Billy Kingsley

Absolutely nothing! There's plenty of stuff I would LIKE to buy....but that ain't gonna happen any time soon I did get some projects closer to completion, and started 8 more this week. I should have my Jeff Gordon 2004 Brickyard 400 winner done this weekend... I started: Factory Stock 49 Mercury hot rod 32 Ford custom 72 Corvette as yet undecided 54 Bel Air 1960 Chevy SD custom 34 Ford sedan custom 29 Ford hot rod 1976 #30 Dale Earnhardt Army S-3 Laguna I also did much of the chassis and interior work on my custom Revell Mercury. I am going to spray paint the frame, interior, and engine and I need to do a couple more coats of paint on the body too. Plus clear on the body. I also got 3 of my 1/64 NASCAR models close to completion- 2006 Sterling Marlin Centrix, 2000 Jeff Fuller Viagra and 1995 Kyle Petty Coors Light Silver Bullit. I got my 1995 Ward Burton painted, and the interior painted too, but now I am waiting for the decals to arrive.

On Saturday after the NNL Wraps up in Toledo....I will be hosting a "NASCAR Summit" at the Red Roof's confrence room... There will be light snacks provided (chips and pretzels and stuff) but you are on your own for dinner. EVERYONE is welcome but the focus will be NASCAR. NASCAR models will be displayed and disgussed. You do NOT have to be staying at Red Roof to come to the NASCAR Summit. This would be a great place for someone who wants to get into NASCAR models to come and learn. Hope everyone who is interested can make it, and I hope to see you there!!

OK, I have said over and over that I wouldn't be buying or building the Revell Mercury. Even though some of my good friends (Charlie Kroll and VW Dave) told me otherwise, I held fast in my stance. My building styles don't really fit into this kit, I build NASCAR mostly, with occasionally a factory stock or VERY mild custom thrown it (IE, suspension changed, wheel swap and a custom paint scheme). Then, when I was up in Lake George for a few weeks, at the Adirondack Nationals car show, my mom went out one day and brought home this shirt. I think she heard me talking about the kit to Dave and Charlie and picked out this design specifically to make me buy the kit So...at the TNMCC meeting on September 10th, I saw Dan had a handfull of them there, and they were going fast...But not so fast that I didn't get one. A few days later I put it in paint for the first time, I used Black Gold/House of color, which is a bit hotter then testors or Tamiya so I layed it on smooth, not trying to get covering in one coat. As is, there are 4 light coats on it and I think it'll need three more before it's ready for clearcoat. I decided to go with the neon green car on the shirt. This photo was taken at Rhinebeck, where it made it's public debut on Saturday at the Goodguys East Coast Nationals. It got really washed out in the photo. Note also that I painted directly onto the bare plastic, with no ill effects, other then it pulling away from the panel lines, but any paint would have done that. Now, as I said, full customs just aren't my thing, so, I'll ALSO be building a full factory stock example, from the AMT kit. I have only one issue of it, the Cruisin USA issue from 1980(?) molded in a dark red. It'll be black and bone stock! I may end up not painting the interior, as I think red is a good color for the interior of a black car, but it'll depend on the condition and sheen of the plastic. (Maybe a coat of flat clear? HMM) I havn't started that yet, but I will soon, perhaps by this week. I hope to have both done by Toledo but in reality if I finish them by Toledo 2008 I'll be lucky. I am not sure yet what I will do with the rest of the Custom kit. I am really thinking of adding some aftermarket lake pipes, and perhaps wheels (or a wheel swap). I really don't care much for the Cadillac "sombrereo" wheels and know I won't use them, though. I want to stick as close as I can to the shirt, though. More to come...Stay tuned!

I would really love to see a New York State Police issue...I would have to get one or maybe even more of them. I'm thinking right now that I may get the umarked one and see if I can adapt the decals from the old AMT Taurus kit, but I will give it some time to see if a NYS cruiser comes out first.

