Richard Bartrop

Two iconic hot rods that have never been kitted , Bill Niekamp's and Dick Flint's Model A roadsters.

Auburn 851 Speedster. Sure, there's the Pyro kit, but it deserves better. Miller 91. About as iconic an American racer as you can find. A few multimedia kits, and AMT almost released one in styrene. Everyone loves Figoni & Falaschi, and this Delahaye is an iconic example of their work, yet never offered in styrene Ths Cisitalia coupe is possibily one of the most iconic pieces of Italian coachcraft, just as far as I know, never offered in kit form And is there a more iconic piece of Americana than the Cadillac that gave us the tailfin?

Why not?

That Eldorado in the diecast section caught my eye. There's a car that needs to come back in 1/25.

Maybe. I know the '57 Corvette only had raised letter tires.

The large scale Chevy has my interest, especially as it's coming out with stock tires this time around. Now if they were to bring back the 1/16 '57 or '63 Corvettes, I would really love to see those.

Equal parts inspiring, and humbling. Great job!

That sounds encouraging.

Not so much shopped, as rendered.

A ZIl would be a nice companion piece to Trumpeter's Red Star limo.

From a French page of what if Heller kits. I'd buy one. The rest of the series can be found here. http://modelstories.free.fr/histokits/HELR_ALT_P/index.html

I don't know, some people seem to take perverse pleasure in turning gold into garbage.

That one is photoshop.

From the Hemming blog. Love 'em or hate 'em, trying to replicate them in scale would be a challenge

If you have an airbrush, try spraying with thicker paint. Straight from the jar usually does it for me. Use low pressure and crank the paint open all the way. Hold the airbrush back far enough so that the paint is almost dry by the time it hits the model. More air and less paint will give finer droplets, so with a little fddling with the settings with give you the size of grain you want.

That is amazing work. I do have a question about something I've been wondering about for a while now. I've noticed that German big rigs of that era, all seem to have their engines hanging way over the front axle, and it's something that seems to be unique to German trucks. Is it some quirk of local regulations, or just a case of "This is how we've always built them"?

American designed body on an American fram with an American engine. It even had America in the name.

Or, if you want to make Nascar more relevant to modern times, how about going back to making it an actual stock car race? Instead of limiting the cars to 70s tech, how about we open things up a little? Outside of safety standards, anything goes. You build cars in North America, you get to play. Front drive, rear drive, gas, electric, nuclear, whatever you think will do the job, but with the qualifier that you have to build 10,000 of them. That number can be adjusted up or down, but the idea is instead of some competition special, what you race is an actual production vehicle. Just to make things interesting, and a little more relevant whatever you run have to meet current emission standards, measured right after the race just in case someone tries to pull a Volkwagen. What do you think?

Yep, those slats are what are supposed to ventilate the engine compartment. Even so, overheating was an issue.

If Revell keeps cranking out the Model As, both the old and new versions, and the '40 and '48 Ford, then I will be happy.

I can see it being one of those subjects that everyone is going to want to release a model kit. If Revell, or anyone else, for that matter, feels the urge to release another large scale kit, this would be a worthy subject.

Calling it now. When the C8 gets a restyle, expect cries of "Aw man, why did they change it? The old C8 was so cool..."

Very nicely done, and how little you actually had to do to it speaks volume about how good the kit really is.

I don't have my camera handy, so the pic's from onlne, but one of these arrived in the mail. The seller was in Canada, so shipping wasn't ridiculous, and the price was on part with what AMT kits were going for in the LHS. At the moment, I'm torn between trying to turn it back into a stock roadster, or making a woodie like the one in Gasoline Alley here.

They sold them in North America as the Mazda 1800, but they weren't a big seller.