Richard Bartrop

I did say '50s, though you can see a definite Cubist influence in John Held Jr's work The Picasso influence is pretty obvious in the UPA cartoons, and their imitators And peanuts probably owes more to Paul Kee

You mock, but if you look at '50s cartoon styles, that's exactly who they were copying.

And Picasso's influence is everywhere. even in places you might not think off. The next times you're enthusing about Art Deco? That's all people trying to apply Cubism to architecture and applied design. Check out some of your favourite childhood cartoons, and compare it to some of Picasso's portraits, and it becomes pretty obvious where they we taking their inspiration.

Another concept car brought back to life.

Huh, I guess Gandini couldn't draw perspective either. If these geniuses looked out their field, and took a look at what was going on with art, architecture, and design in general at the time, it's not that hard to see where all those corners came from. Automotive styling goes through fashions just like every other creative field, and stylists don't work in a vacuum.

If we're talking about the Testors brant paint in the square glass bottles, no great loss.

That works. That the Pyro/Lindberg Lincoln is undersized even at 1/25 means it's just the right size to work with the Ford.

At typical model car scales, unless it's something with a really heavy texturre, I find a coat of flat paint will usually do the job just fine.

You can call them whatever you want, but as far as the factory was concerned, it was a separate make. Anyway, it was put up as an example of something you wouldn't be able to figure out from a custom version.

It is a trick question, because it's actually a 1951 Monarch Sold through Canadian Ford dealers as it's own make, it's differs from a Merc mostly in the grille and sine trim, and of course, once you start pulling those off, there's no way to tell the difference.

And some, like this one, are flat out impossible to nail down.

Good point. Is it all Testors, of just the actual Testor's brand?

This is why, when I do get the airbrush out, I try to paint as many parts that need that one colour in one go.

I could go for one of those as well. On the other hand, the original car is all straight lines and simple shapes, so if ever there was a subject to tackle for a scratchbuilding project, this would be it.

Always nice to see models of the dawn of motoring. For the superdetailer, there was a reprint of the manual for the Sears published some time in the '70s which had a wealth of detailed mechanical drawings.

I built the Brat when if first came out, and I remember it was pretty decent model. I'm tempted to get another one

His books were a great inspiration when I was younger, and a lot of the techniques can be applied to styrene modeling. He will be missed.

I think that was the one. I know mine was one of the ideas that made it into the magazine, though the artist put his own spin on the idea.

They have my attention.

Harold James Cleworth, one of the best.

Dieselpunk covers everything up to the '40s, so things like Doc Savage and Flash Gordon would fall under that category. There's also "atompunk" which is about 50's and 60s era futurism.

I hear you about prices up here, and when it gets to that level that kit had better be something I really want. I suppose it a lot will depend on whether tarrifs on products going into the US will have an effect up here in the Great White North.

Hector Luis Bergandi

Thanks, that was almost too much of a hint.

I'm certainly not going to gripe about what's been posted so far