John Goschke

Great work.

Really nice work whipping that body into shape!

Drop dead gorgeous from every angle! Any chance we could see some interior shots? I'm pretty sure that Chevy air cleaner is correct for this car and other Tri-Power Pontiacs back to at least '59 and was used on other multi-carb GM cars. Probably the bottom half only would've been unique to each application. Love your work!

Great start! That Caddy was one of the best paint jobs Larry ever did, just enough to accentuate the lines of the car without being overdone. Looking forward to more!

Absolutely beautiful! Great job bringing that simple and shallow Johan interior to life! Looks like you adjusted the track width on this one, too, as most builds of this kit, and many other Johans, it seems too narrow. What did you do?

Really excited about the Pontiacs! Sure hope Moebius does a better job getting the subtleties correct of the '61 body design (especially that roofline) than AMT did with the '62.

Looks good!

Stunning build, Steven!

Really beautiful!

Glad the mishap didn't stop you! Looks beautiful!

AMT's horrible '58 Plymouth, and somewhere between 200 or 300 airplane kits.

Steve, I love your work! You're doing these old Johans proud! Goes to show that a great model doesn't need a lot of superdetailed scrtachbuilding, just excellent workmanship, detail careful detail painting and clean foilwork.

Wow! that is gorgeous. Love the color combo; looks very authentic.

Beautiful!

John, just spent the last hour and a half going through this thread page by page and am just blown away by your stellar workmanship and commitment to scale fidelity, not only under the car and under the hood, but on all the exterior body details like all the panel lines that the kit makers leave out and the thickness of panel edges. The articulate and amusing narrative makes it a pleasure to read! The paint looks stunning and the work you did rescribing the panels and blocking really paid off. Looking forward to seeing it in clear – completely agree on not wanting to make it too shiny. You don't want that "dipped in syrup" look that so many otherwise well done models seem to have.

Beautiful job on this restoration! Love the Winfield-style paint too!

When I see a post like this it's sometimes difficult to gauge just how awful a creation the car actually is. Therefore, it becomes necessary to bring out the preferred USDA Standard for horrendous kruise night kustoms... the "UGLY '57!" so that we may ask, "Is it worse than this?.... With the "UGLY '57," at a firm 10 on the horrendousness scale, careful analysis reveals that the Dodge Chrysler Cadillac Lincoln Magnum Wagon is quite close at a 9.27798! Very Impressive!

This beauty arrived on Monday. Super clean builtup '58 Bonneville. No skirts, louvers, fins, etc., ever! The aerials and mirrors (only one mirror remaining) were glued on without drilling holes in the body! Not cheap, but reasonable, "buy-it-now" from ebay. Photos from the listing...

Great historic postcard, Tom! Congrats on the acquisition!

Great work so far! All those window frames and moldings on the Nomad will provide hours of foiling fun! Don't forget the door locks either!

Not enough superlatives left! Outstanding craftsmanship and flawless result!

Most of the time I see potential, admittedly sometimes to the point where my judgement gets clouded and the thing turns out to be a bit more of glue bomb when I get it home than I noticed at the swap meet. I also see an opportunity to acquire a rare old kit for less than a mint, unbuilt example. I do try to look for cleanest piece I can afford, and am willing to replace a "project car" with a better one if I haven't done anything with it yet. For instance, I didn't feel I could afford an unbuilt '60 ElCamino, so when this funky blue one presented itself in all its dusty glory, I had to have it. And in spite of the fact that it may have been some kid's dream model back in the day the quality of the build wasn't such that it was worth preserving, nor was it interesting or appealing in the "folk art" sense. So, into the stripper it went, and after fresh rolling stock and a stance and wheelbase adjustment it's waiting its turn on the bench... Other old builds do seem to "speak to me" and cry out of for a cleanup and rebuild to a lesser or greater degree. Here are three examples, all old builds in their original paint I've taken apart, cleaned up and polished out, and rebuilt with a few refinements to the design to amp up their "cool factor" a little more. In some ways I enjoy these more than the models I've spent many hours on! Original issue '40 Ford Tudor with box, extra parts, etc. Whitewalls handpainted in enamel! AMT '32 Ford Roadster converted to pickup with '25 T bed. Note the wicked angle channel, canted quad headlights, and molded in taillights, and corduroy T&R upholstry all by the original builder! I took it apart, cleaned it, touched up chipped paint, repainted grill shell, replaced grill with '34 Ford custom piece, rebuilt front suspension with dropped axle moved forward and notched frame to get the front lower. Whitewalls painted with white Polly S acrylic. Glued one door shut and made a wire hinge for the other one and added the Ala Kart nerf bars to the front. Early issue AMT '34 Pickup with polished out original Testors Burgundy Metallic. Mostly rebuilt, replaced or repainted everything except for the Burgundy Metallic and the white on the bed cover and interior. Used many original vintage parts from another '34 pickup kit. As purchased (photo from the eBay listing...) After the rebuild...

Tom, that '32 Ford with the pontoon fenders ('40 Ford rears?) is amazing! Love the fender trim made from '32 bumpers! That was one clever builder.

Beautiful job as always, Andy! Your work is always an inspiration.

Really nice work cleaning up that body!