Atmobil

I'm calling this one done, it was supposed to be a one week build between christmas eve and newyears eve last year. It kind of snowballed a bit. My first idea was to build a used-but-not-abused daily driver kind of thing. A car with slightly faded paint and some minor dents maybe, a little dirt and some hints of rust. After having glued togheter chassis and engine and interior and painted everything flat black I started addid Deluxe Materials Scenic Rust to the chassis and used Doc O'Briens wheatering powders on the interior. It quickly went in to the abused-and-left-for-dead look. The body was treated to heat and a screwdriverhandle and some dremel action. I also used salt on it between the red oxide primer and blue top coat. Later on I added some details to interior, some workshop manuals, coke cans, a transmission and some oildrums. I then made a base for it, the tires got "flatspots" thanks to a little heat and I made sinkmarks in the ground of the base so that the Bronco would sink in to the ground. The base developed, I added a stack of old wheels, a rearaxle of unknown origin and oregano for leaves. The car was subjected to several rounds of washes and powders to give it that faded and abounded look. One of Fujimis mechanics depicts a brave (or maybe just foolish) soul trying to rescue this dead horse.

Wow, now that is what I would call cool yard art

In Fujimis Tools set 3 https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10171131 one can find some strange extra parts, they are called out as not to be used in the instructions: The KK F and KK E parts trees have (from what it looks like to me) a dangling toy cat, a cofeepot, two different helmets, two wraped parcellooking things, a radio with the letters TRIO on it that is to be mounted on a wall, two paper/garbage bins, two chessboardgame parts, a hand held radio, some serving trays, two noodle bowls, a flower and some kind of shield and several other parts I can't identify. On the D partstree there is something that looks like maybe an aircompressor that is called out as not to be used. I do wonder where these parts come from.

Now that is Energy Efficient, you push it your self so you get the exercise and it also "saves the planet"...haha. It's just like a 1800kg wheelbarrow. Nice dry warm place to sit in and try to change your clothes after having pushed it trough a freezing blizzard to get to that important executive meeting on how to make the carbon footprint of the company smaller....saving the planet is fun, is'nt it?

A mid engine Corvette can probably be a good thing, but what about an electric all autonomous corvette? Afterall, haven't the worlds leading politicians decided that there will be no more driver-driven cars from 2030 and that "fossilefuelcars" are not to be manufactured after 2025? Or was that just fake news from car-hating hippies? I do like that mid-enginened C5 that Dennis shows here, just imagine if GM had launched that in 1997. I think I see hints of 90s Lotus Elan and Spyker C8 in it (and maybe some others aswell). I like it, and I want to have it in a videogame (that's as close as I will ever get to testing such cars on the road anyway). Need For Speed 2 SE in a remastered version perhaps...

Hmm...I only have like four or so unbuilt AMT 60 Chevy pickups and a handfull of restorationprojects but I do want to get atleast one with that Go-kart in it. For other kits with bonuses in them, the AMT 66 Buick Riviera lowrider has a lowrider-type bicycle in it aswell. https://www.modelroundup.com/product-p/amt-30084.htm As for manufacturers on the other side of the globe, Tamiya had scooters/mopeds in some of their 1:24 car kits from the early 80s. I got the Nissan Skyline 2000 Turbo GTES (kit number ss2422) that has a Yamaha Towny 50cc inside. Some years ago I built the Toyota Soarer Turbo 2000VR and that had a Yamaha Beluga 800cc scooter inside the box. There is some others aswell but I don't remember what kits had scooter/moped bonuses in them other than the two I got. The Tamiya 1:24 Honda City came with a collapsable Honda Motorcompo (?) to put in the trunk just like the 1:1 cars. did.

Anyone here built any of these? Are they good or bad? I have seen them on Ebay but never bought one so far. 1:12 is a bit to big for my taste but I do have other largescale kits aswell so I could have these aswell.

