ChrisBcritter

Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle! Want, want, want:

MAD's gone, sadly

Oops - sorry Josh (and everyone else). Here you go: '49 Crosley. Next...

Nope! It is American, if that helps. Not a kit car, either. (I was afraid I'd killed this thread...) Should I just reveal it and pass it to the next person?

I have one too - glad I got it when I did. Odd thing about this interior, though: The Jo-Han '56 Plymouth is a four-door, but this is set up like a two-door, from the door panel length and rear seat armrests - yet it still has rear door handles . Didn't Modelhaus make a '56 Fury hardtop? Maybe they used the master from that kit?

The Niles and Deerfield stores had the remainder of the sale paints moved into the clearance rack; seems like the Vallejo stuff is replacing it. Still no GTO Super Stocker yet (is that one not earmarked for HL?).

Catching fire was the technique I used for stretching sprue, oddly enough - I held the sprue in the flame until it burned in half, blew it out, then jammed the ends together and pulled. I got some very long, thin stretches that way - antenna wires for a 1/48 B-17, using the kit's own silver-gray sprue.

Two-time loser:

(image via Wikipedia) There we go. Definitely some proportion issues here... Enlarging the window openings and replacing the side trim with some more-to-scale Evergreen stock would be a good start, then reshaping the wheel wells, then building an interior, then... shoot, I'd rather try to get Hachette to make one of their nice 1/24 diecasts.

Downloaded them, then cropped and rotated them in ArcSoft (old, old, old photo software but it works fine).

If not, I can do it. Good finds!

Yep - Buick sold Opel Rekords and Kadettes, and Pontiac (briefly) sold Vauxhall Victors, both nice looking cars. PMC made a curbside '59 or '60 Rekord, but it's on the crude side, no glass or interior and possibly oversized.

The Monogram '40 Continental has steelies with wide whites you could use; maybe put them in the rear and use the '40 Ford ones in front for a rake. There's also the original Monogram '40 Ford Pickup stock wheels and tires, but good luck finding a set. Maybe look for damaged Franklin/Danbury Mint cars from the period and take the wheels/tires from one you like?

That's a real nice full-detail kit; multi-piece body like old Revell kits. The roof appears a little less rounded than it should be, maybe. It is of course the home-market version with the smaller headlights. I have a box of Record and Hubley components plus parts of a Heller Gordini: I have a second Hubley Dauphine in the works. The problem they have is the glass - it seems to be some form of acetate and all I've seen have shrunk. The interior is pretty basic with seats molded in. I've got two of the '60 Ford wagons - one decent, one rough; a '61 wagon I picked up 40 years ago and started; a '61 sedan that I may flip if the paint comes off OK, and a '62 wagon promo (more common than the kit but still fairly rare).

Still drives good!

I like the Captain Peacock equivalent: By the way, actor Charles Grodin passed away last week...

stepped on poptop

Made me think of this Peanuts comic from 1955, if you could use a laugh:

And what about the Solaronite? It could blow up the universe!

Bravissimo, Snake! Still got a long ways to go on my resin Skylark but I did fix the hump in the driver's door, per your advice.

I sold off some more of Tom Piagari's unfinished projects last weekend at the LMMCC meeting for his widow (thanks to all those who bought them! ). One that hasn't sold yet was this resin '53 Ford wagon: Under the hood are the words "Copyright Property of TJH Model". Does anyone have some history on this kit, like when it was made, who mastered it, etc.? It's a solid kit (no windows or interior; plate chassis) but the quality is really really nice; almost as if Modelhaus made a Banthrico! It doesn't look like the Lindberg '53 Ford kit was used for the master (the grille is different). Other chrome is in the packet - dog dish hubcaps, taillights and hood ornament. The wheels seem to be injection molded (one is missing - the kit's only flaw) and I think the tires could be kit-sourced (Goodyear Super Cushions with sprayed-on whitewalls)? Note the wood areas are separate parts and there are neatly printed peel and stick appliques for the dark panels. So if anyone can fill me in on more history (did Clarence/TJH make any other kits?) and especially if one of you could turn up another wheel, I'd greatly appreciate it. I was asking $70 obo for it at the meet; does that sound like a fair price?

Driving out of River Trails Nature Center in Northbrook today, I passed a blue Renault Alpine A310 that was driving in - didn't have time to get a photo but I did give the driver a big thumbs-up! First time I've seen one since this one at the Lane Motor Museum 15 years ago:

And coincidentally, several YB-40s show up in that same scene in The Best Years of Our Lives:

Less is mower

^^^ I'll second Mike's motion, and not just because I was an editor and proofreader for the third and fifth (current) editions of the book .