Russell C

Built in the late '80s, a Monogram Mini Exacts Vette, minus its rear hatch glass, but added a working tailgate. I can't remember how I accomplished that.

And more directly, the link is here https://www.facebook.com/Movin-On-380608825314741/

Different than usual and therefore quite eye-catching. Angle and lighting, particularly in the first pic, really makes it pop.

Very helpful, confirms that Revell didn't cheat and use other 25th scale tooling in this kit.

If that's who I talked to when I pumped up my shape material & paint supplies a few weeks ago and when he allowed me to measure a wheel on one of his 1/32 scale die casts a month or three ago, I can vouch for him as well.

But is it art? 6x6 Freightliners from horizon to horizon, which would be hard to spot in foresty conditions .... except for the one with the white fifth wheel. Same basic parking spot as where I saw the 4x4 custom station wagon back in early January.

I've been keeping an eye on ebay parts listings for rally wheels, and in a reply from ebay seller "kit-parts", I have a related answer on the diameter of the rallys in the Revell '69 Chevy Nova SS kit that he is selling here , where he replied, "I didn't have a good, detailed ruler for inches, but I did for CM. I have approx 1.6 cm.." Fabulous that he could answer that question. That would be almost .63", too small for what I'm aiming for in a 24th scale rally wheel.

Tom Geiger showed the general condition of the 25th scale promos over at this other thread on the smaller Revell kits, and I chimed in one comment later with a photo of a Franklin Mint diecast. Haven't yet found any R&R resin repop that Tom mentioned there, though. Assuming that is not an available item anymore, it would be entertaining if someone could take a not-so-warped promo body, straighten it out via bondo efforts or something, and cobble it back together well enough to get a resin cast from it. Tempted to try that myself, but haven't landed a promo body cheap enough yet.

Put in another vote for the shortened body from me. As for my own current W.I.P. that I just recently started, it'll retain the kit body length, but I'm aiming for a bit less of a sheer street fighter appearance while still having it be totally recognizable as the Quicksliver - flames and the panel graphics, but with more of a milder custom look. Out of the two additional ebay parts piles that I won, I may end up with a decent pile of unneeded parts, including a Bad Actor windshield / rear glass. Hasn't been delivered yet, though, so I don't know the condition of that parts pile.

That's what I've been doing lately, and my own gallery collection (e.g. this one) from before this glitch now suffers from the same 'black box' fate. Gregg PM'd me a while back to say a future update to the site could remedy this problem. I'll welcome any correction here, but I do believe that preview feature did vanish. Perhaps it could return with a site update....

More pics of the "vet thing". A Vette bike in a 4-wheel Vette hauler (?) Trailer (?)

Took a while, though, since around March or a bit earlier 2014 when I started to keep an eye on ebay. Won't take a whole lot now to get that General show back on the road, at least to the point where it looks a heckuva lot less toy-like. After a trip to the hobby shop for some 5/16th Plastruc channel for the frame rebuild/stretch, and away it goes.

A composite of the two photos from the ebay listing I won, a pair of 32nd scale AMT kits. Though warned that such AMT wheels/tires are too small in diameter for replacements in my Monogram GMC General restoration, a first-glance comparison indicates I could get away with the swap, especially if I lower the cab/sleeper location and maybe raise the axles just a tad. At the very least, I can use the 5th wheel, air horns, quarter fenders, and a few other bits off the Ford. I was originally thinking I'd need the front wheels off the KW, but the more I look at the Ford fronts, the more I like that look. The KW is a complete but unboxed kit, while the Ford was missing parts. Took me more than an hour to de-grundge it and reduce it back to being completely separate pieces.

Works fine for me on my 2007 iMac & Firefox. You might have some kind of terribly specific sprite bug in your Mac.....

A photo alteration of somebody else's ebay listing to give a general idea of the direction I plan to go in for the taillights. First, I'll have to fill in the entire panel like Geno did for his Silver Bullet, so ignore the bump in the middle of the pic below. But instead of the Chevy lights, I'll just have the larger - and four of 'em - Buick lights. And some kind of bumper bigger than the Impala one, but not necessarily the Invicta one. I have it too low in this altered pic, but even still, it doesn't look like it works well in this application .....

