Richard Bartrop

Very nice! What did you use for the tires? The Pyro classics I ended up with always had these very basic vinyl tires with no sidewall detail of any kind, and never seemed to fit very well.

I suppose you could just not click on the threads you aren't interested in. On second thought, that's just crazy talk.

Some nice subject, but a few of those a little off, and that TR7 is not even close.

I grew up in that era, and while Dad did own a few cool cars, like the Toronado, I also remember a butt-ugly '73 Torino wagon that I can't imagine ever being nostalgic for

They certainly got better over the years, but those first few years were ug-lee. I'm still a little boggled that people get nostalgic over that era.

The car at the bottom is 1918 Dodge, built before any of the big three thought to have a styling department. It is a car that is lite4rally without style. As for your opinion that all cars from the 70s to the 90's are utiliarian and without style, I'm sorry, but it is not an opinion grounded in fact. Love them or hate them, though I think the '84 Firebird is the best looking of the entire Firebird run, but you sure can't call these utilitarian. And the branze box the OP posted was a Toyota Camry.

No, that's not even close to my point. My point was that go back as far as you want, there are cars that were built purely as appliances, and were just as exciting. As for the idea that nothing was made during that time had any styling, well, that's simply wrong.

I have to say, that looks pretty cool.

To be fair, a lot of cars back in the day fell in that category too. Give enough time, even Camries can be the stuff of nostalgia.

I could defintiely get behind those too. There seems to be a market among the military modelers for period automobiles for dioramas. Maybe at some point we have ask ourselves how badly we need them to be in 1/24 or 1/25?

Maybe not 10 F&F Delahayes, but at least one here!

Mangusta's are dead sexy, and I'd pick a kit of one of those over most of what's been suggested. AMT's '57 Ford kit is missing the corner pieces of the Meteor grille. and the side trim is different, but yes,a fret of photoetch would cover most of the differences. The '49 and '50 Meteors are basically the same year Fords with a Mercury style grille' A few customizers have tried to emulate that look on their custom Fords. So, it say Round 2 were to add some custom bits to their '50 Ford kits, they could do a whole lot worse than to include an option for a '50 Meteor.

I have one in a box somewhere. Great job!

Some Canadian Ford products would be nice to see, for that matter, and Canadian Monarch and Meteor trim pieces were popular with the early custom crowd. AMT's '57 Ford already comes with a Meteor grille. How much effort would it take to include the pieces to take it the rest of the way?

ICM seems to think there's money to be made with stock brass era T's, so maybe they're the ones to talk to about later models?

Cadillac did it first, and I think did it better. The Spyker and the Panoz are examples of modern cars that, love them or hate them you certainly can't call them boring.

Great job on an unusual subject!

Not everyone likes the same thing. I'm actually looking forward to the Edsel.

I remember these back in the day. Thanks for sharing!

I have a dozen year on you, ya punk kid. I've been working in digital for nearly 20 years now, though I still like to work things out with pencil and paper. As far as modeling goes, I like both plastic and pixels. I do mostly scifi on the computer, but here's something I did some years back of a hypothetical street version of the Auto Union racer.

What does age have to do with it?

The 50s Buick, the Ferrari and the Dual-Ghia for sure. and I could certainly go for the Lincoln and the Pontiac. That is a good question about the Aston-Martin. You would think there would be a demand for James Bond's ride.

Can you make the layers any thinner, and can you reuse the undeveloped resin?

Looks promising. How high an object will it make, and how much is the resin?

It's actually a 770, which was Mercedes-Benz's top of the line luxury model, so probably no a lot of them were taxicabs. The one Hirohito had is a '35, though it was built from 1930 until 1938, when it was replaced by a more modern version, which is the one we usually see Hitler being driven around in.