Russell C

For those wondering about my avatar pic, that's the 911 Porsche Turbo woody wagon I built back in 1992. It's just a curbside, mostly Fujimi-based with corrections made to the rear fender openings with help from a Revell slantnose kit. Wish I could remember which kit provided the Dunlop tires, I could use another set for a current unrelated project....... The wood is nothing more than a cut-up magazine photo of the wood in somebody's cherrywood bar. The roof is a narrowed portion of a Monogram '39 Chevy Sedan delivery. To see if what I had in my mind's eye, I first did up a drawing of it using tracings out of a Porsche brochure.

One of those things I've never gotten around to, I guess. Been building model vehicles since 1975, especially liked the AMTs at first with the straight metal rod axles since I could play with my cars in the carpet. Built exclusively model trucks from '77-ish to the late '80s. The first contest I attended outside of the local state fair was the 1989 Southwest Challenge in Dallas, with my BMW Cadillac. June 1990 SAE magazine, click to enlarge. Perennial attendee to the Greater Salt Lake International Model Car Contest non-stop since 1990. I'm the guy with the running joke in the "Group" category where I build the vehicle as a yellow 3-wheeler, as in this year's Group 13 1949 Ford. (borrowing somebody else's Fotki photo here) The fun 'bookend' concept to that is the '64 Caddy bumper (now narrowed) on my Ford is the leftover one from my BMW Caddy project Slacked off in building recently, but I should get back into it. No reason not to. Gregg " the Kahuna" knows me, probably says I'm a nut. - Russell Cook