unclescott58

Ah good.... I see somebody caught my sense of humor. I really have no dog in this fight. When it comes to Ford, I'm old school. I really like Ford flat heads. Problems and all. But, I know this is not where this question was intended to go. Scott

Very nice. But, Greg and Harry are both right about the shifter (as can be seen in the picture Harry posted). Scott

Looking great so far. Looking forward to see this when it's finished. Scott

Very nice car. It's got two big things going for it in my book. It's a Buick. And it's blue. I love it. Congratulations on getting a picture of it in Hot Rod. It's worth gracing the pages of that fine institution. Scott

I tried digital versions of both Road & Track and the Smithsonian for a year. It was OK. But, I've gone back to reading them in paper form. I'm not sure why I didn't like the digital versions in the end? I just didn't. Scott

That video convinces me even more of the brushes value. True Tamiya products seem overpriced. For years I avoided Tamiya stuff for that reason. But there is that old saying. "You get what you pay for." Tamiya paint cost more than Testors. But I have a lot less problems with their paint. So I end painting more things only once. And I have to do less polishing to do in the end. Saving time and money. And here's the big one, I'm a lot happier with the results. The same thing with their rotating paint stand. Hangers are a lot cheaper. I used them for years. But Tamiya stand is better in so many ways. I can more easily and precisely rotate the model and keeping it level as I do. Expensive? Yes, but I sure like it. On the surface this brush's price may seem out of line. But, if does what they say and show, it's worth every penny to me. I'm tried of buying cheap stuff that does the job only OK (or not at all). I'm willing to pay the price now to get a tool that does things right the first time. Scott

I practically worship at Tamiya's feet. Use to think things like the above brush were overkill. Too pricey. But, the more I use different Tamiya products, the more see they are worth the price. I did not know about the above brush. Since it's designed to get rid of static electricity I'll be buying one. After all, static electricity is one of the things that attracts dust in the first place. Scott

Like Charlie says. That should work. Scott

AMT's '60 and '61 Ranchero kit has the "baddest Ford motor". It's a Chevy. Scott

Chuck your amazing. Your translation made sense and looked right. Now I get the posting. Everything but the "Ralphie Centuries". And in general, now that I understand the posting, I can agree with it for the most part. And here I always thought they spoke English in Indiana. Thankfully there are people from California who can understand Indianin.

Very nice. Fun to see a pre-war Opel. Or any Opel other than a GT that is. (I like GTs. I just wish there were more models of other Opels in 1/25th or 1/24th scale.) I'm looking forward to seeing more of this build as you go along. Thanks for sharing it with us Art. Scott

Looks cool to me. And I really like the color. Scott

Very nice Bruce. It turned out great. One very minor mistake though. The oval you painted blue on the back of your car should be red. That is not the old blue Ford oval used as a logo on Ts, As, and such, and modern Fords again since the early 80's. That's a red XL logo. It's so minor I'm not sure I would worry about it. Most people will never know its wrong. Scott

What!? I don't understand just about anything you said here, John. The only thing I could make out is you may have directly or indirectly worked for GM, and you started building Corvettes back in 1958 (kits, full size, what?). What does "rebuilding the string" mean? There are other parts of this posting that left me confused. What are "Ralphie Centuries" for example? And what is a "GM goober smoocher"? Was this posting written is some kind of code? It wasn't written in a form of English I understand. Scott

Went on Drastic Plastic's Fotki model instruction web site to look at the '64 kits. Very cool! Both the Chevelle wagon and El Camino kits for '64 came with the straight six. I can imagine the six didn't go over too big with model builders of time. It was the age of the V8, after all. But if I found one today, I definitely would build it with the six. AMT's first gen Barracuda also came with the choice of a slant six or a Hemi. A stock Barracuda required building it with the six. I don't know why AMT did not include the 273 V8 in this rather than the six. But then again, I don't understand why the '64 Chevelle wagon and El Camino came with the six, rather than a stock version of the 283. Scott

Greg the Revell 1959 Space Station is the holy grail of model kits to me. I've talked to the folks at Revell about repopping this kit. Sorry to say, they told me it will never happen. They said the dies for the kit are long gone. That's a shame. From my understanding, it was only released the one time and was not a big seller. I'll bet that's part of the reason the dies went missing. Maybe someday we'll each find one. But, I'm not holding my breath. The other space kit I'd like to see Revell reissue is the 1957 XSL-01 Moon Rocket. I think this may have been offered than once. In an abbreviated form. I'd love to see this kit back in its full glory, complete form. Scott

