Billy Kingsley

I'm particularly fond of issue #132...I've had one model in MCM, and two articles, but now my face, too!

I only see two pages. Work? Here? Perish the thought!

Actually the right side window was open on the road cource cars. They were worried it would get into the ignition boxes because they are right on the dashboard. Unfortunatly the track flooded out and they had to call it. It got to the point that the cars were hydroplaning under caution, and the tires just couldn't hold it. They actually had more wrecks under caution then under green in the rain. Some of the teams opted not to use windsheild wipers which probably hurt them. I think if they were allowed to use headlights they probably could have done even better then they did, which was pretty darn amazing as it was. I've been watching NASCAR for 16 years now and that was probably the most historically important race I've ever seen. I wish they would do it all the time! (it was a lot of fun too-my favorite Busch race this decade, possibly ever!)

Bill, sorry I missed your post until now. The red is simply Tamiya Italian Red over Gray Primer, which was also Tamiya. Under that is a coat of Tamiya white and Model Master Lacquer white. The chassis is the MCW conversion mated to a Monogram 83-vintage GM, specifically a Monte Carlo Notchback donated it's life for this one. I didn't do anything special on the chassis-nothing scratchbuilt or anything cool like that. This was NOT the Cannonball Run car. That was an S-3 Laguna. It carried the same markings, as did a real NASCAR race car. I am not sure however if the S-3 in the movie was NASCAR prepped or even provided by Hoss Ellington. (who owned the #1 car in NASCAR for many years) or if they just used his paint scheme. Thanks for all the comments everyone, I am glad you all like it. I had hoped to get the Oldsmobile I bought at the same time done in time for Toledo but I now doubt it, as it's too hot to build for right now

Bummer, that's one of the few sections I always checked on every single visit. (General, NASCAR, Rants & Raves and Resin are the ones I check every time, the others only periodically!) I just skipped over the polical and I didn't even SEE any religious posts. I don't get here all that often when I am not building though.

Happy Bithday Anthony!

The time is fast approacing for the Toledo NNL Nationals. For the last several years, after the NNL Nationals conclude on October 11th, we NASCAR builders gather and talk NASCAR until we all get too tired and go to sleep! The Summit is held at the Red Roof Inn, and we've already gotten the confrence room, which can seat over 100. You do NOT have to be staying at the Red Roof Inn to attend! The Summit will begin immeadeatly after the NNL Nationals End, and go until ?. Last year it didn't close until after 1 AM. By then it was just two of us, though. There are seats provided by the Red Roof, as well. It will roughly begin at 7 PM, but may be earlier or later, depending on how long the NNL runs. There WILL be some food provided, but for dinner you have to provide that yourself. There's plenty of room, you can bring your food back and eat it there if you want. Toledo has plenty of food options! We will basically sit there for hours talking about NASCAR, NASCAR modeling, and pretty much anything else. Models will be on display including models that will NOT be shown at the Nationals itself. We will also have the Charlotte Cup race on but most of the time we are all talking too much to pay attention. New purchases in the vendor room will also be examined and disgussed, and everyone will have a great time. As the 22 people who attended last year can attest to! This is a great chance to meet other forum members and have a great time. Entry into the summit is FREE as well. Everyone is allowed, you don't even have to be a NASCAR fan, if you just want to hang out with a bunch of great people (and hear lots of NASCAR talk!) this is the place to do it. Hours of bench racing await! This is a group photo from last year. Not everyone was in it, some people had to leave early! I hope to see a large contingent of modelers there-and you don't even have to BE modelers to visit-if you like NASCAR, or free snacks, or just to kick back with a bunch of good people-then this meeting is for you! As far as I know it's the only NASCAR-centric meeting in all of car modeling, as well! I hope to see lots of people there. Make plans now! :-D

