Russell C

Tight squeeze for the engine.

Running a bit behind on posting this to Under Glass. It goes with my "When Hybrid Engines go Rogue" WIP since that's where the flat 5 Porsche / VW hybrid engine ended up. It managed to place second at the GSL contest's "Common Kit" category, where all of us needed to build a Tamiya '66 Beetle, but could build it any way we wanted, with the exception of substituting resin body variations. Here, I rotated the greenhouse 180° around the vertical door line, and swapped fenders front-to-back. The slice out of the former front lid grafted onto the new front windshield area easier than I expected. Customized 1966 Utah license plate from this site to create a paper printout — if this was a regular Beetle, it would be a VW 1300, but if my calculations are correct, the displacement for a 5-cylinder works out to 1659, based on a '64-'69 Porsche 6 being a 2 liter. Overall, it looks like a Soviet-era East German nightmare ripoff design, if you ask me.

Me, with my obsolete iMac that's still just new enough to get browser updates from Firefox. Whatever the mystery ad(s) was(were) a while back that never loaded, they used to kill this computer, but not a borrowed PC I had access to on weekends. Might try whitelisting MCM, but I adblock everything otherwise (makes my Facebook and ebay visits way more tolerable), and I mute all radio commercials, plus, the "Mute" lettering on my TV remote is worn off from the frequency of me killing the audio for commercials there.

And the aforementioned favorite conversion I mentioned, link from one of the original articles with more pics from Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carstyling.ru%2Fen%2Fentry%2FVolga_V12_Coupe_2001_Nostalgiya_po_nastoyashemu%2F&act=url

Got me thinking about that myself, but after doing a couple of quick 'n dirty photo alterations, I'm reminded of why pro stylists get the big bucks. No offense to myself, I'm not especially liking the way these turned out. Was aiming more for a Volvo P1800ES look with the first attempt, but tried a more AMC Pacer fishbowl look on the second. Then again, as seen in this other guy's similar 1:1 alteration, maybe these particular MBs just don't easily lend themselves to wagon versions too well. If you can make your version look way better, that would be great!

Me, too, but for a much different reason. Not my favorite car at all in general, but one particular variant is.

Red one: http://www.trucktrend.com/cool-trucks/0708tr-1937-hudson-custom-truck Black one: https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1937-HUDSON-TERRAPLANE-CUSTOM-PICKUP-45257 Black one, 2x: https://www.hotrodhotline.com/content/37-hudson-terraplane-pickup-owned-built-dan-dowdy-street-rods-dowdy-dolan-springs-az Dan Dowdy direct: http://desertconcepts.com/

One of my assortment of somewhat in-progress projects is a Revell '31 Ford, and I had no idea that those levers were on the frame, but I ended up figuring them out via searching the words "Houdaille shock absorbers" in the various street rod websites. Here's just one photo among many I bookmarked as a reference to how these can work:

Sharp build, looks like a natural factory design.

Best dust ever!

Ya got me beat on that wider ranging hobby. My summertime one-week-out-of-the-year hobby (all that I can afford) for the last 17 years is restricted to an area within the Ouray / Silverton / Telluride 'triangle.' The Black Bear Road still hasn't been cleared of winter snow & rockslide debris yet.

Wow. Your pic is at almost the same spot on the Engineer Pass road that I took when I walked it in 2016. Turn 90° to the east, and that was the direction I was walking at that time. When I'm not walking the Jeep roads in the Ouray area during my summer vacations, I'm hiring my SOA pals to drive me around on those in their 4x4s.

Art, artfully reproduced, and artfully presented.

Ditto on the online plate makers, and ordinary double sided tape to stick it to the model (for my wacko VW below, it was taped onto a plate-size Evergreen .010" sheet that I could glue to the bumper). I print mine using a regular Canon inkjet on glossy photo paper, but I do have the advantage of being able to cheat and use my graphic arts training to size it precisely in my old Corel drawing program, to the exact size I need.

Wish I had the time to check the flux capacitor .....

I bookmarked this contact post for George Hernandez' services, he might have more recent updates on pricing:

Got a set I don't plan on using anytime soon. Problem is, the overall chrome trees in mine are the idiotic satin finish version.

It can be bad. Bought one of these with no interior for cheap on ebay a few years back, since I thought the Lincoln T-bird idea I had would be easier to do in 25th scale rather than cobble together the Revell 32nd scale T-bird & Lincoln kits. Figured I could cut the promo apart and re-glue it back together straighter as maybe a resin master. However, every single panel on this thing is headed in a different direction. No salvaging it that I can see, a collection of bowed parallelograms straining to twist themselves into a pretzel. Hoping someone will do a new resin - occasionally pricey old SC Miller resins pop up, along with Kustom Kolor Works ones.

Welcome, and I'm guessing you are enjoying the relative coolness this month compared to a couple of years ago.

By all means, share and enjoy!

Not a big fan of 'em overall, but I do like the '74 Do ge Monaco. It's got a lot of pickup.

Time to get back to this relatively simple, but still neglected project. What stumped me was the proportions of the kit to begin with, and how it still didn't look right after my last bit of reshaping. The radiator was still too tall, closer rsembling the height of a TC model than a TD. So, it may be a little hard to see in the first photo below of the resized driver's side vs not-yet-resized passenger side, but I removed more from the top and bottom edges of the door panels, then sawed the hood side panels off from the top panels, and then reduced the blank area above the louvers to nearly half the height, and removed more from the bottom edges of the hood sides. Top & bottom, this second resizing amounts to nearly an eighth of an inch. Who knows how many inches that would be in 1:1 scale. And, I also leaned the fuel tank several degrees further into the back of the body. I'm happier now with the taped-together mock up here. Subtle to see, but better proportions now from this additional resizing for my personal tastes. The Gowland & Gowland kit version is still far more accurately proportioned overall, wider and flatter. But there's no way I can polish that kind of plastic to a good shine, and I've gotten way to lazy in my old age to put a killer paint job on such a small model, so I'll be plunging ahead on this build. There's entertainment value for me to see what kind of gem can be ultimately polished out of such a roughly designed simple kit.

Square body GM trucks, 1973 to 1987. Me, I got only the totally raw unbuilt kits (mid-lower right in the pic below) from Revell, MPC & Monogram, with the future intent of building a factory stock '76 GMC Jimmy. But first, the decision is which to use as the most accurate platform starting point ...

Wow! Had a bit of concern about the open space forward of the rear wheel opening and the back of the door opening, but that black fender flare protector really lessens the empty area very nicely. Exterminator will help with the bees/butterflies/grasshoppers infestation ...