You just be happy I didn't post that on MCL Dwayne, I still have two email addresses on the list Hey, at least a few of you are reading it!! Hey Marc, my great grandmother made bathtub gin for Baby Face Nelson in the Prohibition Era...Apparantly he really liked my grandmother, bouncing her on his knee when she was a baby. At least that's what she told people!!

Dave, paint fumes are a major problem...My mom has asthma so I have to be especially careful. I ALWAYS work with the window open, to keep the air circulation going. Therefor, I can't work in the winter, the middle of summer (I Need my A/C!) or, if it's raining out and the rain is coming in. I also can't use Duplicolor or other genuine automotive paints, because they bother her. I Also ALWAYS have a fan on...I have a fan on myself in the middle of winter, but even if it's not aiming at me I always have it on when I am building...It keeps the fumes moving, and it keeps them going out the window. Sometimes I will forget to turn it on or get cold and turn it off and the smell of the stuff can get to you. I spray the bodys outside, but all the rest is done in the tried and true brush painting (engines, chassis, interiors), though I have moved some of that outside to be spray painted. My advise: Leave the window open and use a fan! Hope that helps, if just a little.

I'm Billy Kingsley from Wappingers Falls NY....the home of the ONLY dedicated POW/MIA memorial park in the entire USA! I'm 22 years old and have been a "car guy" most of my life...which actually comes from my mom, unlike most people. My mom grew up surrounded by cars (her grandfather owned a junkyard in Peekskill, NY from 1932-1987) and many other relatives in the car field. Most of her many uncles owned shops at one time. My dad was also in the car field, working on private school buses and for many years working on mail trucks, both mechanical and body, in Yonkers NY until he died in 2002. It's all because of my mom that I'm a modeler...and a NASCAR fan. A little more personal history first....I've been collecting 1/64 cars since day one...My brother collected Hot Wheels in the 1970s somewhat, and when I was born in 1984 he gave them to me...My first car, as far as all 4 of us could remember, is a 1/64 Yatming 1970s or 80s Toyota Celica with an opening rear hatch, that got broken off a long time ago. I havn't looked through my 1/64 cars in years, and I don't actually know where it is...It was red, but most of the paint is long gone. It lived a hard life! Anyway, I collected Hot Wheels and Matchbox, Majorette, Yatming, and whatever else I could get at the time, and when Johnny Lightning came back in 1994 I collected them too. That was one of the biggest things in my life at the time, and I still get some from time to time, mostly Johnny Lightnings. Anyway, in 1992, my mom planted the idea in my uncle Skip's ear to get me 1/64 NASCAR diecast for Christmas. 12/26/92 is probably one of the most important days in my life, as it is when I became a NASCAR fan...instantly! To this very day, 1/64 NASCAR IS my #1 hobby....And ALWAYS will be. Also in 1992, is when models entered my life....but only partially. We have a VERY small house, and on thanksgiving day myself and my dad would always be in the way in the kitchen while mom was trying to cook...She suggested that we build a model togther to keep us out of there We did models, one a year, on Thanksgiving day from 1992-1995. Never any paint, but lots of Testors glue. The First, a 67 Chevelle has since gone missing. I have the others though, a Bugatti EB110 and a 56 Chevy Bel Air. The other from that time period was a snaptight airplane. The only plane I've built, and it's covered in dust, but still in (mostly) one piece. Dad had had enough and we didn't do any more, but we had accumulated several others, including what I consider to be my first and second models, both AMT kits, both from 1994. Fast forward to November 7th, 1999. While an important day historically, it also is a personally important day too. For years and years, the AMT 53 Ford Pickup, issued in 1994, sat at the bottom of the basement steps on the shelf down there. Every time I would look down there, I saw it. In 1999, I got the urge to build it...I had pulled it up and looked at it (Likely for the first time since 1994) and mom suggested that I build it. I had a decade old or more collection of paint from Testors, one of those packs you get at Wal-Mart that has 6 or 8 colors in it. I laid out some newspapers on my floor and went to work, building it over a period of two nights. (I can't recall what days of the week it was, but if was not a weekend I had to go to school before I could finish it). I thoroughly enjoyed it! I painted the bed gold because I didn't have any brown paint. The body was red, and everything else was flat black. One of the other kits I had laying around was an AMT 1994 Mustang annual. I built that the next night. I knew by then this was something I wanted to do more of...so we went to Wal-Mart and I bought a Revell 48 Ford Woody. That was pretty complicated but I had it done within two nights. Another trip to Wal-Mart the next day and I brought home a Revell 66 GTO. After three trips to Wal-Mart in a week mom decided this was not going to work and encouraged me to buy several. I ended up buying 7 and that was the beginning of my keeping a stash...something mom probably regrets because now the basement is full of kits...Literally....I have more then 700 stuffed in there now! I still have one of those kits in the stash, unbuilt! An AMT 41 Ford Woody. It was too much for me at the time, and while I could build it now, I choose not to because of it's historical importance to me. I did paint the body blue at one point, and I do regret that now, I wish I had left it bare plastic....Oh well! too late now! I plugged on modeling in my little own world until June or July 2000. I think I did discover the 2 LHS's in that time, but I still wasn't too aware. Then, in June 2000, we went to Lake George, NY, where I spend quite a bit of time, and there in the shop that is still there, and I still visit, I saw sitting there Scale Auto Enthusiast #131. I bought it, and I believe a kit or two as well, and in the Hannaford parking lot I started reading. The only thing I could think was "whoah!" There was so much more to this