Russell C

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.

One of my truck survivors from 1980 is seen when you scroll down just a bit in this older post. Meanwhile, here is my solitary car survivor, probably from '79 or '80, since that was when I was using Duplicolor metalflake. I don't remember deliberately choosing the color from seeing full size versions, but that turns out to be roughly a factory color. Revell yellow-molded Carrera with a bit of modding to make it just a street version.

Scored a couple of really cheap ones recently. Handy when the glue is not bombed all that much. Needed the rally wheels off the Revell '68 Vette, but when prying one wheel/tire off, it dawned on me that the entire chassis & interior tub was never glued in place, just friction-fit. Couldn't resist posing it as a jacked up thing. Needed the Monogram Chevy Luv for the stepside parts and the dash. It's crooked in every direction, but there's really only about two spots holding the chassis to the cab, its engine is rattling around loose in its location and the whole front facia fell off during shipping, and will fall off again the moment I pick it up.

Welcome to the forum. I'm guessing you have the Japanese version of the Nissan, which is usable, but which presents problems modding it the way you'd like it. Looks like this kind of conversion was done years back by the modeler in this other forum thread http://offroadmodels.proboards.com/thread/957/1989-nissan-pathfinder-se-door The next thing is the cost of commissioning someone to do this kind of work. If you want it done well, you have to factor in what a guy would charge for that kind of craftmanship. $20 per hour at a bare minimum, and probably not anything less than 10 hours of work (likely much more) and this already tallys up to $200. Start leaning toward accurate replica detailing, and the project ends up getting into 50+ hours. All a matter of what you wish to pay for vs what you might want to accomplish yourself. This hobby might look a bit intimidating to total newcomers, but scout around in it and practice a bit on models just for the heck of it, and that may convince you to have a go at the project yourself in the not too distant future.

Scroll nearly to the bottom of the GSL News page for this: http://www.gslchampionship.org/news/ "...we announce at GSL-XXV that GSL International Scale Vehicle Championship and Convention will not extend beyond five more events, which would take us to GSL-XXX in 2025."

Mythosporks - a perfect combination.

A can't-miss destination for me, will be there as usual, but have retired from the yellow, 3-wheeled running gag for the "Group" category. Must get my act together to bring something else, though.

1930 Ford Bronco I figure this is another one I'll relegate to the virtual model file, since I don't have time or apparently the money to pursue it. Altered photo below was of a regular Aurora 1/32 scale glue bomb with sagging rear suspension and missing parts, which I first leveled and then shortened. The Aurora kit's oversized tires, widened rear fenders and jacked up appearance suggested maybe I could do such a project, perhaps using substituted toy tires & wheels. But after a year or so of keeping an eye on ebay listings for the kit, unbuilt ones don't go for cheap, and decent glue bombs don't come around all that often. Probably a better choice befitting the "Bronco" name with more options for adding the 4x4 bits would be the Revell 24th scale '31 Ford Sedan, anyway.

From this ebay vintage photo auction, for those into oddball tow truck subjects.

Was doing an image search for El Caminos overall and ran across this one. Any progress on it?

No, this PJ fellow is Mr $X9.99, where x = a number between 1 and 9, so in his haste to bash out the listing, he probably just leaned on the 9 key a bit heavily. Yep, I figured out how to filter his listings buy putting a minus sign in front of the word "only" in the Parts category search window. Wipes out most of his listings since he tends to use that word frequently in his headings. Just like MrObsessive said, no joke, he really did launched into a total meltdown in his item description text. Scroll down there, the text gets bigger and bigger. Wow.

The legendary Jim Keeler, of Revell design fame and "Dodge Fever" fame, has his birthday today according to Facebook. No sure if he is older than 66, but since he did the write-up of the Dodge Fever II in 1969 and was at least 20 years old at the time, he could have that figure beat by a year or two.... Happy Birthday Jim!

Those of us who are graphic artists by training cheat ....... and make our own badges. Alas, can't stay all day, must depart before noon due to standard weekend elderly parent care obligation.

x3. When I rummage through just the "Parts" category, I am probably doing other sellers a disservice by quickly dragging the slider down past his seemingly endless pile of 24.99 prices, when one or two reasonably priced listing are in among that pile. But from the looks of his feedback page, he actually sells that stuff. What are those buyers thinking??? I snagged a complete vintage Revell Chevy Luv kit for $3 less than what he wanted for just the stepside bed.

My ongoing problem is with seeing things that aren't there. When I see a Deora, particularly from a front 3/4 angle, I see 1966 Ford Galaxies. The back would need the requisite square-ish taillights to complete the picture.

What I hate is my own senility, which I keep forgetting to fix. I spot some cheaply listed ebay item I could sorta use, which is tempting because of the price ........... and then I forget to place at least a single bid at the starting price. Then, 9 or 10 days later, I click on the listing, see it ended with zero bids, and is now relisted where at least two folks are in a bidding war over it beyond what I would have paid.

Lots of ideas enter my head, and in more recent years, I see how they work out in photo alterations, as seen in my artwork thread. Back in 1992 I sketched this one out on paper mostly from a tracing of a Lambo with a 'guestimation' of how the Chrysler would look on it. More pics here.