Russell C

Those kind of product reviews are a good indicator that the stuff is too good to be true. Too bad.

Open to putting a bit of a rake into the body? Seen the "stock" rendering before elsewhere, probably in my image search for the car in the "Captain America Winter Soldier" movie, but I thought it looked nose-high. Couldn't resist altering it with a sizable long pie wedge section taken out right below the beltline.

Someone definitely needs to try it out in an airbrush.

Hilarious! Never knew such a thing existed!

Fun, and nice color. Ran into your usual herd of bees and grasshoppers while hotrodding around in the countryside again!

I should get my act together and get moving on the project, more of a street rod, but not where it is identifiable as a Mercedes. Look out for a PM, in case you might need the parts I won't be using.

Got the maroon molded version for myself as a really cheap gluebomb off ebay a couple of years ago, since at the very least I could use the straight 8 in some project, plus I like the chopped-looking roof.

Max Wedge '60 Cadillac (First, I should mention that I was able to fix all of the busted photo links in my prior posts going all the way back to the first one.) Here's another virtual project that I'll likely never have the time or extra money to get to. The idea was inspired by the unaltered photo of the gray model at the bottom, which I saw either on eBay or in MCM somewhere, or maybe both if the MCM person won the auction and then showed the model in a MCM forum thread. Looks like the original builder just whacked the fins off and never painted the taillights. So, all I did with the upper photo was reverse the greenhouse / wheel openings / fins, and stuff in some bullet taillights. Just like several of my other virtual ideas, the prohibitive cost problems is how a Johan 4-door body or a resin 2-door body is not always a cheap purchase. The other challenges would be to make a factory-looking filler plate for what used to be the front grille area, and perhaps how to stuff a really slanted 6-cylinder under what used to be the trunk. Or a flat-8? The fun result of it could be how it would still be quite recognizable as a Cadillac, but one with some kind of deep set directional problems.

Thanks, Casey, that was one of the photo links that the TinyPic organization ate up when it folded.

Me, I don't see dead people, I see cars that aren't there. So, I build 'em like I see 'em. And I have a tendency not to keep my cylinder counts on track. Perhaps a person might say my avatar model isn't all that strange in the overall scheme of things ..... but instead that most other wagons just happen to be extra normal.

Casey, great contribution!

Some occasionally are deliberate caricatures, like the Japanese customizer company that turns a mundane microvan into an homage to classic American vans and trucks. Short article with more pics here: "These Crazy Japanese Microvans Are So Freaking Cool" https://www.guysgab.com/check-out-these-crazy-japanese-microvans/

Just looked at a mega car styling links site courtesy of another MCM thread here, and its Concepts tab collection includes Jeeps, where this entry for "Jeepster II" http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1979_jeep_jeepster_ii/ had this drawing. I wonder if the AMT designers lifted most of the appearance from that concept drawing.

Was it this one by "NTS"? I was rummaging around in my really old bookmarked thread to follow, it looks like the builder hasn't been active on MCM in for or so years. Pickup going the other direction would be neat, too.

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!