Russell C

Same here, tempting to use my current daily driver as reference material on a model replica, and there are kits of my two prior vehicles that might be fun to replicate, but I'll pass on my ol' high school / college truck. However, as a bit of an update to this thread, I'll confess to acquiring a Monogram Luv Stepsider just for its correct (mostly) dash and more correct rear fenders, along with a cheap ebay score of a Revell stepside Luv kit, in order to do build my own preferred version of the 1:1 Bergman Luv. I even tried out an alteration of the photo to see if a variant of the old early '80s Toyota 4x4 paint scheme would fly on it. The decal stripes from an AMT Eckler's Vette can actually be used like this; I printed out an exact same size paper printout to scissor apart, and that assured me I can make the various sections of stripes work on this. Plus, the Eckler's Vette had exactly the right style of Vector deep dish rear wheels.

Same here all the way around, except mine was the '73 seen in my old MCM Revell Luv thread. With all the 'retro' design still going on, GM or Nissan could punch out a slightly bigger Luv or Datsun variant and maybe make a decent profit, if there is a country-wide backlash on the rise against all these other too-big bloated pickups lately.

I was hoping you were kidding on that, but I guess not.

Ummmmm .... Drag & drop upload from my desktop still works for me. My car mechanic says one of the most maddening words in the diagnostic business is "intermittent."

Is it real, or a large scale model? Real: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1970-porsche-911t-21/

Just checking if my standard drag-direct-from-desktop works .... (it does!)

The Beck 904 Carrera GTS replica has a bit of the 911 Turbo-ish rear flares thing happening, if you need that for inspiration, but you may have to still go a tic wider ...

Man after my own heart!

Eek! And I knew that, too, hate it when I typo someone's name.

And here's the ultimate result of the vehicle the engine landed in, my entry into the GSL Contest's Common Kit category, where we were all supposed to build the Tamiya 1966 VW Beetle in any manner we wanted (except no resin replacement bodies, per the rules for the class here) What did I do here? Basically, the greenhouse was turned around 180° right at the door line, and I swapped the fenders from one end to the other. And to make matters more bizarre, I couldn't resist dropping in a flat 5 hybrid VW/Porsche engine. I managed to get 2nd place! Personally, I put my chances at no better than 4th. I'll have to do an Under Glass post for this, when I get a few better photos of it, but it needs just a tad of cleanup. I was working on it 'til around 2 in the morning on the same day I flew up to Salt Lake City.

Actually, three models were unveiled. One was a very old, significantly customized/stretched 16th (?) scale candy apple red Jaguar, and if that was the Dennis Doty one mentioned in this 2016 MCM thread, that was it. I can't readily find old scan photos to confirm that, but other guys might round up some old ones or have the latest photos of it at GSL. The second was a very customized green '49 or '50 Ford 'Ranchero' whose builder was right there in person to show it, and the third was the completed restoration of the 1964 Revell-Pactra Contest Senior Division co-winning Ford cabover, built by the late Bob Nordberg. I covered the rediscovery of that last one and Nordberg's others in this older thread, and posted my two update photos of it there.

Simply amazing to see the Nordberg Ford Cabover paired up again at the GSL 2019 contest's seminar on the latest International Model Car Museum acquisitions, just as it was in 1964 with the late Augie Hiscano's hot rod in the Revell-Pactra Contest. When I find more photos of different views of Nordberg's cabover before it was placed back into its bubble, I'll post 'em here, along with a link to the GSL seminar video on the Museum.

And I thought those looked stunning just on your laptop there ....

Congrats!!

Evil Kurt, I'll get Gregg to drop his camera on you when you walk out for the group shot.

And he got some of us in a photo or three.

More pics at the site for its upcoming auction: https://themarket.co.uk/listings/ford/escort-rs1800/e063c485-18a9-4caf-9810-ebff60b7706c Vimeo video here:

Two Youtube videos, Part 1 and part two follows below:

Saturday AM only.

All day, basically, 9am to 10pm. Full event schedule here.

Accessory belt. Yep, the Tamiya kit is fabulous in many ways, but that method of attaching wheels is not so much. I've never mastered having functioning parking brakes, so to prevent my models from rolling off the shelves, I just evilly glue the wheels into one permanent position.

For my 1/32 scale Kyle Petty wagon, I lathe-cut a groove in the wheel rim and glued in (via liquid cement) a length of heat-stretched red plastic sprue. But liquid solvent glue can melt that kind of thin sprue if you put a hair too much down, so an alternative is super glue. A person would have to experiment for a while with this technique, but it is a way to get consistent color and stripe width all the way around. Looks like after a couple of decades, the top center-right section of my 'stripe' has started to lift out of the groove just a tad.

Definitely not the throwback 300 version.

Nice alternative roofline there. Me, had the body & details, engine, interior all together, but hit the wall when it came to the suspension geometry, which was going to be a way better improvement over the Monogram kit. Gotta get my act together on figuring out how to make deadly sure the wheels are centered within the fender arches, with the right slight rake and all four wheels touching the ground. The key to engineering something is the success of making it so that it can be dry-fitted, evaluated for proper appearance, disassembled, tweaked, and reassembled in a way where assembly / disassembly / reassembly goes right every time. Couldn't figure that out with the suspension back then. Meanwhile, calling this engine done today. But now that I look at the pics, I'll need to run an Xacto blade over the top edge of the fan belt (oh, wait - there is no fan) to make it more of a dead flat black color. Made from heat-streatched black plastic sprue. When I went to install the battery wire to the generator, the heat-stretched red sprue just looked like it was plunging down a gopher hole, so to give it a more realistic look, I made one of my tiny wire rings for that junction. This particular one is really small. Slide the ring onto the wire, jamb the wire into the hole, slide into place, and make it all permanent with a tiny drop of super glue. Regarding the way I made the distributor, spark plug wires & color matched wire boots, I think I'll cover that in a separate future Building Tips thread, since another of my projects requires a custom made distributor, and I think I know of a way to make an even better one than I made here. What car does this go into? The hint was in my prior post above -- stay tuned to the photo coverage at the GSL contest two weekends from now, assuming no completion disaster intervenes.

Or a Jag V-12. Been using the same techniques since the 1990s, as seen in my still-uncompleted 427 Cobra Berlinetta. Tragic how some projects get sidelined. Onward with this one, though (jealous that you got your GSL Common Kit Tamiya VW Beetle entry done with weeks to spare before the deadline). Wasn't sure if this would work out well or not, to have the smaller wires (heat-stretched sprue, actually) come out of the coil, but they actually cooperated better than I expected when I test fitted the whole shroud assembly to the engine. Green & red 'wires' get jammed behind the distributor, while the black one will be going into the firewall when the engine is installed. Finally cut into a Fujimi Porsche 911 decal sheet for the coil decal that I had since 1990.