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Can you identify this car ?
Russell C replied to Kah puts's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I'm voting for the retouched '57 T-bird guesses, where GM did something funny to the windshield by adding a vertical bar to it, and maybe plunked in a '57 Chevy headlight bezel shape. The tell-tale for the T-bird might be right where its front bumper is beginning to be hidden. -
Group 5 Special Production Cars
Russell C replied to Pierre Rivard's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
'80s guy that I am, I always favored the Group 5 widebody look, and in a quick internet search for 'phantom' images, I came across this one 1:1 custom: https://chevroletforum.com/articles/group-5-racing-inspired-1972-chevy-c10-is-a-truly-next-level-build/ -
Is it just my faulty old eyes, or does that median resemble a potential Dukes of Hazzard launch ramp for fast downhill folks?
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MPC Switchers '32 roadster arrived in the mail today, I was the single bid eBay winner on this decently put-together original build (judging from its interior dust). The kit is a current reissue, but I figured if nobody else put a bid on it, the final price including shipping would be a lot lower than buying the kit retail somewhere. My gamble worked out. I need its chrome plated grille for one of my stalled roadster projects, but from the looks of it, the headers will work fine for my arched caricature dragster project, plus I can use the highback seats for some or other street rod project, along with the valve covers, chrome oil pan and wheels/tires.
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What did you see on the road today?
Russell C replied to Harry P.'s topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Spotted this on my bike ride - somebody drove their pickup through foul weather to fetch this Camaro, with its dusty-from-sitting-in-storage roof? -
Scored this Polar Lights "Manglia" buildup from one of the vendors at the Desert Scale Classic contest/swap meet in Phoenix. Objective is to apply the wheels and bits of chassis / parachute on the warped Fairlane promo I got off eBay last fall. Just need to get one of those double-stacked blowers from a Zinger kit and some kind of Ed Roth Fink-style driver with the right arm out the passenger window on a shifter. If my thumb in these photos is a usable scale measuring device, it looks like I'll have to add a bit of meat to the front tires …
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Survived the drive across town to north Phoenix for the Desert Scale Classic contest/swap meet. Much like any other big city (and some small towns!), it's travel-at-your-own-peril these days. Nice to see old friends again, and there was many great quality entries there.
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Good question. My Preview photo altering program is a little primitive, but sometimes I can trick it into doing color variations I want ....
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One-Off Quiz #45 - Finished
Russell C replied to carsntrucks4you's topic in Real or Model? / Auto ID Quiz
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What did you see on the road today?
Russell C replied to Harry P.'s topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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Years back I saw this Tom Sehloff Packard/Airstream cast iron toy creation (the man made those kinds of things for a while), so I thought I'd see if I could come up with something similar in 1/24th scale. Greenlight Models puts out a reasonably affordable diecast 24th scale 16 foot Airstream Bambi trailer, and the Lindberg '31 Bugatti Royale kits still seem to be around in plentiful form … but at the rate I'm going, I think I'll never find the time to take this idea past my photo composite stage.
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Welcome! Are you aware of the International Model Car Builders' Museum in nearby Sandy?
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Got links showing that? If I have it right, that's a basic elemental copyright violation - you capture an image, it's yours, without the necessity of getting an official copyright or putting the little c-circle mark on it. But of course, better legal minds than mine can offer better info on it all, https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html
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Juh ....eeze! https://blitzway.com/hervin_portfolio/afterlife-ecto-01/
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Huh. The JDM version of the Plymouth Arrow. Didn't know anybody made a kit of that.
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Tempted to drop parts of the page below into my Corel drawing program so I can print out the red Ambassador, and then see if it is beyond my skill level these days to assemble it. I can vouch firsthand that paper models aren't always child's play to put together. The Bluesmobile I did many years back really was a fiddley kit - borrowing KCSlammer's Fotki photo of it here. (had to also build my own award trophy for it out of a McDonalds burger box, which was actually easier to do!)
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Not something you run across everyday in the eBay Vintage Model Cars section: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266717238942 . Would be entertaining to get nice flat scans of the original to do paper printout reproductions to put together. Since eBay auction links are short-lived, here's a permanently saved Archive link to at least have a minimal look at what the seller had: https://web.archive.org/web/20240313192938/https://www.ebay.com/itm/266717238942
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Anybody have the blue flames from the decal sheet that's in the current release AMT '34 Ford pickup? Longer story I'll tell later in an "Under Glass" thread here, a couple years back I got the really old, probably 1960s buildup of the '32 roadster seen below. I figure that with a cleanup, a switch of the roof to a white canvas color, and a couple other fixups, this can be returned to being a really nice model ..... but with so much sky blue happening there, I thought I'd minimally see if paper printout mockups of the decals would work, and I think they do. I've added most of the excess vintage AMT parts that came with this old buildup to my big trade list, if that helps with any potential trade ---> https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/176867-partsdiecastsdecalsetc-offered-for-trade-to-go-with-my-various-parts-wanted-posts/
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1:1 kitbash?
Russell C replied to Earl Marischal's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Junkyard boss to employee: "See all that piled up in the corner over there? Do something with it." Days later, employee: "How's dis?" Boss: "I meant, get rid of it all!" -
A study in structural bondo...
Russell C replied to Ace-Garageguy's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I could only watch 13 of the first 23 minutes. Poor Cougar. I can just imagine an owner of such a thing allowing a son to take it out for a drive, who calls in 10 minutes later to say "Dad, I did a Dukes of Hazard style jump over the railroad tracks - just a little jump! - and, well .... the car broke into maybe 16 or more pieces ........" -
On a few occasions for my GSL Contest entries, I printed out the backstory, where it was a great excuse to pass off some of my shortcomings on the build as actually being exact replication of the shortcomings of the 1:1 vehicle I was "replicating." Here's the printout from the Under Glass thread for my backwards VW bug (I really should have budgeted more time to do a better paint job).