jbwelda

excellent looking decal sheets and i love those cove insert graphics.

he also added "also money"...possibly the key factor. it typically is around my dreams too. kool old car and thats whats nice about models: a WHOLE lot easier to work on and you dont get greasy either.

wow thats pretty darn unique! looks great and those shapes are really kool!

ok thanks i will go check out the local cigar shop. theres a guy here who actually hand rolls cigars...i bet he has got sheets of the stuff.

i dont think i saw this the first time around so i am glad it got brought back up. excellent build and that motor looks fantastic!

kool styling cues and nice paint!

thats gonna be killer. you did the flares very well.

hey rich thanks for that tip, not only is it ideal for this new merc woodie, i have another thing going right now where the woodgrain trick is going to work out great. do you have any specifics about which cigars to buy to find this stuff inside?

well its been awhile but it is saturday and it just so happens i am working on the companion to the car i showed on the bench above so here it is:

this as well as a lot of things have been on back burner of late but that doesnt mean i cant get a little done here and there! ive fitted and adjusted the body to fit together well and for the interior to sit flush inside it (not an easy matter as it turns out but looks 1000% better now), fixed some sink marks and smoothed things out a bit (though that is difficult with the raised lines engraved on the fenders). its been sitting around in primer for awhile so one day i decided to start getting it painted. laid down a coat of tamiya leaf silver as a base coat and today sprayed the testors "custom laquer system" evening orchid metallic, which i was dreading because i had forgotten it was not an enamel and i was looking forward to a runny drippy mess. happy surprise! went on very nicely right out of the preheated can and laid down very well for a metallic with a lot of metal in it. i am going to let it breathe for a couple days and then hit it with some testors clear laquer... it was very hard to capture the color with my camera, but this shot pretty much shows how the color really looks to the eye. i managed to get all pieces about the same color saturation at least to my eye right now and they all look like this first photo. pretty close to the pics posted above. ok so that was very relieving to have the color turn out so well first try (hope i am not jinxing myself there) but i had another problem i had been puzzling over since i started this. the real car had a polished brass radiatory shell as you can see in my pics and i am pretty sure the original did too. unfortunately the kit radiator is chrome which is useless unless maybe i would be content with like spraying clear yellow over the chrome and calling it brass (dont laugh...the thought occurred to me for more than a passing second) but more likely trying to cover it in BMF brass if such a thing exists, or maybe alclad or maybe i just dont know what. this past weekend though i go to the Stockton NNL and run into the man i call "Mr Brass", Jerry Cardinal. now if you dont know well jerry is pretty good with brass shall we say and he had a few pieces to a project he was working on laid out on display. one piece was a T Ford radiator shell in BRASS! so i said hey jerry how much would you want to craft one of these for me (and i told him about the King T which he had already seen in earlier stage)? well so typical of jerry he just looked at it and said "take it". i couldnt believe it, so i asked again just to make sure. he said yeah take it, it was just a first attempt and if you can use it, its yours! so yeah i can use it! took it home and polished it up a bit (it was raw unfinished brass with solder stains a little). the kit radiator fits in it well and i can steal the lower support from the kit shell and this is looking pretty nice! so thanks for looking again and hopefully i will get this thing painted an also hopefully finished in time for NNL West this Feb or March or whenever it may be!

hey thanks for the comments, let me address the question: >Where did you source the wobbly's from? they were included with the scalekraft body kit as were a few other details. i am going to look for that book, Gerald, thanks for the tip. for now i have to get a couple other projects off the bench before getting hot and heavy into this mini.

that AMX 2 is super. might have totally saved AMC if they had put it out. might have broken them too. as with JoHan vs Revell/AMT/MPC, they were kind of in a whole nother (lower) stratosphere than the big 3

art anderson sez: > it's wise to remember that in the 1960's, kids were not enamored with model kits of AMC Ramblers, Rambler Americans, Cadillacs, full- >sized Oldsmobiles, Studebaker Larks. Likewise, while HARD to believe today, Plymouths, Chryslers and DeSoto's were pretty low on >the popularity scale with the kids who were the 1960's primary market for model car kits. This factor alone dictated that for the most >part, JoHan kits were pretty low on most 12-16yr old model car builders' radar screens. that was exactly my experience as that (lower end of) 12 - 16 model car builder back then. those sort of prototypes just were not cutting it up against 32 fords, dragsters and model Ts, and for me personally, the Revell line of rods and customs. particularly the American Motors cars...pretty low on the desirability scale back then and i tended to think the customizing accessories were hopelessly outdated. Now of course i wish i had a couple sets of those glue on "louvers" and some glue on fins and that other junk but back then i thought that stuff was dumb and looked dumber.

>They did reissue the A-M Grand Sport Vette But they didnt really "reissue" them...they reboxed already produced kits. I wish they would tackle more vintage road racing cars myself.

thanks for dragging this topic up, those are some epic photos of the johan building. i didnt think they even would have had a building in 92 but there you have it! someone mentioned whoever purloined the molds should be proud of themselves (sarcastically of course) but my understanding is that those molds were for some obsolete equipment and no one could use them anyhow, or maybe johan could but their equipment was getting old and was itself totally obsolete. so maybe it was just meant to be, plus those molds had to be getting pretty loose from use anyhow.

looking at those oldsmobiles, i am struck by how it was that 57 chevrolet managed to capture the car publics heart so much when in my opinion, those olds' have it all over the chevy in the styling department. beautiful cars. i suppose the chevy was more affordable than the more high line olds and buicks.

the motor says "Morris" on the valve cover.

a couple more observations from those photos above: it sure looks nicely detailed and that under hood detail is pretty fantastic. it looks like the car is riding way too high which is too bad because thats a problem tamiya has as well. aside from that it looks pretty sharp and could out-tamiya tamiya on this one.

well now as i understand it, from a past thread somewhere, quite possibly in this forum, this new tool will correct size problems that the tamiya one apparently has, namely it is supposedly too small for 1/24 and possibly 1/25 as well. it came as a surprise to me but that i believe was the majority opinion. so the revell one is supposed to be more true to scale.

yes thats a kool paint scheme well executed. award was well deserved!

beauty!

the guy is on an ego trip but its obvious from the write up anyway. personally i wouldnt call it a rat rod, i would call it something much more to the point...but it would get censored out. basically, i think the guy has more money than sense.

yep looks excellent!

not sure thats the same model...this might be an 88 where the model is a 98?

i am dying to try that foiling method on my next build! and it might be this superwagen. its really a kool looking kit! and your mods are making it look killer. i assume its going to be low.