misterNNL

This is great fellow posters.Keep it up!

I think this could be a very interesting board. Simply tell us what you based your user name on,occupation,brand name preference, year you were born,etc. I'll start......Mister NNL. Really pretty simply actually. My wife and I hosted a picnic at our Jackson Center,Ohio home in1980 for some fellow model car building friends. Those were guys we had met while competing at the MPC contest series. That group formed the core of the now well known Nameless National Luminaries.thus the user name Mr.NNL. Now there is my user name back story.....what is yours ?

These are right in my favorite period of race cars so I'll be watching.

Thanks for the tips. This will not be a high level detail build. It will represent the first car I remember my dad owning in the 1940's. Plan on adding a trailer hitch to it and displaying as a tow vehicle with one of my many antique travel trailers.

I just bought a resin '39 Chevy 4 Dr sedan from Star Models to build a model of one of my dad's real cars. I need a '39 kit to complete it and never having owned any of these kits I would like to find one with stock hubcaps. Any suggestions ?

I have all of mine sorted by shape like hex,tube,strip,etc and minimized the size of the original package by folding it up until it just holds the amount inside and shorten it so that some sticks out of the top slightly. I secure the folded packages together with scotch tape. I store them in 6"' long pieces of 2" OD PVC plastic pipe from the hardware store with like shapes together. I cap the bottoms of the 6" storage tubes with styrene sheet and label each tube with what's in it. I keep the shape I'm using at the moment on my work bench and the rest on a small storage table( also known as a dump zone) behind my stool. This saves a lot of space and sorting through the packages.

This will not open for me after several trys.

Outstanding post Tim. I am sure you were more than a little impressed with what you saw on your visit. I can't help but think of the difference between the displays of the average blue collar cars on display and those owned by the very wealthy people of those same times in American history. I have had to spray the sweatshirt I was wearing while viewing these photos with some stain remover to clean the drool! Truly great stuff,Thanks for sharing!!

I've looked at the pictures several times trying to figure out how you took the Crown out of that roof section. I see where you removed it with a saw but nothing after that until it's back in place.Did you widen it by cutting it into sections then spreading those out to the sides and fill in the gaps? That looks great but surely not a simple thing to do.

I modified the Carson top from the AMT '50 Ford kit many years ago. I chopped it to fit the chopped Mercury convertible windshield on my project car. You might want to consider doing that for yours.

Thanks Bill,I have both of those donor kits available. I see in the background of your photo that the fleetline roof section transitions cleanly to the Olds as well.

I am looking for a 1/25 Chevy business coupe in resin for any year '49 through '52. Does any know of a good source?

Nice build Richard. That dark paint and the driver's side profile pix you posted really show how well GM designers mimicked the side trim shape to the chrome over the Windows. Thanks for sharing.

Very nicely done .Thanks for sharing.

Another massive project underway by a diorama master builder. I'll be following along for sure.

Love your stuff. Very original.

Looking very right.Carefully thought out and well executed cuts are paying off. This will be fun to watch develop.

Outstanding! Thanks so much Bill. I can finally put this beast togeather.

Looking outstanding. I honestly think those Ford head and oil pan pieces would make great resin cast pieces for resale. I certainly would buy several sets myself for my continuing string of model T Ford racers lining up on my workbench. This is going to be another landmark build my friend with far reaching inspiration on many builders by showing what is possible.

Thanks Kerry, I appreciate your help.

What color tan did you use for the interior and top?

And here I was ready to forgive you for two-toning this thing and you fooled us all by starting over with the black.It is after all yours to do with as you wish so paint on my friend. I like the square style intakes myself as they are more industrial looking. Are those front fender exhaust inserts part of the original fender you removed ? All in all very creative and well done. I wish there was some opposing magnetic system a person could install cars like to actually make them hover for display.

What is the source of the engine please? I bought a resin 5.9 Cummins kit at Detroit NNL and am hoping this is a kitted engine that might have come some sort of instructions I can access for assembling mine. Thanks.

Thanks Steve. I have used that same technique to make shop rags to my builds. I shape them over an edge then paint them Orange and dirty them down with dark stains.

Great photo of a period racer with all the gear shown including the helmet and racing clothes. I like your flowing exhaust headers as well. Seems like the early racers were more concerned with intake than the exhaust.What did you use to make the toneau cover and your racing clothes from? I am working on another Model T roadster with an up-top that will be a buttoned up winter car with side curtains in place and tire chains on the rear wheels.