What did you get today? (Model Car Related Items)

[ChrisBcritter]

Picked up interior paint for the '65 Nova project; Tom P. laid down a nice Artesian Turquoise paint job on the body last weekend and I'm going with a Fawn interior for contrast. Also got the correct dash on eBay:

So now I can use the leftover '62 dash and interior for trading material.

[cobraman]

15 hours ago, RichCostello said:

Just think of it as a 40 Cobra!

Ha, that would be tough Rich. Since I don't really have any special plans for this kit I am leaning towards just doing the photo depicted on the box top.

[Tom Geiger]

On 11/9/2018 at 6:18 PM, SfanGoch said:

 

I ordered a Mattel Vac-U-Form Machine

Now, I'll be able to vacuform replacement glass, among other things.

I have one of those too!  It's a learned skill to get decent windows out of it!

Last time I looked there was a company that was making the perforated sheets for Vac-u-form!  I can check if you are interested.

[Snake45]

7 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said:

Last time I looked there was a company that was making the perforated sheets for Vac-u-form!  I can check if you are interested.

The sheets don't HAVE to be perforated, as long as they're tight in the frame. I discovered that you can vac plain .030 plastic just fine. .020 will often work, too. If you can't get a good "lock" on it, you can wrap the edges with a layer of vinyl tape. 

[Tom Geiger]

Hey, yesterday I went to the Liars Model Car Challenge on Long Island, NY

This show has always been a good place to find cheap goodies, as several of the vendors are club members who annually thin their collections...

Continuing my fixation with the Monogram 1930 Model A series..  I already have both of these but couldn't pass them up. $10 for the woodie, $25 for the Cabriolet.

Nothing earth shattering here, just extra copies of old favorites.  '57 Ford was $15 and the other two were 2/$25.

I wanted an additional pie wagon so I could use my current one for parts.  I want to put that flathead with the tri scoops into a rod.

I'm thinking of building the Pie Wagon for the 24 Hour Build in January.

 

These 4 added up to $23 and the vendor said "Just give me $20.  The Ranchero and the '32 seem complete, but no worries, I have a few more of each. The '40 and '57 are actually parts boxes. The '40 has a complete unbuilt sedan delivery and a built up coupe in the box.  The '57 has someone's unfinished wagon using the 60s Lincoln custom wagon roof.  Most important to me is that it has the rear end and glass I need to finish up one of my old custom restoration projects. That $3 box made my day.  I am easily amused!

And the icing on the cake.  My Volare took second place in Light Commercial.  I don't focus on competing any more, but always bring my latest projects to show my friends. The Volare just happened to already be packed to travel, so I grabbed the box as well.   Thank you Liars Model Car Club!

 

Edited November 11, 2018 by Tom Geiger

[Ace-Garageguy]

Buncha stuff followed me home from the Southern Nats last weekend...goodies from R&M, Fireball, HRM, Clearly Scale, Futureattraction, Scale Production and Pegasus...and a lot of spur-of-the moment stuff that just called to me "buy me...buy me...": a green brush-painted 1/24 Monogram Chaparral for a dollar, a complete "1997 Dodge concept car" in a bag (Copperhead...cause i'd wanted one to hack into something else), and a great deal on an AMT Mack R685ST.

Also picked up smokin' end-of-show-we-don't-want-to-take-them-home deals on 1/24 Revell and Fujimi 427 SC Cobras, a Fujimi 246 Dino, and an Ecto-1A just for grins.

Last, a couple of sealed and cheap AMT '90 Corvette ZR-1 kits to start pre-engineering on what just might be a full scale build...but that's another story entirely.  

[thatz4u]

Went to the Dayton Toy Show, got all this + a ton of parts....

[Deuces]

5 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Hey, yesterday I went to the Liars Model Car Challenge on Long Island, NY

This show has always been a good place to find cheap goodies, as several of the vendors are club members who annually thin their collections...

Continuing my fixation with the Monogram 1930 Model A series..  I already have both of these but couldn't pass them up. $10 for the woodie, $25 for the Cabriolet.

Nothing earth shattering here, just extra copies of old favorites.  '57 Ford was $15 and the other two were 2/$25.

I wanted an additional pie wagon so I could use my current one for parts.  I want to put that flathead with the tri scoops into a rod.

I'm thinking of building the Pie Wagon for the 24 Hour Build in January.

 

These 4 added up to $23 and the vendor said "Just give me $20.  The Ranchero and the '32 seem complete, but no worries, I have a few more of each. The '40 and '57 are actually parts boxes. The '40 has a complete unbuilt sedan delivery and a built up coupe in the box.  The '57 has someone's unfinished wagon using the 60s Lincoln custom wagon roof.  Most important to me is that it has the rear end and glass I need to finish up one of my old custom restoration projects. That $3 box made my day.  I am easily amused!

And the icing on the cake.  My Volare took second place in Light Commercial.  I don't focus on competing any more, but always bring my latest projects to show my friends. The Volare just happened to already be packed to travel, so I grabbed the box as well.   Thank you Liars Model Car Club!

 

I gotta get me one of those '40 Ford delivery kits...

[oldnslow]

I also picked up one of those Hess training vans at the flea market last week . a Little worse for wear and one mirror broken , but nice trading material .

[vintagercr]

16 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Hey, yesterday I went to the Liars Model Car Challenge on Long Island, NY

This show has always been a good place to find cheap goodies, as several of the vendors are club members who annually thin their collections...

Continuing my fixation with the Monogram 1930 Model A series..  I already have both of these but couldn't pass them up. $10 for the woodie, $25 for the Cabriolet.

