Russell C

Perhaps ... has me wondering if my memories didn't get fused together of seeing the kit so long ago and whatever that thing is .....

If the 1:1 reality of my late father's Dakota truck serves as an indication, Dodges don't have usable turning radiuses, so with regard to that aspect, this would be a plausible build project!

My only such build ...

That's very true. What got me wondering, unsightly as this thing is, is whether I saw a full size concept car version of this, or if I saw the kit itself 30 some years back and the memory warped into one where I thought I remembered it being full size. It just looks familiar for some reason, particularly in the taillight area.

My budget for shipping models to me cuts off for anything above $285 .....

One of my long time favorites, particularly for the scallops shadow effect.

I can only guess, using my former low-paid trudge-to-work 5 days a week life as a comparison, how wigged out a person might get, particularly if no employment and a meager savings puts such a person one step away from homelessness. But I traded that for what amounted to a work at home activity years back which was, and still is, isolated enough that if I didn't talk to anyone for more than a week, my voice would be lousy for a day or two when I was back among relatives. So, this is normal to me, and if I didn't pay attention to any news, I'd just be wondering why more people seem to be worried about breathing pollen in the air, and why the grocery store seems to have a sudden weird food and paper stocking problem.

Sorta like a cross between the Jeepster Commando and a Bronco, with Vette ZR1 square-ish taillights that were all the rage on aftermarket rear pan add-ons for pickup trucks in the late '80s ....

Heed that warning. I used PPG Deltron 2 part clear back in 1991for my. Sure polishes up nice.

Never liked the Aztek. Like that Smokey Bandit Aztek, except for the taillights. Variation on the above Rain Prisk design, from "Adry53" at DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/adry53/art/Pontiac-Aztek-Super-Sport-671709041

Fabulous! Nope, no need for it myself, I just thought it might be interesting to tap the knowledge base here. Glad to know it is going to an appreciative home!

Wow - thanks! Can't say that I remember seeing it as an AMT kit, but if I did 30+ years ago, maybe that's why "Jeep" was stuck in my mind.

That's what this eBay seller is asking https://www.ebay.com/itm/ANYONE-KNOW-WHAT-THIS-IS/124145998809 about what looks like a soft plastic toy car body on a 4x4 kit chassis. Sometimes the toy manufacturers do a halfway decent job of replicating actual cars or car concepts. I have it stuck in my mind that the body is a 'sorta copy' of an AMC mid-70s SUV concept, but I can't spot anything like that in Google image searches, so I'm probably wrong about that …. it still looks familiar for some reason.

Many other useful tips on basic model scratchbuilding in that video!

Welcome! Ignorant Yank that I am, didn't know what "West Country" was in regard to England 'til I did a Google maps search of Devon and Somerset. Dropped into the Google Streetmobile at an arbitrarily chosen road spot to see what it looks like. You-all have a lot of green stuff there, a bit different from the land of cactuses and rocks where I'm at.

Regarding the quad reflector setup I mentioned a few posts up, it turned out to be easier to add two lathe-turned & polished thin ones to the double reflector assembly. More visually interesting. Now to make two more for the rotator in the red lens.

If there was a way that a filter would show me only car-related / model related ads, I'd turn off my AdBlock. Otherwise, if it weren't for some of the guys mentioning it, I'd never know of these problems.

Some more on the police car lights 3 posts back: from my pile of metal bits, two aluminum collars that were the perfect size from some disassembled electronic device (remember, everything ever manufactured on the planet contains bits that can be repurposed as model car parts) are now the horizontal rotating light reflectors, filled in with Bare Metal Foil and polished to a mirror reflector shine with Simichrome metal polish and then superglued onto a scrap chrome rod from some kit. Doesn't look bad as just double rotating reflectors, but I'll see if I can lathe-turn some solid aluminum rod into additional wafer thin reflectors to make these into quad units, which should make 'em more visually interesting. Haven't taken the one good red lens off the AMT trucks parts tree just yet ….

So many other obligations to take care of, so little hobby time. Finally managed to accomplish something after months of inactivity. Used my mini lathe to reshape a translucent ballpoint pen clicker down to a taper matching an old red AMT trucks emergency beacon lens I had (the one without the sunken area). Then I jammed it onto a grinder bit to put in my motor tool so I could turn it at a much higher speed to polish it. Not half bad, needs just a bit more polishing. It isn't an overly soft plastic, but I need to be careful about putting too much heat into it from polishing. This helps to get a police car project back underway that had stalled out on this detail.

That'll work!

Non-turbo. Brick shaped vehicle now with additional drag on the roof.

Label me as mostly cold-hearted - while my condolences go out to the family, I'd also wager a large amount of money that the label for the cleaning product emphatically said "harmful or fatal if swallowed." Ladders have warning labels about placing them on uneven/unstable ground. Guys work under cars supported by a single jack, or on live-connected electric machines without switching the breakers off. If one of my own immediate relatives was killed this way, I'd be sad, but still hold it entirely against the relative, rather than find a way to send the blame elsewhere. With the rights of having things to use comes the responsibility of knowing how to use them correctly.

That one. Around 30 years ago when I worked as an airport shuttle van driver, I picked up a bunch of lab company co-workers and one of them brought up that awful dream, whereupon every one of the other guys said he'd had it. Wasn't my place to break into their conversation, so I didn't, but I thought it was hilarious that I'd had the same one, too. I still do, which drives me nuts this many years later. Or the variant where if I don't pass the final, I won't graduate. Had the loose wobbly teeth one too many times, also. Always nice when I wake up and they are still planted in my jaws solid as a rock. Another one is more fun, but scary to consider in real life: upon approaching the top of a flight of stairs, instead of taking forever to step down each step, I can slide rapidly down 'em like a skier, barely hitting the upper edge of each step. I'm a pro at it in my dreams, and in real life, all I can do is count the number of broken bones I'd get from the first attempt to see if it is possible.

I assume you're not serious about that ...........

That's fabulous!