then I ever imagined. At that point, I knew no other model builders...I talked to no one about it, except my mom, brother and dad. That was the issue that had the editorial about the Model Car List yahoo group. We had only gotten our first computer a few months earlier but when we got home a month later, I joined the MCL at 15. (I remember it was August 4th, 2000, Jeff Gordon's birthday, is how I remember). I still am a member there, although I don't hardly look anymore. That just spiralled away, until I joined every single modeling Yahoo group, but, more importantly, the Hobby Heaven board. That is still one of the three model boards I try to check daily, with here and Randy's NASCAR modeling board. But, I was still pretty much building by myself. I was posting online, but I rarely posted my work. I didn't get a digital camera until August 2003. (that'll be important later) Then, on February 5th, 2002, my dad died of cancer. It was the absolute worst day of my life, and it still bothers me. (I won't even get into that here). A man I had never met, but had talked to online and once or twice on the telephone, came to my dad's funeral. That man was Rick Hanmore. That made a distinct impression on my entire family... Rick had been trying to get me, along with some other people, to at least visit the Town of Newburgh Model Car Club at least once for more then a year. The very next month, March 4th, 2002, I made the trip for the first time...mostly as a thank you to Rick...and it changed my life for the better...Much Better! I was hooked, and I paid my dues that night. I've been a member ever since! From that point on, I tried to make every meeting, and while I havn't always been able to, I've tried...It IS the reason I am still a modeler. I was still brush painting everything...if painting it at all. My stuff was absolutely horrible, and I was pretty despondent over my crappy building skills. At the TNCC picnic, Rick and the guys taught me how to spray paint...Well, that was it. While still not great, my building has VERY much improved, and it's ALL because of the TNMCC. In April 2004 I started building NASCAR models and that has pretty much been most of my building since then. I've been now a quarter of a way across the country for model shows, and plans for further trips...More on that later, IF it can actually happen. And that's pretty much where we are now. I've taken over much of the TNMCC's paper trail, as they say, doing the roster, the newsletter, the club message board and the Club Fotki... They are truly the best modelers I know, and the best club I could EVER hope to be associated with. As for what I build...Well, I've gone long already...so many things! I most build NASCAR, from the beginnings of the sport until today. I love it all, and if I could I would build ever car that ever ran a race. Obviously, that will never be possible, but I'm going to build as many as can over the next decades I mostly build box stock, I'm still pretty new at this, and still experimenting with adding detail and stuff like that. I've not had much good luck with putty or body modifications. Practice makes perfect, or at least that is my theory. I'll keep at it until I get it right. Along with NASCAR, I will build many, many things. I love musle cars, and always will...but there's so much more. I love the big giant 1950s cars, gleaming chrome and fins and more. Fendered cars are incredibly cool to me, and I even love the brass era: In short, I love cars. My building styles tend to lead toward mild custom, factory stock, or a combination of both. I don't always go with factory colors, even on an otherwise factory stock build; I tend to paint things whatever color I think something will look cool in Otherwise I will use custom wheels (NO Big ones), and my motto could very well be "Cragars fix everything". I will lower a suspension or raise it, depending on the look I am going for. I'd love to build Matt Trotta style customs but I don't have those skills. Yet! I don't know or really care about engines or chassis and stuff like that, so I focus on the paint job and body. I rarely do any modifications, usually dechroming a street car into a older NASCAR race car. For NASCAR builds I focus more on the right color and proper decaling. I also love Pickups but I can't figure out how to spray paint them accuratly...To get full coverage I usually have runs. Still working on that! I even have a few airplanes I wish to build...an SR-71 Blackbird that I found for $4 on sale a Kmart a few years back and I wish to do at least WWI era flyer. Currently, right now, I've got the hankering for some hot rods. Going to the Adirondack Nationals and Goodguys East Coast Nationals the past two weekends certainly didn't hurt that. I've seen so much to give me ideas, and they will be put to plastic SOON. I even bought and started a Revell 49 Mercury directly because of the Adirondack Nationals! I will NEVER build a "rat rod". Primer is not a final color! I also can't stand those hideous big wheels, and won't build them either. I rarely build foreign cars, and especially not Japanese cars. I do have a soft spot for German cars and have more then a few in my stash. Spending a day at the Saratoga Automobile Museum with VW Dave got me thinking about VWs, and talking about some things I want to build with him made me want to actually do those builds! Some of which I've been contemplating for several years, like replicating my dad's 83 VW Rabbit. In short...I'll build many things. The old adage "So many builds, so little time" is very, very true. Sheesh, I really can write a book sometimes, can't I? LOL! You can look at all my photos here: http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/ And I am especially happy with this album, chronicaling my builds, in the correct order that I built them, fully labeled as to what they are. You can track m progress from really bad, to bad, not not so bad, to maybe even good LOL! There is only one photo of each model in this album, and many of them have been re-shot and appear in the "All My Models" album, which is the first album on the main page. Some have gone missing, so are not included. When I find them, in they will go! http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/my_models_in_order/ Thanks for reading all this, if anyone bothered!

