THarrison351

That looks really sharp! Great wheel choice!

Great looking piece of furniture Randy!

That looks great! Same colors I picked when I built this when it was new! Excellent wheel swap too! Yours has aged much nice than mine. The clear enamel has yellowed a bit on mine.

My dad Built this back in the seventies. He had a unfinished Hubley Chevrolet as well and that's where the wheels and headlight came from after it rolled off a shelf and broke the original ones. As you can see, the headlight has not survived again. I plan to buy a kit and put back the original parts.

Looks great Randy! I've built this kit a few times myself and still have a Boss 302 Eliminator. I also have a 428 Eliminator that I've started and never finished. Need to do something about that.

That's what I was going to say!

I always had a great respect for Anthony Wayne "Tony" Stewart going back to his days in USAC and was totally amazed when he won all three championships in 1995: Silver Crown, Sprint Car, and Midget. With his success in Indycar, three driver's championships in NASCAR, other forms of motorsports, and a championship car owner, there's just not to many people to compare to except maybe his namesake, Anthony Joseph "AJ" Foyt. I'm pretty sure that's where he adopted his stylized number 14 from when he started driving for Carl Haas with a partnership of 50% to create Stewart-Haas Racing. I've had this display case from my other house and I wasn't sure what I wanted to put in it. I was perusing eBay and noticed there were many Stewart diecasts selling for ridiculously low prices. So I had a few of his team drivers in my collection, but none of his cars. I now have five on display along with two more on the way. I also have three Stewart-Haas cars in there as well for right now. The four other cars are space fillers for the time being. I want to get a truck, Indycar, and a late model dirt car to finish filling the case. The decals were an unexpected bonus. Last year I purchased some Stewart-Haas decals and Penske decals for my toolbox. I new I had an extra one somewhere in my stash and I was surprised to find the Smoke decal in the envelope.

What makes you decide to buy a certain model kit, is it? Most of my recent purchases are attempts to recapture models destroyed in my youth. Thanks Round2! -does the manufacturer brand influence your buying choice, and if so, which is your preferred and least preferred and why? Nope -what do you love about building a model kit and what's the least favorite part of the process? Yes -does a high parts count scare you as too much of a challenge, or does a low parts count make you feel the product could be toy like? Yes -what type of kit do you prefer (glue, snap, full detail, curbside)? Yes -do you like building options, and if so, what (engine upgrade, choice of wheels, decals, other)? I prefer to box stock or OEM, but I have modified and kit-bashed in order to get something that was never made. -if you wish to give manufacturers a "non-subject matter" suggestion what would it be? Quality Control! Cars for my Garage in order of preference: 1. 1969-1971 Lincoln Continental MKIII 2. 1969 Ford Galaxie XL GT 429 3. 1968 Ford Galaxie XL GT 428 4. 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 7 Litre Convertible 5. 1964 Mercury Park Lane Marauder 4 Door 427 4 speed 6. 1958 Mercury Monterey with 430 CI 400-hp 3×2 Super Marauder engine 7. 1957 Rambler Rebel the first muscle car! The last one is an oddball, but it's always intrigued me because I've seen one race in a video and was blown away! The rest are big cars with big engines. I'm 6'4", I need space! I also don't fit in the norms, I'm a 2%!

Absolutely stunning! 1958 Ford is my favorite of the 57-59s!

Being that I'm Ford Biased. FEDs I'd like to see: Connie Kalitta's SOHC powered Logghe Bounty Hunter, "Sneaky Pete" Robinson's SOHC powered Gilmore, the Shelby Super Snake SOHC powered Baney & Prudhomme driven by Don Prudhomme, or Tom McEwen's SOHC powered Brand Ford Special FED. Finally, the SOHC powered, but different Tom McEwen's Super Mustang dragster.

Haven't seen metallic blue before, that color really pops!

That looks great so far. That wheel and tire you're using is only for mock up, right? That stencil and those style wheels are from a later time period. The best wheels are the 9-hole Bassets in the Monogram GM kits from the eighties.

Ahh, fresh plastic. Ironically, it's the same age as my son. I hope those tires didn't burn the windows! A little bit, but should polish out. First time out of the box in over thirty years. Decals look great, too bad I'm not using them Out of the bag!

Ok, this body style Mustang started in 2015. They may have been using the wheel for other packages. I don't know. Here is the specs from the 2018 brochure. The correct wheels for the GT performance package are #12. The highlighted wheels are for ecoboost performance package #4.

