Opening doors and butterfly hoods?

[Tyson]

Any tips and tricks? I have four Autocars, and I'm keen to try my hand at a working butterfly hood on one (and the rest as well if things go well with the first). Also have a Clydes II waiting to be built, and the fact it has functioning doors out of the box has me feeling like I should try it with other kits. I have some ideas on how to do these things, but thought I'd get some pointers from the pros before I go break out the torch.

[kerr54]

I'm interested in knowing the how to's on this as well......

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I'm not a pro but I have made my autocar hood work. Score the line down the middle of the top part of the hood to make 2 parts. I then added a metal axle from a AMT kit to the edge of the hood where I just cut and left the ends stick out about 1/8th inch. Then when I built the cab and radiator shell I cut notches in the firewall and radiator to allow the pins to fit into. That allows the top part to fold up. I then took some painters tape (blue stuff) and put it on the inside of the hood and to the back of the hood side wall. This allowed the hood to butterfly. I've been working on this truck for awhile and need to find the other side of the hood but you do the same to both sides. I will upload pictures to show what I said above.

This is only the left half the hood. You can see my axle shaft sticking out both ends.


Here I placed a piece of tape to the inside of the hood and attached the lower half side.


This picture shows the hole made for the pins in the firewall.


and the hole in the radiator (the square one) the round hole is for the radiator hose.


Hood closed.


Hood open.

[kerr54]

Hey, that's pretty cool Todd.