Richard Bartrop

I will say that I totally agree about mastering the basics. People will notice that before they notice anything. One of the two time I won a largish troph, it was for an almost totally box stock L'il Coffin whi's only distinguishing features were a clean build, and I somehow managed a decent candy red paint job.

Life is too short to spend it worrying about how other people build their models. So I guess my pet peeve is...pet peeves. Particularly the ones who post some variation on, "You're posting about something that doesn't interest me, and you have to stop." First off, you're opinions aren't nearly as important as you think they are. Secondly, I don't come here to keep you entertained. I'm here for you to entertain me.

Apparently there's a canvas roof you can use when you're using the boat.

If you wanted to do something different in the way of vintage trailers, it looks like you could use Lindberg's Ford kit as a starting point.

From the Ocober 1962 issue of Hot Rod. Looks slick, but I'm at a loss to figure out how you'd fit a human being in there with the top on.

That so many of the "old guard" love to share their views on how much they hate everything the younger crowd does probably doesn't help either. This has nothing to with skill level. There are younger modelers on this group who have shown they are as interested in getting it right, and there's no shortage of old fogeys who take a perverse pride in not being "river counters"

Now this is an aggressive rake...

Some people weren't hurting, that's for sure.

The late 60s and early 70s were my favourite era for European concept cars, and the Modulo was Pinninfarina's entry in the contest to design the world's fastest doortstop. Unfortunately, it was not a functional prototype, but this man is in the precess of correcting that oversight: More information here: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/car-design/a21049268/ferrari-modulo-by-pininfarina-driving/

It also shows just how quickly the state of the automotive art had advanced back then. A 1939 car looks like it was built in another century.

That still looks way better than what we ended up with.

For building,this is one of those cases where moern is better. Plain, uncoloured styrene seemed to take glue better. I'm chopping the top on an oler AMT Mercury, and even with the Tamiya extra thin, getting the chopped roof to stay together is proving to be a challenge.

From the AACA Library via the Hemmings Blog. Colour footage of the first meet of the Vintage Motor Car Club of America on September 23, 1939.

Forget those trendy young punks with their "flatheads", and their "deuces", here's how it was done back in the day. The full story at https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/05/30/1915-ford-model-t-speedster-isnt-the-typical-concours-contender/

The nose could be cleaned up a little, but that back end and rear fender are just perfect the way they are.

Looks good, sounds great.

I think Bandai, or Doyusha released a large scale kit of this way back when, and if they wanted to re-release it, I would be quite okay with that.

not surprising, since styllists do tend to cover similar territory. I see a lot of vintage Ferrari in it, which should probably be expected, since the company who built it, Scaglietti, also did a lot of work for Ferrari.

At worst, it sounds a little anachronistic. The Stratos Zero looks like it should run on nuclear fusion instead of anything so mundane as internal combustion. Though I can't help thinking it can't be the easiest thing to see out of.

Never mind the Foose Cadillac. There's a Cadillac that should be in kit form.

https://i.imgur.com/B1nQ3KY.gifv

When it comes to concept cars, the Europeans could get just as crazy as the Americans, and the Stratos Zero is still one of my favourites.

If anything, the computers make it to easy to lay down any sort of contrived surface that strikes your fancy, regardless of whether not it's actually a good idea. The problem with today's cars isn't that they have no style, but they they have way too much of it. Thankfully some designers are trying to exercise some restraint.

I used to have a bunch of old Popular Mechanics and that tweaked a memory, though the modeler in question used an electric drill. The man's nome was Allan Leohr, and the article was in the November '64 issue of Popular Mechanics. He built models from scratch, and his material of choice was aluminum. Here's a Google Books link to the article: https://books.google.ca/books?id=PuMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq="Popular+Mechanics"+"1964"+"Aluminum"+"models"&source=bl&ots=qbclqagyIA&sig=4BjVlMJlXp0qq6TYR7CKBjfgZHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8_efQp6fbAhWEwYMKHStfAygQ6AEIRjAJ#v=onepage&q="Popular Mechanics" "1964" "Aluminum" "models"&f=false