ChrisBcritter

I like factory two-tone code code #135 - Raven Black over Desert Rose: http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1956-Chrysler-pg01.jpg http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1956-Chrysler-pg02.jpg

Another image of the Kat: decal from the Craftsman Series '63 Nova wagon.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Very spooky night shots! Great job, Ira.

Times like this I really hate Photobucket...

Palmer? Hmm. I thought for sure it was Pyro, but then again I bought it back in the summer of 1974 so I could be wrong. It was molded in red and didn't have any chromed parts; I built it as a jalopy racer. Did anyone else issue the Palmer kit? (Lindberg?) PM me - you might catch me in a weak moment if you want to trade something!

I'm surprised some European company hasn't taken a shot at making any post WWII Rolls-Royces and/or Bentleys; for example a Silver Shadow/Corniche/Camargue series which could share chassis and engine tooling, or an SCII/III instead of yet another reissue of the (ugh) Hubley kit.

It's actually a 1921 Olds. Here's a nice walkaround of an original: One big but correctable error on the kit is the honeycomb on the radiator should be flush with the front of the radiator shell. It's an easy fix - just insert the radiator into the shell, mark around the opening, remove it, then carve away around the outline until it fits flush with the front of the shell.

Let's see. I had the '61 Ranchero when I was a kid (not seen here). I have the '40 Ford sedan molded in white (the Pyro '40 Tudor looks like it was cribbed from this one!), the '60 T-bird, and I had an Avanti but it looks like it got left behind in my move last year like many of my other models. Nice kits all.

Interesting - how did you get that nice even dust effect? (And if this was a stocker when you started, do you have any of the original tires left over?)

Such elegant cars they were... and you captured that understated look so well. Could we take a look under the hood pleeeze? Wish AMT would find the molds for it, or for the '69 if they updated it to that year.

Let's just call it "Weathering Heights".

Age two, playing with my Matchbox Karrier Bantam Coca-Cola truck and Ford Anglia, which somehow I still have.

'57 Buick Century (not Roadmaster like the promos) '56 Continental Mark II '69-'71 Continental Mark III '56 Plymouth Fury '58-'60 Rambler American

Weird piece of trivia about the stock wheel covers - they're way too flat to represent the Nova items, but that error makes them a near-perfect match for, of all things, the optional wheel covers for the '63 Olds Starfire!

I've been looking up the 1/32 AMT All Stars kits lately, and I have a question: All the kits except the '32 Ford 3-window coupe have a 1/25 AMT counterpart. Did AMT have plans to release a 1/25 three-window in the mid-sixties that got canceled? Also, if anyone has one of these All Stars coupes, does it have the same body issue that all the 1/25 AMT '32 Fords have ("sectioned" on the sides)?

They pop up now and then on eBay; here's an incomplete kit that combined with yours would make a whole one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMT-M764-1936-Ford-Coupe-1-43-Mini-Kit-Unbuilt-in-Box-/360691841541?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item53fae8ba05 (I'd make him an offer of about 1/3 his price at the most! The last several ones sold went for $5-$10.

AMT 1/43 scale '36 Ford. Here's mine, originally molded in yellow:

Looks like India Ivory over Regatta Blue. Nice!

I'm surprised to see how they molded the rear springs to the frame; probably makes locating the rear axle easier. Now let's see: lowered, deep maroon paint job, white Carson top, skirts, Caddy sombreros, DeSoto bumpers...

If that Olds didn't interest you, I can only imagine what you'd do with a car that did! What ratio of clear epoxy to clear red did you use, and does it affect the drying time much?

Oh yes - wonderful site. I've contributed several movie pages to it myself; has anyone else here? Amazing variety of people around the world have done pages you wouldn't expect, like Cooley High which was done by someone from Syria, or Heisser Sommer, the East German beach party movie that was done by yours truly.

I have a better choice, but he doesn't have marquee value. Carroll Shelby, 1966: Actor Christopher Lawford in The World's Fastest Indian: I thoght he looked a lot like Carroll in that movie.

Weren't the interiors shallow through '63 but deeper in '64-onwards?

Actually the first batch came out in '74; it was announced in Car Model magazine shortly before they quit publishing.

I like the look of some of them; the zebra skin in particular looks pretty close to scale, and one of the floral designs might work for a Barracuda ModTop! Some of the plaids might be good for '50s accessory seat covers as well.