ChrisBcritter

Something I've been wondering since I had one as a kid: was the MPC Zingers '57 Chevy based on or copied from the AMT 1/43 kit?

Just needs more appropriate music - like the theme from King of the Hill. Yup.

Check out Andy Southard's Custom Cars of the 1950s photo book - on page 62 there's a shot of a Renault 4CV like this one, black with a full scallop job in red and silver topped off with wide whites, Olds Fiestas and... side pipes??? Might be something to try with the next one.

Sweet! Keep us posted on this one. (And please PM me if you won't be using the stock glass.)

It's case-by-case basis with me. A friend gave me several built/semibuilt kits in the year before he died (and his partner gave me some more afterward), saying it was better they'd go to someone who would do something with them; so two Continentals are being stripped and completed, but the '61 Buick wagon in two-tone pink and white will get some Bare-Metal and that's about it. Now if I'd found this sweet '60 Buick that sold on eBay a few months back, I wouldn't touch a thing:

Awwww. The MPC '69 Grand Prix also came with skis and racks.

I'm happy with that - when the starting prices are reasonable. If an original part I need bids up past the Modelhaus price I'll let it go (unless Modelhaus doesn't make the part). I'll have pieces from four different '61 Continentals in my convertible when it's done.

What, the find or the eight pages (so far) of shrieking?

Since Tulio hasn't replied yet, let's try Google Translate: Opening title: Who - fire, who - bask Russian proverb Closing title: unplanned attraction for foreign participants Cup Baikal ice sailing Baikal 2013

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...