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Here another one. This time Hawk. Plus a fun Cap's Hobby Center carton. I've been wondering why that dog we had for a short time in the early 60's disappeared. Yet it disappeared just before I started building models.

Thanks for tipping me off on this one Tim. I did not know about it. Does the kit come with a proper Plain-Jane 202 bench seat interior? I assume grille, bumpers, headlights, taillights, chassis, and engine can all be sourced from AMT's modern '67 Cyclone kit? Though my folk's car was powered by the 200 cu. in. straight-six, I could live with a 390 V-8 under the hood from the Cyclone kit in my model of a Comet 202.

Found this (below) in with my Williams Bros.' Northrop Gramma kit. A sheet promoting IPMS-USA membership for one year, from July 1, 1976 - June 30, 1977. $8.50 for an adult (18 and over) one year membership. $5.00 for "juniors" (age 17 and under) one year membership. I would have just missed qualifying for a junior membership by six months. Kind of cool. An interesting look at how modelers got their information before the internet.

A great video. Of one beautiful car.

Today I got another model airplane kit. The Williams Bros.' 1/72 scale Northrop Gamma. The plans are to build it as Frank Hawks' "Sky Chief." Also in today's mail, a pretty cool book. Golden Age Air Racers in Color 1929-1939, by Sonny Schug. I love these Golden Age airplanes. And Mr. Schug's book makes me want to add more kits of planes of that era to my collection. As you can see by several recent postings here, I've got a pretty good start on that collection.

Accurate or not, being that my folks bought a '67 Comet (Sad to say, not a Cyclone. But, a lowly 202.) brand new in 1967, I have a very soft spot for these cars. I'll be buying one, and building as it comes in the box.

They are fun. I haven't seen them in years. I'm glad to see they still are be made. By the same company, since 1926 no less. And the exact same models I remember from back in the 1960's. Sometimes the simple things are the best. I'm looking forward to nice weather this spring, to go outside and try them out.

Nah, your not losing me. Cars always have been, and always will my favorite genre of model kits and transportation. Still, I have been on a bit of an airplane kick lately. And I don't know why? I do have several cars I'm working on. My next finished project there, most likely will be Monogram's '65 Shelby GT350. I also have those two Lost in Space kits I'm hot on getting done soon. The next airplane? AMT's Beech Staggerwing and than Testor's Mr. Mulligan. But leave cars? Never! And thank you to the others who have given me nice complements on this build. I'm pretty happy with it overall.

Apparently they weren't big sellers. For they offered more Revell parts packs in later catalogs at the same price. Ah, to only have a time machine.

This is an original 1956 edition of Hawk's Supermarine S6B airplane. The real plane was designed to compete in the 1931 Schneider Trophy Races. Powered by a Rolls-Royce "R" V-12, putting out 2,600 hp. It won the '31 Schneider races at 314.8 mph. Later it became the first plane to go over 400 mph. Supermarine would go on and build the famous Spitfires that fought bravely in the famous Battle of Britain. Both the S6B and Spitfire were designed R.J. Mitchell. The Hawk kit itself is listed by most sources as being in 1/48 scale. Though neither the original box or instructions give a scale. It looks like it might be a little smaller than 1/48, compared to other 1/48 scale airplanes in my collection. It builds quite nicely. The only problem I had were with the 63 year old decals. Despite using Microscale's Liquid Decal Film and Micro Sol setting solution. But still I think it turned out pretty good. I hope you guys like it and agree.

Good source for these instructions. I'm just not sure placing them here in the "1:1 Car Reference Pictures" is the right place for people to find them. This not the place here for them. These threads in this area are for dealing with 1:1 scale (in other words "real" full-size) cars. Maybe "Model Building Questions and Answers?" Still it is a good source.

Lovely. Nice job.

As others have said before me. Very nice.

Beautiful. I love those big Birds.

I may have turned 61 a week ago. But, I'm still a big kid at heart.

I, like several others here, love all of the different accessories found in kits over the years. Even though I rarely use them with any of them with my builds. That said, I could not pass up on buying these two last night. Two boxes full of "geegaws" I may never find a real use for. But, I had to have them. I love it!

My parents '67 Mercury Comet 202, they bought new in the summer of 1967, came with the plastic windshield washer jug. I've seen a lot of '67 Fords with the washer bags. I can't remember seeing any with the jugs. I don't believe I've ever seen a '67 Mercury with the bag. Though I have have seen '66 Mercurys with the bag. With Fords and Mercurys coming down the same assembly lines, one would think that minor items like windshield washer containers would be the same? Though the cap on our '67 Comet washer jug also had the Mercury God of Speed head logo molded into it. Another possibility is the switch from the bag to the plastic jugs happened as the model year went on. It was and is, not unusual for car manufacturers to make changes like that during model year run. We still see that with more modern Ford products we sell parts for at my part time job at O'Reilly Auto Parts. My folks special ordered their '67 Comet early in the summer. What would be fairly late in the production run. It came with the "Sports Coupe" package that was not available until late in the run.* So, is this the reason for their car having a jug rather than a bug? * The "Sports Coupe" package was available late in the model runs for both the 1966 and '67 Mercury Comet 202 two-door sedans. Besides the normal 202 features and equipment, the Sports Coupes came with vinyl upholstery, carpeting, full wheel covers, bright window frames, and "Sports Coupe" nameplate on glove box door. It was one of those spring/summer special models many manufacturers came out with to promote more sales of cars late in the model run.

Scott Garascia did a great job on his Mustang above. But, the first thing, before see how nice his model is, distracting me, are those vent windows. Right away they jump out at me whenever I see one of these kits built. No matter how nicely done. I've seen the kit built were someone cut the vent windows out. Better. The slope of the windshield, IMO, does not looks as bad then. But, real '64 through '68 Mustangs have vent windows. So the lack of them is still distracting to me. It's a shame. If it wasn't for the that windshield slope/vent window problem, I could probably could over look most of the other issues with the kit. I do like the plain notchback Mustangs of that era. (Not as much as the convertible or fastback. But still, I like them.) So, the best version of that body style Mustang, in my collection, remains the AMT '66.

It's the second Wednesday of the month. That means Model Car Club of Minnesota meeting night. And here are a couple of kits I picked up from our local vendor who comes most month's, with the newest stuff at decent prices.

That is a commercial I like. Very creative and fun.

Did this kit sell in its last release? I think of AMT's 1/16 kits, this the one I disliked the most. The windshield and vent window look so wrong to me. I could never understand how they felt it was okay to release the kit originally, looking the way it did. The other AMT 1/16 kits I've been exposed to, looked much better. Details were not much better in AMT's 1/16 scale kits, then most of their older 1/25 scale kits. But the end results generally looked pretty good. MPC's 1/16 1963 Corvette is a much better kit (IMO), detail wise than the AMT's 1/16 kits. That kit, and AMT's 1/16 1955 Thunderbird are two kits I'm waiting for Round 2 to reissue.

Looks good. Next to the original (60's) Enterprise, I like the E next.

Very nice.

Okay, I found it. On page 3 (of course).

Good to see the Brat coming back. Disappointed that the GMC Astro is coming back without the turbine. I already have one without the turbine. Plus I have a Chevy Titan. So I'll be passing on another Astro because of the lack of the turbine.