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Mr. Gasser, the big-eyed, wild-haired, gape-mouthed hot-rodder happily shiftin’ and steerin’ his ’57 Chevy, went directly from the back of a t-shirt to a model kit, becoming an instant hit. He and the rest of the monster gang soon became heroes to young kids across the nation who could relate to the stories and themes of the gang. The general message intended was that being different or weird was o.k. and being a Fink or a Weirdo was cool, too. This is my version, hope, you like it.

This build lacked only small things, but it was 20 years not ready... It all began with the painting. During this time I have a lot of finger-nail-varnish experiments. I do not know what I combined, it was a beautiful red, which somehow went into purple and on this body, it looked just great. I applied the Piewagondecals and sealed the whole thing with clear lacquer. OOOPPS! The painting was a disaster and the decals were ruined. Somehow I moved the unsuccessful color down and put this red up. But the lost windscreen and a few small parts, stopped this build finally... Now, after 20 years, it is still not the way I wanted it then, but finally finished, I hope, you like it... In this picture you can, more or less, well recognize on the wall of the rear tires, that the time has not passed without trace...(cracks around the tire wall)

Thank you very much for the kind words! The base is an old picture frame with rear wall, on which I had poured plaster, only a 5mm thin layer. The kit includes a plastic base, which I have placed on this layer, expands and modify with plaster. There is no sand, just color... I did not want to glue the car to the base. The problem: the rear left wheel should remain in the air, but the whole structure falls by the weight of the driver to the left. I found a solution... I drilled a hole in the front right wheel, and filled it with lead-pellets. That was not enough for a firm stand, so this was additional necessary: I hope this info is useful and helps someone, someday...

Thank you very much for the kind words!

Thank you very much for the kind words!

In his woodie loaded with sticks, this stoked dude searches for that perfect place to hit the surf and catch a wave! This kit was originally part of the Hawk's Silly Surfers line. The "Weird-Oh's" "Silly Surfers" and "Frantics" kits were originally released by Hawk in the sixties. These comical kits featured bug eyed, big toothed monsters, crazed race car drivers, wacky beach bums, and far out rock and rollers. The Weird-Oh's were designed by Bill Campbell. The original Frantics and Silly Surfers were envisioned by Reuben Klamer, Bob Allen and Mel Shaw. Now Hawk has gone back and reissued many of these kits! I am a big fan of them! I have previously built, several of them. Since I've given away or sold all of them in my youthful foolishness, I decided to build them again, especially to try to build them better... Hope you like it.

Thank you very much for the kind words! The wheels are homemade. The rear homemade wheels have rubbers from an bicycle grip and are on turned alu tubes with Pegasus rims. Here is my method, for example, I chose These rims here... ... which I then edited... Two aluminum tubes turned out, I polished them up on front... ... and at the back, they have a larger opening... ... in which I now easily press that edited rim... These rubbers are of a handlebar grip for bicycles. With a little editing and mounted on my homemade wheels, the whole thing looks like this:

Thank you very much for the kind words! Now it's quite an "van", so more seats can be placed, so, this is the interior:

Alien³ Model Kit with Base, HALCYON, 1/9th Scale. The kit is very good, very easy, but I also think that it, first by the painting comes to its best advantage. Although, what is the "real" painting? Infos on the edge: Unlike many other recurring enemy extraterrestrial races in science fiction, the Aliens are not an intelligent civilization, but predatory creatures with no higher goals than the propagation of their species and the destruction of life that could pose a threat. Like wasps or termites, Aliens are eusocial, with a single fertile queen breeding a caste of warriors. The Aliens' biological life cycle, in which their offspring are violently implanted inside living hosts before erupting from their chests, is in many ways their signature aspect. Their life cycle comprises several distinct stages: they begin their lives as an egg, which hatches a parasitoid larval form known as a facehugger, which then attaches itself to a living host by, as its name suggests, latching onto its face. In the Alien 3 novelization, Ripley commented that this parasitoid would not likely be able to use a host any smaller than a cat, or as large as an elephant. The facehugger then "impregnates" the host with an embryo known as a "chestburster," which, after a gestation period of several hours, erupts violently from the host's chest resulting in the death of the host. The chestburster then matures to an adult phase within a few hours, shedding its skin and replacing its cells with polarized silicon. Due to Horizontal gene transfer during the gestation period, the Alien also takes on some of the basic physical attributes of the host from which it was born, allowing the individual alien to adapt to the host's environment. Their design deliberately evokes many sexual images, both male and female, to illustrate its blurring of human sexual dichotomy. Giger conceived the Alien as being vaguely human but a human in full armor, protected from all outside forces. He mandated that the creature have no eyes, because he felt that it made them much more frightening if you could not tell they were looking at you. Giger also gave the Alien's mouth a second inner set of Pharyngeal jaws located at the tip of a long, tongue-like proboscis which could extend rapidly for use as a weapon. His design for the creature was heavily influenced by an aesthetic he had created and termed biomechanical, a fusion of the organic and the mechanic. His mock-up of the Alien was created using parts from an old Rolls Royce car, rib bones and the vertebrae from a snake, molded with plasticine. Hmm, something like kitbasching or scratchbuilding... The Alien's animatronic head, which contained 900 moving parts, was designed and constructed by special effects designer Carlo Rambaldi. Giger and Rambaldi would both go on to win the 1980 Academy Award for Visual Effects for their design of the Alien. Giger however would comment that he thought the resulting film was "okay" and that the Alien was "better than in the second film"... This is my version, kolors and base mods, built several years ago. Now, the images, hope you like it.

