Russell C
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40 minutes ago, 89AKurt said:
... ADOT got Federal funding to get that high concrete median built ... anyone seen such a median anywhere else? ...
Is it just my faulty old eyes, or does that median resemble a potential Dukes of Hazzard launch ramp for fast downhill folks?
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MPC Switchers '32 roadster arrived in the mail today, I was the single bid eBay winner on this decently put-together original build (judging from its interior dust). The kit is a current reissue, but I figured if nobody else put a bid on it, the final price including shipping would be a lot lower than buying the kit retail somewhere. My gamble worked out. I need its chrome plated grille for one of my stalled roadster projects, but from the looks of it, the headers will work fine for my arched caricature dragster project, plus I can use the highback seats for some or other street rod project, along with the valve covers, chrome oil pan and wheels/tires.
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Spotted this on my bike ride - somebody drove their pickup through foul weather to fetch this Camaro, with its dusty-from-sitting-in-storage roof?
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Scored this Polar Lights "Manglia" buildup from one of the vendors at the Desert Scale Classic contest/swap meet in Phoenix. Objective is to apply the wheels and bits of chassis / parachute on the warped Fairlane promo I got off eBay last fall. Just need to get one of those double-stacked blowers from a Zinger kit and some kind of Ed Roth Fink-style driver with the right arm out the passenger window on a shifter. If my thumb in these photos is a usable scale measuring device, it looks like I'll have to add a bit of meat to the front tires …
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Survived the drive across town to north Phoenix for the Desert Scale Classic contest/swap meet. Much like any other big city (and some small towns!), it's travel-at-your-own-peril these days. Nice to see old friends again, and there was many great quality entries there.
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On 4/9/2024 at 12:41 PM, espo said:
Might even look better without the vinyl roof treatment.
Good question. My Preview photo altering program is a little primitive, but sometimes I can trick it into doing color variations I want ....
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Had no clue. Man, that car begs to be sectioned, and for larger diameter wheels.
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4 hours ago, Suburban_Hooligan said:
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Could. Not. Resist. . . . . fixing his rearward visibility problem.
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Including the abominations in proportions done by the Palmer kits? I've seen them on eBay in various colors - red / black / yellow / different shades of green ....
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Years back I saw this Tom Sehloff Packard/Airstream cast iron toy creation (the man made those kinds of things for a while), so I thought I'd see if I could come up with something similar in 1/24th scale. Greenlight Models puts out a reasonably affordable diecast 24th scale 16 foot Airstream Bambi trailer, and the Lindberg '31 Bugatti Royale kits still seem to be around in plentiful form … but at the rate I'm going, I think I'll never find the time to take this idea past my photo composite stage.
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On 3/27/2024 at 9:32 AM, DarkSouljah said:
....deep into this wonderful hobby that I didn't even know existed a few years ago. ...
Welcome! Are you aware of the International Model Car Builders' Museum in nearby Sandy?
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12 hours ago, John M. said:
... "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" ...
Flyin' Dodges - not always restricted to The Dukes of Hazzard!
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3 hours ago, Big John said:
...there is also the old Red Baron by Monogram ...
Somebody with better memory than me might be able to chime in on this, but I know I read somewhere that while the Red Baron kit is 1:24 scale, the World War I Mercedes-Benz aircraft engine in it is actually significantly undersized in relation to what a 24th scale replica would be.
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10 hours ago, Kodiak Island Modeler said:
I've noticed several photos that I'd displayed on the forum are showing up for sale on the internet. ....
Got links showing that? If I have it right, that's a basic elemental copyright violation - you capture an image, it's yours, without the necessity of getting an official copyright or putting the little c-circle mark on it. But of course, better legal minds than mine can offer better info on it all, https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html
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8 minutes ago, Brudda said:
The headers on a 1/12 mfh 917/30.
Too bad I have such poor math / fingers counting skills ... for a brief few moments there, I thought I was looking at a flat 14.