The time is fast approacing for the Toledo NNL Nationals. For the last several years, after the NNL Nationals conclude on October 11th, we NASCAR builders gather and talk NASCAR until we all get too tired and go to sleep! The Summit is held at the Red Roof Inn, and we've already gotten the confrence room, which can seat over 100. You do NOT have to be staying at the Red Roof Inn to attend! The Summit will begin immeadeatly after the NNL Nationals End, and go until ?. Last year it didn't close until after 1 AM. By then it was just two of us, though. There are seats provided by the Red Roof, as well. It will roughly begin at 7 PM, but may be earlier or later, depending on how long the NNL runs. There WILL be some food provided, but for dinner you have to provide that yourself. There's plenty of room, you can bring your food back and eat it there if you want. Toledo has plenty of food options! We will basically sit there for hours talking about NASCAR, NASCAR modeling, and pretty much anything else. Models will be on display including models that will NOT be shown at the Nationals itself. We will also have the Charlotte Cup race on but most of the time we are all talking too much to pay attention. New purchases in the vendor room will also be examined and disgussed, and everyone will have a great time. As the 22 people who attended last year can attest to! This is a great chance to meet other forum members and have a great time. Entry into the summit is FREE as well. Everyone is allowed, you don't even have to be a NASCAR fan, if you just want to hang out with a bunch of great people (and hear lots of NASCAR talk!) this is the place to do it. Hours of bench racing await! This is a group photo from last year. Not everyone was in it, some people had to leave early! I hope to see a large contingent of modelers there-and you don't even have to BE modelers to visit-if you like NASCAR, or free snacks, or just to kick back with a bunch of good people-then this meeting is for you! As far as I know it's the only NASCAR-centric meeting in all of car modeling, as well! I hope to see lots of people there. Make plans now!

I'm glad you guys enjoyed-will likely be my last new completion for a while. I just can't work on anything in the summer so I put everything away for now. Wayne, I would go with the ones you mention with the fade and sell the other one, it's somewhat rarer

My local Kay Bee had only one model at all-some sort of dinosaur.

I'm still waiting for my DVD/CD rewinder!

Lots more info and pictures there!

The build that if anything could go wrong, it DID. Here's what I wrote in an email about it- The 1980 David Pearson car has fought me at literally every step. Here's a list of the things that went wrong. I've been working on it on and off since 2005. It's an MCW body and chassis, mated to a Monogram. Let's see...the roof was not mixed right (as diagnosed by a fellow TNMCC member), I broke the right side A pillar, the spoiler broke (so I scratchbuilt a new one), the hood didn't fit the body which was warped but didn't show it until after it was painted, even though I DID test fit it so I had to super glue it on. Which of cource fogged the area all around it. I had to scratchbuild three back windows, in that I got super glue on two of them and completly lost one. The front widshield is the first one I scratchbuilt but when gluing it in I got it crooked-oh well. They also fogged but I can fix that; I just havn't yet. I also went through the trouble of modifiying some of the under hood chassis shots, including the engine itself, however it is now unseeable unless you take the body off. In addidion, part of the resin dashboard broke off and got lost, and the left front wheel got broken, so it was super glued on. I joked with my mom that the decals would shatter when I went to put them on. And of cource, they DID. The stripes, which came from my 1/64 decal parts box, shattered. Luckily I was able to save it and I used some Micro Scale liquid decal film on the rest, which saved them. The Wetworks decals silvered on me-they didn't want to come off the paper or conform to the car. The nearly decade older JNJ decal (the Craftsman on the right) and the Slixx decals (Jesus) on both sides didn't so I know it was a problem with the Wetworks. Go figure! Oh, and, I also lost the shifter I had painted and detailed so I had to go into the spares stash to find a replacement. It took me nearly an hour and about 2 dozen boxes before I found one. On the upside of that, I found a zip lock bag that had a bunch of Quarters, probably about 20 dollars worth, so that at least worked out! It is my first David Pearson build. I had regarded this as one of my "lost builds" and had pretty much resigned myself to it never getting completed. I still had the bumpers chrome plated by Bob at Chrome Tech USA at Toledo last year and when I recieved them less then a month later I pulled the car back out, and I've been working on it slowly ever since then, in November. That is why the build is done, or ever got done. For what it's worth, with all the trouble it gave me, I still want to get some more of them from MCW. I still love this body style and would like to build several more-this, along with the comparable Olds, would make great kits-I would buy tons, myself! I don't know why both cars washed out. They shouldn't have. Sorry about that!