Love Red Green Show, laughed so I fell of the chair when watching Handyman Corner. I would think that the VW bus would have side-to-side brake-steering like a skidsteer loader. I'm sure I have had a RC toy car similar to that. Maybe I should try building something like that with Hasegawas VW split-panel van and some montertruck wheels.

Now I remeber one that I have always liked, the Corvorado:

I do like the original Excalibur SS roadsters, I friend of mine has a 66 longfender one in black. Cool cars, but very far from the luxoboats that where made later by Excalibur, Zimmer and other already mentioned. The SS roadster is an open two seater with no real roof, the doors are cut down and are more like just a small flap than a door and the interior space is intimate to say the least. A 1:25 model of one of those would be cool. But the later luxoboats? Who knows, maybe I would buy them if someone made a good kit of them. A full detail kit would also give us parts to use on other things. Here is a roadster similar to the one my friend has: It is built on the chassis of a Studebaker Lark, has a Chevy SB and gearbox from a Corvette. The discbrakes are made by Dunlop and are the same type that was used on Jaguar XK140. The brakemastercylinder is a GM one. Many parts come from many different sources and bodypanels are bespoke to the car, handbuilt and will only fit that car. The grille looks like a Mercedes grille and the car is supposed to resemble a ca 1928 Mercedes SSK.

No that sure looks dirty, what have you used for mud?

Wow, they look great. I will have to get a set of those.

I just saw this one at the Bring A Trailer site: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1995-ford-f150-2/

I got both but have not built any of them yet. The Heller kit looks (just like others say) like a Heller kit. It can turn out good if one spends the time doing it right. The ICM Admiral looks like a really good kit, it is afterall a modern tooling with lots of details and parts that fit well. I have so far only been looking at it in the box and from what I can see it it is very nicely detailed

Cool to see a crewcab, maybe one can make Harry the tow truck now Sure looks good with the wheel/tire combo from the Bronco, will be nice to follow.

Whatever happened to that Styling Snafu's thread? Maybe that was on another board? Oh, what a h¤#& you guys are lucky not to be looking at just Nissan Leafs all day like I have to, today I was even overtaken by a Puke and I nearly lost control as my eyes where buring so much.

I see many kits here that I recognize (some I have owned at some point) but the only ones I can think of at the moment that I got is the Revell Super Safari VW buggy: And the Italeri DAF 2800 roadmaster where the cab is molded in green: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/144650-italeri-763-daf-2800-roadmaster Oh, another one came to my head, Bandai Ford Capri 1:20:

I got a big stepbumper in the Big Foot version of the kit that I got. I plan on using it on the 4x4 F150 Flareside project I got going so pictures off it will show up there...some day

Nice, I really like the colors

I remember that Ford Shelby concept car from back when I was replacing the desktop wallpaper on my computer several times a week. Always with a new snazy car photo from supercars.net. Now I have had the same desktop wallpaper since 2011.... I like both the vw bus and the "dentside-bronco", looks a bit like fullsize rc cars. What about the truck they drive around in in the latest episode of dirt every day, a backwards old Chevy farmtruck:

I just wanted to share my Monogram 1:24 66 GT350R in this thread. Built mostly box stock, I only added a few extra decals. Only issues I had with this kit was the front valance that was a bit fiddly to get to fit properly.

Here is one one Ebay right now, the 1983 issue of the A-team van. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1983-AMT-ERTL-The-A-team-GMC-Vandura-Van-1-25-Model-Kit-Unopened/253804516161?epid=28016798270&hash=item3b17ed9341:g:IF8AAOSwAoFbay3s Notice that it has the same Chevy grille as other versions.

Sure sounds like a plausible explanation. Anyone here got both the AMT van and other versions to comapre with?

I'm born in 1984 in a country that has always hated the automobile. I don't miss anything from the cars that I grew up with as they where all a bunch of bland econoboxes and that theme continues to this day. I do envy people older than me that grew up in a time where cars where cool and it was possible to by aftermarket stuff to make ones car even better (at least in the eyes of the owner). All you can really do today is change the wheels and even that is only halfway legal or possible with the newest cars.