ChrisBcritter

Nice clean work as always, Tulio! Plus you have all those nice leftover parts. Now if you don't want to do a '57 Ford, you can use a '57 Chrysler:

Only old Buick piece I have now is a custom rear roll pan for a '63 Electra, unfortunately. Did you get the roof? These are the bumpers which are coming - I've IDed most of them, I think:

Take a look here: http://www.edsel.com/registry/index.html Check the numbers beginning with "OS15Y" and "OU15Y"; those are all convertibles (only 76 built!), and maybe you can build one of the survivors. I'd like to do one of the two surviving pilot production cars; both are Bronze Rose Metallic - one has a black interior, the other red and silver.

Got my .015 wire today too; probably will try to do the stock wheels for my Monogram '34 Ford cabriolet. It'll either look good or it may just put me in the room with the rubber walls once and for all.

Please let us know how you like it! Dropped in on the Libertyville, IL Hobby Lobby today and picked up the one thing I needed most: a magnifying viewer. Plus some music wire to try and see if I can re-spoke some wire wheels, or lose the rest of my marbles trying. If anyone here is in the area, they had one of the '78 Ford 4x4s that just came out, and two sets of AMT M&H slicks (but no other tires). The clearance section had some Meyers Manx buggies for $13.19, Revell '48 Ford coupes for $15.39, Double Dragsters for $14.99, and three or four of the AMT Diamond Reo semis for $22.19.

And you wouldn't have to weather it! Wonder what the good doctor paid the neighbors for it? Bet they'll be kicking themselves when it gets auctioned. Then again, the doctor could have suffered some financial "oops" and needs the money worse than he needs the Vette, even after he takes a tax hit for capital gains. I've been there a few times on a way way smaller scale...

You may want to dab some extra rust around the edges of the rust holes, where the paint would be discolored or missing.

Picked up a lot of 30-odd grilles and bumpers just to get a rear grille for the '61 Continental , and a set of Lindberg '64 Plymouth wheelcovers and tires for the Jo-Han '64 Fury project.

This one is sort of cute, especially with the sound off - Live and Let Live, a 1947 safe driving film set in a world populated by stop-motion animated "39 Series" Dinky Toy cars:

From ebay, I got some decent used wheelcovers and a used bumper/grille for the Continental, which is starting to regain its dignity after being dismantled and getting a purple bath: Quarter panels are still an issue; compare it to a tired but uncut '62 body: I'm watching another unpainted convertible body with a broken windshield frame; if I get it cheap I'll clip it from the rear doors back to make one good body.

One difference I'm noticing with Awesome vs the purple stuff: Awesome seems to have a little trouble dissolving silver paint; purple stuff dissolves silver before any other color.

Just picked up a template over at Michael's and I'll give it a try. Thanks!

What an amazing transformation! It deserves to be recreated as a 1/1. Clifford, what made you choose tin as opposed to brass or aluminum for the body work? And who made the wire wheels? They look photoetched.

Hopefully she's giving the brunette a stinging lecture about sitting on other people's cars! The Ford looks good in black. I have one in my "to do" stash; probably will get a set of Magnum 500s for it.

Just please tell me he didn't start with a cherry low mileage original Rivi! The only change I could see making to that design would be curved side glass and roof pillars (GM was a bit late to the party there; the Riviera didn't have that until '66).

This used to be a good idea I came up with: I needed a lot of scale broken glass for a junkyard diorama, and I hit on the idea of used flashcube bulbs. They were very thin glass with a plastic coating; all I had to do was crush them with pliers until the glass crumbled, then cut off the top of the bulb and sprinkle the glass where I wanted it. It worked well 35 years ago, but who knows where you'd find used flashcubes now...

That escalated quickly... At that time, my father was the advertising manager for Pettibone, who made the Cary-Lift that tilts the Vegas up into the boxcar. He used to bring home 8mm and 16mm movies demonstrating the machines they built, and one was a film of the Vegas being loaded.

For Appliance wires, would those be the ones in the AMT '65 Riviera? I also had some nice wire wheels on a chrome tree from a Monogram(?) '32 Ford but I don't know which issue it was.

Definitely DO NOT use oven cleaner on acetate; don't know what purple stuff/yellow stuff/brake fluid/ELO does to it. Having these cast might be better if you can scare up some X-El styrene reissues; the bumpers will fit better (remember these old bodies shrink as well as warp).

They have arrived: '60 Chrysler New Yorker and '61 Continental convertible. The New Yorker had its headlight areas puttied over: But the "putty" turned out to be plasticine clay , fortunately: Off to Modelhaus for the corrected grille (Jo-Han's error; the NYer grille should be inset) and taillight lenses. As for the Continental, it's got four near-mint 1961-only wide whitewalls, an undamaged interior and windshield frame/glass: Its biggest problem is that someone cut down the tops of the rear quarter panels so it's one level front to rear . I do have a complete set of '61 chrome and a damaged '62 sedan body in my CA stash, so I'm hoping to get it shipped out here soon.

This looks vaguely familiar. I think there was a flyer or order form for posters that came with the 1/20 IMC dune buggy kit; anybody have one to check?

And most importantly the NIMBYs can't complain about noise from the track!

I drive this: 1978 Buick LeSabre. Bought it in 2002 from the original little old lady owner in Burbank, CA with 48k on it; it now has 58k. It's got the V-6 with 105 throbbing horsepower, but it's in good shape and comfortable to drive. Now that I'm back in IL I just hope I can stave off the body rot for a few more years. And for my Southern California friends, maybe you'll recognize the characters on the sunshade: Shorty and Cheap Chicken from the old National Lumber commercials!

Love how this one turned out! I've got one molded in gray with red second-tone paint; traded out the rolling stock for a swap meet set of Franklin Mint Ferrari Testarossa wire wheels and tires. In the mid-'70s one of my junior high teachers had a white-and-green '56 88 two-door hardtop that I coveted greatly; I wish I'd kept in touch with her and bought it...

The Modelhaus has the stock dashboard for three bucks. The stock wheelbase is 112"; my '63 convertible promo's wheelbase measures out to 4 15/32", which is 111.71875". Close enough for me! It'd be nice to see some photoetched grilles for this car. Edit: Let's do a head-to-head comparison: You'd have to move the wheelwells back 3/4" to match the 112" wheelbase, but the wheel openings aren't stock.