Here's one that I've been wanting to finish for a long time. It's the car Kasey Kahne drove at the fall Charlotte race in his rookie year. Unfortunatly he crashed. This one has been sitting decaled in a box since 2005. Unfortunatly, due to some mishandling by me, the decals got a little worn. (they are uncleared ALPS). I didn't do enough research when I was painting and the air dams are all the wrong color. This is my favorite paint scheme from this decade, so I really wanted to finish this one. The decals are John Beatty's and the blue fade is all decal. The dash is resin from Mike's Scale Speed Shop. I still have to flat clear the tires and glue in the vinyl hoses (which I discovered when reviewing the photos) and do the wheel beads. I'm not sure what color they should be, I can't find a good enough photo, so for now they are white. This is my second Kasey Kahne build and the first one made it into Scale Auto's contest annual several years back :-D It is also my 3rd build of 2008. I don't know why the shots of both cars are washed out a little. They were taken like every other and they others didn't wash out. I'll try again I guess, but I'm just glad to get them done and up on the boards for everyone to see. Thanks for looking!

Jello I do that too Last year I was drilling into a diecast and the drill slipped, and gouged my finger. I didn't draw blood but it was taking a LONG time to heal-right across my left pointer finger fingerprint so I thought to myself, what the heck, and took the superglue to it. It was healed within a week! No scar, either. I've actually heard that Super Glue was invented in WWII specifically to do such a job. Not sure if that's true, however. It's funny-I've actually hurt myself more on plastic sprues then all the various knives, saws and other assorted sharp, pointy things combines. I've also gotten a paper cut from decals before as well-paper cuts are always painfull too. Phil, the worst is dropping the exacto straight down into your lap That's an instance where you hold your breath and hope for the best-luckily I've only done that once and luckily I avoided injury. I've also had my exacto roll off the table and land blade first on my foot. Luckily I had my sneakers on as I wss in the painting process and it just bounced right off. I'm always afraid that when I'm working in the basement the stacks of models will collapse and crush me. LOL. I have them stacked to the ceiling which is only 7 feet-but it's still about a foot and a third above my head.

I built my first in 1999. it was the AMT 1953 Ford Pickup which had been in my basement since 1994 when it was issued. 1992-1995 My dad and I built one model a year on Thanksgiving day but all that was was me pulling the parts off the trees and handing them to him, so I don't count them. Entirely brush painted, if painted at all. I painted the bed gold because I didn't have brown paint. Actually came out surprisingly good, all things considered! 220+ models ago...it's gotten a little beat up over time, like the hinge getting broken off for example so the tailgate doesn't stay on. I never put one of the taillights or the fuel filler on.

My two favorites are without question Dead Man's Curve by Jan & Dean and Ballad of Thunder Road by Robert Michum. I like most of the 60s Surf music, especially the car stuff.

2002 Rick Mast. The only one I've done so far with an opening trunk. 2002 Ted Musgrave. I BMF'd the entire body. Took 32 pieces to do. In retrospect I should have had Bob @ Chrome Tech plate it for me. 2004 Morgan Shephard. It took me 2 years to find a donor body to make this, and at that I had to have a friend donate one from his stash. Wish the picture was better! I'm currently building a 1/24 version of this to give to Morgan himself! 2005 Kurt Busch Bud Shootout version. 2007 Jeremy Mayfield. First Toyota I've ever built in any scale. 2007 Kenny Wallace. My favorite of them all. The 1/24 model has been seen here before, it was the first, and will be the last, NASCAR Cup car I finished in the year it was run. Thanks for looking

I have nearly 4500 different 1/64 NASCAR, and about 300 more street cars too. Wanna see em all? LOL! Gregg would kill me, I think. Or at least kick me off the board. I also make my own. The major companies can't be bothered to make most of them so I do. I just finished my 1978 Thunderbird master. I took the Motor Max 78 Thunderbird from the American Grafitti line and converted it....tons of work. It'll be available in resin by the end of summer. These are some of the ones I like best. http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/diecast/ The following pictures are ALL 1/64 scale! It's actually the hardest scale to build in, roughly 2 and a half time harder then 1/24. Obviously, by the amount of time here and other model boards, I've done plenty of both. The God-forsaken board shrink makes all the pictures look like ######. Click on them and you will see how they SHOULD look. 1955 Tim Flock 1980 Janet Guthrie 1995 Jimmy Horton 1994 Rick Carelli. The first time I've ever painted a car 4 colors. 1997 Dave Marcis Making of Champions. There are nearly 70 decals on the body. Would have been more if I didn't ruin a few too.

