How to make a custom 1/24 scale chassis

This is a quick one on making a 1/24 custom chassis for hot rods etc from styrene.

[@KitbashedKustoms]

Wow! What rock have i been under?!?!? I have never thought about warming the styrene with a lighter and bend it! I have always cut and glued the pieces together..now i just have to make a chassie with this method! Thank you for the tutorial!

[@jasonmorris4795]

Awesome, have fun and hope you get a good result.

[@dylancross306]

Just a thought. A couple of screws in the table or a Small piece of wood if you didn't want to put holes in your table , may help bending it. May could use different size screws for sharper or larger bends. I use this technique bending steel with a torch!

[@leestimson12]

Thanks for showing us your techniques. I have been looking for a way to build custom chassis but have yet to find one I really like. Now you show me not one but two ways I like. I will be using both to see which one I favor most, so somewhere in the US of A there will be a version of your chassis design/style in use. This is why I love KZbin!

[@morrieskustoms6430]

No worries, have fun building them.

[@Duececoupe]

Love these "How To" videos, keep 'em coming! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻

[@morrieskustoms6430]

Thanks! Will do!

[@RussellModelCars]

Great tutorial I have a build in line that needs a custom chassis and now have a good idea thanks, I also subscribe to your channel and be watching more. Have a good day

[@matthartley7333]

Yeah cool, it would be awesome to sit and chat with you when all this Social distancing stuff is over. Thanks for making more videos.

[@matthartley7333]

Great to have you back!!

[@wayneosmand7652]

really enjoy your tips Morrie, clear and well explained!

[@morrieskustoms6430]

Good to here, hopefully i can think of new ideas for new videos

[@youknoweverything7643]

We use this technique all the time the Ben still at the Fab shop I work at as a fabricator for making big industrial catwalks and stuff for plants and the handrails that you see we build those in whole sections and I build every single beam that is used and clip that goes on the beam that's used for building plants it's pretty cool I've been a fitter and fabricator since I was 18 and I'm 30 and I use a torch and I will clips to my big long 50 ft by 10 ft wide fabricating table and I use little metal clips cut from pieces of angle just tack while it's my metal table to bend my flat bar whatever I need to bend by hand real quick with a torch and also I build race cars to my whole life circle track so a lot of this stuff you do is stirring it's kind of the same principle as you would with a real race car building roll cages and frames it's just in smaller scale with plastic that's it but lining your roll cage up with the body and everything same principle. So putting screws are a small piece of wood or something in your table like someone else mentioned would work perfect for bending and you get sharper bends that's what we do is steal and I've done it with stirring for making my frames and roll cage then it works perfect you get nice Chris sharp bins and they're exactly in the same spot you want to put them every time there's no guess working if you're putting your thumb in the right place to bend it or not

[@michaelhintz5870]

Great Tutorial!!!! Thanks for sharing.

[@twistedsniper42]

Thanks for doing some videos I was one those who had asked you if you were.

[@morrieskustoms6430]

twistedsniper42 no worries, glad you are enjoying them

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Great video Morrie!

[@markjolyn94]

Very cool video! It's called a Z'd chassis

[@chuckeser8589]

Nice Video. Helpful. I'm going to try building a chassic for some old kits that need bashing.

[@morrieskustoms6430]

Chuck Eser get into it, it’s great to build a chassis for rat rod style builds with all you left over random hot rod parts.

[@JohnPol]

pretty cool thanks for sharing I did a series on my channel on my playlist how to do drag car chassis

[@morrieskustoms6430]

John Pol cool, i will have to check it out.

[@rustymechanicsukabumi7145]

good Job

[@justinbutton4309]

Nice video bro 👍 I’m pretty sure they call that rear section a Z chassis, they Zd the frame

[@popeyeman69]

That body is from the "Orange Krate" isn't it? Really nice tutorial!

[@jasonmorris4795]

Sure is mate, I eventually made a sweet Hot Rod out of it. Black with yellow, orange, red flames.

[@youknoweverything7643]

I prefer underslong chassis where the rear insects on top of your chassis because you can put his big tires as you want on it and I have such a big angle on the rear of the car like you do for putting the rear end under the chassis instead to raise the rear end up that's just my personal preference if you got your chassis going under the rear end and it's kind of flat but you still curve it just a little bit I'll set it down and under the rear end a little bit instead of up real high over the rear in that way you can put big tires you want on it and any tires you want on it without having to modify it more if you want a bigger tire later on in the build

[@RJDCR]

kool , thanx RJ

[@peterkensey6728]

Please keep these coming.

[@morrieskustoms6430]

Peter Kensey I will try, i make them when i get ideas or when i hear a few people asking how things are done that i know how to do.

[@toadharris4306]

Dude thats a badass step van damn bro your good

[@morrieskustoms6430]

Thanks mate, the step van have been a long project, i only get it out every few months to do some work to it, I don't have a finish date planned but it will get done one day.

[@hekstoo5988]

@@morrieskustoms6430 reminds me of the step van model "Mister Cartoons Ice cream van" by Armando Flores 🤘🏼

[@MapleLeafCustoms]

Hey I just found your channel. Cool content. I love your chassis tutorial. Thumbs up. We share the same hobby. I just started a new channel doing makeovers too. Mostly 1:64 stuff. I'm always looking for ideas, tips and tricks to improve my content. I've just subscribed to your channel. Be safe, buddy. Greetings from Switzerland.

[@youknoweverything7643]

Old lightning holes in a frame that's too funny that's the weakest points right there and would bend in a real car but looks good but not practical in a real hot rod that's used for any type of high performance drag race or anything it would abandon crumpling a heartbeat but for a show car it's fine because you're not going to be driving it very fast or hard anyways I would never drill holes in any type of chassis in real life but it's just a model car and thanks for sharing your techniques I learned a little bit from everybody's techniques and put all together to form my own technique of billing chassis so I learned a couple tricks from you thank you of building model car chassis could you please do a video on how you built that floor paint or at least show it up close to me that's pretty nice and that's very good work actually fabricating that floor pan with the transmission to all the way you did that's pretty cool and that van that is too cool too bad it's taking you a couple years to get that far but that's pretty nice man that's good scratch building work I like it and I like the subframe you built instead of full frame car it's a subframe chassis which is pretty cool and the working suspension is pretty cool too nice work and I can only imagine how long it took you just to build that chassis if it's taking you a couple years to build where you're at with that van right now that's a lot of work even doing that body by scratch waving at chassis by scratch without the bodies a lot of work so I don't feel bad it's taking me 6 months to get just a frame and a suspension in a custom hot rod I'm building out of styrene pieces from evergreen takes forever to build these chassis and small scale

[@apmods9862]

Like from me bro !

[@morrieskustoms6430]

Thanks 🔥

[@CowboysOfficialAccount]

How much for that little truck in the background?

[@user-ik5bm6nw9j]

please keep customizing 1:24 scale cars

[@morrieskustoms6430]

no problems there mate, i dont seam to be able to build a kit stock..lol

[@DerangedDrew]

Who makes that ice cream van in the background?

[@jasonmorris4795]

I did, it’s 100% scratch built

[@DerangedDrew]

@@jasonmorris4795 Thats choice, Ive been looking for something like that to build as a lowrider.

[@jasonmorris4795]

@@DerangedDrew this one will be a low rider if i ever finish it, been building it for about 3 years 😂

[@DerangedDrew]

@@jasonmorris4795 make sure to make a vid of that build.