Hey Neal, don't forget you still have access to the Club Fotki!!

You've done some great stuff before, Jeff....But nothing quite like this. VERY well done!!

I've been thinking and saying that since the forum started....HOWEVER...it's not as easy as it seems (and I thought)...For them to print in any kind of resolution, the board postings are not good enough...I'm not exactly sure what it would do, but I don't think it would look very good, probably blurry. Even on the 700x700 I have my Fotki set on. Most photo hosts don't allow anywhere near that high, and Fotki allows up to 800x800, which I find to be too big to fit on most screens, and it shows that my builds aren't too good Now, if you provided the original uploaded photo, that MIGHT could work...It's available on my Fotki under each and every photo, and I posted one or two for Gregg from time to time...But they are HUGE...makes the forum side-scroll, quite a ways at that. In theory, it's a great idea...Unfortunatly it doesn't translate well.

Glad to hear that! Even though I love the Hummer(s), the H1 being my favorite, I would have liked to have gotten this one but didn't because of those God-awfull huge wheels. I thought about getting one and putting some vintage car artillery wheels, but decided I would have a better use for them on a vintage car, and never bought a H2, deciding instead to buy more kits I actually liked right out of the box. I'll buy one now. Now to decide what color to plan on making it...

Don't recall seeing that one of your's before, Jay. That is still my favorite of his cars...I love that body style and that paint scheme on there, it just looked so "right" to me. I really must build that one for myself, soon!

Hey Mark...Racing City carries both! In fact, I got my first bottle of Micro Sol and my first sheet of BMF there.