This is the way clubs should be. By the way Kenneth if you ever get to my part of the world I'd be more than glad to take you a meeting of the MCCM (Model Car Club of Minnesota). I guarantee you would be made to feel welcome there. Scott

Very nice. Beautiful. Scott

For some reason I can not send you one-to-one message. You can contact me personally through my email address at: unclescott58@usiwireless.com Scott

Art, what scale is this? And can you take some pictures? Scott

All the more impressive. Scott

OK here's one of my favorite kits I put together about 15 or so years ago. It's built from a Shawn Carpenter resin conversion kit and AMT's '55 Chevy Cameo kit. First a little background on the real trucks. When Chevrolet put out the Cameo pickup in 1955, GMC got their own version. To confuse matters, they called it a Suburban pickup. At the same time both GMC and Chevrolet were offering the traditional Suburban Carryall. Which is still offered under that name by Chevrolet. Why they chose to use that name on this truck I don't know. The other thing different about the GMC Suburban pickup, is unlike to the '55 Cameo it was available in other colors and single tones. Were first year Cameos were all White with Red accents and inner bed. Plus the GMC was powered by a Pontiac V8. So much for the real trucks. Again, this is a resin conversion that was offered by Shawn Carpenter out of Colorado. I don't know if he's still in business or not. But, his resin kits are some of the best I've ever come across. The conversion kit included a chrome plated grille and bumper, a hood with chrome center emblem, correct chrome hub caps, a correct dashboard and tailgate, plus photo etched emblems for the front fenders. Everything but the Pontiac engine. His white resin plastic pieces looked more like styrene that resin. Prep was virtually nil. His stuff was that nice. The only real modification to the AMT Cameo was cutting away a lower lip on the front end so the GMC bumper would fit. One of nicest, easiest resin conversion kits I've ever had the pleasure to work with. Scott

As I've said in other postings, next after cars, I love to build models from space ships. And here are two from the 1950's ready to launch. First up is Glencoe Model's 3 Stage Ferry Rocket. This a repop of the old Strombecker/Disney kit from the mid 50's. This is a Wernher von Braun design done for Disney's Man in Space episode on the 1950's Disneyland TV show. I'm very lucky to have the original series on DVD. So I did this model up to look as close as possible to how it was seen on show. Even though the TV show was done in the mid 1950's, Walt had the fore site to film it in color for later theatrical release. The second rocket is the Monogram Willy Ley Passenger Rocket. This is the late 90's SSP repop of the original late 50's version. Both were fun kits to build with very few problems. If I had a better camera for posting these pictures, I would have loved to show you more detail of each kit. There are some fun things you can not see in these photos. Scott

OK, here are two AMT '55 Chevy Nomads. Both straight box builds. Adding nothing more than paint and glue. The first is a Nomad El Camino I built a couple of years ago. I always wanted to build this kit in the El Camino pickup truck version. To fill the roof seam I just used good old Testors Contour Putty. A lot of people tell the stuff is no good. I found in this case and on others models the stuff works just fine. The second Nomad I built within the last month. It's one of AMT's ProShop pre-decorated kits. I was more than slightly disappointed with this kit. I've heard many people over the years talk about the chassis in this kit being warped, making it hard to build. The chassis on both of my Nomads here were OK. But, the body around the tailgate on this ProShop kit was warped. Had a heck of a time getting both the upper and lower tailgates to fit. Forget making them work. Just getting them to fit was the problem. An interesting problem and solution came up while trying to install the upper tailgate. I could not get the hinge bracket to stay in place. So I used a little Gorilla Super Glue. The fumes of the glue lightly fogged the glass near by. OK, now what does one do to take care of that problem? At the same time I was over on Model Encyclopedia looking at old Car Model magazines. And an old tip came up about using toothpaste for polishing your models. I remember doing this back in the day. And it worked pretty good. I got thinking, "what would toothpaste do to the fogged plastic glass?" I gave it a try. It worked great! Polishing away the fog So here is Nomad number 2. With ill fitting tailgate and defogged windows. Mixed feelings about AMT's old '55 Nomad kit. Kind of a pain to build. The tooling for this kit has seen it's better days. It's a great car. But, not a great kit of that car. Scott

Very nice Larry. I assume the front is AMT's recent Ford van kit? But, how about the box part? Is it scratch built? Or from one of AMT's larger Ford truck kits? Scott