Atmobil Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I'd buy a couple of these! This Mercedes represents most of the cars that US Army folks brought back to the USA in the 1960s. Any Army Post in the USA, there'd be a bunch of these, trophies from serving in Germany. My father was a US Army officer and we finally went to Germany in 1969, my dad with thoughts of Mercedes in his head. He said we'd bring one back to the states for sure. Then the US military had a "Buy American" campaign, and through a contractor brought a slew of new US cars to the Px stores in Europe. I knew people who bought new Ford LTDs, and my father bought into the hype and instead of getting his once in a lifetime Mercedes, shipped the '66 Valiant back to the US. Years later he admitted he should've bought the Mercedes! Great story!! I myself got a 65 190 as a projectcar and the remains of a 62 190 Diesel. If the W110 got out as a plastic kit I would buy several of them. I already got the W111 in resin from Airtrax and a 1:18 W111 220SE diecast from Revell and a 1:43 W110 190 diecast from Minichamps but would really love this one as a plastickit. Maybe Revell will do one as it has been sugested in the Share your dream program: http://ideas.revell.de/ideas/item/5489/ ^^^ Cool! Try "Rockwell" for a closer font match if you have it. Thanks for the tip, but I can't find that font in my ms paint program. I guess I can download it and install it but that will be for another day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle potts Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Harry, that's just mean..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Harry, that's just mean..... This one I really want! Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W-409 Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) I've done a few of these as well. I'm not a master in editing these photos, but anyway here they are. Of course the first one would be the best, but otherwise they are not in particular order. Edited February 19, 2015 by W-409 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Man, you guys know how to tease a person. It's cruel how well you guys do it. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atmobil Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 I would love to have the 58 Edsel wagon and a Delta S4 kit, could also be interesting with the 4 door Malibu. Just not enough wagons and 4 door sedans in kitform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) Here's one that I had made by a very talented graphic artist here in the forums. I had wanted this box forever and was so happy to get it done that I overlooked the main truck in the picture had no wipers, mirrors or fifth wheel as it had just come out of the paint booth. I plan to have the box redone as soon as I can contact the owner of the Blue Mule replica and get some good pictures of the completed truck, from him. To make it more realistic, I placed the fake cover over an AMT White Freightliner Dual Drive kit so there would actually be a 1/25 truck kit in the box. Edited February 20, 2015 by Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixx Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Oh man Niko...I want all of those you did !!!!!! If those were real....wow!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarana-X Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 That's certainly one stop shopping, considering the fate of many models built by children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superpeterbilt Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Here's one that I had made by a very talented graphic artist here in the forums. I had wanted this box forever and was so happy to get it done that I overlooked the main truck in the picture had no wipers, mirrors or fifth wheel as it had just come out of the paint booth. I plan to have the box redone as soon as I can contact the owner of the Blue Mule replica and get some good pictures of the completed truck, from him. To make it more realistic, I placed the fake cover over an AMT White Freightliner Dual Drive kit so there would actually be a 1/25 truck kit in the box. image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg Ben, if you have another box made you should use a photo of the actual truck. There are many things wrong with this "replica". The wheel base is too long, wheels are wrong, and the frame is the wrong color just to name a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disabled modeler Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 And man, wouldn't the MPC Columbo Peugeot kit just be a must have? Id buy dozens of the wagon one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Again, this is what I want. That and the Corvair Ramside, also shown earlier. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Some really neat ideas and conceptions here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaguar man 21 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I want to build a tucker so bad, I got to see the exhibit for the second time at the aaca museum in Hershey Saturday it's amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atmobil Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 There is a resin Tucker kit out there, I'm not sure who has made it but I have seen builtups of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atmobil Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 OOOOHH!!! Amphicar!! No that's one I want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christian-w Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Amphicar! Never thought about this car as a kit Pretty cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthijsgrit Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 There is a resin Tucker kit out there, I'm not sure who has made it but I have seen builtups of it. this one: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/?showtopic=57837 And then build it kinda like this: http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/113-0703-1948-tucker/ That would be something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclescott58 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 (edited) this one: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/?showtopic=57837 And then build it kinda like this: http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/113-0703-1948-tucker/ That would be something... It would be nice to see one built (stock). Scott Edited February 24, 2015 by unclescott58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruleworld Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 this one one of many done for the Road Warrior Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbwelda Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 I have to keep reminding myself the title of this thread; I keep seeing stuff I have never seen on shelves before! amphicar: there was someone going to do a full on kit of one, resin, maybe Ma's Resin? man I sure wish they would, I would buy one in a second for anything up to about 100 bucks, but for that it would have to be very good. jb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
checkmate Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Here's a pic of my daily driver van and the fake model box top a mate of mine made a few years ago for me. He also did his own Type3 VW Squareback, very clever guy. Love some of these designs especially the Rockford Files Firebird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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