocks as "risers" to the kit suspension, or use a dropped axle from a Revell '51 Ford Angelia, '51 Henry J, '29 Ford or Custom pick up, kit.

Here are the new parts !

This master is finished and I guarantee it is the only correct '65 Ply A/FX Hardtop ever offered !

Model is now Available !

This NEW '65 Ply A/FX will come with "CORRECT" Body, Hood, Grill, Bumpers, Taillights, Interior Tub, Dash & Chassis.

" YOU GET A BIGGER BANG FOR YOUR BUCK " at............. .

 

Want to learn more about the history of '65 Ply Belvedere funny cars ? ............ click on photo......

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1965 DODGE DART A/FX

(with new ALTERED WHEELBASE CHASSIS, FRAME & INTERIOR)

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This was the first model put into production back in July 6 2006

This master model is getting a new face lift and extra parts !

 

The first thing was to re-surface the entire body & Hood, Also Thinned the Inside body of the body !

a rear molding was added to the top of the rear fender...........................We couldn't do this to the

original, as it would have been to hard to remove it for all the other Dodge Darts that we planned on doing !

Next, It was decided to rebuild the front wheel well as they were cut out for the "Rambunctious Dart"

This new wheel well gives the new body some alternatives for the builder......................

This is the original body with the hogged out front wheel well ............................................

 

Heres how the new '65 Dart afx chassis was designed

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64 pieces of ........... Evergreen & Plastruct : plastic sheet, half round, strip and tube

were used to complete this new chassis !

Starting with an amt/ertl '71 Plymouth Duster 340, The gas tank was removed & all holes filled.

21 scale inches were removed from the floor pan, the chassis was then super glued back together.

and an extension was built to the trunk section to fill the gap.

Starting with a '66 Barracuda firewall, The side panels & holes for the hood brackets were filled in.

all wires were sanded off, but the master cylinder, water heater housing,

ground bolt & electronics box were left on, which gives the firewall some nice detail !

 

The '71 Duster front frame clip need to be simplified for drag racing !

Extra plastic strips were used to fill in the frame holes. and a solid square tube was used for the front frame rail.

The door panels are all scratch built from plastic sheet, flat strip, square strip and half round.

 

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........ Check out how nice this new chassis looks, Even better than

my original chassis I built for my personal model !

The '71 Duster rear end & suspension will fit, or you can create your own from the parts box ?

......... Heres a top view showing how the Interior door panels will fit ........... Perfect !

Door panels have braces for the dash board to be glued to......... another bonus !

 

...... The new master is finished !

Model is now Available !

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WE WANT YOUR HELP !!!

WE ARE LOOKING FOR MASTER MODEL BUILDERS TO HELP US DO SOME NEW PROJECTS. WE HAVE A LIST OF ITEMS WE WANT TO DO, BUT DONT HAVE THE TIME TO DO IT ALL. IF YOU HAVE A PROJECT OR WANT TO CREATE A NEW MODEL, PLEASE LET US KNOW. WE WILL PUT YOUR "IN-PROGRESS" PHOTOS AND DISCRIPTION ALONG WITH YOUR NAME AS "MASTER MODELER" ON THIS PAGE.

Please contact us for more info. !

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STAY TUNED AS WE HAVE SOME GREAT SURPRIZES AHEAD

you wont believe what's coming next ?

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This web site is dedicated to the memory of Robin L.Sorensen ..........We miss you buddy !

 

 

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