ChrisBcritter

High praise for your steady hand, Tim!

Sweet job, Mike! I've got to try one of these Vettes soon.

Just got back from the Lake Michigan Model Car Club meeting; won an Aerovette kit in the raffle and got this from another member: Nice builtup '66 Wildcat in metallic lavender. There's a little typewritten sticker on the chassis that reads "blt 1/1/75" so I guess it's original issue? Both kits are ones I wanted to get to "someday" so it was a good evening!

Lost my answer when they moved it - they're brake drums for the AMT Modified Stockers. Some kits had 'em chromed, others didn't.

Absolutely magnificent - the beautiful Auburn Speedster finally gets the tribute it deserves. Do you have photos of the engine and chassis? And if you ever take on an ITC '40 Mercury, I'll be watching!

Brake drums from the AMT Modified Stocker series. On some of the kits they're chromed; others are plain.

They can also be used for the Jo-Han '64 Dodge - much more correctly shaped than the kit wheelcovers.

Thanks Steve! I got it apart overnight and it looks pretty thin underneath, so I'll be doing some filling. Good news is almost NO cement was used! Only the wheelcovers were glued to the wheel backs (they came off with just a little effort) and the shifter glued to the floor (cut it off and ground it smooth). It has one small glue spot at the top of the rear window where the original builder tried to install the mirror before realizing he had it backwards. So I trimmed off some flash and into the purple pond it went.

Michael's also has a full rack selection of Testor's Aztek paints; HL just has the six-packs.

Boring indeed. How about a 1/12 scale supercharged Cord V8?

The '61 Tempest arrived this afternoon - looks even better than I hoped. Dying to get at those window frames tonight ... Question: Has anyone built one of these kits and tried to flatten out the bulged spots in the hood? AMT molded depressions under the hood to be cut open for louvers, which left two oblong 3/16" x 3/4" bulges on top. Just wondering if there's enough plastic there to sand them down without opening big holes in the hood. Over to the experts!

Great work on the '66 wagon! Now if you do a correct 4-door sedan you'll sell a bunch in Brazil... right Tulio?

If you're in the Chicago area, check with Des Plaines Hobbies - they have some of that ultrafine tubing last time I checked (thanks to Tom Piagari aka feretzrus for the heads-up!).

I'm really looking forward to the build threads on many of these!

Checked off another grail kit: Paid nearly retail but it was worth it to get an unpainted, unmolested example. (And Mr. Obsessive, you'll be proud to know the FIRST thing I'll do to it is to fix those overly thick, crooked window frames! ) Also picked up a Revell '62 Plymouth dashboard - for Mopar fans, the plain Revell dash is correct for a Savoy conversion (the reissue Jo-Han '62 uses a '63 dash, and the original issue dash was trimmed and padded for a Fury), and an unbuilt engine from a '66 AMC Marlin - this will either be converted to a Gray Marine engine for the Century Coronado boat or I'll just put it in the '59 Rambler wagon.

Depends on who the owner is on each car - dealer or consigner - and which insurer covers each one. I figure there will be a lot of Copart salvage auctions coming up.

Huge improvement with that wheel/tire combo!

Speaking of which: (Hagerty and J.C. Taylor are going to be very busy now...)

Or banger racers - I bet some folks from England will buy up the remains and ship 'em over. As I've posted on the H.A.M.B., that's a '65 Imperial convertible behind the '46 Chevy coupe...

AMT '58 Ford vert for a buck and it's never had louvers glued on the hood, or or a spotlight hole in the A-pillar, or antennas glued on the deck?? I'd tell you to go buy a Powerball ticket if you hadn't used a year's worth of good luck... Some guys replace the chassis with one from the AMT '59 Ford or Edsel; if you plan to go that route I have a spare if you need it.

Hold on, I'll fix it. ... OK, got both to print out on photo paper. They came out sharp! Sending PM for your address.

FTFY.

Got a 404 error after writing a long post. So anyway, last night I went down to work on my '58 (already added the cowl vent from the '57 - after separating the '57's wipers and putting them aside for later) and did the front fender surgery. Then I started work on the windshield opening, and it looks like there's no problem with the glass fit - probably since I'm using a convertible windshield. Just might be able to fudge this enough to look OK. You guys are rubbing off on me... Fun fact: The window opening on the passenger side slopes down towards the windshield, making that vent window slightly shorter.

Oh, you're raising the bar for me... Now are you using the kit glass or a vacuform replacement? I've been looking at mine to do the same thing, but all I have is the kit glass and I'm worried about it not fitting (I already checked the Trophy Series '57 windshield and it doesn't fit either).

That figures - knew I should have saved it and edited it to that one shot. Next best thing - you can hear some of of it behind the el cheapo studio-musicians-imitating-the-Beach-Boys-imitating-Chuck-Berry production music: