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R.I.P. Brian....and Thanks for all the great Tunes.

On again off again 1/25 scale Belly Tank project. Thanks go out to fellow MCM modeler Jim Lewis for his 3D Printed parts...I will try to do them justice....

I never owned an original of this extinct kit...I lucked out at a club auction a couple of years ago and bid $20.00 for a disassembled glue bomb in the original box...and after some careful restoration succeeded in saving it. It builds up pretty nice...for a 1966-67 kit.

Thanks Bob. Let us all know if you get that 3D version together...

Thanks Carl. I challenged myself to rescue that old glue bomb from certain death.

I did a restoration of a disassembled glue bomb of a kit I picked up for $20.00 at a club auction...but yours takes this long extinct kit to another level with those wire wheels. Well done.

Nice color ! Is that Tamiya...Mica Blue...or something else ?

I pretty much used Testors clear canopy glue for anchoring clear plastic pieces...and recently discovered a similar glue made by the Evergreen plastics people. I once used plain old Elmers white school glue to set the glass in a 23-window Revell VW van...and its still locked in place...years later.

Exactly...I tried the same thing with an ancient Aurora "Wolf Wagon" kit. ( trophies look out of scale...but the motor dropped right in...)

Hello Tim. Don't recall ever posting pics of this build of mine anywhere. I started it many many years ago after reading an informative series of articles in the '95 Plastic Fanatic magazine #'s 44-49 by Dan Harrison entitled "A Tale of Two Roadsters" in which he builds two projects based on AMT's popular '29 Model A kit...one a highboy drag car based on Hugh Tucker's formidable AA/ SR '28 Chevy...the other a channeled hot rod based on Dave Whitehead's show rod " The Jewel "...both featured in early 60's editions of Hot Rod magazine. It was a multi part build series that ended at Part 5 before the builds were completed ( perhaps due to a falling out between the writer and the publisher ) ...but being a recent returnee to the hobby back then I found the series immensely informative as far as kit bashing parts. Looking through my pages...the rear end treatment you mention is illustrated in Pts 1 & 2 of the series.

You're right...I've been thinking along similar lines for awhile now and those ancient HAWK Bonneville Streamliner rubber band powered " toys " are a great starting point. But as you noted...a desire to render one in 1/24-25 scale necessitates adding height to the body shell to make room for even a low profile front blower engine. I used Evergreen sheet to add about 3-4 inches to the body height. Lot of putty and primer coats to get it smooth.

Agreed...Norm has some great vintage Flathead stuff...like this Eddie Meyer of Hollywood carb and air cleaner set up I used on my '29 Model A racer.....

I think the topic covered rare kits that have been desired, found, secured, or pretty much impossible to do any of the above. When a blown up old '66-'67 era Monogram " Uncertain T " kit showed up at a club auction last spring I jumped at a chance to bid for it. Given its rareness...couldnt believe I got it for $25.00....guess many of the younger attendees werent sure what it was....

Blown up glue bomb restoration....