Russell C

Was wondering when you'd get to this one, having seen your current blue barge in person last year. I prefer the '69 grille styling. My older brother kicked around the idea of getting a 1:1 '69, but with the idea of specifically putting a '71 bumper on it and filling the bumper turnsignal holes with equal-sized fog lights, just to be weird. He's more of a model trains guy, so you can blame his bumper swap idea on that line of non car-guy reasoning.

Kurt can rescue it, he's that good. I'll vouch for pearl nail polish paint as a scale metalflake, too. Back when I was still using my airbrush (I'll have to get back into it sometime), I used a pearl orange for the flames on my Diablo flambé. I got it to fade darker to the backs of the flame licks without much difficulty.

Favoring option #1 of a '69 AAR prototype. That additionally has me thinking in reverse, of what it would look like to take the '69 fastback roof and graft it onto a '70 AAR, as though the factory decided to keep that roof option just one more year. Might be a simple photo alteration I can add to my MCM thread of model idea illustrations I'll never have actual time to build. Also quite possible that somebody's already beaten me to that idea ...

Jealous of your machining skills, really nice work! My late father was a pro machinist for decades, gave me a mini lathe he built, but I still barely make circular shapes via eyeball engineering. My loss for not learning enough from him.

GT Spirit 1/18 scale Koenig Specials Ferrari 512 BBi ... except for much cheaper than what ebay usually has priced at in all the Buy it Now listings. And same goes for an 18th scale Joyride/ERTL Bluesmobile and 18th scale Minichamps Volvo P1800 ES wagon. Happens rarely, but smokin' low price ebay auctions do strike occasionally, I got my wish that way for a 24th scale Franklin Mint Checker cab for $30-ish from an estate sale seller, because it had a couple of missing door handles, accessories & original packaging.

Sharply well done!

A Pro Touring hit parade!

Snag this and another van body and rebuild! (save the Coke decals for one of your future politically correct Senna McLaren Honda F1s, I guess)

That's a serious level of old scratchbuilding!

Was the very first I built entirely on my own in 1972 or 3, brush painted the whole thing yellow using a couple of those little Pactra bottles, and the wheels rolled fine so I could play with it in the carpet. I think I still have the chrome star rattling around somewhere in my parts boxes, from the headlight brace. Didn't think of it 'til just now, what police department would have a cruiser painted like a taxi?

Thanks! Borrowing from another pair of Fotki accounts, more of the front / back / top with my fake story of how it was variant of an Edsel prototype. Used those same quad headlights that Brad used, but stood the grilles from a Studebaker Starliner vertical, and partially recessed the Ford caps into Stude wheelcovers. I should dig it out of storage and fix the roof. Ran out of time to do it right before flying up to GSL.

That was for the GSL "Group 09" category. Brad went a different way (quite nicely done, I must add), but using his own photograph of my entry, I just lost my mind on direction.

May be a boon for the stolen car sales industry, too. I'm prepared, though, my 34 year-old daily driver came with one of these from the factory.

Would be interesting to see what your interpretation yields, compared to mine. You may beat me to completion on it, though. A variety of non-modeling obligations still conspire to be monstrous time eaters for me lately.

Not a huge fan of the Marvel movies, but ran across the Cap'n America one with this car's brief screentime appearance. Wondered first if I could see more of it somewhere and then of course wondered if anyone has done a model of it. Can't tell the age of this site https://yadi.sk/a/d2Yck7nO3T8cjG but it looks like the guy (or somebody) has done a bunch of 3D drawing, printing & building.

I was thinking that was a two-tone green & white, but a quick glance here shows my memory is faulty: https://www.imcdb.org/v006489.html

Incognito time machine with what appears to be one of those flat LED police-style light bars strapped above its rear window. Sounded nice, don't think I ever heard one running.

I'd prefer my 2cents to be termed more about concern than an actual complaint. Does anybody ever believe MPG claims by car makers? I never have, and my real world driving always falls short of what the advertisements said even though nobody can call me a leadfoot. Then, while it's admirable that the cars can get such quick charges, that might also be under absolutely optimal conditions. Then, judging from the wide open distances out west that I see on my vacation jaunts, a person has to keep a good eye on not running short on gas even today. I could, for example, arrive on fumes in SW Colorado, but the smart move is to fill up halfway there. How many fast charge stations between here and there, outside of Phoenix? On a map I found, I see one in Payson, one in Winslow, and zip for the entire sw corner of Colorado. Maybe the demand might fill in the infrastructure, but then they might have to re-open the part of the coal-fired powerstation by Page that was recently closed down just to keep up with the need for extra electricity.

Really nice, inspiring work there!

♫ ... But the prettiest sight to see, is the Holley that will be on your own front door! ♫

The combo of little salsa containers with snap-on lids from Mexican food restaurants, and really old electrical tape (?) containers that are like flat cups with overlapping tops. Pays to keep the lids on to avoid scattering 'em all into the carpet, though.

Poor, but patient guys like me benefit from being the single bidders on low price eBay auctions like this, where the seller had an incomplete mislabel for this pair. Been looking for a Blackforce for quite a while just to rob the baby moonwheels from it. However, the longer I look at the Super Coupe, the more I think I can throw a pile of my other unused/unloved parts at it to turn it into a neat rod project.

Saw this yesterday, but forgot to post it.

FYI, that shape on the top of the Monogram passenger side fender is the jack and jack handles. Don't know regular Blazers well enough to know if the 2nd battery was an option in gas engines, but I do know that the '76 and '77 Blazer Chalets (gas, 350s or 400s) with the factory-installed camper units had a second battery on the driver's side to power the camper unit's lights and sink water faucet.

Misplaced design study for the Lamborghini Countach pickup version?