kalbert

And after several hours of agonizing over this and struggling and stripping and sanding and painting and changing my mind and.... wishing I were working on another kit as '56 F100's aren't really my bag at all... I decided to just throw it together and see what happens. It didn't turn out half bad and I tried alot of stuff I've never done before. Paint is all craft store acrylic, washed off with rubbing alcohol, and highlighted with some cheap oil paints. The rest of the build is documented (poorly) here

Not much to see here, just a rather plain door panel. I did go back and clean up the paint drip above the smoker window. Cab is looking a little worn....

Interior is pretty spartan, I didn't overly detail anything. Paint here is cheapo craft store acrylic. Also wrapped the exhaust tips with BMF. needing to paint the back of the seat light tan and install the gas tank yet.

Well I got quite a bit more done on this since... Well, looks like mid March I started this thing! The chassis is finished, frame painted with RustOleum Autumn Brown textured paint. Turned out ok, but man to get full coverage you have to lay it on thick. I should have done the frame brown and then misted a little of the textured stuff on for... texture. The rest of the chassis parts are all painted with ordinary Testors paint. I went with the drop axle. Motor looks good in there. Teasing a little wide white wall here too...

I guess I don't care if future generations build models or not, but it is an innocent wholesome activity that helped make me a well rounded person and would certainly foster the same positive experience in "these kids today". I also don't think "the hobby is dying", but I do think we need to encourage the next generation of modelers. If all the the guys older than me die out and all the guys younger than me don't replace them, at some point the pickings for guys my age will start to get pretty slim!

The chevy kit in the twin pack is the Chevy Street Pickup, originally black with red graphics and part of the "Hot Rod" series. I had thought the Revell and Monogram trucks were similar but they are not (as found out in the Monogram Rounded Line thread).

Styrene is cheap, but if you dont have an actual hobby shop near by its not always practical to get when you want it. I've been using plastic for sale signs since the hobby shop closed. Still have to order shapes, but for flat sheets the for sale signs are great.

It depends... Is there something in there you really want? there must be something in there somebody wants. Value is so ridiculously unpredictable and relative that there's no way anyone could guess on how much this lot is "worth". It all depends on what's in the lot, who wants what's in the lot, and how badly they want it. Somebody might be willing to pay $5k for the lot just to get one kit out of it and sell the rest at $5 each and consider himself a lucky dog. Nothing in there really interests me that much, I probably won't bid.

I am somewhat curious about this also... As far as I know AMT and Revellogram have not done NASCAR kits since the early 2000's, the exception being the Round2/AutoWorld/AMT 2010 Impala, but I believe that was a curbside snapper. I consider the late 1980's through early 1990's to be my favorite period, and thankfully models were churned out by the millions back then and are still readily available, but I'd love to see NASCAR semi-annuals come back. I would imagine licensing cost probably pushes the roi for new tooling every year pretty thin, but I'd still like to see them done!

There's a wide variety of tools and techniques. What works well for one guy might not work at all for you, and what you swear by some other guy might swear at. Try new things, do what works for you, and don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

Doom and gloom. The end is near friends, might as well pack up your models and hide them away in the closet. It's just about over. Seriously, what is the point of this thread if not to do exactly what you're complaining about? Go build some models.

Very true. Waterborne is much better to work with when you understand what they can do and are equipped for it. The health advantages alone are a major advantage for the guys who spend 40 hours a week working with paint. Those guys aren't worried about being forced to use it, they want to use it!

Harry, you're right. I'd rather Revell change their formula and keep making kits than stick with the same old and die off. If that's even what's going on.

Nevermind, not worth the fight.

Revell doesn't do any production in the US, hasn't for years. It's all made in China. It might be commissioned in the US, and maybe even engineered here, but tools are cut and plastic is formed in China. In addition, building the F1 track could well have caused a worldwide shortage. As demand increased significantly and supply began to dwindle, raw material suppliers worldwide would have begun exporting to cash in on the boom.

I don't give a rip who they are or how they build their models. I build what I like, how I like, and if someone doesn't like it that's tough beans, because I do.

Yes, this thread could use some pics!

+1. Having a small scribe line helps tremendously in keeping straight lines.

+1 :lol:

This is still going on? Seems like we all have a lot of facts and opinions about how we think race cars should look. Anyone actually built anything lately???

My issue with Monster is not so much that its gross and I don't care for it, as it is that it's silly to brand everything with Monster logos (unless you're a race car or celebrity that's getting big bucks to don the Monster logo in public).

Yea no kidding. A couple kids at my school had Jolt backpacks, and maybe even a Jolt lightning bolt bumper sticker, but that was about it. Jolt was at least drinkable!

Those door bars are going to kill someone not protect them. And why does everything have a monster drink logo on it? Kids today think that's cool for some reason. That stuff is gross. Still, it is creative otherwise I guess.

Now I'm wondering if maybe the Revell '99 has the correct steering wheel for a '98? Seems a shame to buy a whole kit just to cob the steering wheel from it Either way, I'm subscribed to this one, looking forward to seeing it done!

You can get the correct grill from the Snap Fast Plus Tahoe, it also has the correct front seats. The steering wheel and dash in it are '96 pieces, but are close to what a '98 would have. A little styrene and some putty on the passenger's side for the airbag wouldn't be too difficult.