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Last week a friend who does basement/attic cleanouts for a living called me and asked me if i wanted any model paints. So I said yes , expecting a small amount of paints. Instead i was confronted with about 500 bottles and cans of Testors , Tamiya and other paints. Model ,aster acrylic , enamel , etc. He was going to dump it all at the hazardous waste disposal the next day, so i took them, naturally. The bad news is the guy was an aircraft modeler, maybe armor too , so no automotive colors , no Colors by Boyd , nothing like that. Lots of grays tans and german uniform colors. All full bottles nothing dried out all good paints. Lots of model master spray cans too.. same color palette. So I sent an email to the local IPMS chapter , but got no response. I'm looking for ideas on how to get this stuff into the hands of modelers somewhere. I do not have time or patience to ebay this stuff. Any suggestions? basically its free to a good home , but there's too much to ship so it would need to be some one fairly local(Connecticut).

This is a post from 2007. Ed has long passed and his son was no youngster. Ed was a nice guy I had a long phone conversation with him regarding the accuracy of his 1960 Ford panel truck. I should have bought another when I had the chance! Posted April 14, 2007 F&F Resin was ran by the late Ed Fluck. His son, Ed Jr., has started his own business called Drag City Casting. Eddie is gradually phasing in some of his father's old product and has introduced a number of his own stuff. I have some of DCC's hoods and they are good quality. I have an old F&F '62 Nova that was probably nicer when it was new. Mine has some faded chrome and a slight warp to the roof from improper packaging. I bought it second hand on Ebay and is probably not representative of the original quality.

What-if 1971 Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird at auction | Hemmings These were done by a company in Massachusetts. I believe he is still in business.

1968 Chevelle convertible . I have owned it since 1986. Finishing up a total restoration /pro touring build . It has a new 6.0 liter LS motor, many Global West suspension components and basically all the sheet metal has been replaced or repaired.

Rob Ida has been posting progress reports of the actual build on Instagram. Its awesome.

The first one I built with my older brothers help was the AMT High Sierra GMC pickup. I still have the bed and chassis along with a replacement cab( I do not know how I lost the cab). Second was the AMT 55 Nomad. We bought that at the hardware store in Rockland , Maine , along with some paint and glue, while we were on vacation. I guess that was around 1973 or so....

Magnante has done quite a few episodes on his YT channel about various models from the past and also a few on his builds. He also posts on Instagram. Several years ago he did a piece on some show or another (or maybe it was an article) on the joys of building kits without painting any parts at all. After watching one of his episodes i was motivated to find a Johann Turbine car kit and ended up scoring two decent ones off Ebay.

The Monte hood is different, however the trunk lid is shared with 68-72 chevelles and 70-72 skylarks.

This is awesome. When do we get to the point where we can take our scanner out to the carshow, scan our favorite car, and print it off? I see this is really the future of model building, or at least a viable part of it!

Wow! I have enough touble just putting primer on smoothly.......

When I saw this video it made me think of repairing plastic bumpers using a plastic welder. I remember buying that hot knife from Autoworld and being disappointed with it. However after seeing this i had a woodburning set so i dug it out and tried it on a junk body. It worked okay but a temperature control would help, I think mine was a little hot. However i could see it working well with a little practice .

I think that was by Dale King. He built beautiful models but some of the info in that book was not what we would do today.

The Drivers Ed car at my high school was a an '81 Chevy Citation( donated by a local dealer and fittede with a passenger side brake pedal). That got me my license.Dad then taught me to drive stick on a Volkswagen Bus , then later taught me to drive fast on a fiat 124 .

I forgot to take the engine pictures.! And I did put some cargo in the back . I will probably add a few more items.

Thank you! There is an Instagram account for old Hudsons it was really helpful!

I I finally finished one! I used a Jimmy Flinstone resin conversion for the Moebius 53 Hudson . Phantom Speed and Marine is a mythical speed shop I came up with for a future diorama. I will be adding more vehicles to the fleet, and they will all be "phantoms". A little backstory on the name, my brother rented a the end of a building from a garage called Canton Car Care, and the owner used to fool around answering the phone "Phantom Car Care, division of Midnight Auto, open twenty four hours , but not in a row!"

I saw this ad today. is it me or is that a little pricey for a kit at walmart?

Wow that was a new one on me! I could only remember the Olds Cutlass Calais.

Why does this remind of me of a Minion turned Transformer?

A lot of times I want to build a model as a styling exercise, and there's no need for a drive train, but I cant bring myself to build a model without it! But that is the fun of modelling, you can build something in styrene or resin that would be impractical or impossible to build in 1:1 . If it doesn't work into the parts bin it goes!

I Found this in a 1959 Mechanix Illustrated. It is a nice reminder that there have been talented builders around for a long time! Has anybody heard of this man or have any knowledge of the models he built?

Yes to that!

then there was the guy who hired the ( not so smart person) to paint his porsh, and she came back and told him it was done, but it wasn't a "porsh". it was a BMW....... pronunciation is everything!

Modern Jeeps (unlimited,etc) Jeep Wagonneer\Grand Cherokee Late model Challenger

I like to decant paint and use my airbrush. Usually i rig up a straw and tape to spray into a jar, but i did find a neater alternative. I recently bought a few cans of Internal frame treatment for the 1:1 project in my garage from Eastwood. The aerosol cans come fitted with a long plastic tube that terminates in a wide spray nozzle. The idea is you snake this down the framerails of your car and spray 360 degrees . I bought several cans and had some tubes left over. So I cut off the nozzle and tried it out on a few old Testors cans. It worked great! the tube cleans up with Lacquer thinner too. The tube is permanently fixed to the spray can nozzle. I dont know if you can buy these tubes individually but its a thought.