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A quick "hammer-together" build of a few nights. I started with the reissued AMT '69 Corvair. It was originally going to be an SCCA racer, but I painted the body in a Rustoleum texture rust paint kit and a little weathering chalk sealed with Rustall #3 Dead Flat as a test body. Then it went in the box again due to a lost engine and lost motivation. Fast forward to last week. Whilst looking for wheels, I found this again. I decided on finishing it quick and dirty. Front and rear bumpers were cast away, the right headlight bucket was taken off and replaced with a single light, and the rear tires were upgraded to Goodyear Polyglas units. Every wheel is different. The fronts are from the kit, the rear right is from the Lindberg '34 Ford Pickup, and the left rear is from the AMT Deora. The interior is actually from an original issue buildup my father did, weathered with white and grey charcoals and equipped with the custom steering wheel. The body is painted, as detailed before, in a Rustoleum rust kit, which may be discontinued. It was weathered further with dark and light rust powders and Rustall #4 Ground Silt around the lower body as any "desert rat" would be. Here's what I'm blathering about. A few nights of here-and-there work and some neatly cut corners result in this model which looks great on the shelf. Questions, comments, criticisms welcome.

Well, if we can go the racing route, I'll take a McLaren MP4/13... traffic would be a breeze.

More framing done.

Nineties. Ech. I'd go for a 1998 Buick LeSabre. Nice ride, decent looks, adequate horsepower, comfortable seats, large trunk, solid build quality overall.

Thanks. It's based off an amalgamation of The Bug, a woods buggy I saw hauling logs when I was younger, and the early sand buggies.

Here's the shed, 50% framed...

I'd be interested in the rest of that Luv if there's nothing you have planned for it...

If I don't find the drive to finish the Gee-Bee, I have a shed I'm building....

Going to pick up the engine for my Ranger tomorrow. 5.0 F-150 engine, torn down, with intake, EFI unit, ECU, wiring harness, and shorty headers for $300.

Tower Hobbies has it in stock! http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXFWBK Ordering one tomorrow - does anyone have one yet?

I would say to wait on the PE... it's not hard to do, really, but if you're just getting back into it, you might not want to drown yourself with completely new techniques.

Revell also has a 2007 Shelby Mustang.

AMT has the 1997 Mustang GT.

I've actually got one, too - after I saw you said it was in 1/26 I got it. I sanded and dryfitted everything, then it went back in the box.

I wish I had seen this before - I saw that and immediately knew it was 1/16. I have the same one. Is yours molded in green?

Good to hear. There's one at a local antique shop I buy a lot of kits from and I never looked twice at it. Time to get it....

Is the Wankel engine in the old issue of the convertible?

Looks like you've sanded through in a few spots, anyways. I say sand to plastic around it, Tenax inside and out, sand smooth, repaint.

You should make a space for those tanks to go on the wall with chain around them - unchained tanks is an expensive OSHA infraction.

I suppose that's because HobbySearch is in Japan, makes sense now. Reny's gets a lot of new stuff. The S&H Torino, Ford F-150 Ranger, Porsche 918, '66 Chevy pickup.... All around $16 each. Haven't bought anything online in a while because of them.

HobbySearch says it's coming in Late May. I've seen it at a local bargain wholesaler (Reny's) for $15. Anyone else seen it?

Spaz Stix is a chrome spray paint.

Stunning.

Welcome!

My father did model cars and trains, then went on to do stuff with real cars. He still builds trains (thousands of dollars worth) and I bought him a Tamiya V8 Opel kit last year. He bought me my first model, ech... maybe when I was six? Seven? We built it together, obviously. Twelvish years seems so far away. This was before the "participation awards" thing. I missed that by a few years. Thank god I missed Common Core and standards-based by a year. I like a little return on my work, though - don't we all? Not to say I don't like criticism. I need a little. However, lately I've been building for me and haven't been posting anything I've been working on, mostly because I know I'm not doing carb linkages, I know I'm not doing distributor wiring, helll, sometimes I don't even put shocks in some of my models. I build models because I'm a dreamer. That's why I play Gran Turismo, or spend hours driving in GTA V - cars give me a rush. I'm dreaming now, dreaming to the future when I'll be financially stable enough to own every model I've built in 1:1 form. Basically, if any of us younger people want to build models, we will. I think I'm just reiterating that from others who have scribed posts before me, but it needs to be said. And don't sniff the glue.