I don't...I havn't mail ordered a kit in a year and a half...The last time I ordered was from BSR. (bsrrep.com). I ordered three of the NASCAR Chevelles. In the past, I've ordered from Model Roundup, Fantastic Plastics, SMH, and of cource Hobby Heaven. I'm getting ready to order from Squadron for the first time ever. I buy all my kits locally....unless I can't find them or have them ordered.

Great job, Uwe! One of my all time favorite truck designs, it always looks good, and I never EVER thought that it might look good in brown, but your build has proved that it indeed DOES! Love the subtle custom work, too...

What should have been. Unlike most fantasy-tribute builds you didn't stick with what always was and got creative....Nice touch with the XM secondary. Looks great overall, Jay! Ismael, we gotta get you to build an Earnhardt car...And the Daytona 24 Hour Corvette doesn't count! (I just bought that kit myself!)

Glad to see you here Jay! The car looks great too.

Welcome Jackie! It's always great to read your posts!

Got this in my email from my friend Jeff Harper...I was never able to get to this show unfortunatly, but he asked me to spread the word... It is with much regret I have to announce that the Cape Cod Scale Modelers Association has cancelled our 16th Annual Model Show, slated to be held on September 23rd, 2007. Many factors have led to this difficult decision, from a lack of vendors and sponsors for the show, to the diminished support of individuals and the state of the hobby in general. We will take this time off to regroup and reexamine the state of the hobby, fine-tune our organization where required and hopefully come back with an annual event that we all can enjoy again. Thank you, Jeffrey S. Harper Vice President, CCSMA

Cool Matt, thanks for posting that! I notice that they have a new can design, and unlike the first two waves of MML these are not liscenced from any car companys. Also they are being marketed as Testors instead of Model Master. In that photo it almost look like the label is painted on, like Tamiya does. Probably won't be in person, though. Interesting that the caps are the color of the paint, unlike the stadard Testors black. Is it just me or does the can of "Diamond Dust" look to have a chrome cap?

I used regular plain old Testors Yellow on mine...

The Tom Daniel Designed Beer Wagon (also, RC Cola Wagon ) has some beer barrels in it. They aren't overly aged, but you could probably weather them yourself. Sorry for the lousy picture. I took it before I knew what I was doing...The kit includes 7 of them IIRC. 5 were molded in brown and two in yellow, I THINK. It's been about 5 years since I built it so I don't remember for sure. Hope that helps!

Thank you all for the comments...Can't wait to get some more copys of this kit... You know you've "made it" as a NASCAR builder when you get a comment from Dave T... Steve, very true! The next ones I build will be pretty diffrent...I have enough decals to build 5 more of this body style...

Yup....always. Every year since I've been building I've had to stop working in the summer due to heat, and the dead of winter due to cold. I can't stand anything over 80, and 90% of the time when it gets that hot we have humidity, too. Those are the days that I spend a lot of time on the boards. I've tried working when it's that warm out, and the paint actually starts to congeal.

My latest completion. Also my first NASCAR model from the 1970s. This was made from the Model King kit, with decals provided from an unknown source, possibly Dave Romero. They were given to me by Bill aka SlidinSideways on this board 8) It's almost box-stock, the only thing on there (besides decals) that did not come in the kit is the grill bar, which was from the Johan 72 Torino. It fit so tightly I didn't even glue it. Overall a really fun build! I know I said that I would not be starting anymore new projects until I could finish some more of the ones I already had in progress, but I had been waiting so long to get this kit, I had to break my self-imposed rule Surprisingly, this build took me only about 12 hours. I didn't think it would progress as quickly as it did, and I had to undo and redo part of it too. It's not my greatest build, but I am really happy with the way it came out I will definitly play with the ride height on future builds, it's a bit too high in the front for my tastes, but I wasn't able to test fit it as I painted the body first, and didn't do any body-chassis test fitting until both were painted. I need to replace the rear bumper, it got superglue fogged...and I ruined the right side bumper 15. When I get more kits I will be able to fix it because the kit decal sheet can also build this car. As far as I can tell, Dick Brooks only ran this car one time, at Rockingham in 1972. Thanks for looking!