Richard Bartrop

Just ut of curiosity, how recently was that photo taken?

The Kookie T is based on a Model A frame, and the pickup bed is from a Model A, so if you don't mind some slicing and dicing to get everything to sit right. Revell's "Rat Rod" '29 pickup looks like it would get you most of the way there for the chassis, even to the wheels and tires. Combined with the Tweedy pie as mentioned, or even AMT's '25 T, and a Parts Pack Cadillac engine, you could get pretty close. If say, Revell wanted to cut a set of moulds for a Grabowski T kit, I'd be all for that too. Even if you don't care about the show, or the history of the car, it would still offer lots of kitbashing potential.

What about using it as a starting point for a rear small Ford, the Model Y? Built in Europe, and they have been made into hot rods.

Pfft, who needs rear wheels?

Model Land also has a good selection of kits and materials.

I can't recall if the one I use in Calgary even has any models, but it's just down the road from PM Hobby, so I go there for model stuff, and I go to Micheals for the craft things that are useful for modeling that PM doesn't have.

That's just it. There seems to be an awful lot of test being generated on what might happen, rather than on what actually has happened. I was wondering if anything of actual substance has come up, and the answer so far seems to be no. And what what I meant was the photos look fine, but Tim says we should disregard the photo, so does that mean we should disregard that it looks fine? As for disregarding the thread, seeing how much noise is being generated over nothing, maybe that's a good idea. But if people really have their hearts set on arguing for the sake of arguing, don't let me spoil your fun.

That builds up nice, and you even got the wiring right. Great job!

For the longest time, it was the Lief Erickson spaceship, and many thanks to Round 2 for bringing it back. Right now, I think it would probably Tamiya's large scale Lotus 49 kit. Any of the large scale concept cars like the OSI Scarabeo or the Jaguar Piranha would be right up there as would the Bandai Mangusta. I do look at that large scale Lotus Indy Turbine that Bandai did when it pops up on eBay and think, "Someday..maybe...when I have more money than brains."

I thought the initial impressions from the photos was pretty good. Are you saying we should disregard this?

Sounds like our long national nightmare is finally over.

Hard to go wrong with a GTO as your starting point

A set of French curves are cheap, and just the thing for laying out all those nice, smooth curves. Staedtler also makes a very nice flexible ruler for the same function.

Most 3D modelling software has a function that lets you take slices out of a model. The one I use, Lightwave, will also let you export the result in a form you can use with 2D software like Photoshop. If you have Photoshop, I've found their ruler tool very useful for developing plans from photo references. Inkjet printers will take very thin sheets of plastic. DON"T put sheets of styrene into a laser printer. Another popular free 3D program is Blender. It has lots of bells and whistles, though it can take a while to learn. https://www.blender.org/

I was out of coffee that morning.

It's actually one of the easiest engines to wire, as everything is covered up. You just have a short bundle of wires coming out one side of the distributor that runs into the cover between the cylinder banks.

Here's where I first found out about it. It's also a gold mine of material for Cadillac V-16s in general https://www.newcadillacdatabase.org/static/CDB/Dbas_txt/V6srv30.htm

Counterpoint: But getting back to the Chevelle kit, I haven't seen anything about the kit itself, mostly worries about Revell might do, which I think is premature, and a chorus of apologists trying to head of complaints for fear we might hurt the feelings of Revell staff, and they'll stop making models in retaliation, which is not how it works.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone posted anything about any actual issues on this kit? There's been a lot of noise about hypothetical issues that might come up, but if anyone has brought up anything about the actual kit, I must have missed it.

That would be pretty neat, and if the numbers don't justify injection moulds, maybe one of the resin crafters?

Oh, I think it's great that someone made the effort to keep one original, and I think the notion that this is somehow less imaginative is pretentious nonsense. I'm just saying that on the scale of automotive atrocities, this one ranks pretty low.

Rules intended to keep at least some passing resemblance to a production car. Last I checked the rules for Le Mans still require some space for luggage.

Thanks, that's reassuring. When all you have is photos to work with, it's not always easy to tell how close you're getting. I don't suppose you remember if the brake drums were painted the same colour as the rest of the body?

It's not my cup of tea either. This is my cup of tea.

I'm not seeing the problem here. The mods are tastefully done, and work with the car, and it's not like the original was a classic design. Far better than yet another conventionally unconventional patina rod.