ChrisBcritter

Stop it! This is getting eggscruciating!

How about Rolls-Royce? A couple from the classic era, but nothing since that clunker of a Hubley Silver Cloud kit - no SC III, Silver Shadow, Corniche, or Silver Spur (or Camargue, but I never really cared for that one). Does RR refuse to license anything now?

Finish something. Anything.

I've been doing some preliminary comparison between the new Ventura body (thanks Steve!) and the AMT '61 Bonneville. A few things I've noticed so far: Length: The Ventura is shorter in the right places: wheelbase and rear quarters including a shorter tulip panel and trunklid. Parts swapping: The AMT front bumper/grille is an excellent fit on the Ventura; rear bumper from the Bonneville seems to be spot on as well (I'd have to cut the tab off to know for sure). The chassis and floorpan will fit with some trimming on the trunk floor (taper it about 1/16" at the rear on each side) and of course stretching it about 3/16" under the back seat. I think the Moebius kit could definitely be used to upgrade the AMT kit. Measurements: They seem close with a few noticeable differences. The distance from the base of the windshield to the base of the back window is the same; the Ventura's front wheel openings are about 1/16" farther back in the fenders; and most noticeably its doors are about 1/8" longer. The body is a little (3/32"?) wider at the bottom than the AMT kit. I'll try to shoot some photos later.

Found the listing on Hemmings: http://www.hemmings.com/events/detail?listing_id=45944 67th ILLINOIS PLASTIC KIT & TOY SHOW February 28, 2016 9AM - 3PM FEBRUARY 28th, 2016 - 67th ILLINOIS PLASTIC KIT & TOY SHOW, DUPAGE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, 2015 W. MANCHESTER RD, WHEATON, IL. 60187 9AM-3PM, ADULTS: $5.00 / CHILDREN UNDER 12YRS: $2.00 150 TABLES AVAILABLE, BUY / SELL / TRADE / OR JUST BROWSE, COME OUT AND HAVE A GREAT TIME, CARS, TRUCKS, AIRPLANES, TRAINS / MILITARY, FIRE, POLICE, MUSCLECARS, ALL SCALES, RE-LIVE YOUR CHILDHOOD MEMORIES PAST-TIME HOBBIES, INC. 630 969-1847

Stewart's? Not much of an ad, but they do mention toys - here it is from the 1957 Ingleside High yearbook:

While digging for old high school yearbook images of cars to post on the H.A.M.B., I spotted this in the 1965 book from Santa Fe H.S. in Santa Fe Springs, CA: Had to blow it up so the resolution isn't so sharp, but you can still recognize some of our old favorite kits. Exterior from the '66 yearbook; note the AMT '37 Cord kit at the bottom of the window:

^^^ I hope you're right - and a hardtop Fiesta wagon would be a nice followup (it worked for Revell with the Ford, right?). For me, I'll take a '57 Buick Century, especially if you could share some of the Olds tooling (glass is the same, at least).

Last night I stopped by Hobby Lobby just to buy a saw blade. We all know how that goes... The clearance rack at the Deerfield, IL store had two '36 Ford kits on a second markdown of $8.63, so I finally broke down and got one (The other's still there, along with a Revell Big Daddy Roth '57 Chevy for the same price, if anyone local wants it). Also got the old Pyro/Lindberg '52 Chevy for $3.95; a bit of childhood nostalgia. Oh yeah - used the coupon for the saw blade.

Rats - there go the prices on the Italeri 275 GTB. Never been much of a Ferrari fan but always had it in mind to build one as it appeared in the 1971 TV movie Love Hate Love, preferably all banged up like it was after the final scene.

Reminds me of the setup in the old IMC kit!

Waste not, want not - save the tails and renew your old paint brushes!

Speaking of irksome things, I remember that season well - the Bears won almost every game. Except one. The one on which I had placed a $20 bet with my boss's bookie for them to win. (And $20 was half a day's pay for me at the time.) Haven't made a sports bet since.

Really good kit; I've built three so far (when I was much younger; they're not that great, although I did detail paint the interior like you did) - and have a fourth one planned; it will be this one that was sold for $350 to the Boy Scouts in Paducah, KY in 1946: My father got to "fly" a lot of ground-bound "missions" in this bird before he went into the Air Force; the local yokels later stripped it of everything they could carry - even the wheels! - and it was scrapped circa 1950. So far there are only two known photos of this plane and I've been trying to find one that shows the whole serial number. The ones I built 35 or so years ago: First a typical combat veteran (weathered and flak-damaged none too subtly; I've fixed the broken props and wheel): Second, a typical civilian freighter conversion '50-'60s style (with the clear plastic props): Third, an F model backdated to B-17E with electric motors to run the props - it was supposed to be used in the Super 8mm Pearl Harbor movie I was going to make (built a lot of models for it, but that was it):

Not just there - the box art has had ALL references to Dodge removed. Licensing issues, of course, but I wonder who holds the trademark to the design itself?

Very good work - I have one in my "someday" pile; this gives me an idea of what to expect. I just wish there were some underhood or chassis photos of this car (or engineering drawings) but I haven't found any yet. Do tell! That car turned out real nice; what factory info did he have? And how is his Chrysler Norseman project coming?

Clicked on the link and found out it came from Jalopnik; clicked on that and saw David Bowie had just died. Talk about going from sad to really sad...

Bill, try some Eduard photoetched square mesh - the 00 033 6x6 looks about right (how big is a .05 Euro piece?). http://www.eduard.com/store/Eduard/Mesh-6x6-square-STEEL.html

So nice to see one of these Cadillacs get the attention it deserves! Jo-Han was pinching pennies by then and just used the Toronado engine.

I'd read through every review on the forum, and then pay to retool to correct every mistake/flaw/deficiency in every kit available. Just think: '58 Plymouth body? Fixed. '56 Ford pickup? Doors fit and work flawlessly. '36 Ford? Separate one-piece roadster and coupe bodies. '61 Pontiac? Windshield drops right in. '53-'54 Chevy? All stock parts included plus correct head and taillights. '34 Ford 2-door sedan? ...Um... start over. (I could go on like this all night! And into next week... )

Nice work! What paint did you use? Now if you want bookends, you can do the Nancy Sinatra 'Bird...

Too bad there isn't any model of a '71 Sedan deVille ("How to spend $2000 preparing a car [that gets whipped by a box stock Cadillac]").

It certainly gives you some evil ideas for what to do with old warped promos!

I was the same way over at Hobby Lobby this week - tons of nice kits but I ended up using the coupon on knife blades. Like Steve I've gotten most of my grail kits; about the only one left would be a '61 Tempest sedan (my modeler's OCD has me dying to take an X-acto to those window frames, whittle them down to the correct thickness and straighten the crooked one in the rear quarter window! ).

Got an unbuilt Revell '64 small block engine for my AMT '63 Impala, and a big surprise: AMT Craftsman series '65 Nova interior. With what any vintage Nova parts go for nowadays I'm surprised I was the only bidder. Years ago I started converting a Rat Packer back to stock using the remains of a ragged '62 Nova convertible for the rear quarters, chassis, engine compartment and interior, but the seats had glue all over them from someone's attempt at "upholstering" it - and the pattern was wrong anyhow. This will be a big help once I get the paint off.