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7 hours ago, Rocketman455 said:
... not familiar with this brand or any Japanese kits for that matter. ...
Huh. The JDM version of the Plymouth Arrow. Didn't know anybody made a kit of that.
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Tempted to drop parts of the page below into my Corel drawing program so I can print out the red Ambassador, and then see if it is beyond my skill level these days to assemble it. I can vouch firsthand that paper models aren't always child's play to put together. The Bluesmobile I did many years back really was a fiddley kit - borrowing KCSlammer's Fotki photo of it here. (had to also build my own award trophy for it out of a McDonalds burger box, which was actually easier to do!)
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Not something you run across everyday in the eBay Vintage Model Cars section: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266717238942 . Would be entertaining to get nice flat scans of the original to do paper printout reproductions to put together. Since eBay auction links are short-lived, here's a permanently saved Archive link to at least have a minimal look at what the seller had: https://web.archive.org/web/20240313192938/https://www.ebay.com/itm/266717238942
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Anybody have the blue flames from the decal sheet that's in the current release AMT '34 Ford pickup? Longer story I'll tell later in an "Under Glass" thread here, a couple years back I got the really old, probably 1960s buildup of the '32 roadster seen below. I figure that with a cleanup, a switch of the roof to a white canvas color, and a couple other fixups, this can be returned to being a really nice model ..... but with so much sky blue happening there, I thought I'd minimally see if paper printout mockups of the decals would work, and I think they do.
I've added most of the excess vintage AMT parts that came with this old buildup to my big trade list, if that helps with any potential trade ---> https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/176867-partsdiecastsdecalsetc-offered-for-trade-to-go-with-my-various-parts-wanted-posts/
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Junkyard boss to employee: "See all that piled up in the corner over there? Do something with it."
Days later, employee: "How's dis?"
Boss: "I meant, get rid of it all!"
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I could only watch 13 of the first 23 minutes. Poor Cougar. I can just imagine an owner of such a thing allowing a son to take it out for a drive, who calls in 10 minutes later to say "Dad, I did a Dukes of Hazard style jump over the railroad tracks - just a little jump! - and, well .... the car broke into maybe 16 or more pieces ........"
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On a few occasions for my GSL Contest entries, I printed out the backstory, where it was a great excuse to pass off some of my shortcomings on the build as actually being exact replication of the shortcomings of the 1:1 vehicle I was "replicating." Here's the printout from the Under Glass thread for my backwards VW bug (I really should have budgeted more time to do a better paint job).
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12 hours ago, Mike C. said:
I know I keep asking for this one, but I really want to do one of these, full custom. Revell has the old 1/24 Monogram Blazer tooling so that's a good start.
'76 Chalet #0589 in the top pic, '77 #1460 in the bottom pic. Mentioned this somewhere else here at MCM, but for new folks, I'll repeat some of it: I used to own #1747 'til I needed the money more than a big no-ideal-available-place-to-fix-it-up rig. I am the current caretaker of the very old blazerchalet website (paying the bills to keep it online) and I have my hobby fun trying to keep track of every one of these ever made, supposedly only 1,780 (figure comes only from this 1979 article's 2nd paragraph - GM lost the figures for the GMC Casa Grande version, but has said they made 1,555 of the Chevy versions). Another 'custom' that just came up for sale yesterday with 80+ reference photos is Chalet #0258 in Texas. Myself, I thought the only class win I perhaps could achieve at the GSL contest would be in Factory Stock for one of these, but I never got past figuring out whether the Monogram Blazer / Jimmy was more of an accurate basis then the MPC Blazer or the Revell one. Snagged all three as cheap eBay buildups about a decade back, and that's all the farther I ever got …
Group 5 Special Production Cars
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Posted · Edited by Russell C
'80s guy that I am, I always favored the Group 5 widebody look, and in a quick internet search for 'phantom' images, I came across this one 1:1 custom: https://chevroletforum.com/articles/group-5-racing-inspired-1972-chevy-c10-is-a-truly-next-level-build/