unclescott58
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20 hours ago, Mike C. said:
Your welcome John. They also have good videos on rusting them up and other patina.
The rusting one is what I need for my recently acquired AMT “Diamond In The Rough” kit. Any chance of making an easy link to that one?
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I remember seeing an article on the Flajole Forerunner in an old copy of a Mechinix Illustrated magazine from back when the car was new. I always thought it was kind of cool. I’m glad it still exists, and is in good shape.
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3 hours ago, Plowboy said:
Here's one I ran into recently. It's from the AMT '69 GTX. It also has the Beep Beep horn mounting to the firewall for the wipers motor.
I actually wanted to use the single four barrel intake and carburetor. But, the way the intake is made, you could see the lifter valley underneath.
Beep Beep horn?
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Now the title says “cancelled due to offending of rules”? Man, you guys know how to continue rubbing a guys face in it. How much more am I going to be punished for this? Forgiveness is is just not be found here I guess.
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1 hour ago, ChrisR said:
Cool!
32 minutes ago, cobraman said:Cool old kit.
Thank you.
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14 hours ago, PappyD340 said:
Pretty cool!
4 hours ago, TonyK said:These are really cool. Thanks for sharing and I believe you've become a good promoter of this product. Might have to look into getting one myself.
Why thank you, gentlemen.
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On 8/5/2022 at 7:12 PM, Little Timmy said:
All I got was a Palmer Mustang .... at least I " think" it's a Mustang ...
I too got Palmer kits for Christmas. Mainly given to me by elderly female relatives who knew nothing about model cars, other than I like to build them. And you could get two Palmer kits for the price of one AMT or MPC. And what kid wouldn’t be more happy with two model car kits, vs one? Argh! They were well meaning old bats. And I built the kits, as ugly as those kits may be.
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I don’t how to make links to other postings here. But, if one goes to the next page here, you’ll find a thread here dealing with Atlantis reissuing Mongram’s old 1/32 scale funny cars.
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6 hours ago, TonyW said:
That's a very clean looking build.
Leaving the body in bare plastic is a good idea, A real buggy would have been gell coat fiberglass finished I think, so your method replicates real life practice.
6 hours ago, slusher said:Really looks great Scott!
Thank you guys.
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53 minutes ago, Mike C said:
Nice builds.?
Thank you.
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Another fun Tom Daniel model kit. A reasonably easy build. I left the body, other than the seats, unpainted. Painting everything else. The one thing I do not like on this kit are the decals, reading “Li’l Van” for the “C” pillars. So I left those off. All in all, I think it turned out fairly well.
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Last weekend I made my first visit to a Lego/brick store, Brickmania, in Northeast Minneapolis. They not only sell Lego bricks, but other brands as well. This is where I got my first exposure to the COBI brand of building bricks. Right away I saw these car kits by COBI, that actually looked somewhat like the cars they are suppose to represent when they are done. Plus they were much more reasonably priced than the Lego brand of building bricks vehicles and cars. Since I like odd cars, and one of the cars was a Citroen 2CV from the 1960’s, I had to buy it. Well I had so much fun building it, and I liked the end results, I ran back down to Brickmania today and picked up the other two Citroen 2CVs COBI makes.
So here they. They are in 1/35th scale. And they represent a pretty good spread of the history of the Citroen 2CV. The Grey one is a first year of the 2CV. A 1949 2CV type A. The second one, the Blue one, is a 1962 2CV type AZ. The third, the Yellow and Black one, represents a 1980 2CV Charleston. They very are fun kits to build. They take about a half an hour to 45 minutes each to build. I like that they come with a brick/plaque you can set by each car, telling you what it is (the Fokker DR1 “Red Baron” I build last weekend, also comes with such a brick/plaque). In addition the same basic information is given on the front and back of each car, in the form of license plates and other badges.
They make a couple Fiat 500 Abarths, both vintage and modern, I may have to pick up next. I like the COBI Citroen 2CVs that much.
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I had so much fun, and liked the end results, of building my COBI Citroen 2CV Type AZ I got last weekend. That I had to go back to Brickmania and pick up COBI’s other two Citroen 2CVs. A Type A, and a Charleston. I hope. I’m sure, they’ll be as fun to build as the first one.
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Holy smokes. That is something. Impressive.
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1 hour ago, PappyD340 said:
Very nice!
Thank you, Larry.
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7 hours ago, peteski said:
Since the rules are clearly stated in the initial post (even before the photo), I'm really surprised anybody would miss that.
Enough already guys! I screwed up. I’m idiot okay. Give it a rest.
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I hate the car. But, I love seeing your build of it. Good job.
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Very nice.
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On 8/1/2022 at 11:56 PM, slusher said:
Nice pair Scott!
6 hours ago, iamsuperdan said:As far as I'm concerned, building a Cobi kit or a Lego kit is really no different than building a snap model kit. So they totally have a place here!
I've never heard of Cobi before, so had a look at their website. Some interesting stuff there. Surprised they have the Top Gun licensing!
2 hours ago, bbowser said:I have had my 2 grandsons build a few Airfix kits and it has been great fun. Not too difficult but not too simple and they can stand up to some play afterwards. Keep them coming!
Thank you gentlemen.
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1 hour ago, otherunicorn said:
You are meant to send a private message (PM) to the person who made the initial post, telling them and them alone what you think the vehicle is. That way we can all do our research and give our answer without spoiling the fun of the search for anyone else.
Okay. I’ve got it now. Again, sorry I ruined this one guys.
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1 hour ago, Motor City said:
Why stress over it? I'm sure you have plenty of kits to work on just like the rest of us.
I’m not really stressed over it. It’s just how long will this continue? Why not tell us so we can move on?
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Rereading the the rules. I’m still not getting it? And I’ll be honest, I do not understand what the big deal is. I saw photo asking what this was. I knew what it was, so I answered it. I was not expecting a prize or anything. I did not do it to upset anybody. And I will not be participating in this game again in future, since I still do not get the rules. Again, I apologize.
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9 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:
Nice job ruining the game.
Try reading the rules next time.
9 hours ago, Richard Bartrop said:
10 minutes ago, otherunicorn said:Just in case you can't read, here's a line from the instructions: "In case of violating the rules the quiz will closed immediately and no winners will be announced"
I'll be billing you for the hours I spent looking for the correct answer, time that has now been wasted.Sorry guys. Your right I did not understand the rules. I apologize.
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Talk About Sticker Shock--MPC Corvette Funny Cars
in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Posted · Edited by unclescott58
Whoa! I’m sorry, but I too find the above horribly ugly. No offense meant to anybody who likes it.