flatheadgary

this was made from a steve sanford drawing in a hot vw mag. i thought it looked really cool. hope you do too.

ah, your all wrong. it's the brush for cleaning the wobbler pin which attaches the gazorick rod to the doohickey!!

that's to cool!! nice job on this one. these always looked to me like something the average guy could have built and raced, back in the day. i really like this one and the long john model. i have been wanting to get these for quite awhile. seems like i am always short of money.

gasserfreak, i just went through a h**L of a learning curve trying to send you some pics. if you got time to go through the album fine, but if you just want to see the ford, go down to about an inch from the bottom. it's flat black. oh yea, great build!! i used to love to go down to LIONS and watch them tow this in, but first, they would be all lined up at the gate and you could just walk up and down, looking at them and talking to them. MAN, that was great. now i am going to date myself a little. i seem to remember most of these guys used to have them on tow bars in line too. you know back in the early '60's, you could get away with towing a non registered race car on the street to the track. this was los angeles too. hahaha

ha! i can tell you for a fact, it did not have chrome headers. i worked with a guy who knew them well. when they went to the hemi motor, he got all the olds stuff. he then got in a bind and sold me an olds motor that he had built and all the blower stuff. he tried to sell me the headers, but i couldn't use them on the '53 ford vicky gasser i was building at the time. they were white painted.

this is something i threw together from parts box stuff. the name is a twist on "shrinking violet" hope you like it!

this is the companion to my destroyer jeep. i couldn't find very many photos of this car, so i used a little modelers license with it. this is the first version of it. the next year, he built it real long and used the flat fendered jeep body. i liked this one better. hope you like it!

i really liked these in resin, thought i might try it in plastic. it's built as a bracket altered. something i might build in 1-1 someday. hope you like it.

i always liked the jeep funnies back in the day. here is my version. it's not done yet. i can't find a clear enough pic to be able to get the decals made. hope you like it

now i know you are saying " it's just another willys pick up" well you would be wrong! it's a vw cab with a '50 chevy truck roof on it. pretty cool huh? now here is the really funny part!! it's 4 banger willys powered! hahaha hope you like it.

I have spent my whole professional life building real fighter aircraft, my hobby building real cars and bikes. Like I said in my previous post, I am 60 years old, as of about 2 weeks ago. I have taken a stab at building models off and on throughout my life but, the real world seemed to always creep in and I would stop. That doesn't mean I didn't love the little models. It just seemed like the creative juices were more demanding of me building real cars and such. What I am trying to say here, in a long winded way is, it just amazes me to death how many of you guys know so much about the real history and the way these models are produced! What a wealth of knowledge you all have. I would love a promoter to get all you guys at a convention to talk about your lives in the hobby. I would imagine, you would have a lot of us spellbound. I have always loved to hear older people tell about things from their past. Even at my age now, I still love it. One of the sad facts of this life is, once the baby boomers are gone, a whole lot of stuff is going to stop. I personally don't think there are enough people under the age of 30, that can keep all the hobbies we boomers seem to have created, alive. Now don't get me wrong, that large sucking sound is not me. I am just always so entertained whenever one of these post comes up. Maybe that's the real benefit of these post, all the info us amatuers get from you guys who know the truth. Anyway, like I said before, I scratch build more than anything else, so accuracy isn't that critical to me. I guess what i am saying is, I am just greatful we have so many subjects in which to build from, good and bad. I wonder how many discussions about the quality of models there were in the early '60's? Obviously, not very many. Ah, time marches on. Now we have all this stuff to play with and we have become so critical about quality. It's like my mom used to tell me when i was wanting something," don't cry about what you can't get, be thankful for what you've got". I would imagine that was a life lesson learned from THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Which now that I think about it, we all may be having to relearn real soon. Now with that happy note, I will leave you to your discussion about how bad we all have it.

floridaboy, i am not aware of any size differances between the '39-'41 willys other than their different front sheet metal. most people would use fiberglass i piece front ends that seem to always be the '41. i would imagine that was do to the fact most of the fiberglass makers used the '41 to build their molds out of. of course, there were the other fronts used to, but they were probably the original sheet metal. the filthy forty of the s&s racing team comes to mind. it was the same with the '33 willys too. i am not positive of the years but i think the '33 to '36's fall into this same senario.

hey!! "older, greyer, fatter, balder seasoned citizens" i represent that remark!! i bow to your superior knowledge Art and the reast of you. seriously, i don't pretend to know as much about the origins and history of models, i just love to build stuff out of my head. i do like to read about it though and you guys seem to know a lot. i do know what you mean about when we were kids. i grew up in a family of 8, no father, on welfare, so money was really tight. i built planes and tanks, when i could sweet talk my mom into a buck, until my older brother got into his teen years and got seduced by wine, women and CARS. i tagged along for the ride, as i looked up to him. he's about 3 years older than me. wait a minute!! that would make me an old man, ######. anyway, great info.

