JTalmage

As if I didnt have enough going for me at the moment. my itch turned into something a little more nagging. I've been wanting to build a Rockford Files replica for a few years now and after watching the full series I felt I needed to get started. I started this Revell '78 Firebird Trans Am 3n1 many years ago. I painted the interior red for some reason, and finished the chassis/engine. Well... sorta. And thats as far as it went. I lost interest when the nose, hood, and body didnt line up well, and back in the box it went. Fast forward to friday night.. I was already working on a 10 or 15 year old rebuilder project that got boxed for lack of interest (notice a trend?) and as I started digging thru my parts boxes looking for some things for a member on here, I kept running across random Pontiac Rally II wheels. And parts for my '49 mercury which I'll post later. (the 10-15yr old rebuilder). Well, instead of waiting on Scale equipment to get their pontiac rally II wheels in, I decided to see if they would fit the Firebird. Turns out the old AMT wheels fit the Revell tires pretty well. Just need to throw some whitewall decals on them. So my next challenge was to "De-trans-am" the Firebird... starting w/ the hood. I took the drag version hood and cut out a chunk of it forward of the hole and spent some time getting it filled in just right.

Told my friend w/ an older subaru legacy that if he didnt do this, he's not living. lol

This is turning out awesome. I wish I had as much luck with filler and bodywork on model cars. I'm not doing so well...

Thats beautiful

Thats something I havent looked into... I just have a feeling those arent produced... I'll have to improvise.

I have a chance to get an older Chevy Monza body/chassis/interior tub, and it looks like an older one before the rear wheel wells were widened... I'm going to turn it into the Roadkill leafblower Monza of course! But it's missing a LOT interior parts, hood, other small details... I'll build the rest as needed but was curious of anything existed for a Monza that was pretty much NOT a drag car.

Yep that's it!!! Nailed it. Thanks!

Thanks, I remember seeing those.... but I dont need 8 LOL

I used to build on a large homemade desk before I gave it up more space years ago. My last few builds have been on a plastic folding table and I sit on a milk crate. Not comfortable. I was for a while building in my friends basement. Only trouble was, when I felt like building something at 7pm in the evening it was an hour and a half drive just to get there... And I had a tiny desk to work on.. I now have another homemade desk in the corner. Not as big as the one I had years ago but it works. And I'm borrowing a chair until I can get a new one. But here's my current setup. It's nice to be able to get all my supplies out and not have to pack them up each time.

That will be the ultimate diorama when you can just take it outside and drop it in the pond and take pictures haha! Or the fish tank!

Welcome, from Ohio myself. I too got out of building for many years. Now I'm mostly seasonal haha

I saw this a while back, someone or some company was producing decal sheets meant for purchase outside of buying a kit... and that each sheet had a movie/tv license plate set on them... I remember this because someone had said nobody offered a hi-res Rockford Files license plate before now... Who was this and are they produced yet?? For some reason I want to say it might have been the folks at Moebius? I am trying to collect parts to do a Rockford firebird and that stuck out in my head...

I bought a bunch of styrene stock to "try" and make my own '50 front end. I have the '50 Chevy kit to base it off of. I'll get to it eventually.

Thats beautiful! I would like to add that the door handles are chrome, and the gas cap is chrome w/ a black handle. But a gorgeous build nonetheless!

Thats a good idea to use an old TV... and to set it up as a down draft paint booth in genius. Too bad that thing is massive and heavy. Cool though!!

Also Waylon Jennings was Buddy Holly's bass player.... Had the crash not occured... Jennings may have stuck with Buddy and stayed in Rock n Roll and may have never became the legendary country artist.

This. Plus, after you review all of them you can pick and choose some methods and mix them with others, or leave stuff out. I use the rubber cement method but without the salt. Although I plan to do it that way eventually. I also havent even used my dremel yet to make rusty holes... havent dared to try that yet. Soon...

I'm 28 and I like a little bit of everything under the rock genre and really enjoy roots rock n roll. I too wonder what music would be like today had those 3 not been involved in the crash. I read somewhere that Buddy Holly was taking acting classes so he could have very well been a hit in that field as well as music. Same with Big Bopper... made most of his music in the country genre before making chantilly lace. And that he was a very funny guy. It's said that he would probably also have been in the movie business eventually along with being a music producer (he was building a studio in his basement at the time of his death)

I've not done anything to my two cars. Trying to get myself back in the groove by finishing some of the builds I started last year. Don't want any loose ends this year.

Everything is better with whitewall pie crust slicks

I'd say Rob is spot on according to a quick googley moogley

Wow thats a gorgeous build. Man... if I had a car like that in real life... I'd need no other car.... I always thought DeSoto's were probably the most gorgeous car of their day.

Oh man.... Vandal!!!!! thats awesome!!!!

Speaking of getting stuff in the eye... I was cleaning a brush once after painting something with a bottle of testors. And I was using the little bottle of testors thinner, and was just about done and slipped a little as I pulled the brush out, and it flung a good bit of paint thinner in my right eye. That shiz burned like nothing I've ever felt before. Excruciating pain and Lazer fire lava acid sun burning for about 15 mins even after flushing it profusely.

Lopped the right side of my left thumb open parallel to the nail using a fresh xacto blade tying to cut and scrape old glue off a model seat. Rammed an xacto chisel (wood working) vertically into the right side of my left first index finger. DEEP. Pretty sure I hit the bone. Nail and skin grow together funny there now. Had a 10 inch pool of blood on the floor easily. Turned white and almost passed out but my neighbor (whos house I was at) rushed me upstairs and got my finger under warm water and wrapped it up tight. I was in 7th grade in school when I did that.