Russell C

Switched to email for login. Worked seamlessly. 4 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said: What a concept. You suppose it'll ever catch on? Naw. That is soooooo 1980s ...

Adding a bit to the Mustang favoritism in this thread, I'd have to say my top movie favorite - seen almost entirely too briefly onscreen or too far away - is the off road-ish Shelby Mustang in the Thomas Crowne Affair remake. Mostly because it is in my favorite color, in a fabulous tropical setting, and is a bit on the blasphemous side ...

Yes. In answer to your post title question, it's an affliction many of us have when it comes to old buildups. Agree on the top chop, wouldn't take much lose the too-tall look.

I got mine for my ancient history 4x4 top fueler out of the AMT Snakebite Ford kit. Assuming nothing has changed in the tooling since the 1990s for whichever kits are currently out there, here y'go via my caliper measurements: 2.7 inch for the diameter and 1.7 inch for the width.

Pic from this guy's Packard site - I've seen other car guy pages elsewhere criticize the fins of the '58 Packards, but I like 'em even if they do look like old AMT/SMP kit custom add-ons.

Me, three. Don't know if it was one I saved for a future small scale detailed project, I'd have to dig deep into my die casts box. Looked like this eBay photo version:

Pleased that I don't have to spend weeks with some other person's insurance company about replacing parts of my car, or my entire car. (a.k.a., if I'd been just 1 car length further ahead, I'd be describing the situation in our "What irked you today?" on how some drivers don't look each way when they come barreling out of a parking lot onto the street)

Kurt's evil that way. I blamed him in the last bit of the post immediately above this one within my Red Baron '29 A WIP for the unavoidable temptation to turn the Revell single piece coilovers into 6-piece units.

Thanks for asking! No doubt you found this page after a reasonably extensive internet search. Backstory to the one I got is how it had no instructions with it, and even though I'm a model builder who ignores the instruction sheets in model vehicle plastic kits (that's a standing joke in this model car community), it took me forever to figure out how to assemble this giant "kit." A year or so later, I saw how another eBay bidder won one of these auctions which showed that it came with instructions, and that was back in the day when eBay let people see who the account winners were. So I PM'd the person who turned out to be in Italy, and the guy was glad to share a photocopy of his instructions (spoke better English than I speak Italian) . . . . which I can't find now tonight. But that photocopy is around here somewhere. Less than a decade ago, there was a Titanic movie memorabilia website which I also found that had online photos of the same instruction sheet. Sadly, that site went offline, and even though the Internet Archive has preserved many of the site's pages, the particular one with the photos you could click on - in the "Light Thief" section here - didn't manage to preserve those photos. What I can do, if I can't find the larger photocopied instructions the Italy guy sent to me that were larger and more clear images, is use tomorrow's bright sunlight is get good closeup smartphone photos of the old paper printout I made from the website's instructions images, and then share those with you in a PM. **January 27 edit -- assembly problem solved for the above commenter with better images of the page below PM'd. Glad to help out in the situation!

They stack up on me a little bit. (running years behind on the Quicksilver mod project)

Hood hinges. Figured that sort of thing was at least possible in 24th scale. It is. Guy proved it.

Not sure if this qualifies, but the impression I get is that our MCM man "89AKurt" builds some kind of ballistic missiles that gets the police called on him .... 😂

Fabulous to see the basic ideas from 2D illustrations done in 3D!

Was wondering what the origins of that "Imperial" engine was in the Mercedes shorty gluebomb I got last year off eBay .....

Holy toledo. One more reason for me to keep my daily driver VW GTI, which will be celebrating its 39th birthday sometime this year. German mechanic who was an expert in Mk2 VWs told me the solitary computer in mine (for running the fuel injection) was absolutely bulletproof. My problem, of course, is obsolete out-of-production parts, but fortunately, GTI enthusiasts are filling in that problem with aftermarket replacements.

Never heard of such a thing before, learn somethin' every day. Did a quick internet search, and turned up these pages, nothing on current value I can readily spot, but when a vehicle is uncommon enough, some guys would kill just to get their hands on a project car. https://www.carrozzieri-italiani.com/listing/lmx-sirex-coupe/ https://www.autoclassmagazine.com/web/lmx-sirex-vintage/ https://bringatrailer.com/2016/12/19/milanese-fiberglass-exotic-1973-lmx-sirex-2300-hcs/ https://bringatrailer.com/2015/12/10/never-seen-one-1968-sirex-2300-hcs/ https://www.theautopian.com/youve-never-heard-of-the-lmx-sirex-italys-camaro-with-a-ford-engine/

My favorite Christmas TV special! A decade or so back I found out that a company called "Playing Mantis" made a collectible toy version (this guy has a review of it), and I managed to snag one off eBay for $25-ish.

Eek. Acquired 6 cheap buildups off eBay, 3 as major parts donors, 3 as restore/rebuilders, finished zero of anything. I've got to get my act together one of these days ....

Could it be that no kit or promos were made of the '80s GM N-body Pontiac Grand Am / Buick Somerset / Olds Calais? '80s widebody fan that I am, the IMSA race look option would be nice in such a kit.

Really old, but still cool to me the way it was set perfectly to a TV theme song. How to survive no less than 3 PIT maneuvers. Or 4 if the last swing around counts.

I'm bad that way, too, where I'd love to sink into the seats of this one ... but I'd add extra ponies just to give it a bit more zip that it might have been a tic short of at the factoryL https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1977-chrysler-new-yorker-brougham-3/

Ditto, and following, in order to borrow many of your detail points. I told in my Dec 6 "What didja get today" post how I got a "missing major parts buildup" of these and have evil plans to turn the back half of it into a fictional massive fender flare car body / F1-ish combo. I have my fun doing such comical things, such as my V7 4x4 top fuel dragster, and my 'use-the-available-1:1-engine-reference-you-have' NASCAR Mercedes. The objective is "technically accurate totally incorrect," allowing me to take some liberties here & there, but my goal is nevertheless to avoid the situation where a knowledgeable modeler would look at my blasphemous abomination and say, "Well, that's funny and all …. but you've hooked up the water pump backwards." Since I don't hardly have the first clue what I'm looking at, your kind of reference material is very valuable. Having finally found the time today to disassemble a bit of this old buildup, I was impressed to see that the lone driveshaft it came with has fully functional U-joints!

Our own "89AKurt" had this foil reflector tip back in 2018. I'm almost out of round kit headlight reflectors that I bought from some guy eons ago, so I'll need to try out this solution soon ...