papajohn97
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Beautiful beautiful job Tom. Are the black panels on the hood and trunk part decals or did you paint them? What part of the final assembly did you find finicky? Getting the chassis-interior-body to fully seat?
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Fujimi kit from the 80's? Love the purple with the dark grey wheels. Looking forward to building the new tooled Hasegawa kit.
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On 6/22/2025 at 6:53 AM, Mark said:
2 versions coming in the near future...but there will be more down the road. Stock, pro touring, factory FX with big and small engines.
Hope they issue the A/FX version, I've been hoarding decals for the Dyno Don, and Ronnie Sox cars and would love to do those two as well as a Sachs & Son's supercharged car. I grabbed the recent re-issue of AMT's Curbside Caliente with the intent to build the Dyno or Sox car but procrastinated due to amount of work required to kit-bash with the Moebius '65 Comet and Revell '64 Thunderbolt kits. Please please please Moebius issue a period correct '64 Comet A/FX kit (preferably with the 427 FE high-riser engine)!!!!
P.S.: how about a '64 East African Rally Car version for extra points?
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Oooohhhh, nice job Michael! This kit held no interest for me until I saw your WIP. This blueish metallic grey that you picked as well as omitting the CF decals really compliments the classic 911 lines of this beauty (I hate CF). I wish Tamiya would offer a non-racing stock version of this 911 992 without the wing and all the extra air scoops and black fender fascia, although even with these GT3 RS details, your build makes me want to add this kit to my wish list and copy yours (ultimate compliment!).
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Another magazine cover masterpiece Mike! I grabbed these decals off of Joe's eBay store awhile back when I saw them, this build is the first I've seen to use them.
Bovan's story is a sad one, he evidently got involved in illicit drug sales in the early 70's in order to finance his racing and was ultimately murdered in a drug deal gone bad.
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Great job on the rust weathering, perfect example of "less is more".!
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10 hours ago, #1 model citizen said:
Is the open(ing?) fuel door a feature of the kit or the result of some scratch building?
It's in the kit. I believe all the Moebius Hudsons include this cool feature. Would be great for a '50's gas station diorama.
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What a gorgeous Starliner Bob! Your BMF work is A+ as well as all detailing in the interior, engine bay and chassis. The PE grill and little star dohickies on the rear roof supports really kicks the realism up a notch on your build. This AMT kit is truly one of the best 1/25 auto kits out there.
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Very cool AWB Chevelle Michael! World's fastest teacher on the drag strip in '65! The rear chromed steelie wheels and front Halibrands really make this build look accurate relative to period photos I've seen. Great job!
I built and posted a non-AWB version of this car a few years back using the Revell kit and boy what a hassle to have to cut out the goofy integrally molded battery from the engine bay. I gave up trying to alter the rear wheels after the engine bay fiasco. Your build makes me want to take another crack at this car using this re-issued R2 kit.
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Gorgeous red-on-red 'vette Randy! Nice job on the fuelie engine bay and very impressed that you were able to paint the red steelie parimeter aound each wheel cover (that's a challenge I've yet to master!).
The '62 is my favorite C1 styling year with the sneak-preview of that sweet C2 rear end. Buz & Tod would approve!
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Many thanks to all you guys above who left such kind & generous comments/ compliments on my Hudson build. Now that's it's finally warming up, I hope to build and post a few more shiny lacquered model cars in the coming months including that new Moebius '65 Dodge AWB A/FX I just started. Thank you Moebius! Happy modeling! John
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This is my second 1/25 Moebius Hudson kit, a "birth year" car for me. Man-oh-man these Moebius kits sure are nice!!!! This Hudson kit assembled like a Tamiya, everything fits and just looks right and the engineering is A+. I built this one pretty much OOB except for some plug wires, fuel lines, battery cables and radiator hose clamps made from wine bottle cork foil (getting low, guess I need to buy & drink more wine!). I airbrushed this box art two-tone scheme using Scale Finishes '53 Hudson factory colors, "Broadway Blue" and "Honey Cream" and then clear coated with Gunze Mr Hobby Super Clear III GX-100 lacquer thinned with Mr Color Leveling Thinner (1:1). The blue came out lighter than the box art and photos I've seen of the actual factory color but I'm happy with this "slate blue" color with the cream roof. The other parts were painted using Tamiya acrylics. This one was a beast to foil but after a few afternoons of persevering (and cursing), I got her done.
Thanks for looking!Cheers, John
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Love that two-tone color combo, looks like a scheme I remember seeing on '57's as a kid. Your foiling result is excellent, it definitely gets easier with more practice and can actually be "fun" after a while. Bravo!
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Great subject! Amazing engine bay detailing! Super realistic neat clean build of one of my favorite AMT kits! A terrific tribute to a legendary builder/ innovator/ driver/ team owner and all around good guy! Dan Gurney for President!