Back in the early nineties, Racing Champions produced a lot of 1/64 diecast. One of the series was Short Track Champions. There were eight cars of drivers I'm aware of at this time. Seven were on cards ( Mark Martin, Ernie Irvan, Davey Allison, Harry Gant, Butch Miller, Rusty Wallace, and Dick Trickle) and one was a limited edition in a clear plastic box (#28 Alan Kulwicki) They all used the same body, a 1982 Camaro and resembled a typical late model/ASA type short track race car. I bought all but the Kulwicki car as collectables and Mark Martin car for my son who had become a fan after his first two favorite drivers died in quick succession. So, a few weeks ago he asked if I remembered the little car (text). Now I've just recently been through all my collection, so yeah, it's pretty familiar. He shows me a picture of his (he still has it after around twenty five years) and wants me to build a model of it if I can. No pressure! I'm thinking I know in the early 2000's Action made some Mark Martin diecast of his ASA cars, maybe it's already out there. I take a look at everything I can find online and they are all Gen 2 body styles, incorrect paint scheme and the car he wants is clearly a Gen 3 body style. Fortunately, Revell made several great models of the Gen 3 cars back in the '90s. I had built them all and this would be no problem. All I had to do was get one and some decals. I thought the decals were going to be the absolute biggest headache. I searched online for anything and noticed there was an all white T-Bird that would occasionally pop up with decals that were close. I just needed to find some. A couple of weeks ago, They popped up on eBay with a buy it now and I did. They're not great, but they're better than nothing and better than I can paint. Now I just needed a kit. I saw a bunch on eBay, but they were all way more than I thought they were worth. Then I remembered we have a Wanted section on this Forum. After posting I got a PM and much thanks to another member, made an easy trade and viola! I've got everything to get this puppy started. Along the way I did a lot of studying on the one picture I have of the car. It's the one with the diecast and discovered it's a Firebird! So, this means I will have to modify the front end of the Camaro to look correct, the back is a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH shoot, because I don't have a picture. Here's my Racing Champions Mark Martin Short Track diecast What I got

I acquired these over the last couple of weeks to complete the Porsche set, and found a few others I liked along the way. I've bought a lot of 1/64s recently Kia Stinger, Porsche Panamera, and Porsche 918 Spider Volvo 850 Wagon, Tesla Model S, and 1970 Ford Torino GT Unfortunately, the 918 Spider's card was beaten (had to glue and tape a lot of it) so I was on the look out for a replacement and found one today. I also picked this up, NASCAR Authentics 2020 Ryan Blaney #12 Advance Auto Parts 1/64 Hauler. I need the 1/64 car now. I have a 1/24 car. I may be obsessing. Finally, this came in the mail today. Racing Champions Ralph Earnhardt #54 Ford Fastback (1964 Galaxie). https://media.fotki.com/2v2HgJSN5xAVNRq.jpg

Great looking Buick! This was was one of the first "nice" Mint cars I acquired that only needed a good cleaning and polish, no repairs! I also love the flexible mirrors and antenna!

Well, I hate to tell you, The body is going to fall apart. The Zamac is corroding

I built a bunch of aircraft back in the eighties both modern and WWII. I learned some airbrushing skills and paper masking for camo. I also got pretty good at seam filling. All my WWII aircraft (7) were hung in the shop I worked in. When the Air Force shuttered it in 1985, I gave those away to the guys I had worked with. When I got married in 1987, I stopped building airplanes and when I moved from NC to California in 1994, I gave all the ones I had built (about 20) and the ones I hadn't built (15-20) to a neighbor who was a builder. Recently, my son has given me an airplane every few years as a birthday gift. I haven't built any of them yet. I did buy a several pre-painted models from Squadron Models last year and finished them. They're hanging in my hobby room now.

Looks good! Nice rescue!

That's how they came from MotorMax.

I've been watching these for the past couple of years on eBay and there seemed to be many with broken front suspensions. None the less, I was going to get one as long as the price was right and it had all the parts. Well, I finally got my chance a couple of weeks ago and like most of them, the front suspension was broken. At least it included all of the critical parts and no one had attempted to repair it. The only part missing was one of the fake coil springs under the control arm. I knew I could make a replacement and that's what I've done. I'm really intrigued as to why the suspension breaks so often on these. It is a very heavy diecast and the front lower control arms are not very robust plastic. They always seem to be broken at the three attachment points where the screws come through. Mine had a lot of stress cracks around all three points like the screws were over-tightened. The damaged area and parts I have. Obviously, I'd already fixed the control arms when I took this photo. The lower control arm and the outboard points for the steering knuckle pins broken off and the center was cracked. The lower control arm assembly repaired. In the process of test fitting everything, I managed to drop one of the real suspension springs under my shelves or somewhere, so I'm using a ball point pen spring cut to fit. As I said before, this is missing one fake spring, so I took some .020 stainless safety wire and wrapped around a number one Philips screwdriver shank and Voilà, replacement spring Putting the parts in place and pulling the wheels up so the control arms can be glued in place. I used 5 minute epoxy and glued all three points where it was originally mounted, then I placed this cap over the control arms and taped it down so the glue could set up. All fixed! Here's what it looks like after some cleaning and polishing It has a couple more working features, but I didn't photograph them. The left tail light raises up to access the fuel cap and the rear seat armrest can be moved up and down

I've made the repairs. I still have to clean and polish the car. After further study, it looks like the lower suspension control arms are held on at three points by screws. The way this one is broken, it appears all three screws were over-tightened just a bit, putting stress fractures in the plastic. Eventually, through handling and age, these areas just broke and the lower suspension and associated parts fell off. Not sure why the king pin mounts fractured at the lower control arms.

This arrived just now! Not a holy grail, just a car I've wanted to save. Danbury Mint 1941 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60 Sedan. So many of these show up on eBay with broken front suspensions. Many are "repaired" and sale for way more than I would ever pay. I've always wanted one that was complete with all the broken pieces, but not "repaired". The only piece I don't have is one of the fake coil springs. It has a working suspension and I think that's where the problem is. People put too much pressure on the front suspension and it binds and breaks the flimsy plastic pieces. Thankfully all the other parts that seem to come up missing are there too. The mirrors, hood ornament, and tail light gas cover. The best part is I only paid $23.50 plus shipping! Once I finish repairs, I'll make a separate post showing what I did to fix it.

Looks like a Highway 61 1/18 scale