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i would definately test that spray can handle thingie there on something you dont care about and have an extra can of paint available. i have tried a couple of those things over the years and while they seem like they might work in theory, when it came down to it they were just a big pile of heythere and i totally lost control of the spray can, which i have grown quite accustomed to. i didnt get anything this week...have been selling off my deceased friends slot cars on ebay...been keeping me busy.

this has been on the back burner but some slow but steady progress going on, just about ready for final assembly actually! check it out: bike itself is model master plum crazy shot through my airbrush (yeh!) over a tamiya silver leaf basecoat and the center of fenders and tank masked off on the color coat to leave a silver stripe. looks pretty kool especially in contrast to the pearl white on the outer race shell. strangely there was no fuel cap for the tank (no kick start pedal either, i may have to do something about that...) so i found a small white metal one out of my spares box and polished it up. also note the fender brace on the fork...i originally thought that was a sissy bar for the seat but it looks much better as a fender brace. here are the magnets that hold the shell together around the bike to make it removable...after i did this i realized i could have made the front fork come off and take it off that way and thereby clear the way to make it one piece with no seam, but maybe next time... its actually all painted but side needs another clear coat. pearl white outside and white primer inside. will post pics later probably... thanks for looking!

thats darn neat and in that last photo he is racing tv tommy ivos 4 engine monster...and got the jump on it! doh...cept theres no drivers!

oh i would have sworn that photo was montaged but if not they must have been pretty funny in person. there has been a guy set up near where i do at the NNL west for the second year this year, and the first year i didnt really check out what he had there because i wasnt really interested in "cartoons". but as we were packing up i mentioned something about those being fun little builds and implied they were right out of the kit. well turns out pretty much nothing was out of the kit and the improvements he made made the things fantastic, added a bunch of "real" model car detail and they were some of the most impressive of what i saw there all day (and believe me, thats saying something!) so i certainly dont dismiss these creations in the least. and like i said they are fun to look at and can be as "serious" as anything anyone else makes.

you archive them?

i got to say thats a pretty brilliant use of photoshop there! (the "real things" i mean) i never had much attraction to these sort of cartoon kits but i have to admit i really like looking at them and appreciate them. i especially like when motion is built into them in a cartoony but realistic way. like that midget. i gotta repeat what christian said but i it did it in american "english" it would get censored!

i need to look for those "kustom" capri and cortina and zodiac. those look pretty wild from the box art. if you have those christian would you consider taking some shots of whats in the box for us?

well *I* wonder why americans have so many camaros, err, camaro kits, too! anyway i read back through the thread and i understand the mini thing a little better now if the tamiya is indeed undersized and if dude with the mini fascination/obsession says it is then i believe him. just seems a strange thing to invest in new tooling over (if, indeed, it is new tooling). erik have you done a side by side of the 2cv kits, tamiya vs revell OG? i have the tamiya one but not the other and i wonder if they share tooling just like i wonder if the minis share tooling with a japanese release.

wow quite a lineup. i have a couple questions: that boot hill express, the skeleton, looks kinda familiar. is that sourced from the original monogram lil coffin? has it always been in this kit (edit: "this kit" meaning the boot hill express)? (i assume it has, i have just never had that kit). are there other parts similarities with the lil coffin? i am glad to have the challenger I back, lots of kool parts there even if you dont build the car itself. those foose things look pretty kool as drawings; i wonder how they will translate to real life. why in the world would they tool up a new (original style) mini cooper when they then go head to head with an excellent (and probably superior) version from tamiya, just to mention one company? or do you suppose they are using their tooling and selling it under the revell name? real strange how this stuff works sometimes. i might get that black diamond pirate ship, just for future "most obscure kit you never knew existed" opportunities. arent all the 1/25 offerings reissues? i would not think it would make global market sense to be tooling new stuff in 1/25, not when youre competing in the biggest markets, asia and particularly japan.

