pepperdrumstix

I don't and can't buy on-line as I don't have an on-line account or a credit card. I go to one of the LHSs in my area to get my kits, supplies and paints. After shopping in these stores for most of my life I enjoy going into a brick and mortar store for an hour or so. They have kits to look at, supplies to sort through for future projects, books and magazines, built models of all kinds to see and enjoy and friendly help to answer my questions. Because of my past and present medical and financial problems I don't have a car to drive so I ride the buses. I plan for the whole day on these LHS trips and go to more than one. I carry a fairly large back-pack to bring things home so I am somewhat limited in my purchases as far as size and number of items. I do OK and have not had any trouble getting the things i want or need in the last 16 years doing things this way. It does prevent me from going to the local model club meetings though and that is a bummer. You do what you have to do to be in this hobby. I also trade kits and parts with forum members and that is always a treat to help someone find the kit or part they need and when I need something these is usually someone to help me out. One more reason I love this hobby and the people that enjoy it. Thanks folks. Patrick Mitchell

I would buy at least 2 today if the kit was out. So many combinations of builds can be made with this kit by kit-bashing it. I loved the '46-'47-'48 kit and didn't buy enough when I had the chance. Can't wait for the next issue of this fine kit.

For some reason I can't click on the photos to see this WIP. I would like to see the build in progress as I have thought about building a '34 woody too from the AMT kits. I will try again tonight but if it doesn't click I won't know what to do. Patrick

Nice build of the older Revell T kit. That frame is a little hard to get straight and flat without some extra care and work, but it looks good assembled and fits fine under the body and gives a nice Hot Rod stance to the little T sedan delivery. That Jag(?) "indy" rear end looks great under the rear of this car. Nice big and little tires even though they are 2 piece if my memory is correct. The car and the frame are based on a real car built by a famous hot rod builder and machinist and Indy car builder named John, can't remember his last name, but he passed the same year as the famous car builder Boyd Cottington. Revell used the frame under several of their Hot Rod series kits from that time. I like this build, good job. Please forgive my spelling and senior moments. Patrick M

Just the way I like them. Nice clean work. Those old original "Shoeboxes" look fine with just minimum modifications, good paint and mag wheels. The red painted steel wheels on the flat black '49 look good too. Fine work and thanks for the photos. A "Shoebox Ford" fan--Patrick M

That's a real car. Look at the black rubber washer under the chrome antenna on the body and as far as I know no-one made a die-cast 4 door Buick like this. Look at the chrome itself, it looks real, the glass looks real. Headlights and the turn signals. I can't see the windshield wipers but I can see the posts. Even if you broke the wipers off on a die-cast the posts wouldn't be there so visible. I vote real.

Thanks Aaron from Australia for the complete add. I never saw the full add with the comment the boy should be on drums. I have never seen the other adds and I hope to. I remember Truly Nolan here in Phx when they seemed to have an old classic car at nearly every gas station in town. Boy do I regret not taking photos of all of those cars and trucks. Don't know where they are now. I couldn't imagine them being there now with all the parts thieves and car thieves out there now. Thanks guys for the neat responses. That little roadster had dual carbs on the flat head. Cool commercials.

Anybody else seen this new TV add for a famous pest control company about this family coming home after a vacation and 2 large rats are jamming on electric guitars in the living room and they give the family some grief about coming home too soon. Then they see the "O" pest control guy the family calls and the next scene is the pest guy looking out at the street and watching a real rat roadster driving by with the 2 rats in it. The little roadster is a late '20s rusty car with a flathead with flames shooting out of one of the the exhausts. It is fenderless and hood less and real looking. The flathead looks to have double or triple carbs. Like most things you want to see in commercials now days they flash show the car in about 3 seconds. But boy that flathead sounds great and those header flames look real. I saw it late last night on the country music channel while watching the program "Crossroads". The rats are a little scary for the younger viewers so be careful of that. I haven't seen it today yet. Patrick M

As was said by another member, "that's all I build". I have newer kits of the muscle car era but that's as far into the new cars I go, '74. Good post. Patrick M

I know that Chevy--GMC made some of these back in the day without the dualies. Some were 4X4s and made for utility companies and others were custom ordered for big outdoor mining and logging companies. Dodge made some as far back as the late '50s with crew cabs and even 4x4s. I like what you are doing here. Paint it some wild color and put a boat and trailer with it. Keep us posted please. Patrick M

Nice idea. I do remember an older builder that had some builds and articles in the old car model hobby magazines that did something like this with '32 Fords. Maybe it was Bill Colter but who ever it was researched and build most of the stock '32 Fords. He had only the AMT kits to use and he scratch built a lot of the different type bodies. I saw how he made a '32 Ford truck out of the MPC '34 truck by modifying the moldings on the back of the cab. Another builder named Jack Davis made a bunch of '30s Fords out of the kits availible then. He made them curbside with dark tinted windows to hid the non-finished interiors. He was a welder, header fabricator and didn't have the time to detail these models but the paint jobs were excellent. He was the first to make some B-400s from '32 to '33 to 34s. Bill Colter, if he was the one to do all the stock '32 Fords, had about a dozen or so of factory models that the model makers never made or even considered. I think he also did the factory stock builds of AMT '39-'40 Fords too. He pointed out the differences between the standards, the deluxes and the year to year changes. He pointed out that the '39 Deluxe was the '40 standard the next year and the base models each year had only one tail light and windshield wiper. He built all the styles from coupes to sedans to sedan deliveries. Factory colors too. Sorry to ramble on but your idea and the models you have ready to build reminded me of the older articles. Sorry I don't have the years, issues and magazine name but I believe most were in the first years of SAE in the mid '80s. Before it was bought by Kalmback. Someone like Tim Boyd would remember more. Or Dennis Doty. Keep us posted and keep building. Patrick M

