John Goschke

Very nice, Mike! What kit did you use?

Excellent!

Beautiful! The scallops really make it!

Great stuff! Love that '64 Impala!

Nice job on a great old kit!

Great stuff in this thread, guys! Here's my favorite shot of one of my models... ...not that I ever could've got the kit to look like this using the materials in the photo!

The car looks fantastic! The foil really makes the colors pop. In the end, not having a clear coat on it certainly makes for a more authentic finish. I s'pose getting the right result sometimes takes a lot more agony than we might want!

Thanks, Bill & Ron! Bill, if Ron's foil casting technique doesn't work you could always convert your Park Lane to a Monterey! AMT's 59 Merc interior has "issues" anyway; The buttons on the seats are where the pleats should be and vice versa! I know, as that little problem (and a succession of hot rods) have bumped mine off the workbench for about three years now.

At least ten years ago I picked this car up in box lot of models at the flea market in Lambertville, NJ for about $40. It was the only restorable one of the group and the only one I really wanted, but I had to buy everything. Seemed like a real pain at the time, but now it's turned into a pretty good investment! Keep looking, you might luck on to a decent one, and don't reject one that got skirts glued on!

Thanks! You get the floating effect by using the lazy man's photo setup... a scanner! Stick the model on the scanner bed and lay a sheet of white paper over it. Way quicker than setting up the light tent and tripod and all that jazz for stuff like this.

Did some bodywork this morning while swilling my daily adult requirement of coffee... Had this '58 Sunliner for quite awhile, and every now and then work on it a little. So far it's got a '59 Ford chassis and a PMC '58 wagon front bumper replacing the broken original, along with some work reshaping the front fender tops and lower windshield molding. Now it's got new lower rear quarter panels from an AMT '57 Ford to replace the glue-scarred originals... The '57 I used is from an early '80s(?) issue, molded in bright blue. First I cut the replacement piece from the '57, including plenty of excess material to allow for fitting into the '58. Then I cut out the '58 quarter and cleaned up the edges. I trimmed, filed, shaved and sanded the new piece until it fit nice and tight, then cemented a piece of styrene strip on the back side of the edge of the opening on the '58. A little more shaving on the back of the '57 piece, and it was ready to be cemented in with Testors liquid cement. After the cement was dry, I flowed a little cyano in the joint under the trim molding. After a little light sanding here's the result... Still needs a little work at that back corner under the bumper and some finessing at the dogleg. Looks pretty good now, without primer! Just in case, I do have a backup plan; Cruiser skirts!

I searched many years to acquire two kits in my collection... 1. The super-rare Monogram 1/20 '56 Cadillac convertible in styrene (not the warp-prone '55 in acetate). Have one unbuilt and another mostly complete, unpainted restorable. 2. AMT '58 Ford annual. Have one built, completed in 1980. Plus a super-clean restorable built-up in the original box with instructions and restorable convertible (the latter in progress, off and on).

Absolutely beautiful, as always! Where are the wheels from?

Truly an amazing build, Bill! Great color combination; rare, and very sharp. I know I've never seen a '55 or '54 in it and have always wanted to. The stance is perfect, too!

Looks like a great meeting, Dan! That '55 Pontiac is quite nice!

Here's the decals...

Thanks to Dave Burket for entrusting to me the box art and decal design for this project. Thanks also to Tom Miller for the excellent photos of his beautiful build of the test shot which served as the basis for the design.

Thanks, Jason. Nope never did another '56. This was before I joined DelVal Scale Modelers, during my dope-smokin' layed-off steel worker days (daze?)! If I remember correctly the owner lived in Riverside, NJ and, strangely enough, his name was Mercury!

While I've never built the Orange Crate, I did attempt the SWC Willys kit from the same period when I was about ten years olds. Miraculously that experience didn't scar me for life (or maybe it did since I've never tried it again!). Another Revell kit from the early '60s that I did succeed in building was the '56 Chevy two-door sedan, with all those "working features" and sloppy fit that made their kits of that era such a nightmare to build. Built in trade, in about 1980, the model represented the owner's real six cylinder, Powerglide Belair. As if the basic kit wasn't fun enough I installed the six and tranny from the AMT '53 'Vette with a scratch single carb intake, aircleaner and exhaust manifold. What did I get in trade? About six restorable builtups, including a '58 Ford hardtop (brush-painted Testors pink!)

Truly evil looking! I love it. Excellent engine choice (wish I'd thought of it!)

Very nice! Perfect stance and great reproportioning job!

That's great, Lyle! Nice traditional look. I hope to be able to get one to do pickup of my own.

Though it doesn't seem quite right to me to build a model of something described by some writer (anybody remember?) as "hollow rolling sculpture" with the fixed so that it doesn't roll, I have recently been gluing the wheels in place. Too many close calls on shaky display tables!

Great pics, Lyle! Thanks for posting! It was a great time! Thanks to Main Line Hobbies and Bob Doebley of PACM for hosting once again!

The engine in the AMT Edsel Pacer is supposed to be an "E400" 361 c.i.d. FE engine. Externally similar (if not identical) to the 300 hp. 352 c.i.d. Ford engine that debuted in 1958. I have the Edsel kit and the engine looked a little small to me too, but I'm used to looking at the various FE engines from the AMT annual kits of the early '60s, which might be overscale. For a similar engine in a modern AMT kit we should compare the Edsel motor with engines from the recent '60 Starliner (352 c.i.d.) and '62 T-bird (390 c.i.d.). I'll check it out when I get home tonight.