ChrisBcritter

Just poured two new molds and got them into the pressure pot - '62 Newport front seat and headlight lenses, Buick nailhead stock valve covers (for the '63 Riviera) corrected with flanges added, and original issue '65 GTO steelies. Also got axle pins ready for the Newports - countersunk the lowered car's set to clear the engine, and remade the stock version's pins after I had to drill out the old ones. Bit by bit...

Please do! You have some good stuff in there - I'd love to have the Cruver '49 Olds 98 and the Jo-Han '69 Coupe deVille if I had a spare kidney to sell .

Mine too: Bought this '88 Starion turbo from an estate auction in 1999 to flip, but in the few months I had it I really enjoyed it. Solid 44k-mile rice rocket that even passed smog on the first try. Sold it to a kid from Long Beach and made a little over $300 on the deal; kinda hated to see it go even though I've never been into Japanese sports cars. (ETA: Just ran the plate through the CA DMV site; after I sold it, nobody tried to smog it again until 2006 - when it failed; no record after that. Hope he had fun with it...)

Cute photo! If your cousin could do a larger hi-res scan of it, we could have more details to go on, but to me it looks like you're holding some sort of pressed tin toy - Bandai or similar. Possibly a police car.

Steve, part of the reason the overhang looks long is that the curved-down area towards the front of the quarter panel draws the eye and makes it look shorter. Maybe if that were adjusted it might flow a little better? Quickie photoshop:

Oooee. That's the old ITC kit; any resemblance between it and a Mercedes is purely coincidental.

It may sound crazy, but I really love this one, built from scrounged bits and pieces in the mid-'50s: It was built by a fellow named Harrison Miler who wrote about it in the August 1974 issue of Rod Action. He started with a Model A chassis, stepped in the rear, and running gear from a '39 Mercury. Grille was from a '35 Ford pickup, and the body was from a '26 Jordan Playboy - a rusted mess pulled from a river bottom, but it was free! I should post the story; it's a very good read. Might be tough to recreate in scale - that body and grille would have to be scratchbuilt for sure.

Picked up a '65 GTO roof/rear window for when the '64 Cutlass kit arrives: I see it lost its drip rails over the years but I can fix that. Hope it will blend into the convertible body OK.

Hopefully someone is keeping his Flickr account paid up.

Thanks Rusty! Will save it for reference, in case I can't find one - Snake kindly sent one to copy but it's apparently been lost in the mail so now I'm looking for another .

Had fuzzy dice for my '62 Imperial for a little while, but mostly had a couple hawk feathers after that.

What Mark said, plus when I'm done with the glue I tap the bottom of the bottle on the table to help bring the glue down from the spout. Then I clean out the tip with a toothpick or a rolled-up bit of paper until the tip is empty, then cap it.

I expect to see a lot of mini-El Camino conversions coming! Wonder if our friends Down Under will use it as a master to create a conversion kit for Holden EH/EJ wagons?

They are now - my filter needed training.

...disregard this letter!

I get 'em too. Some of mine come from "PayPaI" - the last letter being a capital "I" instead of a lower-case "L". You can't see the difference unless you pass the cursor over it.

Looking good! The resin body appears to have been mastered from the old ITC 1940 Mercury; it has that same issue with the short front end - I'm planning to do pretty much what you did.

driving Dodge Deora

A snap kit, and yet look at those separate doors! Nice of Revell to make things a little easier for those of us who want to detail it out - or make camp site dioramas.

And I had a 411. "Gangster lean - you're doing it wrong."

Desirable kit, ridiculous box art: (image via Scalemates) "GET OFF THE TRACK YOU IDIOT!" "He ignored the black flag - try the checkered and maybe he'll think he won and leave!"

#6 - Custom wire wheel caps from SMP '61 Corvair. They came with clear red bullets instead of spinners.

#1 - Custom wheelcovers from original '61 Impala kit. #3 - AMT '62 Ford Galaxie 500. #4 - '70s AMT Ford full-size pickup. #5 - Maybe AMT '62 Pontiac Bonneville; maybe Jo-Han custom parts. Can you turn them over to see the backs?

Nice clean build from top to bottom! Wonder why AMT never offered a stock intake setup with the '60-'63 F-100s?

Welcome Marcos - major cool builds! Looking forward to seeing your next creations.