I am loving this build. I like '62 T Birds and have one I have been working on for a while. I need to repaint it this summer. I have used the Testors' Boyd's Grape Purple pearl and it was a nice paint to use. Should look fine with the kit decals and that perfect white interior. Did you "rub" the black paint on the chassis to get the different color tones and highlights? I do that with flat black spry paints to get contrasting coloring and tones. That "rubbing the surface" creates a different color and texture from the initial color coat. This will be a nice period perfect custom of a great looking car. Patrick M

I am presently working on an MPC 1/16th '57 Corvette I have painted in these same colors, and it looks like this. I had it at the last Desert Scale Classic show in Phx last April in the WIP section. I used the tires from an AMT 1/16th '57 kit with acrylic painted white walls. My chrome being older and loose in the box when I got the kit is not as nice as on this car but the parts I have look like those on this car. My guess is a well built MPC 1/16th model. Patrick M

This is going to be cool. If the detailing on the chassis and mufflers and the holes drilled in the engine block--water pump for water lines plumbing is any indication of future building I will watch this build. Keep us posted please.One of my favorite Plymouth cars of the early '70s. Patrick M

That Chevy looks warped in the middle too. The front and back ends seem to curl up from the middle. Is it a 4 door? That might make it worth a few bucks. This might be an acetate plastic body that warps over time. Can't be repaired. Just like some early promo models I saw several years ago in the Largest Antique Mall in America near Columbus Ohio for sale for around $75--$80 each. Every one was warped in some way. I bought 4 older rare kits for $100. That was a good deal. Too many people think these old models are worth a fortune and they aren't. Good luck on those sale prices. Not enough centuries have past for them to be worth that much. Patrick M

It has what looks like a newer Lincoln grille and a Mark 4(?) body with customizing. So my guess is a Lincoln custom by some shop or factory backed place. The red color is nice but I don't like the whole car. Looked again and it might be a Buick. Just seen a grille like that on a Buick in my area. Could be a custom produced in limited numbers. Wait a minute, this could be a GM Monte Carlo with a Buick grille and extended front clip. Heck I don't know. I do know it is a mid size car with an extended front clip and a custom paint job. Custom Olds Cutlass? No, it's a Lincoln. I do know it isn't a red Camaro. I'm so confused. Patrick M

I just heard today Sunday the 12th of June they were allowed back into their homes again. Smoke is bad but most returned. Don't Know if Tim's or other folks homes were burnt or damaged or not touched, yet. This fire is now the biggest wild fire in AZ history burning an area over 430.000 acres--nearly 600 square miles and heading into New Mexico. Over 10.000 people evacuated. The fire is only 6% contained at this point. Strong winds are making it hard to control and fight. Thankfully no one injured or found dead. They say this was a camp fire left un-attended that started the fire. The other 2 large fires in southern AZ are also man caused. Thankfully Tim and others are OK and able to return home.

Thanks Dan. I was watching the local news tonight and it was stated they had maybe 1 to 2 % containment with a fire the size of Phx. Fire was spotting in Springerville and Eagar. I can't imagine what those people are going through. To just wait to see if your home is burnt or not. I am praying for them. Patrick M

I saw my grandson playing with this little scale skate board with perfect removable wheels that look almost like wheelie bar wheels. They come off of the skate board axles with a nut and are in various sizes in a parts pack at the toy and big box stores. Could probably use the axle too for the end of the wheelie bar that holds the wheels to the ground. Just my 2 cents on this subject. Patrick M

I live in Phx AZ and have been watching the local and national news reports about the large out of control wild fires in Eastern AZ in the White Mt area. I know Tim Peticost lives in an area recently evacuated and I know there are other modelers up there in the danger zones and I wonder how they are doing. Would like to hear they are OK and doing fine. Patrick Mitchell

I think this is real, Harry. The chrome is to perfect to be Alclad or something else besides real chrome. A beautiful real old style custom. I hope.

One of the Oscar Meyer Winnie-mobiles just got busted by the Scottsdale cops for bad plates. Was on TV news and I was almost laughing. Cop cars behind and next to the big Winnie mobile with the driver out standing with the cops. Wonder if the cops had lunch then. Besides all of that, you have a nice one-of-a-kind build there. If you aren't one of the big Wiener Dogs, stay in the garage. Patrick M

WOW!! What a ride that must have been. Those wheelie wheels must have been real important. I can hear that old Ford "whistling" in the wind from all those holes. Must have been like being in a wind tunnel in the interior. Probably left a trail of rust dust behind. What a great build!! Love it. Patrick M