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Hey Mike, you are the "master of kit bashers", really nice job on this one! That cover brings back high school memories for me of being at OCIR in '69 and watching Jungle Jim rule the night. What great times those were! Sadly other than Pomona all the great strips of my childhood in So. Cal are gone, replaced by container yards, strip malls, and industrial parks ..... 😢
One of these days you need to line up all your drag car builds (with or without mag covers) and take and post a few shots for me and your other fans here, it would make for an amazing miniature museum!
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Really nice job David on one of my favorite American milestones autos. That "coffin" grill is timeless and one of the best all-time front end auto designs IMO. Nice to see one in blue (vs. black/ white/ red/ yellow). Your chrome look's "toned down" and not as toy-like as I've seen on other builds of these old kits, did you re-spray the chrome parts with Dullcote or re-paint then with Alclad? Whatever you did really helps take this old kit up a notch.
It's amazing how good these Monogram 1/24 classic kits are that were molded back in the 1960's/ '70's. I built and posted a '30 Packard Speedster Phaeton a few years back and enjoyed building it so much that I started buying up other kits in this series at kit swap meets and on eBay including this Cord. My local club has a "classic kit tooling (pre-'79) contest coming up next month, your Cord is inspiring me to take a crack at mine (or maybe that Lincoln Connie?) . Bravo & thanks for posting!
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Great job on one if not THE absolute best 1/24-1/25 auto scale model kits out there. Love the dark silver over red. Your pics makes me want to build another one of these.
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My favorite auto racing books:
"Black Noon" by Art Garner - about the tragic '64 Indy race - fascinating read about Mickey Thompson, Dave MacDonald, Eddie Sachs, Jim Clark and many others. Would make a great documentary.
"Go Like Hell" by A. J. Baime, basis of the movie "Ford V Ferrari" but much expanded background history and additional interesting stories. Baime's other books (Arsenal of Democracy) are also excellent.
Someone needs to write a really good book and/or make a good bio-pic about Tazio Nuvolari, most interesting and some say the greatest race driver of all time.
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I feel bad for Moebius and other equally hard working entrepreneurial small companies that are the foundation of our economy and are now caught in the middle of this &#%.
Interesting reading the responses here. In the coming months, model kit prices and availability will probably be the least of our problems, economic and otherwise. Hope I'm wrong!
Buckle-up! Model on!-
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That is very cool. The pics with the salt flats and racing activity in the background are amazing. Well done!!!
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I've never had any luck applying tape over Tamiya gloss acrylic paint. The flat (XF) Tamiya acrylics are rarely an issue with any masking tape.
When I spray two-tone auto models, I use lacquer based auto base paints such as Scale Finishes/ Zero Paints/ MCW Paints and an airbrush. Hot lacquers such as Tamiya lacquer rattle can paints tend to bleed through masking tape edges, no mater what brand of tape I use. Once the two-tone matte base paint scheme is cured, you can use whatever clear coat to produce a gloss finish without worrying about mask edge bleeding.
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No pics of my first ride but I did build and post a model of it a few years back. A '56 210 post coupe with a tired 265 V8 and two-speed PowerGlide. I think I paid $465 in 1971 to a really old couple (OMG! They must have been in their late 40's?) who lived down the street and were original owners. The car looked this good but needed new hoses and belts, a radiator flush, oil change and my Dad helped me extract and replace corroded carb-to-manifold bolts that was the cause for an intake manifold leak. I remember Dad putting an old rag in the manifold carb hole to prevent Easy-Out drill chips getting into the cylinders. I miss the simplicity and joy of working on old cars. Ran like a top without one damn integrated circuit! I drove the car to college for several years until the first oil embargo (late '73?) which prompted me to sell it to my brother and buy a 10 speed racing bicycle to commute to school. If I only knew then what we all know now, I should'a could'a would'a kept it!!!!-
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Love it!!!! Nice fade paint work, the green/ white with the B&W decals all work together well to make this model pop. Sometimes these simple classic old kits can provide a lot of nostalgic fun.
The CO2 cartridge and Jetex engine references really brings back warm childhood memories of juvenile garage mayhem! I feel so lucky to have been a boy back in the minimally regulated mid-twentieth century. Also lucky to have survived those times with all my fingers and both eyes still intact!
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The engine bay is my favorite part. An amazing job on the dual carb throttle linkage and fuel lines, one of the best detailed hemi's I've seen posted in this forum. Sweet!
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AMT 1949 Mercury Club Coupe
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Fabulous job on this "rarely built stock" classic. I'm particularly impressed with the work you did on the interior tub re-build/ door panels/ window cranks. Too bad it's a hard top and not a convertible!
It's amazing how good some of these old tooled AMT kits are. The molds for this Merc were built in 1963, the equally excellent AMT shoebox '49 Ford molds were made in 1962. Makes one wonder how many products are manufactured for +60 years off of the original tooling!