i really don't understand people bad mouthing model kits!! i mean, try kitbashing a dozen kits to build what you want plus a lot of evergreen plastic. try building a model of something that's not built as a kit now. if you can master all those skills and get really good at it, i don't think you will complain very much. i look at all kits as building material. i really don't care how detailed or perfect they are. i will use them, cut them up, reglue new pieces on, do whatever it takes to achieve what i want. if all you can do is build exactly what the kit makers give you, then yes, i can see why they fall short of your expectations. think outside the box!! create something nobody else has built. i haven't built a model exactly like the box art since "75. don't get me wrong, i like to see any model built box stock or not. i think the only people that complain about perfection are those people that don't kitbash. if all you can do is, insert tab a into tab b, then i could understand why you would expect tab a to fit perfectly into tab b and when it doesn't you are at a loss and feel the kit makers are doing a bad job. same thing with flash on parts. i don't see why it puts people out so much. i mean really, you are building something, what is so hard about trimming the parts? does it really put that much more time into finishing the kit? rant over. i feel much better now.

the kit is the '26 model t sedan delivery. it is shortened and chopped. yea, no doors. it's a slammer. in the real world it would have doors. thanks for the replies. gary

this was a glue bomb orange crate i had built about 30 some years ago and thought i would try and save it. hope you like it.

after i built the orange crate bantam i found this and thought i would try it out on this too. hope you like it.

well, thanks for all the replies. i have sanded it and cleaned it to no avail. i am beginning to think it is in the hardener or the cleaning. i took some pic's when a buddy stopped by yesterday and he is just as confused as i am. what i can't get my head around is, bondo is a plastic, how can it not stick to plastic? all the glues stick to the model. the stuff comes off like a silicone rtv for mold making, as you can see.

i read all the search post but, i am having a problem that doesn't make any sense. i can mix bondo and put it on steel and it sands and adhears just fine but, put it on a styrene model and it won't harden. as i try to sand it, it is soft and it will peel off in a glob and have no bonding with the plastic. i have been building 1-1 cars since i was 12 and i am 60 now. this stuff is not new to me but, this has me stumped. i have tried to mix the hardener in different ratios to no avail. i have bought other brands of hardeners, nothing. i have left it in 90 deg sun for days to no avail. i have put it in the dehydrator for days to no avail. then just mix some up and put it on my steel 1-1 and it hardens just fine. sands right down. this is the bondo from wal-mart. maybe that's the problem! does anybody have an idea why this is doing this? i think next time i'm in town, i'll pick up evercoat or something else.

This is a project i've had on the back burner for awhile now and to be honest, i don't know when i'll ever finish it. I decided to build it in 1/25th and see how it will look. the 1-1 won't have anything fancy in the interior so i didn't put one in the 1/25th. hope you like it.

well george53, they have been built as street rods since the late '60's but i have never seen a dedicated altered before. now, i have seen some street rods built and run at the track. the trouble i see with that is, they weigh to much! you might say, what weight? if you use the vw pan and front end, it's really heavy for a drag car. at least to me anyway. i built a street rod one in '76, which was a ball to drive but not on the freeway. i built a tube frame like a v8 t would have, it only wieghed 1275 lbs and would bounce all over the place. it could really scare you, when the wind and a bump on the road would send you into the next lane. i figure i can get this altered to weigh about 700 lbs. with a mild motor, i don't see why 12 seconds isn't possible. anyway, it was fun and i have been wanting to build another one for a while now but, more of a coupe type. like this: this is the street rod one i built in '76. i hope this answers some of your thoughts about vw-t's

i have been drawing pics and thinking about this for about 6 years, to build in 1-1 for the vw drag days we have here. so thought i might build it in 1/25th first. it's not very detailed, as i just wanted it to be a mockup for the 1-1 to see what problems i might encounter. i narrowed the body 4 scale inches which i will not do in 1-1. it caused some fit problems with the motor. i hope you find it interesting.

heres a couple of 1-1 car sites http://ratrodsrule.com/forum/ http://www.killbillet.com/

yea, it's all scratch built. the bulbs are filed round sprue and the rest is evergreen plastic. i was at vegas a couple weeks ago and took pics of the starting line and just printed them out as wallet size and they fit pretty good. glad you like my dio. i always liked seeing peoples dio's when they take pics of their drag cars on stuff like this.

i know some people don't like this car, personally i do. maybe because, i got alot of imagination and don't see everything as being sacred as they do. i don't really know. i thought it flowed pretty good. maybe alot better than alot of cars that have been made. anyway, this is what i built. not exactly the same but, close. it is a bit of a curbside model as doing all the other work took so long, i got fed up with working on it, not any real detail work. i build for own amusement, so i am not really concerned with other peoples critique of my skills but, i hadn't seen anybody else build one so here it is. i finally got a good camera and figured "what the heck", maybe somebody would be interested in my junk!