Li'l 'Stogie Death Valley Draggin' Wagon Original year: 1971 Company: AMT Scale: 1/25 Designer: John Bogosian Conestoga Wagon. 'Seventies Style! Howdy Podners... It's dragtime cowboy Joe's wild west "ragtop" - outfitted with a '400 mule team' Chevy mills, trailblazin' Goodyear gumball slicks, shotgun headers, pine box body, ''N' a passel of wild west goodies. Git along, Li'l Stogie! Westward Ho! Ho! This is how the West was won! Part of an outstanding creative series of "Li'l" AMT show rods, it has the identical chassis of the Li'l Roamin' Chariot and the Li'l Hot Dogger. Very cool box art too. AMT's Li'l Stogie is a vintage collector favorite from the crazy show rod era of modeling! The horses pulling this wagon are fully injected and ready to haul! It's another kit which hasn't been available since the early 70s. A big thank you goes to Round2: http://www.round2models.com/ Thus, I have the opportunity to build today, one of them. The kit at first seemed very simple, but he already has some tricky places, no wonder at about 110 parts. Well, I did it, with a few changes... The most notable are the rear wheels, then the cooler, the longer intake pipes, the front and rear springs and the thinner supports for the windshield. Hope, you like it.

Thank you very much for the kind words! You mean this one: All know it, but Revell did, or could not, for legal reasons, perhaps, short: Porsche was replaced by xxxxxxx... Yes, I have previously built this kit before, but unfortunately I have no pictures, it was in the old days... Now I have it back in two copies... ... several years ago, i wanted to make something different from it, something in this direction: We'll see!

Thank you very much for the kind words!

Thank you! Here are a few steps of the painting:

Very clean build, Adam, just great!

I am not a convinced fan of the ratty theme, but I must say, this looks totally great, and it's so deep, I love it!

Great builds, all looks great! Glad you made it to be here, welcome, Carlos!

Wooow, beautiful build, Jonathan, i love it!

This is an awesome, clean build, Derrick, beautiful!

Great looking build, Pat, great paintjob!

Finally a showrod fit for a king! Part of the outstanding AMT rail series of the early 70s which includes the Hemi Howler and the Li'l Gypsy Wagon. First released in 1972, AMT's zany Royal Rail show rod is back! It's a wild ride for all the Kingdom's Koolest Kats! Featuring an injected motor with "hear ye! trumpet" intakes, hyper-wide "gumball" slicks, super long chrome forks, this deluxe dragger can beat all the village wagons! Royal Rail's "crowning achievement" is it's cozy "fit for a king" interior, sporting a psychedelic "pop-bottle glass" rear window, "aristoKat pillow seat" and slick shifter, all "topped off" by a crazy deluxe cruisin' crown! I've always wanted to have one of these kits. Man, I've been waiting long for it... When I finally got it I decided to build it just like the box art, but then I decided against that balloonie wheels. So, I replaced them with two of my homemades. One led to another, the whole design seemed too simple for a royal carriage. It had to splurge and sparkle, have been filled with many gems... Yeah, right royally kitschy, slushy, corny... So I put all the precious stones, which I could find, anywhere on this vehicle... The crown ball is randomly found from one of the very many necklaces from my wife, but hey, pssssst... I used my hobby knife on the header ends to give it a open look and also to thin out the spokes on the front wheels. The fuel tank is from the Beer Wagon, with big diamonds on the sides and a ruby on the gas cap. The "pop-bottle glass" rear window was washed quite easily with very dilute black paint to highlight the individual soils. The crown, the pillow seat and the rest of the interior was covered in red flocking, even the steering wheel... Hope, you like it.

Thank`s! This unique hot rod concept was immediately brought to life size by Mr. Bob Larivee of Promotions Incorporated and Hollywood auto stylist Mr. George Barris of Barris Kustom Industries... Well, here's the original, as I said, the political art is not my taste... PS: Here one can clearly see that this thing in the original, is never run. Notice once the belt... ... he is well on the drive wheels of the blowers, but it is not connected to the crankshaft of the engine...

Thank you very much for the kind words! This is the kit- engine: This is a blown Ford BOSS 429... ... about the fire order, uhm... ... unfortunately I must say, that I do not have a clue...