Bill Eh?

One week from now I will be in 'Styrene and Resin Heaven'. That is to say that I will be at the NNL East. This is an annual trip for hundreds of loyal fans. There are a group of us that travel together from southern Ontario. The trip is just a little over 500 miles from my place (Toronto) to Wayne. We leave early enough on Friday to be able to enjoy the Friday night camaraderie.

 

I'm just wondering what sort of distance are you willing to travel for your favorite hobby addiction? Throw in those ocean crossing numbers as well. LOL

 

P.S. For my good friend Peter, who does the driving, add an extra 100 miles to the distance one-way!

I have decided that this year's class build will be the Monogram '32 Ford 3-Window. I have a couple of this release:

 

 

I am assuming that this current release, basically has the same contents:

 

 

Does anyone know if this release is still molded in white, as opposed to the red model depicted on the box art?

 

I like the kit, but would rather have the kids work with a '32 molded in white styrene. Thanks in advance for any help with this.

I had a great group of kids this year. That was a major factor in my decision to take on this 'Hobby-happening' in my class. The following are selection of various finished models. Of my 23 students, 21 went home with a finished model. There were however different degrees of being finished. I hope all the kids took away something positive from this and will continue to dabble in model making now and possibly into the future. All of the models that I managed to photograph can be seen at:

http://s1213.photobu...ished Chargers/















Again, thanks for stopping by, I'm sure my kids would appreciate it!

Bill

Here is the rest of the 'in progress' part of the story.

In order to encourage the kids to build models, a great friend donated many kits to give to the kids. Here are a few shots of some of the kits!







Here is a sample of various car bodies that have been painted.









Here are a couple of shots of the engines after they have been painted by the kids.





All of the pictures can be seen at:

http://s1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc473/Bill_Eh/69%20Chargers%20for%20Portable%203%20Part%201/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ20

A sample of the finished model can be seen in the Under Glass thread, which I am about to create. Thanks for looking in on this modelling journey!

Bill

This started back in March when I bought enough AMT/Johnny Lightning '69 Dodge Charger Daytona's, so that every student would have a kit and 2 kits would be for the required 'replacement' parts. This will mostly be a photo journal.

The starting point.



A couple of shots of me making Hemi Orange from Tamiya regular Orange.





I built up one engine ahead of time, and the fit was not so good. This would be problematic for my students. So the answer was to to do a mass assembly of all the engine blocks for them!



I did a lot of test fitting of parts in order to stay one step ahead of the kids.



Another area that had the potential for headaches were the holes in the chassis for the front wheels and the solid metal rear axle. These were all drilled out by hand. It does not help when you have not brought your pin vice to school!.



Here are a few random shots of kits on desks.





Most kids had never built a model, let alone used an airbrush. This is the gear we used - Tamiya Spray-work.





To be continued...