Top Fuel Dragster
May 2012
This model was built as a tribute to a young lady, who lost her battle with leukemia on May 6, 2005. For the last few years, several members of a Yahoo group, I belong to, have built models in her honor. Her favorite color was purple, so the main color of our builds is purple.
I started with a Monogram Gary Ormsby Top Fuel car. The chassis is painted in a custom mix of purple. The "aluminum" panels were painted silver, then painted with a transparent purple acrylic, to simulate anadized aluminium.
Built from the Monogram Gary Ormsby's Castrol Fuel Dragster
Painted Testors Model Master Classic White with Jacquard Products Pearl Ex Interference Violet
You can barely see the pearl in this & the next photo but it's there, I promise
The engine is painted with Testors Metalizers & given a black wash to bring out the details
The frame was painted in a custom mix purple
The anodized aluminum was replicated with transparant purple over silver
The engine is wired with 30 guage wrapping wire
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