ChrisBcritter

Very nice proportions on this one - shortened cars are hard to make look right, but you did it! (Got any plans for the stock hood ornament? )

Or the 405 after the first rain of the season.

Aw, no fistfight afterwards? The '57 Plymouth actually did get cleaned up to "sort of presentable" status, but it's too delicate to do much with.

Looking forward to seeing more - I'd be scared to put the foil on the fins until it was the very last thing to do... Great job on that '61 interior - I just finished removing and filling the convertible bolsters on my '61 hardtop and someday I'll even try painting it.

(I am so gonna get it for this... )

Lots of neat little details and the checkered-flag interior really sets it off. How did you do those door hinges, and are the doors fixed open or do they close?

Rescue: AMT '62 Buick Special wagon. AMT '63 Falcon. AMT '64 Corvair. Hubley '60-'62 Fords. Pyro '32 and '34 Plymouth sedans. Don't bother: Barnabas Collins van.

The "vent" on the left is a rear window defogger. The covering (IIRC from being around a lot of old GM '60s cars) is usually 1/8" hardboard with a laminated leather-grain finish colored to match the interior.

Yes, with ALL the original custom parts including front and rear ends.

Lucky 13 on the science quiz (I say lucky because two were educated guesses)... 9/10 on the engine (messed up on the crankshaft/flywheel one ). Do we get extra credit for identifying the car in the background as a Moskvitch 402?

This looks like another case of the plastic shrinking more than warping - some models get all banana-shaped (if that Ford was a Starliner, for example) and others (like some '55 Buick Roadmaster sedans and '55-'56 Dodges I've seen) stay relatively straight but shrink overall so the bumpers are 1/4" too wide and the wheelbase is too long. If I had that '60 Comet I'd be shopping it around to resin casters - it's the straightest one I've ever seen! (Wonder if it might be a very early Cycolac prototype?)

If you learn about kerning you'll never typeset something that looks like this.

I can see certain limitations; note this exchange from Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/super-glues-got-nothing-on-this-liquid-plastic-you-hard-1666641845?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow So this may nix a lot of modeling applications, but might be good for others. I think this might be very handy for casting small parts when you'd have to make a tiny batch of resin otherwise. Depending how clear it dries, maybe it would be good for installing windshields?

You'll get pulled over if you don't have plates - just save, reduce and print these out: You're on your own for the '74 sticker and the City Ford frames, though...

"Rust Never Sleeps"?

Got the underhood items (firewall, radiator, horns, battery) for my AMT '63 Impala (this was the old Model King issue that didn't have those parts). Got outbid on the taillight lenses, however...

Guess I better pull the plug out of the old jukebox on this one - thought for sure one of our many locals would get it since it was a big hit here in 1966: "I Confess" - New Colony Six

"Uneasy Rider" - Charlie Daniels

If you have one of these kits handy, could you measure and tell me the outside diameter of the tires, the width of the front clip, and the width of the front track? I'm trying to see if the truck chassis and front end could be combined with the vintage plastic toy school bus I just got (eBay listing with photos here; overall length is 7 1/2" and wheelbase is 4 1/2"). Thanks! -Chris

The school bus arrived yesterday, along with an NOS set of Aurora custom grilles and trim: So the bus looks like it's right around 1/48 - 1/50 scale (48-passenger body, 4 1/2" wheelbase, 7 1/2" overall length. Wheel rims are 3/8" diameter).

Dick Dean's Shalako:

You mean rivet counters. The bean counters are the ones at the model companies that arouse the ire of the rivet counters.

Just put in an order and sent my best wishes for their retirement, with hopes that they can find someone worthy to take over the business.

Oh boy. My heart sank when I saw the heading - "please don't let this be Modelha...aw, dammit." Better get my order in...

In January 1967 (age 6 1/2) I was looking at my new calendar and wrote "BAD LUCK DAY" in big black letters on Friday, Jan 13. My mother saw it and reminded me "You have a new baby brother or sister due that day." So I said OK and fixed it to say "NEW BABY BAD LUCK DAY." My mother wasn't too pleased! (My new little brother didn't take any chances; he made his entrance on Thursday the 12th.)