Russell C

Robin's egg blue means it came from the AMT '58 Impala (unless other molds using that engine apply), which the box claims is a 409. A few days back I was pondering how to do evil things to the blue-molded kit / engine I have, and was doing a search of 1:1 348 / 409 engine images, along with a search for 1:25 versions within MCM here --- the photo KK found is from no less than our MrObsessive's '58 AMT Impala convertible!

Going rate for 'em calculates to $2.95 apiece right at this hour tonight when shipping is included ....

Nuts, I was hoping we'd survive the pockyclypse, but oh, well. Nice container re-purposing! (wondering if the dogs would be relegated to a dumpster doghouse on a trailer...)

I like the pipe cleaner seat divider in the back seat. In the front seats .... not so much. Any way possible to fix that cringe-worthy appearance by finding some kind of equivalents to turn into seat edge bolsters? Don't know if the removal does something down the center of the seats, but maybe that could be disguised with a strip of tan 'leather', with corresponding strips in the back seat, to look like it was the intention of the original builder all along ....

Try as I might, I could never get those metal hood clips to work right. But then I was only 8 or ten at the time ...

But will your engine be so finicky that it can only run on racing gas, or will it be ok on just premium? ?

A result of the White Motors Company acquiring Autocar in the '50s and Diamond T and Reo, later combining those two to be Diamond Reo, and then starting up Western Star in the '60s. The name of that specific cab which was shared by the three makes escapes me, but other guys with better memories than mine can chime in on its name which will pave the way on where to read more history about it.

It is, see the last page of this old 36 page Hickey catalog (click on the thumbnails there to enlarge each page). I scored a never built Monogram Jimmy years back fairly cheap off eBay, it takes patience to spot inexpensive ones that are mislabeled by non car-guy estate salers. Less than $20 if I remember right, it's sorta fun to bookmark auctions these days to see how far the bids go ....

See the attached thread for more on the Monogram history -- not mentioned within it, though, is the other mystery as to why Monogram depicted the duel batteries in the Blazer and GMC Jimmy. Maybe somebody answered it elsewhere. Off the top of my head, I don't think the 1:1 Blazers/Jimmys needed two batteries, except for the quite uncommon '76 / '77 Chevy Blazer Chalet and the GMC Jimmy Casa Grande 'mini-motorhomes' where the second battery powered the interior lights in the campers when parked. Btw, the lump and lines over on the passenger side fender liner are the GM factory-supplied jack and tire irons, as seen in this photo from a '76 Blazer Chalet. I'd forgotten until I looked at that photo that the other lump over on the driver's side fender liner was the windshield washer fluid bottle.

Midday right near the grocery store today. More or less matches the sky color.

You're on it! That's one of the first things I did several years back, with no forward progress afterward. My plan is to use the AMT 32nd scale tires & wheels, but since they are actually undersized just a bit in scale, I'll have to commit a somewhat deceptive visual trick (don't tell anyone!) to compensate for that, namely lowering the cab down where it mounts to the frame. I may still be caught and sent to model builders' jail for that crime, but oh, well. ?

Ancient history photo from probably October 1991 to see if "woodgrain" panel images cut out of magazines would actually work on the 911 woody wagon in my avatar.

I mentioned a bit about the 1:1 Vini Bergeman custom in my thread about the Revell Luv kit. One of these days when I get more of my act together, I plan to do a more accurate replication of the 1:1, but using the stepside fenders out of the Monogram Luv stepside kit.

I had basically the same double sleeper idea back in late 1981 ..... one of these days I need to find time to fix that model.

Those shavings flammable?

[paraphrasing, because I can't find the short clip yet] "So, fellow babies, just sit back and relax with a good hot cup of .......... Chemicals!"

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Forgot to throw the surf boards in the back?

? https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1965-BACKDRAFT-RT3-ROADSTER-254192

Although I'd done a couple of photo alterations of images off the internet for my Backbug idea (my entry for the GSL 2019 Common Kit class entry), I still needed to see a 3D mockup to reassure myself that my photo alterations were not just some kind of unfeasible 2D optical illusion. What made it work was when I saw how I could slice off a bit of the trunk lid and graft it onto the engine deck lid.

Wow, did not know that.

Or make it a 5-window? A little crude, with the limitations in my photo altering program. Second alteration is slightly reduced body length with unaltered roof length. Both lowered just a bit ....

Wondering what was under the cover - wasn't windy, so the owner probably needed to get something out of it.

Dead electronic devices have supplied me with a variety of fine wire sizes over the years, along with random other little parts shapes. Former cassette type answering machine here, for example.