THarrison351

Thanks, I not sure how old this build is, but it looks like it's been around for awhile and in a dust free area. I've read Harry likes polished plastic and this is proof in the pudding. Most of the metal parts are painted to look like their corresponding component. A lot of the plastic is as molded, brush detail painted or polished. All that shiny red is polished without clear. After looking at some Protar kits 1/9 online and comparing them to like 1/12 Tamiya (incredible detail) kits. Harry did a masterful job with this kit. I feel fortunate to have it. Be sure to check the rest of the pictures at my Fotki link under Harry's Bike album.

Although I was not lucky enough to know Harry as may did on this forum, I did respect his words of wisdom. He was quick to offer advice and proper criticism to those who wanted it. He was also an avid builder and his ability to reproduce lifelike features in miniature were well known. Add my name to the list of those fortunate enough to have one of Harry's models in his collection. I became aware of Amy's eBay listings and was fortunate enough to win one of his motorcycles he built. It had suffered from some minor damage prior to shipment. The mirror and one of the levers had broken off. I have since repaired those items and now have it in a case. Also, she did a wonderful job of packing the bike and the box that came with it. Here are some pictures: Protar Ducati 888 SP4 Superbike Before Shipping Now

Like you said, the roofline is just too sleek to fit in with the retro below the beltline. Reminds when they had kits for putting 49-50 Ford bodywork on nineties T-birds. It just looked odd to me.

I'm pretty happy with my results so far, but I haven't tried to use it on very large surfaces. Like this emblem Or the polished edge of a wheel

OK, whatever. I see shades of grey paint and you see polished stainless or chrome.

So, this to me is a first. It's a stock car with hubcaps and they are not chrome plated. The stock hubcaps were polished stainless steel and a brushed middle. You can't do that with paint. The black and white photos on the instructions look terrible and they don't represent well. Here's what a new hubcap looks like:

It would depend on what decade I built it. My detailed Bill Elliott Bud 11 car took two kits, aftermarket paint, decals, and various photo-etch bits and accessories. I built it in 1993 and it cost probably less than $70. Kits were cheap at Walmart, maybe $5 or 7 each. I think the decals were maybe $5, Tru-Match paint was less than $5, each one of those bags of Detail Master sets were less than $5. Each decade the price of kits went up a little, but right after 2010, wow! Double! and every year it seems a few dollars, not cents more. I'd say to try and build the same type of detailed car today (not NASCAR, because you can't give the '90s models away), I might have to spend twice as much, depending where the model was purchased from.

Well, at least yours plans to sell them. My wife will give my son first dibs, then goodwill, and finally trash. She has told me I better not instantly die either. I need to sort and box everything before I pass. Besides plastic models, I have a pretty large collection of diecast from 1/64 to 1/18 scale.

Looks great. I had a whole bunch of these up until last year. I never built them and I felt I never would, because it's an odd scale for me. So I sold all but an MG TC because I built it when I was a kid and want to try it again as an adult.

Hey, I built one with a color similar to that back in the seventies. Except it didn't turn out nothing near as good as yours and had the sick cylinder in it. Looks great.

Try hot water, finesse and patience.

I buy my cases by the case, no pun intended, the same ones that Hobby Lobby sales, directly from the manufacturer. https://www.pioneerplastics.com/ It's cheaper in the long run. This was before I moved. I haven't put anything back out since I don't have a room to display my cars anymore.

Your Dodge mini truck would be originally an MPC 1981ish D-50 which is really a badge engineered Mitsubishi truck. The pink version was released when AMT/ERTL had MPC's old tools. I guess Round2 has them now and we'll see this kit again. Maybe with the four wheel drive?

I have a cat

Yeah, go ahead and build them. You can't sell them for more than a buck on eBay. Believe me, I've tried

I don't know if they are still available, but when that kit was originally issued, you could contact Revell and they would send you a set of pad printed white walls. I got a set for mine several years ago.

68 GP drool My favorite year

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Back in the '90s when I was building all the time, I was crankin' out Monogram's and AMT's NASCAR kits every few weeks, and had a little production line for myself. I guess I've built around 20-30, but it's been so long since I've un-boxed them, that might be wrong.

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I think the Baja Bronco was previously covered in this thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/115085-revell-4q2016-release-annoucement/?page=4 It looks like paint cut rear wheel wells with fender flairs, chrome wheels and bigger tires

I went to Photobucket after right clicking and following open link in new tab to FloydMarsee2s Bucket. Then I clicked on recent uploads and page 2 is pictures of his beautiful model. Great looking model.

Looks like your steering wheel was broken. I hope that isn't typical of whats found in the kit.

Well, I just finished transferring all my pictures to Fotki. Now all that's left is repopulating all my old posts. Yeah, what fun.

I was just notified by PB that to continue to use them for 3rd party hosting I would have to upgrade to their plus 500 membership at $399 a year. I'm only at 10% of use on my free account so I don't think I was using too much bandwidth. I've gone back and checked my posts and it appears all pictures are gone and replaced with PB 3rd Party Hosting has been temporarily disabled. So, I'm not going to pay $400 a year and I guess I have to find another website for my photos.