Nothing earth shattering here, just extra copies of old favorites.  '57 Ford was $15 and the other two were 2/$25.

I wanted an additional pie wagon so I could use my current one for parts.  I want to put that flathead with the tri scoops into a rod.

I'm thinking of building the Pie Wagon for the 24 Hour Build in January.

 

These 4 added up to $23 and the vendor said "Just give me $20.  The Ranchero and the '32 seem complete, but no worries, I have a few more of each. The '40 and '57 are actually parts boxes. The '40 has a complete unbuilt sedan delivery and a built up coupe in the box.  The '57 has someone's unfinished wagon using the 60s Lincoln custom wagon roof.  Most important to me is that it has the rear end and glass I need to finish up one of my old custom restoration projects. That $3 box made my day.  I am easily amused!

And the icing on the cake.  My Volare took second place in Light Commercial.  I don't focus on competing any more, but always bring my latest projects to show my friends. The Volare just happened to already be packed to travel, so I grabbed the box as well.   Thank you Liars Model Car Club!

 

Nice haul Tom and congratulation's.

[disabled modeler]

11 hours ago, oldnslow said:

I also picked up one of those Hess training vans at the flea market last week . a Little worse for wear and one mirror broken , but nice trading material .

be cool to have.

[Junkman]

At 20 quid a toss at Scale Model World in Telford, I couldn't quite resist.

 

 

[slusher]

20 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Hey, yesterday I went to the Liars Model Car Challenge on Long Island, NY

This show has always been a good place to find cheap goodies, as several of the vendors are club members who annually thin their collections...

Nothing earth shattering here, just extra copies of old favorites.  '57 Ford was $15 and the other two were 2/$25.

I wanted an additional pie wagon so I could use my current one for parts.  I want to put that flathead with the tri scoops into a rod.

I'm thinking of building the Pie Wagon for the 24 Hour Build in January.

 

And the icing on the cake.  My Volare took second place in Light Commercial.  I don't focus on competing any more, but always bring my latest projects to show my friends. The Volare just happened to already be packed to travel, so I grabbed the box as well.   Thank you Liars Model Car Club!

 

Tom, may I ask what engine the Pie Wagon has in it? Does the intake fit other V-8 engines well? Congratulations on your win!

[ZTony8]

Ar our D.A.A.M show yesterday I bought a Lambo Murcielago R-SV, a Sauber C9, two MPC Dodge vans, a Tamiya FW-24 ( after not seeing any for years of looking for them I've gotten 2 in 7 months!), and an AMT slot car. I also sold $340 worth of kits and one $60  1/18 scale diorama.

[Rusty92]

Went to the 10th Annual DeKalb, IL toy show. Was not expecting to find this there! Got it for $45 still sealed. Wasn't ever planning on getting this kit due to the crazy eBay prices. Also saw a lot of friends. 

 

[thatz4u]

19 hours ago, oldnslow said:

I also picked up one of those Hess training vans at the flea market last week . a Little worse for wear and one mirror broken , but nice trading material .

Mine needs the door on the right side...

[Tom Geiger]

8 hours ago, slusher said:

Tom, may I ask what engine the Pie Wagon has in it? Does the intake fit other V-8 engines well? Congratulations on your win!

Carl, it has a flathead Ford. I don't believe it's a very good one sitting in a Tom Daniel custom.  I just love that intake.  I don't know if it would fit anything else, I haven't tried.    Thanks for the congrats!   I wasn't going to bring the Volare, when I went to pack up a few other cars, I saw it was still packed to travel from bringing it to a club meeting because a fellow club member wanted to see how the LIndberg '64 Dodge slant six fit in the Volare.  

[GeeBee]

Went to the IPMS Nationals on Saturday, picked up a Revell Germany version of the Chevrolet 56 Nomad, I checked the contents the day after the show, sadly the rear light lenses are missing, after chatting to my contract at Revell U.K, parts for this kit are unobtainable, luckily i found another kit in Carson City Nevada, going for a silly price, I'll cast a set of lights in resin, and either build the second kit or sell\trade it, hopefully I'll have the second kit by end of the week.

[89AKurt]

Received from Japan, the long awaited Audi Sport Quattro.  Will post more pictures in the dedicated topic.

[Dann Tier]

15 hours ago, 89AKurt said:

Received from Japan, the long awaited Audi Sport Quattro.  Will post more pictures in the dedicated topic.

WHAT!!!!!!!......I NEED ONE OF THOSE TOO!!!!!!!

[935k3]

44 minutes ago, Dann Tier said:

WHAT!!!!!!!......I NEED ONE OF THOSE TOO!!!!!!!

HLJ is sold out. Try mshobbies.com. they still have some. It's a great kit of an icon in rallying. Gotta have. Next up is the Lancia S4 from Beemax

Edited November 14, 2018 by 935k3

[Dann Tier]

11 hours ago, 935k3 said:

HLJ is sold out. Try mshobbies.com. they still have some. It's a great kit of an icon in rallying. Gotta have. Next up is the Lancia S4 from Beemax

NICE!!!!

[89AKurt]

21 hours ago, 935k3 said:

HLJ is sold out. Try mshobbies.com. they still have some. It's a great kit of an icon in rallying. Gotta have. Next up is the Lancia S4 from Beemax.

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I think they still have them.

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10551093

[Ich_Will]

Mmmmmm. Rallye car stuff... 

[lordairgtar]

On 11/11/2018 at 5:00 PM, Deuces said:

I gotta get me one of those '40 Ford delivery kits...

Well, that pic depicts a Panel Truck. A sedan delivery is more or less based on the car.