Tom Geiger

I was also told that this method is good for giving interiors a slight shine like leather. Paint the interior with a flat coat, then rub the nose grease on the high points. Most important.. it's the stuff on the OUTSIDE of your nose, not the INSIDE! And it's free!

You could always ask Round 2 what's up in person... they will be coming to NNL East!

Look at the AMT '56 or '57 Fords. Both have doors that open so you can see the inner workings and how it mates up to the floor. I built the '57 and the plastic hinge on one side eventually broke, so you're much better making them from metal or wire. I'm sure others can suggest more kits with opening doors. That's just what I thought of today

D.R.A.G. (Detroit Resin Auto Casters) and Scale Modeling By Chris.. or Paul.. will be at NNL East on April 20th

First, I'd suggest pulling out a kit that has opening doors to see how the body structure looks. You'll see the thickness of the door, the inner door jamb and how it relates to the interior. I'd actually build one of these before attempting to open doors on your own. When deciding to open doors on a kit, look it over carefully. There are kits, like old Johans, where the interior and door bottom do not match up. Johans tend to have very shallow interior tubs. Another one I tried once was the old AMT VW Rabbit. The floor was fairly high inside that kit. So be careful with that. Here's a photo of the old Auto World hinge kit. I was lucky to get a few packs of these, but using the above photo you can bend wire to match this. Note that on the one hinge I cut the ends off so I can slide them under the plastic mount I will create. The following pictures are of a trunk lid, but the work was done for a seminar and the body was just a scrap one. For an actual trunk lid, I'd cut the hinge in half and mount each half more in the position an actual car trunk lid would be mounted. But onward with our example... note that the ends of the hinge are glued to the trunk lid, but is free under the mount on the body side. That's to allow it to travel, open and close. The mounts here are just bits of Evergreen plastic with the grooves needed for the hinge just carved into them. Same hinge in the open position. I hope this helps!

Come on to NNL East and see what Revell brings...

I have to pull it out and work on it again. I had started it for an April Fools Day theme a few years ago. I was planning on doing a really nice job on it with a wired engine, Alclad and BMF. I thought that would be funny to see all that work on that car.

Here's that silly little Falcon kit. It's too narrow and too tall just for starters. It came with that slick two tone paint job. Once in the stripper the parts all fell apart, looked like they assembled it with rubber cement.

Very nice wrecker. I have a couple of the diecast Chevy wrecker to use as the basis of the project!

Happy Birthday Rich! You deserve a day off! Even taking a day off, I'm sure your mind has not stopped thinking about the next build for the bench... another '58? Maybe a 1958 VW Beetle? That's the first year of the larger (non oval) rear window. It will contrast nicely with the big boats. And what about a class of '58 group photo?

Very cool work. The only suggestion I have would be to somehow disguise the thickness of the roof that you can see in your last photo. Either do some sanding from inside the body, or paint the edges of your cuts with flat black.

Richard you are right that primer left uncovered will absorb dirt over time. It will also scratch easily during the build process. I found that if I wanted to use the primer as a final color, I sealed it in with Testors Dullcote and that worked just fine. I had used Duplicolor white primer on a police car and masked off the doors to paint the rest of the body gloss black. Then I used Duplicolor clear over the white and it worked out fine.

Are you looking for the collectible promo or do you want to build a project? If so, R&R does a 4 door 49 or 50 close to that.

Just a picture of my 1:1 for Jules!

This one was finished recently and was shown on this board. Built from the Revell Miss Deal Funny Car And the AMT kit, it's been hanging out unfinished forever! It is shortened to work on the Mercedes SL chassis.

Luc I'm happy to see you got the parts you need. Now let's see a build The old van kits are pretty cool and I notice more interest in them in the past year or two. There have been some recent van kit reissues and I'm hoping the sales results are such that Round 2 will dig out the rest of their van tools and reissue the kits. It would be great if they retooled the grill of the Dodge van to an actual version, and reissued it as well. Since prior to the bad ambulance version, they did the last high end grill (4 square headlights), it would be neat if they tooled the last low end grill (2 round headlights). Then we'd have a new version to boot! And that's why we are doing a van sub-theme at NNL East this year! It's been pretty well received... just wait until you see the themes for 2014!

I started a post on this thread yesterday but got distracted by dinner and never got back to it. The last several posts covered my concerns that on the Internet you don't know who is on the other end. The person may be a young kid or a disabled person doing the best they can. When I got back to the hobby in my late 20s, my first attempts looked just like the models I built when I was 14, so I joined a club with the intent of learning how to build better models. The members responded and taught me all the basics. My next model was 100% better! And it was all because nice people took the time to teach me. So I do like to return the favor to newer builders. As with most of you, I do appreciate comments on my in progress stuff on mistakes I can still fix, as Rich has mentioned. If I saw something, I'd be more inclined to PM than point out the flaw on the board for all to see. I do like to post suggestions, "it would be cool if..." type posts. Sometimes the builder takes the suggestion and I get to see it built that way, or it gets ignored and that's fine too. It's their model. Then again, I know Rich a long time in person, so I'm sure we'd point out an issue with a model of either of ours because we know how the comment would be taken. I was a bit miffed on my '34 Ford sedan build that on two boards, and two clubs nobody pointed out to me that the kit roof was too square, especially since a half hour's sanding took care of the issue. I learned about it in another post when I asked why AMT hasn't reissued the 33-34 Ford sedans, and someone replied about the roof. At that point I had my body finish done, but being the real modeler, I dumped it into the purple pond, and corrected the roof. Once done, even the new paint scheme came out better so it was a real win. But instead of the "neat build!" posts, I wish someone had mentioned the friggin roof! So if anyone sees an issue with my work, TELL ME! And on the other side, there are builders on both boards and in my clubs who don't want criticism or suggestions. They are happy with their level of build. I know guys who don't do any body prep or use primer. They quickly spray or brush paint their parts and assemble the model box stock. If the model can't be finished in a week, they've lost interest. And if they're happy, I'm content to leave them be!

Neat little trailers. I had one of those tear drops in 1:1 and sold it about 30 years ago, before I knew it was cool! Don't forget to add a trailer made from a pickup back end. I see those on the road all the time.

What model did they send you Harry?

This one was sitting outside the shop where I take my cars for repair here in PA. I don't mind the little van concept, but that nose has to go! I remember a van conversion kit back then called the "Vandetta".

Try it! But wait a few hours....

and there was 'rare' pre-internet and 'rare' post internet. For instance there were kits and promos that you had never seen in person, no matter how many shows you went to. Mine was the '66 Plymouth Valiant promo. But with eBay, they come up for sale on a regular basis, and yes, I now own one. Funny things happened when they took all the junk in America and organized it in one place that anyone, anywhere can access!

That looks realistic and a great photo backdrop. 1946? You've been at this a while!

The opening credits of Beverley Hills Cop... the tractor trailer nailing all the parked cars. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World.. the movie was a 2 hr car chase!

Not from the listed site, I had to venture out on the Internet to find this page... my first car was a '66 Valiant V100 2 door sedan. 225 slant six, auto trans, power steering. It was originally beige with a red interior. I had it painted silver.