re: gene winfield, yeah oops, thats what i meant, that he did the paintwork on the car, when i was taking my photos i was talking to him about the paint. he recommended model master Evening Orchid Metallic (which is now out of production i think) so i went down to the hobby shop and bought a couple cans for this occasion. i think someone here, maybe even you, Paul, also mentioned that specific color as a good match to the real thing. and rob, yeah some of the tooling has been available in other kits, i dont recall exactly which ones, and none of them had enough included to call it anything other than slim to partially complete. its a real shame too...i have always really really loved that wild dream...the king T not so much but still...its undercarriage is pretty impressive.

kool! is your boss gene winfield? thanks for the in progress pics!

heres your two other photos, hopefully, this first link acts like its broken:

harry if you find one please PM me and let me know who...i have a figure i need done a one-off of

ok a little late but better than never! installed the motor into the chassis and finished up the wheels (except for the three prong knockoff to finish them off) and posed the thing today for pics, even put the body on it to check stance (not at all to my liking so adjustments are in order, starting with rear track width). here are some pics with comments: and a shot from behind showing the rear suspension up to the front with wheels and tires posed in place: here is how the rear suspension looks poking out from under the body. looks pretty awesome to me...wheel track is too wide though and thats because of the mods i made with the disk brakes. but it shouldnt be too hard to correct, have to drill out the wheel center (covered by a knock off eventually) and then shorten the end of the axle. and a shot showing a similar situation on the front end: too wide of track. this one aint gonna be so easy. not sure how to approach it yet...if i had known i would have ground down this boss on the disk brake that holds the wheel off from it. now its gonna be tricky with that delicate front end. i think a circular saw blade in the ole dremel might come in handy. and you can see why i am not too worried about how the plug wires look at the rear of the motor: you cant even see them and thats without the exhaust system which goes in next: finally for this afternoon, here are three pieces still to installed to complete the chassis/motor: two exhaust system pipes and the driveshaft. typically i will make my own aluminum driveshaft but in this case the kit piece looks pretty good with good detail in the U joints so i am gonna keep it. dont know how it will fit at this point. also note i made some exhaust tips from aluminum tubing which look a lot nicer than those thin ones on the end of the exhaust pipe. i really should dechrome this and remove all the lines etc but instead i think i will do a bit of foiling and i have already painted the muffler red (just for contrast) and removed the seams from the pipes as much as i wanted to... thanks again for looking...might not get much more done for a bit because i currently have some other responsibilities plus i want to get the surfite and triumph motorcycle done so i might not update this for a while now...

that grille looks super and the whole thing, all both of em, are gonna look great together! that rear glass at least ought to polish right out or i wouldnt be surprised if a coat of Future doesnt clear it right up.

that looks killer but yeah, bigger pics please!

thats kool and great attention to detail in body lines and stuff. keep it goin!

he is basically my hero.

>The kit's engine is a 40-horse, so it would have had single-ports edit: jeez i wasnt thinking right when i posted this...so i am gonna edit it: uh yeah unless they were replaced with dual port heads... i used to run those kadrons too, and they were pretty easy to keep in tune and in sync. i modified a uni-syn to sync them and hardly had to ever do it once they were settled in (actually i modded it to sync the carbs on my 356b)...i used aluminum dual port intake manifolds which were sweet, the steel ones that came with the carbs were not so sweet and kept coming loose and leaking air but also throwing the carbs out of sync even when you tighten them back up. the only problem i ever had with them was i kept getting tiny bits of grit in one sides air correction (i think it is) jet and it would make the motor run bad but all you had to do was pull the jet out of the side of the carb and blow it out and it was back in fine shape. took me a couple years to figure that out. then dellorto dual throats were thrust upon the american VW market and they never ran worth a bug if you ask me, finally i went with dual dual throat webers with smaller venturis and that was the setup for me. by that time i had a 1667 (? maybe it was a 1776...) gene berg motor that was pretty bulletproof and put out the power (all things are relative)...this was through a series of bugs, 2 karmann ghias, a porsche 356b and then a 356c cabriolet (both these had stock zenith carbs...now that i think of it i think the b had solex carbs) and finally a Thing which i had for 20 years and still miss to this day.

