mikemodeler

I picked up the old MPC Universal Jeep CJ-5, the one with the service station package- half cab, snow plow and push bumper- at a swap meet 20 years ago. I have yet to build it, some of it is not wanting to screw it up, the other part of it is having a ton of other WIPs. One of these days!

Thanks for sharing, many amazing people out there who have their struggles in life but manage it all and don't complain. I know a few who have situations that most would run from.

Wish I could help, I remember seeing this body years ago and telling myself..."I will get one soon" and never did. There is a void in this hobby for Holmes Wrecker bodies. Sure wish there was someone else with a 500 & 750 wrecker kit, I would be all over em!

Me too! Reminiscent of when Ollies had a big clearance a couple of years ago, saw some people at a swap meet two weeks later trying to get $18 for a kit they paid $6.99 for! Needless to say, those folks went home with those kits. As mentioned, for these prices it is hard to beat picking up a kit for $7-8 if you are going to just use certain parts, which is what I intend to do. The rest of the kit will be given away or traded for other parts, something I surely would not have done had I paid full retail.

Nice! Now you need to build a Lambo tractor to go with it!

nice job on the weathering, realistic and just right.

That sure came out nice Brian, lots of nice details that you scratchbuilt really make this thing look great!

Just when I said I wasn't going to buy any more models, I see a couple that I will be forking over some of my lunch money for.

My display case is chock full of C2 Corvettes and Camaros from 67-2016. Add in a few hot rods and Chevy SUVs too. The model workbench has 5 GM pickups, 3 Camaros and a couple of Jeeps. Got to get a few more WIPs done before considering any of the big rigs in the stash.

That would be great, but only if the stock version of the kit is offered, half cab wouldn't look right on the off road version.

I once had about 500, a job loss and the realization that I was never gonna build them all woke me up. Whittled down the ones I wasn't gonna build, still have some more to sell off, but getting closer to having what I will build in the stash.

Decided to channel more energy into modelbuilding, so won't be around as much, should be good therapy.

Not that I am aware of. There have been resin kits made, I think Steve at Star Models has one.

Gerry, Best of luck in your move, hope all goes well. 13 years ago I moved from Chicago to Charlotte and had a moving company haul my stuff down in their large 53 foot van. Everything arrived safe and sound, the only stuff damaged was household items (TV tables, card table and chairs). I packed all of my boxed models into large cardboard boxes that were near perfect size for my collection (about 300 kits at the time) and I had an inventory list of what was in each box (as well as all other stuff deemed valuable by me & the wife). The boxes held the kits snug with very little packing paper and I think that helped them survive the move.I had contemplated buying plastic totes but the kits did not fit well in them and I decided to use them for paints instead. It will come down to how they pack and drive your load to Washington. Hopefully no issues this time of year and all arrives intact!

As the uncle of a young man who is retarded, I find it quite offensive when people refer to something other than the handicap as "retarded". My nephew has worked harder than most normally functioning people to achieve some sort of normalcy in his life and to have others use the term "retarded" or "retardation" to describe a situation that they are unhappy with shows me their lack of compassion for humans afflicted with this disability, their inability to use terminology that better describes their problem without being offensive ( and this would include using foul language) and a general sign of ignorance. Until you have experienced watching someone who was given a small chance to live and function become the man my nephew is in his mid-20s who can do some amazing things considering his shortcomings, using terms like "retarded" and "retardation" to those of us who have lived with it is insulting.

Would this be what remains of Tower Hobbies and the website Plastic-Models.com? If so, I wonder if that means we will see this stuff at an Ollie's soon?

Saw these at the HL in Matthews NC this afternoon. There was also a large scale motorcycle kit and one of the late model Revell Snapper Mustang kits. I grabbed up two of the Thunderbolt kits and one of the Yenko Corvette kits because at $7.49, the wheels alone were worth it. Might trade them off, not sure yet. On a related note, saw someone on a Facebook group posting the above kits for sale at $25 each, shipping included. Usually not a bad deal, but given that these kits were on sale for $7.49, someone is making a couple of bucks on each one.

Hobby Lobby is pretty much old school when it comes to cash registers and inventory systems. The cashiers punch in the department code and price manually, no scanning of bar codes, so it is possible to have stuff marked down in one store and not at the one across town. They punch in the coupon code to manually adjust the price if you present it to them. Not sure how they determine what to re-order if they aren't scanning the items at the register unless they walk each aisle and scan the barcodes on the shelf.

True, but history has shown us that Hobby Lobby will do stuff regionally so as to not overwhelm their warehouse system. With that in mind, Mike999 is in South Carolina and someone in Texas might not see the same markdowns he is for another month or so. I will check my HL as I am only 150 miles away from him and it could be happening at my local store.

Yeah, vehicles like that make me chuckle! In addition to being completely useless on or off road, they are a safety hazard to operate. The lights are not legal, the brakes are inadequate and visibility is so poor it's a wonder anyone would even think about driving it.

This is being shown on the Modelroundup Coming Soon page as an Early September release!

Is he the one that took the excellent 77 El Camino from MCRC and added some trim to the side and called it his own original? Might have been someone else, not sure. I have seen the stuff on the Bay, haven't bit yet because when it comes to someone new, I like to hold it in my hands first.

I was thinking the 80 MPC Monte Carlo would be another one to consider, maybe even the El Camino kits as I believe they were flat.

I remember a lot of KB Toys locations were in those "outlet" malls popular along the interstate. Bought some kits there pretty cheap as I remember, wish them well!

You can pick one and build it and use it as a means to work on your skills so the next one is little better than the one before. Figure out which one you want to start with and go from there. You got a great deal on those kits, well worth what you paid for them. Enjoy!