ChrisBcritter

The pillared 4-door was a very graceful sedan indeed! Will PM.

^^^ I wonder if anyone has ever taken the body from one of these to build a stock school bus? (With about ten jillion modifications of course.)

Stopped at the Libertyville HL and picked up a Molotow masking pen on clearance for $4.10 (reg. $18.99!); will try it out to compare it with Micro Mask and report back...

Neat Opel! But no, I'm talking about the French company "Record" that released a 1/25 kit of the Dauphine (they also made a Floride/Caravelle). It was full detail and had a multi-piece body, about on par with the early Revell kits.

Got a steering wheel for the Hubley Renault Dauphine from Feretzrus (thanks again!); hopefully getting a rear bumper soon. (The steering wheel is from the Record kit; has anyone else built that one? Rare as hen's teeth from what I gather.)

Would the narrow slicks AMT put in many of their '60s kits be more accurate? I have a few sets.

Wow! Right-hand drive, too. Where's that one, South America, Africa or Australia?

Go to the last page of the Mustang forum thread - Kevin Marti gave it the Kevin Marti seal of approval!

"Makeover" seems to cover it pretty well. "Rebop" I've heard used before too, long long ago.

That's the one I meant - hope they go 1/24 like they did with the Opel.

I think all we can hope for on the vintage classics is if some overseas outfit tries it - ICM may be the best bet right now; still hoping for that Packard limo. (I'm thinking dull faded paint, a few dings, a couple missing hubcaps, '63 CA plates and a dozen surfboards strapped to the roof... )

I wondered about those too. Could those actually be the brake drums for the stock/custom wheels that insert into the wheel backs? I don't see the drums anywhere else.

And for us completists, there's only one display spotlight instead of the original three (but there are still three lenses). Looks like the front and rear suspension tree is not shown as chrome? Could be a printing error because that tree also has the hood ornament and the smaller custom headlights. Finally, is that the DeSoto front bumper I see just above the stock front bumper? Can't use it without the Styline front end, but it may be good for something.

Check Hobby Lobby for the masking pens - the Deerfield store was closing them out for $4.10 each. If I didn't still have a nearly full bottle of MicroMask I would have bought one.

Got one in the to-do stash but the glass went AWOL in the big move, so dead issue for now. Did MCG do a photoetch set for it? Single- as well as dual-headlight grilles would be a no-brainer here.

On the '57 Ford we have "30 parts restored and 11 retooled"; he moves the box so fast it's hard to see what's in it. There's no image of the box bottom on the site, so I downloaded the video, ran it through my editing program to go frame by frame, and it looks like we aren't getting the Styline custom front and rear ends . One blurry frame seemed to show the pods for the vertical quad headlights are back, so at least that's something...

Is there any chance PMC produced the 1/25 scale Texaco station for Buddy L as a subcontractor, or did they just supply the vehicles that came with it (IIRC '59 Ranchero or '60 Chevy sedan)? Boy, if the molds for that ever turned up...!

Bondic will yellow a bit over time, so be careful there. I just used it to cast a taillight lens for the Lindberg Granada, and there's a difference between the clear plastic original and the copy. My tube of Bondic is about a year old.

Too bad they're so rusty, but it would be interesting to put an original promo lined up with the molds to see exactly how much the acetate has shrunk over the years.

(Ugh. Thanks for the 404 error right after typing the whole post. Here we go again) Just got back from the DuPage show with a few goodies. Traded the Revell '30 A for a Moebius '65 Belvedere I; lo and behold the body is straight - so I may do the four-door conversion myself. Also picked up a set of Jo-Han Royal Lancers from Okey Spaulding, a near-mint unbuilt Pyro '32 Pierce Arrow convertible for $3(!), and something I'd heard of but never seen: a set of Auto World Auto Hinges from 1963. The instructions show someone successfully opening the doors and trunk of an AMT '49 Ford with an Auto Cutter . They're nicely made wire hinges with styrene retainers, and I'm looking forward to needlessly complicating adding detail to one of my projects with them.

Could be - I didn't get the name of the gentleman I traded it to.

Swapped the one I got from HL (with the coupon) off to a dealer today for a Moebius Belvedere I - good deal, like getting 1/3 off on the Plymouth.

Terrific job of recreating the ol' family car, Mitch!

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