thanks for the comments every one; that is an AMT Triumph Bonneville motorcycle that was included in the 62 F100 ford pickup at one point, however it is the replicas and miniatures of maryland resin repop of it. i have a thread going on it but have not updated it in a while despite making some progress on it...will update the build thread soon, when i get it assembled more...right now it is in a bunch of completed subassemblies waiting to be put together. here is a link to that thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=54881&hl=%2Btriumph+%2Bmotorcycle&fromsearch=1 thanks again for looking and hopefully i will get the motor installed and wheels on tonite and update the thread later.

>I would have to question the drivability of some of these cars this type of culture creates i dont know for sure but i have been told those tires are made to run like that and dont wear out like you would think. they are made for drifting and somewhat right themselves when they are in action plus the allow traction while still sliding sideways. its not as weird as it looks actually. its totally wacky japanese though, no doubt about that. they take everything to an extreme.

given their supplying the resin dashboards it could be satco supplied aoshima their tires as well. from what i knew, they at least designed their own tires if not actually manufactured them.

alright, so first off let me reiterate: this isnt my favorite car ever so i am not really planning on any heroics...pretty much a box stock build much like the wild dream was but a couple of mods that i think might improve either the finished model, or the real car, or both. more on that as it becomes evident but for now everything is built pretty much out of the box but i have added ignition wiring to the motor, and i replace the plain undetailed rear disk brakes with some others i had around with at least a caliper which the kit ones did not. and i am also not going to remove each and every sink mark but i am going to try to make a credible attempt at building a nice show model if not a contest winner. heres a pic of the box to refresh everyones memory: nice artwork on the box and the kit inside proves to be well engineered and goes together amazingly, surprisingly, well...both the wild dream and this companion are intricate but not overly delicate though they were pretty much above my abilities when i was young...but i do remember making the wild dream look almost decent back then...we will see how 50 years improves ones skills...or not! here are a couple of pics of the near finished motor...it is completely finished now and i will probably be installing it in the chassis later or tomorrow...will post some more pics on that monumentous occasion! it actually looks a lot better now and you might notice that the plug wires arent quite comfortable yet...thats because the goofy exhaust header thing (more like a straight chrome bar...even on the real car) has to run through there yet then i will form the wires around them. here is the front suspension all glued together with white glue...i am currently regluing the joints with epoxy and supeglue: very nice detail there and as mentioned, it all fits together surprisingly nicely. now here is the rear suspension in all its glory...or as best as i could make it anyway: alright so thanks for looking and i will probably update this in a day or two because i plan on getting the motor in place and mounting the tires and wheels, then i will proceed to get the body into paint!

some of us may remember me building Wilhelm's Wild Dream back a while ago, and now i am going to build the companion car, Don Tognottis King T. even though i do not particularly like the outward style of this car, i do really like some aspects of it, aside from it being a bit of a Sacramento area local hero. So after it sitting on the shelf for years (literally) i finally decided to take a poke at it. heres a link back to the workbench build of the wild dream: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18520&hl=%2Bwild+%2Bdream&fromsearch=1 and heres a pic as a reminder: last year i happened to see the real car at a show and had a chance to take a bunch of reference photos. one thing i noticed then was how sophisticated the car was underneath. the rear axle particularly, with torsion bar suspension and inboard disk brakes. inboard disk brakes...nothing but high line race cars had those back then did they? and all this was chromed to the hilt, some thing i toned down a bit so i could look at it. here are a few photos of the real thing: heres a look at the rear suspension and geometry on the real thing: and a version of the kit i am building posing in front of it. i think i will save this post and start another to continue ... stay tuned!

that looks super nice! i have been putting off my build of their VW type 3 Karmann Ghia for too long, have to start prepping that one!