Russell C

Something "retro" as in these '70s GMC stripe designs out of the paint scheme thread?

Usually I can find photos of what I'm thinking in Google image searches, but it seems to let me down this time, so I just made my own - take Rob Shmit's mild custom seen in the Favorite Caddy thread and lose a good chunk of the middle. But in order to make it look right, instead of moving the rear wheels forward along with the body, they'd look more factory-ish if they ended up centered within the 'moved-forward' section.

Achieving the allusive 'show quality model' level is basically building something that - if magically expanded to 1:1 size - could be mistaken for being a fully functional vehicle. So, imagine using so-so quality black thread for plug wires, and blowing those up to 1:1 size. An ordinary person might then say, "Man, the insulation on those wires sure is hairy." Or for an outside door lock, "Wow, this thing isn't even round, it doesn't look shiny like stainless steel, and there is no slot to put a key in." That's the level of detail a person can get carried away with. Btw, the door locks on my avatar's 911 woody wagon are bits of aluminum paper clip wire, chucked into my motor tool and polished flat and into perfect circles, with a vertical slot scribed into them with an xacto blade. Beats a dot of silver paint, and it wasn't especially hard to do. Plus, as a wire where you just see the ends, they also serve as pegs to hold the handles much better to the sides of the car.

One more, sorta, but for me it's just the first 1 minute 40 seconds of Sylvester Stallone's "Over the Top", since the road he's on (in the not super bright sunshine scenes) is from bits of my favorite Colorado summer vacation road north of Durango to Ouray. Entertaining Autocar he has.

Small weakness for custom long roofs. Two really old builds from the late '80s piled on top of my current WIP, which I'm running behind on updating.

Current ebay listing of a fleetside model done gasser style: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172306139691

Alas, as underfunded as the IMCM is, which results in the website running behind on updates, don't let that appearance dissuade you from visiting. Speaking from my multiple visits during the GSL contests, and from news of major new recent model acquisitions, let me suggest that you make a particular effort to visit it. Tours will be happening during next year's GSL, with presentations of that new material happening at that time, and it is available for private tours, but through reasonable advance inquiry.

I had totally missed the news about Tim Pentecost. A tremendous loss, he was a fixture at the GSL contests, as well as a good friend to all of us.

My vote goes to the 2nd photo with the spinners. Glad to help with the visualization of the side window openings. One of my weaknesses is for customized Vettes, so I couldn't resist seeing how the suggestions would work on the window openings. I've photo alteration-visualized a few of my own Vette ideas, including this one within my 'artwork' thread of a custom I won't probably pursue. Handy to have my graphic arts training and my obsolete CorelDRAW 11 program to use for 'virtual model customizing'. By way of example, I thought I had a fun idea of combining a Daytona Superbird with a '72 Mustang a while back, but I absolutely could not get the illustration to look good. So, I saved myself the cash from buying a Dodge for a custom that would have looked just as bad in real life.

You mean like this collectively, with a re-scoring of the rear part of the door line?

Dang! Something new to learn every day! http://store.ritstudio.com/rit-dyemore/

No doubt that will be a fine addition to the Museum.

Man! Didja also score a truck to haul back all those trucks?

Yep, I hadn't noticed the rollbar location mostly due to how it blended into the color of the interior in the 1st, 4th & 5th photos, but once it got mentioned, it was hard not to notice. Didn't want to chime in at that time out of politeness, but glad that you were open to suggestion, and it does indeed look more natural now.

While doing an image search for something related, I ran across cab forward Chevy trucks, and one of the thumbnail image links led me straight to this thread, so I assume the missing photo above is the tan one I captured below. The other image link led to this guy's 25th scale blue cab forward Chevy.

I've had my best luck with the word "junkyard", a little less with "assembled", and in simply zipping through the newly listed stuff in the Vintage category within the Automotive section of Models & kits. Some otherwise clueless estate salers think of dusty old build-ups as 'vintage', I guess.

Our man Joseph Osborn right here does custom Alps printing.

So if back in the day the guys at Palmer Plastics were to go off the reproduction here, does that mean the kit would have ended up proportioned correctly?

In gathering what I need for a '34 Ford street rod project, I just got this off ebay for fairly cheap. It's only missing the rear bumper. It's an original maroon-molded 24th scale Monogram, where some long-ago builder only painted the body and nothing else…. but that also included the running boards in green, and the ragtop in three layers - silver, candy apple green and silver on top of that. No offense to the builder, I popped off the running boards and soaked them and the ragtop in Purple Power degreaser. The green peeled off in rubbery sheets, but the silver ended up being a tad more stubborn. Fun as the color is, it isn't salvageable. The builder didn't primer the body, so as seen on the forward surface of the left rear fender, the paint can be popped right off. I'm wondering if I can peel the whole body without using paint solvents. For my oncoming project, I need the running boards, taillights, bumper and grille. To achieve a particular effect for my project (which everyone will see later in a WIP thread), I have to have a 24th scale grille, which is noticeably larger than the AMT 25th scale one.

Greg Myers' post #1 in this thread shows three of the 4 kit versions, with the differences in headlights, roof openings, bumperettes, hoods, etc. The Street Fighter Two is the one other version, having radiused rear wheel openings.

I'd advise keeping an eye on the official Movin On' show producer's web site: http://movinontvshow.com/ They are only offering t-shirts in their Shop section, but they could expand to other items, since they control the content of what's made from the show.

For comparison, left-to-right: the unpainted wheels from the AMT '69 Chevelle, the wheel & tire out of the Revell '69 Camaro Z28 RS, the wheel (in a borrowed tire) from the Revell '69 Nova, and the wheel / tire out of the Revell '68 Corvette. As a guy who fixates on tiny details, I like the way the Corvette wheel trim rings have the small lip in the inner diameter, while the Nova wheel seems to have an outer edge of the center cap that looks the most like the 1:1 car. It looks like the unpainted Chevelle wheel has the best looking slots and 'flat area' between the slots. While the slots in the Nova wheel look too oversized, especially since they are reflected larger straight onto the trim rings, one potential way of knocking down that appearance would to drop in a ring of bright this silver wire so that it would look like the lip of the 1:1 trim ring. Chore as it might sound, I have what I need now to create the regular & wide wheels for my de-tuned Quicksilver street machine project, stay tuned there for a build sequence of how I put these together for a set of regular / wide rally wheels that suit my tastes.

If I may politely suggest it, yours is the only signature line I'm aware of with a photo that large in it, arguably the same size as what a guy puts in a build thread of his own work - a potential point of confusion for newer or infrequent readers who initially mistake it for being somehow part of the O.P.'s build. A viable solution would be to artfully crop the photo into a quite short but wide rectangle with whatever words of tribute at the sides. Example below.

Nice Charger & Buick builds, but in direct answer to your question, it's neither you nor your builds, it's topics that guys have a particular interest in or not. For me, muscle cars in general aren't what yanks my attention, and in that vintage of GM car I prefer the Bonneville. But I'm assuming the Buick fans and Charger fans are tuning in even if you aren't aware of it. I don't follow all that many build threads, but I tune in here most every day and I click on the "take me to the last read post" in many posts that I recognize. The builder may not see me following him and I most likely won't comment, but I do see and appreciate the material. So, you'll have to have some trust on this instead of seeing follower count numbers and comment quality.

I hear ya, annoying when a person needs just a couple of parts off an out-of-production kit, and the bulk of what's available are big dollar complete kits or ones parted out at obscene prices .... and nice when an affordable bomb shows up. Look out for a PM in a bit.