Richard Bartrop

There are so many things you could do with this, even if you have zero interest int he TV show.

I built the 1/12 Lotus 7w many moons ago, and what struck me was how painlessly it went together, despite its complexity.

Great job! It might even be better then Darryl Starbird's Superfleck Moonbird.

I have a Renwal Revival Stutz in need of some restoration, but the rarest styrene car kit I have is probably this MPC reissue of Airfix's Mercedes 280 SL. I've seen it maybe once on eBay, and I've never seen one assembled. The very rarest one I have has to be FPP's resin Bluebird.

The make is easy on this one. The model, not so much.

Some more of m old stuff I came across in Mom's place. They both date from around '83-ish. The painting is acrylic on Masonaite, and is of a detail from a Heller Bentle model I built. The Lincoln is pencil on paper.

I always thought the Buicks were the best looking of GM's '59s, so I'd be good with that.

The Bomarc has my attention, especially if Canadian markings are an option. This one is interesting, considering Atlantis said it wasn't viable. Nice to see someone thinks they can make it work.

When it comes to making parts, most of the time I'd just as soon get out the Evergreen and make my own. Resin casting is great for duplicating kit parts, but for new people entering the hobby who are going to having to learn all these skills from scratch anyhow, I can see 3D printing looking very attractive, and services like Shapeways making it even more so. They handle all the making, shipping and billing, and the time not spent doing that can't be spent on designing more 3D files. You're not going to get rich, but nobody got rich making resin parts either, and you don't have to lay out nearly as much cash to set things up. If all you want is to share some parts, it sounds like the way to go. Things change. Vacuum forming used to be the thing for limited run plane kits, then they all went to resin. When was the last time anyone offered a car kit in balsa wood? Something my sister and I have found while disposing of mom's estate is that people are living in smaller houses now, and may not have the space to run a business like resin casting, even if they wanted to.

Yes, pretty much like that.

Maybe it's age, but when I saw that title, my mind immediately went to what it might be like if Honda built something like this:

It's always amazing to see how much just a different set of wheels can change the character of a hot rod.

A gentleman on Facebook shared this piece from The Province newspaper on the show. It is written from the viewpoint of an art gallery person rather than a car person, but it does provide more info about the show.

What to do if you have a Revell or AMT Model A engine with vintage speed parts, and don't feel like doing another TROG racer? From the Hot Rod Magazine Annual #1, courtesy of the Jalopy Journal.

Especially when you consider how much that kits can vary from the stated scale, and Revell Germany has released the same kit as both 1/25 and 1/24.

Glad to hear it!

I miss the days when I could just go to the back of the Radio Shack, look over the peg boards full of components, and just mull over the possibilities. I've lit up a few model spaceships, and am not an electronics wiz by any means, so I concur that this stuff is dead simple. There are (or were. It's been a while) LEDs with built in flashers, so even flashing lights can be pretty simple. DIP switches are nice if you want a really tiny switch you can stick in some out of the way place. If you don't want to buy, if someone you know is scrapping a computer, the circuit boards can be counted on to have some.

Seeing how ICM thinks it's worth making a new tool for a stock model A, that will no doubt be sold at ICM prices, maybe it's worth finding a way to put those stock parts back in. Just a thought.

You can't please everyone, but it anyone really going to seriously maintain that something like the Golden Commando was chosen for its great beauty?

I'm a sucker for the fuelage era mopars, and the '72 Road Runner is right up there. At the time I thought they looked like something out of the future.

The Imperial in question: If Round2 doesn't want to release a kit version, I'll understand. Really.

Oh, that turned out very nice!

All those Motoramas and the films the GM styling department put out says he was all for sharing his ideas. and those of the people under him. If they had Youtube back them, he'd be all over that. Earl got his start designing custom bodies in California, so he was exactly where Foose is now. That you can see a definite GM style under Earl's tenure shows that a designer make a difference, even if he's not pushing the actual pencil. As for the title of this thread? If you think building models is work, you're clearly doing it wrong.

I've been browsing through all those back issues of Hot Rod Magazine, and in their January '69 issue, there's mention of a hot rod exhibition held in, of all places, the Vancouver Art Gallery. This got my attention because the Vancouver area is my old stomping ground, and once in a while, our primary school class would be herded over to the VAG in the hope that we would absorb some Culture. Alas, I never got to see this exhibition, and what info I could find online is pretty sparse. I did find the cover to the program book for the exhibition. The cover car was the creation of Vancouver local Bill Traquair, and I remember seeing at local car shows, and at the Pacific National Exhibition. The car still exists today, though when I first saw it, it was finished in candy red.