Built one of these as a kid, at a time when I sill played with models in the carpet. I dutifully glued the wheels/hubs onto the axles over the slip-fit tires, so it did roll. Didn't corner worth beans, of course. The single remaining part in my parts box from mine is the 4-spoke steering wheel, center front in the pic below. Found all the rest as a parts-missing glue bomb on ebay just recently (tragic that it has a crack in the windshield), and it's handy that there is an ebay seller out there with reproduction decals (with silver metallic printing instead of the kit's silver foil, though). For the flames, lazy that I am these days on painting, I think I prefer the decals out of the Revell '67 Chevelle Streetburner version. (Dec 2022 update - changed my mind to the Revell '56 Chevy. See updated post down below) Always liked this overall Tom Daniel design but have issues with various elements of it, such as the full width taillight lens, the bumperless rolled pan look, and the wheels. What I'm aiming for is a slightly de-tuned street machine custom look with regular front / deep dish rear rally wheels (hence my question about 24th scale vs 25th scale ones here), quad Buick taillights, a cowl induction-only hood, and a return of chrome bumpers. The clear roof panel begs for some kind of load in the back. My first thought was for several crates' worth of Mercury model car boxes on top of a folding table, as though it was all destined for setup at a model car swap meet, but then I could imagine some smart aleck saying they'd all melt in the sun. Then I remembered I had several giftaways of Hot Wheels from the GSL contests, one of them being a '49 Mercury. It'll fit just fine between the fender wells, and with a bit of detailing, it could pass for a 1/3rd scale model, or an overdone pedal car. Toss in a couple of old AMT kit trophies and it might look like something hauled in a car like this. Good excuse to cover over the stained carpet material as a way to salvage it..... Stay tuned.

First, I'm aware that the rally wheels in the Revell '77 van are not correct for that vehicle, that's covered in another thread. However, not knowing these two kit types well (and not finding any results about it in a lengthy search here), I'm wondering if Revell created new wheels for the van that actually are 1/24th scale, or did they rob the tool out of the 1/25th scale Camaro kits. If anybody has one or both styles rattling around in the ol' parts box, could you post the diameter of 'em?

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Link to his license plates category here.

Do keep in mind that it's not just a simplistic tie between lake levels and precipitation, you also have to factor in water allocation between the lakes, and who decides to keep how much in which lakes and how much to let loose for irrigation and when that's done. This site http://www.water-data.com/ charts all of that, folks who love to graph things can work out the details among the site's Water Database flyouts for each lake in the Colorado system. Then on top of that, you have waste. By virtue of being in Phoenix, my idiot apartment complex gets its water from the Central Arizona Project's Colorado river-fed canals, only to waste it by having floods which water the roadways instead of the plants and trees. I do my bit by telling 'em where the leaks are, but they refuse to listen.... Less waste all the way around would mean less water drained out of the lakes.

Edsel Ford's custom-made golf cart. Henry did not approve.

"You got 48% (21 right out of 44). The average score is 45%." Seems I got more half right by correctly guessing on when the particular styles were trendy....

This page? http://www.missinglinkrc.com/

Oh, I guess my vote would be for the 1991 Colorado vacation where I spotted a spiffy dirt side road north of Silverton along the route going up Red Mountain Pass, which I thought would make a nice place to drive up and eat lunch at the last place before I'd have to turn around. Such a smooth recently cleared road, I ended up stopping east of the summit, and afterward I just kept heading west. Had to have been cleared & flattened mere days earlier by a bulldozer, turned out to be Ophir Pass, essentially a 4x4 jeep road not suited for 4x2 tin box hatchbacks like mine. Reckless of me not to know what was over the crest or where the road ended up, but luck of the draw gave me a ride that was not usually smooth, having only one minorly hairy crossing of a wash with a little water in it. It sure was fun and scenic.

I hadn't been paying attention to bidding pages like that before, but sure enough on this one: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=171887681445&showauto=true I did a quick copy 'n paste of the "r***j" / "a***l" bids into the wordcounter.com site, and the score is 49 to 48 so far on the bid count between the two.