Russell C

Never knew the origins of it, just saw it waaaaaaay back a long time ago hanging from a string in a toy shop and wished I could have it, while my sister was standing nearby. On impulse, she asked a store clerk how much he would sell it for, and (if I remember right), he made up a 69 cent figure out of thin air, cut it off the string and sold it to her for exactly that price. Then she gave it to me. So it has a particular keep-it-forever value to me.

As long as we're plainly united on the egg theme .........

Welcome. I've gone the airbrush route in the past with pearl nail polish colors and nasty 2-part Deltron clear, but in my old age I've reverted to spray cans out of laziness. But there is more to it than just laying down a good spray can layer - to get rid of the orange peel look, you must use a polishing kit, as in something like this. Takes a bit of time, but even a can of Krylon yellow out of the hardware store doesn't end up looking half bad with just that being the layer polished, no clear coat on top of it.

The 302 Camaro engine in the old Monogram Quicksilver kit I have didn't have a fuel pump at all, and the glue bomb Z28 that I got barely had enough of it left that was recognizable. Being fairly adept at 'lathe turning' parts on my motor tool, I was able to crank out the top all-circular section of what looks like a GM fuel pump on that, but I ended up needed my miniature lathe to turn the bottom 'bowl' part (or whatever that is) out of a short length of .125" brass tube. Nothing looks more like metal than metal. The brass part has plastic sprue infilling it, so that I could drill into it for the inlet and outlet fuel lines, and so that the plastic upper part would have some plastic to glue to. What remains of the glue bomb fuel pump is the blue plastic shape that locates to the engine block. Stay tuned over at my Quicksilver project for the finished result.

I hate it when that happens. Years back, after converting one small diecast truck into quite a nice model with minimal fiddling of a few areas of it, I was going to embark on a different die cast conversion of a cabover Aerodyne Kenworth. Except for the longest time I knew there was something wrong with the proportions of the cab, but I couldn't place where it was at. Finally after many measurements, I figured out it was the distance between the headlights and the grille, and the too-small distance extended from that area all the way up over the roof's multi-angled edges. No way to fix that design problem without major roof surgery, so I abandoned it. Nice to see your stick-to-itivness here!

Beyond what's found in Google Images search results for Pinto or (the more sparse) Mustang II?

Spotted a glue bomb ebay listing for a 'van roof' 1966 Vette gasser a few weeks ago (1st photo below from that listing which somebody else won), but had no idea what I was looking at until after a bit of research turned up Greg Myer's post here showing that roof option in an AMT '67 Vette. As a result of too much imagery of Ray Hinck's Revell '31 Ford Cherry Pie rattling around in my head, along with images of the D&M Glasses Gasser VI, I cobbled all of that together into the second image below, with a quick 'n dirty roof I drew myself. Might be one way to put one of those roofs to useful purpose, if only I had time for such a project....

Figured the guys at the official Movin' On Facebook page would appreciate that. Makes me want to dig out the VHS tape I bought off ebay years back of In Tandem.

Welcome, looking for an affordable (meaning really cheap) Monogram Mohave Mule version myself, or the Revell stepside that I detailed in my post here (regretfully with its still-busted photo gallery pics resulting from the forum upgrade situation). Stick with ebay listings, sometimes affordable glue bombs can be spotted, it just takes a long time to find 'em .....

Shared this thread over at the official Facebook page for the Movin' On / In Tandem TV producers, and the reply to it was "Please let them know what we're doing over here. Perhaps our pictures can help the modelers."

Anytime. My mind is cluttered with loads of stuff, my first guess was that the tune was the same thing as what was in the old "Beef. It's whats for dinner" commercials with the Robert Mitchum voiceovers, which I knew used an Aaron Copeland tune, but I have no idea why I knew that. However, not the same tune, though, so I did a wider search of Copeland stuff 'till I found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviyAIS9c_U

Another resin cast I didn't know about, spotted it over the long weekend in this ebay listing. Says it was from Kustom Kolor Works back in the mid '90s.

A classic, my recording of A Christmas Carol, the 1984 version with George C. Scott.

♬ It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Toys in every store But the prettiest sight to see Is the Holley that will be On your own front door! ♬ (graphic artist that I am, cobbled this together earlier this evening from three images out of Google images & added shadows in my Corel program. Gift to everyone, feel free to share.)

Cued up this vid to start at the 1:06 spot. It looks like the end of the world is approaching.

Dental surgeon, it's where I got the needles to make the exhaust stacks for my 1:250 scale Mack, but I had to explain to him what I was up to with the needles.

Smothered 'em with love, maybe. Nevertheless, that green woody with the '39 Ford fenders & grille isn't a half bad idea, or it could be with better execution.

For a quite a while, I tracked just how long it took me to build my projects. I'd write down the start time for each work session, the basic work done (panel sanding, engine work, etc) and the end time. When I declared the project finished, I tallied up the time. The 911 woody wagon in my avatar, for example, took 130½ hours. This is helpful if a person feels like either insuring such things or if a non-modeler pleads with me to build an exact replica. Maybe I could bash another one out in 100 hours just as good or better. If I charge a measly $20 per hour, that makes it a model worth $2 grand.

5 additional photos of the same model now provided by Mark Harmer in his post at another other thread on a related model.

Yes, indeed, this second one is the same one spotted by Steve Gilmore in his 2013 "Weird Cabover" thread, and I'd have to guess that somebody way back when decided to do a fairly decent clone of the Bob Nordberg model - a bit less shiny, a bit more crude, but interesting nonetheless. Thanks for snagging those photos!

Could you sign in to your "My ebay" and look under the Bids/Offers and its Didn't Win section and - if it was recent enough - snag the item number for the auction? Sometimes those stick around for a month or two where we can see the photos in the original listing.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the one pictured in this 2013 thread post here? That one, I'm speculating, was probably a copy somebody made after seeing Nordberg's award winner in magazines way back then.

See the links in post #1.

Unfortunately, all of the gallery photos I put in still have busted links from the point where MCMForums here upgraded the site. I could re-post 'em, a bit of a chore, but I'm hoping Gregg's impending site update resurrects the photo links instead. Meanwhile, the news from Mark Gustavson is that he is possibly tapping a particularly skilled restorer to put Bob Nordberg's cabover back together, and he sent this photo which shows the truck as it is now, with a better view of the front than what I had as the prior photo. Wouldn't take much to reassemble it, but one has to be mindful that it is a famous one-of-a-kind from over 50 years ago, and one doesn't just glue it back together in one evening.