I love that Petty Superbird avitar shot, nice! I have two LHS within 5 minutes of my house. One, the closest, is simply called Hobby House. They stock Tamiya paint which makes up the majority of my purchases from them. The other, Dutchess Train & Hobby, stocks MCM and the regular Testors Enamels (Hobby House doesn't) which make up the majority of my purchases from him. Bob, the owner of Dutchess Train & Hobby (which I refer to simply as Bob's) had me sign a copy of the issue with my MASSCAR 2007 coverage and added it to his collection of customer magazine articles! Most of my kits, however, come from one of the TNMCC members. He doesn't have a shop but he sets up at the meetings, and club members get a discount. I would say since I joined in 2002 that 90% of all my kit purchases have come from him. The rest would be old stuff or the occasional oddball thing I buy at the NNLs. I also have to make mention of Racing City Hobbys in South Glens Falls NY, and Centerline Hobbies on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Racing City was the first hobby shop I ever went into, back in 1996 or 1997 when he first opened, and it's where I got my first Scale Auto (#131) which led to me joining the internet modeling hobby-which led me here. He also carries the Testors Lacqers and whenever I run out I usually just drive the 3 hours to get to his shop instead of waiting for Hobby House to order it! LOL! (It means another trip to Lake George) Centerline Hobbies in Massachusets has the BIGGEST car kit variety I've ever seen and stocks several kinds of paint I've only seen there. Every time I go to the Cape (all too rarely!) I make a trip to there and end up leaving with on average $100 less then I had before! Bob, that stinks about your HobbyTowns. I have one of them fairly locally-it's in Conneticut but only about an hour away-and the owner actually IS into model cars, and carries some stuff that I don't see anywhere else, namely foreign kits, and he's the only place I know that carries Italiari and Hasegawa on a regular basis. Unfortunatly like all HTU's he's a little pricey though.

It's just like a really big model! Glad to see you making some progress on that one, I've been following along for a couple years on your Fotki

That's great news Terry! I'm still fairly new to resin (built three, a handfull more in progress and a lot in the stash) but it's always nice to have an expert opinion, AND a great new showcase for cool new products I may not otherwise hear about. Really looking forward to that!

I use Bleche-White and have never had a problem. Some resins you get are clearly overly slimy...you can tell when you get one. I had one from R&R Vacuum Craft that was particularly bad...so I dropped it in the Bleche-White, and actually forgot about it. Turns out it was in the Bleche-White for 7 months. It's fine. And super clean, too, but I've not gone back to it yet. (It's his not very accurate 67 El Camino). A trick I picked up somewhere...don't recall where...is that if masking tape will stick to it, it's ready to build. That seems to work too. Just to try and see what the reaction would be I put some tape on an uncleaned body. It literally popped off, and at that it completly removed all adhesive from the tape. Jimmy's resins tend to be more on the slimy side, so good luck with that.

I've got my second ever article published in there as well It's the MASSCAR 2007 coverage, and I hear it's 3 pages. I went to my LHS today to grab it but it hadn't arrived yet....I'm much farther away from Colorado though so it'll probly take longer... Bob (the owner of the LHS) is going to have me autograph a copy

In it's 20 year history, MASSCAR had never had a boat before. This year, 6 showed up! Believe it or not, this was the junior table! Then, at the end of the day, the Judges had a lot of work to do, but they did it and it was time to announce the winners. From here, everything is being prepared to hand out the awards. Presenters Lisa and Norm Jean, President Jim Cunningham, Steve DeVaux and Doug Estabrook are in this photo. When all was said and done, Jeff Harper's spectacular tribute to the late Tex Ouderkirk took home Best In Show. Here, Jeff poses with Tex's sons. None of this coverage would have been possible without these two people. Stu Marcus on the left, and my mom, who took 194 of the 199 photos in the album! Thanks for looking, and here's the link to the rest of the photos. http://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/mode...ws/masscar2008/