Russell C

Back in the 1980s when I was building only trucks, I tied strings to the axles and threaded them through a plywood base to be held by thumbtacks on the underside of the 'plank.' It was beveled at the top, with a border surround of 1/8th" balsa strips, and inlaid with green velvet "grass." Drawer handles for easy carrying. Still have both of these, and maybe some day in the future I'll alter the Diamond Reo to be a bit more '60s-looking, and I'd like to de-pretty-ify the well driller back to a more realistic working truck appearance,

If only I had more time and more money, then maybe I could be competitive in a couple of the categories, but I have had my fun with one of the popular vote categories in the past, and was honored to play a role in dredging up some iconic models from a long ago builder that are now in the Museum. But as I've said in one of the prior posts on this topic, the thing that has brought me back every time since 1990, poor as I am, is the people who attend. I sure will miss the event, since it was always one of those things that looked like it would extend years into the future as something I could schedule my every-other-year end-of-April activities around.

Yep, I almost never use any online forum's built-in search windows since they tend to be half-baked more often than not. When you do get search results, click on the images results variation, and you can get even quicker to whatever thing you want to see, and when you further put the search item between quote marks, the search filters out results for the individual words by themselves E,g. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:modelcarsmag.com+"fire+iron"&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwjb4teHlNvgAhWE_lQKHf7WBP0Q_AUIDygC

Wow! Been quite a while since I visited that site: https://aitruckmodels.com/product-category/conversionkits/dodge/

Alas, I'm stuck with that status due to having obligations to be elsewhere after late morning, so looking forward to the brief visit nevertheless.

Altered the contrast a bit to get a better look at it. Tempting to steal the idea....

Ted's? http://www.tedsmodelingmarketplace.com/572-valve-covers-1-25/

Borrowing shamelessly from "Modlguy"'s Fotki album and his 2009 photo from the GSL Contest, this is my buildup of that paper model. You can win marvelous awards for such work.

Kurt's just that kind of inspiring guy. In following his thread here, it prompted me to get off staring at my photo alteration idea for my possible GSL-XXVII Common Kit category entry, and start sawin'. Further allows me to finally make some use of the bottom of the curbside engine in the Fijimi Koenig Porsche kit that's been rattling around in my parts box for around two decades. Time is short, though, the end of April will be here before we know it.

Everyone? Overnight low predicted to be 52° here. (this will boomerang back at me with a vengeance around mid-July)

Oh, God! Well, not quite. Very nice, though.

Thought about this last week, as I turned in for the night. Was able to count up my current unbuilt projects easy enough, 20, but only dredged up memories of around 50 before I fell asleep, of all the ones fitting the "completed" status. Had to use a spreadsheet program a day ago to pop in every one I could remember where I could use the column next to the list to rapidly count them all up. 95 altogether, with the bulk of them being from the early years where I could build them in a week or two and play with them in the carpet 'til they fell apart. And I still may be missing one or three in the ol' memory ...

Appears to be a '59 plate? Found a make-your-own image site here: https://www.licenseplates.tv/1959-utah-state-license-plate-2293.html

I'm of the increasingly endangered species whose phone is still connected to the wall with a copper wire. It couldn't track me if you held a gun to its head.

Yes, and when the wildly overpriced complete kits on ebay are skipped, these still tend to go for at least $60+.

Seeing the V8 conversions is entertaining, didn't give a whole lot of thought to it, but after listening to the dyno video of this one, I must say it creeps me out, not in a good way. Much as I like V8s, the flat 6 Porsche guy in me makes it hard to mix the image and the sound together. "1995 Porsche 911 with a LS1" https://engineswapdepot.com/?p=9250

Welcome! Calgary is a big city if I have it right, but another guy I know from there is Pat Bibeau (the fellow with the camera in the photo down the left side of this page) who's been a regular at the Utah GSL contest for decades, it seems. If the opportunity arises, I'd suggest finding a space in his convoy down to Salt Lake City next year.

That's fun! What would be really wild is if some guy showed up with ancient photos of it and said, "that's my old model!"

Amazingly realistic! Particularly entertaining because I could probably see the actual mill building from here if the trees and buildings weren't in the way. Biked across the new dam earlier this year, a glass jungle is rising around the mill these days.

Pair of thick gloves and maybe another cold weather item or two for the frozen driver? Meanwhile, at the risk of sounding like an enabler for demented -ia, I'd recommend staying on whatever meds brought this one and the BatCobra on. There's probably no end of heresy one could commit with these that would send purists climbing up the walls.

Eek. Maybe if the whole thing was sectioned, it could be salvageable. (quick 'n dirty alteration, original illustration here) Anybody else seeing ghosts of the '63 - '66 Chevy in this angle?

Actually, an image search I did on Google led right back here to this other Feb 2017 MCM blog post and the ones following it. Can't easily find the "Hemmings" article referred to in one of the posts, but I found a 2014 Hot Rod article containing the photo that was apparently used for the fake box art.

Ummm ... correct me if I'm wrong ... Revell of Germany took a monster shortcut and stuck a Marmon grille on a Peterbilt?

Got t-boned in my former little tin box hatchback by a '70s Caprice doing around 40mph (long story, my fault). One thing I was impressed by was the 3 rectangular purple bruises I got from the belts through a couple of layers of clothing. I was fine otherwise, as was the guy and his son in the Caprice, who were also wearing their belts. But the reason I wear 'em was from the driver's training films I saw in the '70s in high school, which featured really outdated scenes of late '50s big fin cars. In one, the car had only done snap spins in the highway median grass without rolling over, but the driver was thrown out the window, broke his back, and when he was put face down on the stretcher, he was screaming and had major clumps of grass clamped in his hands. To this day I feel weird in my car if I don't put on the belt.

Salt Wagon. Works for me!