Russell C

Glad you could make the breakthrough! This is indeed the place for all variety of automotive building. Perhaps the best of our computer geeks could get to the bottom of whatever your initial sign-up was. There's been later upgrades to the forum system here which apparently were less cooperative than they could have been. I joined in July 2013 with my then-5 year old iMac with zero problems (as a perpetuator of the PC - Mac wars, I avoid PCs like the plague). Might perhaps have been a browser not playing fair with the system here when you were trying to join.

Seen here in this post at the Jalopy Journal https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-markley-bros-belly-tank-a-pictorial-history.384897/#post-4180161 , with more info in the whole thread about that specific 1:1 racer.

It's fabulous - but then again, having built those myself in the 1990s, folks will say I'm not right in the head. I did a Google Images search to see what I could find. Seems to be a trend called "Unnecessary automobile nose swaps." Some of them are rather funny.

None, my eyes are all blurry from sadness.

Post from my Y-block build thread, I drilled the holes, jammed in the wires, but since there was still a bit of 'spring' in the steel wires I used, it was also necessary to feed in a tiny drop of zap glue to hold them in place permanently.

Looks like the two were made for each other!

Amateur dam builder's note to self: "Next time, use concrete instead of old cars and dirt."

Don't forget their two years-earlier build-a-bug camper, there's a link with more photos of the article: https://www.goodshomedesign.com/vw-beetle-chassis-with-sleeping-and-camping-for-four/ Days later new discovery edit: Or, if you have lots of money, skip the model building and buy the 43rd scale collectible instead - https://www.amazon.com/Schuco-Beetle-Caravan-Motorhome-450889900/dp/B07ZDFSTW7

A JC Penny Micro Workshop, actually, from sometime in the mid 1980s. I swiped it from my dad back then, hasn't let me down since. Replaced one set of brushes for the motor, and lubed it once.

I use paper (or thin cardboard) ... and a motortool. It's strictly for doing big brutal fast cuts, a trick I learned from one of the legends of the model kit world, Bob Paeth. Basically, if you rub into plastic fast enough, it starts to melt away, so the idea here is to have a stiff paper or cardboard circle bolted into a screw mandrel that's chucked into a Dremel or other type of motor tool. (I must say that inflexible steel circular blades scare the willies out of me). What I do to make the paper/cardboard circles is first cut a square a little bigger than the size I need, then punch or drill a hole the size of the mandrel's screw threads, then bolt the square into the mandrel, chuck it into the motor tool, turn in on and use a pencil to draw a circle border onto the square. Turn it off and use a scissors to cut around the circle perimeter line. As long as you aren't too brutal with the cuts, even a stiff piece of paper will last quite a while. If it bends or shreds, well, just cut out a new one. Saves quite a bit of time compared to the more tedious effort of razor-sawing big chunks of plastic. Top photo here shows it turned off, since I had nobody available to take the photo as I was cutting.

Altered back in the 1990s from the 1:87 scale Monogram Mini-exacts series of assembled toys. Looking at it today, I have no idea how I made the tailgate work.

Well, at least some cloudcover overnight will keep the temps from getting too chilly ...

Also not big on boats. But this is fabulous work!

They're a basically really cool looking thing from the late 1920s, they're called Woodlites, invented by a guy named William Wood. I've saved the article cutout below from MotorTrend ever since 1974 since I liked the look of Ruxton roadsters and how those headlights made the car really stand out. Part of my pic zooms in on the diagram that shows how the light beams were supposed to end up focused in a straight line out the front. Here's an AutoWeek article about them, too: https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a31473052/woodlites-when-looking-cool-is-more-important-than-seeing-the-road/

'Living in the past' widebody-style fan that I am, I bookmarked his ArtStation page on those a while back: https://www.artstation.com/khyzylsaleem

For the dash panel and console in my silly Plymouth GTMX-5 shorty that I built in the 1990s (I entered it in the GSL 2015 contest for pure laughs, 3 pics here), I used strips cut straight out of a magazine that were from a nice crisp photo of some woodgrain item. Same sort of magazine photo material for the panels in my old 911 woody wagon.

Tried that method once myself, but my dumb pet mouse just dumped the clutch and put the whole fixture through the windshield and into the front seat. ?

So, under the flat pink-ish red (under the gold metalflake) was a robin's egg-ish blue. And when PurplePower lacks horsepower for some paint jobs, bring on the Easy-Off.

Senility on my part strikes again. I remember some of the aerospace photo etch stuff, but not the screen.

I'm inspired to drop by the crafts store to get the faux rock spray cans system so I can paint my 1:1 cooler to look like it was carved out of solid granite. ?

Over in the "Show us your glue bombs" thread it turns out I utterly mistook a quick glance at an MPC logo and thought it said IMC since I was more dazzled by the car I had just gotten. Haven't seen the actual pieces, but in some old version of the MPC GT40 Mk IV, they included a storage cabinet, water cans, oil drum & oil cans, a fire extinguisher, bucket, air compressor on a two-wheel tank, and an entire clear plastic-wall two-axle transport trailer.

Eeeeeeek. One of these days I'll learn how to read. Hokey MPC logo lettering, yes, but I think where really I led myself astray was seeing all the white-molded plastic in this bomb when I was expecting red. MPC must have done an older one than the red plastic version, and this instruction sheet has all of its first page dedicated to a transparent walls two-axle transport trailer. My other excuse besides boneheaded random bouts of illiteracy is that I'm a traditional model builder --- don't need instruction sheets, never read 'em. ?? Nice pics & models! Naw, this suits my purposes purely because of how cheap it was, and all I needed was just the center body section. Mix 'n match guy that I was (Chrysler / Lambos, Cadillac BMWs, etc) and would like to be again, this one was a gamble to see if its body compared in scale to another glue bomb donor of front & rear clips, and since they all line up good enough for jazz, this project will be headed where no LaMans car has gone before. ?

Cheap IMC GT40 Mark IV on eBay with free shipping. Sort of a fun metallic gold color. I initially thought the ebay photos were showing a red molded MPC kit with scratch-throughs down to the bare plastic, but it turns out the builder sprayed the gold over a pink-ish red primer coat. I hope it all dissolves fairly easily. This one really earns the word "glue" in gluebomb, the back wheel really was solidly in that position and didn't come off without a struggle. The fiddley suspension looks like it was a huge struggle for the builder who might have abandoned it at that point because not enough glue would hold it in place. In one of the other threads here about GT40s, somebody said you can never have enough of them, and since all I had was just a pair of 64th scale die casts, I needed this one. Well, maybe just the central body / interior section. The ultimate objective is to mash that section together with another ironically gold-colored glue bomb I snagged and have a complete car to mess with my fellow modeler's minds, where they might say "that isn't like any LeMans car I've seen. But the front & back clips look really familiar ……"

Not being an expert in old Revell kits, is that same engine shared in the Eddie Hill Pennzoil dragster? Way back in the late 1990s, I committed the crime of lopping one entire cylinder out of it. Put the cuffs on me.

Never had any experience with one of those. It'll still run fine on the gas engine, right?