Billy Kingsley

cool...now imagine if they all contributed... Spambots don't count as contributing!!

Ooh, I like the Firebird III! How much and will any be available at the NNL East?

As soon as I set it up, I will! Have to get the electricians in first.

I start so many NASCAR builds because spray painting is my favorite part...Unfortunatly, chassis are considerably lower in that regard!! I have cars I painted and decaled back in 04, when I started Building NASCAR, that go unfinished just simply for the fact that they are at the Chassis building stage and I would rather paint and decal! I usually set street cars aside because I screw something up on them...

Just another reason I refuse to post there. Once I saw how it was being run, I decided that I didn't want to spend ANY time there. I don't even post show photos there anymore.

I did the same thing as Chopper and was told I was nuts...Although I've only done it to remove copywright info on the bottom of NASCAR Chassis. My solution was to stop telling people that's what I did, rather then listen to being told I was wrong. Boy, that's vindication if you two guys do it I'm not a real big fan of the new Corvette, but I do like it better in scale then in 1:1 (odd, isn't I? ) Are you going all out? You could put it next to your red Corvette with the working everything at shows.

It's one of about 900 kits I havn't built yet....Sorry!

I dunno if you shoulda asked this Erik, I love pickups!! Even though I havn't built one in a while, the first model I ever built was a pickup and I do plan to get back to pickup modeling in 2007! These are posted in the order I completed them... My first model My first "custom", the Marble Truck (photo by Greg Nichols) Look how the water reacted to the copper paint. OK, some of those aren't really pickups, but close enough!! I didn't post the ones where the shots are too blurry or the model is too crappy, either..

COOL! I've always loved Swamp Buggies. They were the second form of Motorsports I discovered, after Monster Trucks but before NASCAR.

Actually Jairus, while that did indeed play a role, that's not the MAIN reason it was killed. The main reason was then Ford president (IIRC) Robert McNamara, the same one who was on JFK's staff, absolutely hated the car, hated the concept and did everything in his power to kill it before it got off the ground, including putting a high price tag on it. From what I have read....He was going to kill the brand unless it became the #1 seller in the country. The Edsel, particularly the 58, is one of my all time favorite cars, and I hope to own one someday. In full size. Park in the driveway kind of own.

Hi Erik, I picked it up at Wal-Mart in about 2000 or 2001...Out of Production Now... Hope that helps!

Is that what you're looking for? Revell had this in the line recently, I got it in 2001...

NEVER! OK, now that I have that out of my system I think too much is either: A) When you run out of space When you are buying things you've already purchased and can't remember because you have so many...three times. C) When you look at your stash and the feeling of endless overwhelmingness comes over you. D) When you have models in every room in the house, including the bathroom and kitchen I've thought about it long and hard lately, and I'm now only buying things that I want to build within a year (plastic kits) or if I ever want to build it (resin). My resin collection has tripled in 2006, and I know of at least 15-20 more I would buy right now if I could afford it. (I also don't turn down cheap NASCAR kits, but that's another story) Sadly....I've had A-C happen. Sofar I've kept the models to the basement and my bedroom, although the previous is pretty well full. When I first got into modeling, and going to shows (2001) I bought alot of kits just because I could. Many of them I probably wouldn't have purchased now. Just because something is really cheap does not mean it should be purchased. It took me about 4 years to learn that. Now that I have them, though, I can't bear the thought of selling them or not having them, so I've come up with building plans for most of them. I plan to build all but three of the kits I own, and the three I don't plan to build have been reissued to death, but I will never complain. I purchased the first issue of the 59 and 65 El Caminos and the AMT 53 Ford F-100, which was the first kit I ever built, so it's kind of sentimental to me. I'm currently hunting down all the issues of all those kits, and I'm about halfway on all of them except the 59 El Camino, which I am only short one issue. The good thing about those kits is that I can think of many, many things to do with these kits....Building the El Caminos in every factory color and then some is not out of the question. My basement is pretty full, and I'm really limiting what I buy. I didn't buy any kits at MASSCAR (I never actually went in the vendor room) and I limited it to less the 10 at LIARS. 2006 was a low year for me for buying, but, honestly, I have enough already. Of cource, 2007 will bring 19 kits from Lindberg, and a dozen more new or reissues I don't have from AMT and Revell that I want. My problem is that I'm just addicted to cars, I think.

Thanks guys, you're really too kind. I do plan to build them all, eventually...Except for the ones I try something new on and basically ruin them, LOL! (Everybody needs parts kits, right? )

I like the old (current) nose better. This one looks too much like...what is it, the Nitro? That little small one whose ad campaign is "Anything but cute"? It looks like that to me.

I like it....BUT, the 58 Edsel is one of my all time favorite cars, so take that as y'all may, LOL.

Rob, I have an extra set of Corvette wheels from the latest Monogram issue if you want them. I have two of the kit and don't plan to build either one with those wheels...Just say the word and they are yours.

Thanks, Dan! You've always had a kind word of encouragement and I truly appreciate it! I am really looking forward to 2007 as I will finally get a permanent workspace for the first time ever. Have to get some electrical work done first, and then a permanent workspace can be built. It won't be too big, but it'll be better then what I've got now: A wobbly fold up card table, or barring that, lately, I've been sitting on my bed to do any work. I havn't completed anything since October, and I want to, bigtime! I MAY get my 63 Impala wagon done this week...but that remains to be seen. I still need to do about 1/4 of the work on it. I'm looking forward to 07, bigtime! This applies to a couple of you all so I'll just post it like this: You can't build your grail unless you buy it! I thought back on this thread though, and I hope it didn't make me sound like a greedy, material-based person though.

Neat review Bill, thanks! I am loking forward to getting one, next year sometime. That is such a cool car in person.

Oh man. If you start building NASCAR stuff, that'll be amazing. That might even get a NASCAR build in a magazine! Mustang is neat. I love that kit!

Yes and no. Les is still taking orders for the dirt track stuff but not the NASCAR stuff. That was more popular, the dirt stuff doesn't have as much demand and therefore does not wear on his printer as much....Still wishing I had bought more of the NASCAR decals then I did!

Painting it, adding a hood, chrome and interior would be an improvement Sorry that was too easy! It looks pretty good to me.

Bob, I may have been exxagerating just a little bit, but the glue bonds AREN'T very strong. I don't think it melts the plastic, like red tube glue does. Maybe they reformulated it? I havn't touched the stuff since 2000. Rick, that's pretty much how it DID happen!

Bob, I couldn't imagine not having my kits! I've only ever sold one and I do regret it (though I regret charging my friend for it instead of just giving it to him, not that I don't have it anymore) Chad, they pretty much fill up my basement...They are in my bedroom, the living room (mom's not happy about that but whatever I get for Christmas will probably be there for a while unless I build it), and I have some in storage, though not many. The empty boxes go there. I have way too many kits...But I can't stop buying them. I think I'm addicted!

Thanks for the vote of confidence Anthony but I dunno if I'm famous (I know I ain't!) but I have been on TV 3 times, the cruddy local station. Been on the radio 6 times, most recently did an impromto interview last month! John Hall of Hall and Oates won the election for some political thing this year and knocked on my door in October, I think. He lives in Dover Plains (IIRC) and mom has met him at the grocery store. Says he's conceited and a stuck-up snob. We didn't answer the door though, not because of that but because it was political junk. As far as local celebritys, well, there's some infamy here. Another polical dude is also a Radio DJ and he knocked on the door as well. He became somewhat infamous locally because he's 35, however his myspace page says he's in his 20s and had a partially naked 14 year old girl on there. (I didn't look, I hate myspace) and that caused a big stink. (He still won the election though, go figure!) I've met a couple other local Radio DJs who are semi-famous, I went to school with one of them. Oh, and, more infamous stuff...The cop that commited suicide because of the Tawana Brawley case back in the late 80s/early 90s ( :?: ) Lived (and did that to himself) just two streets over from where I live. I was too young to remember much of that time, I was born in 84. My mom has met, and has been hit on by Peter Max and, IIRC, Dennis Hopper in the 60s.