Atmobil

This is my latest finished model, finished it on Monday but was not able to take pics before today. Painted in gold as base (over red primer) with clear orange and clearcoat on top. Built pretty much out of the box. The interior was painted according to the instructions (or as near as I could get as I don't have Mr Color paints but Humbrol). Very nice decals for the instruments come with the kit. This is a very good kit, not much flash or moldlines. Had an accident when istalling the bed. It is quite tight and the back part is over the edge of the bed and the front is under the roof so you need to bend the body to make it fit and I pushed bit to hard when trying to fit it and the paint on the B-pillars cracked. I found some decals to put over it. Also made a mistake when painting the taillights as I managed to paint the wrong part orange (the orange bit is supposed to be on top) so I guess it is a wise thing to take care that one has the correct orientation on the parts before painting. Built it as a semicustom, restored in recent years and modified with lowered suspension and special paint. The paint got a bit to thick so the small edge for the tiny chrometrim in the windshieldrubber dissapered. So only black windowtrim on this. Selected the full chrome frontbumer and mirrors that come with the kit but is marked as not to be used in the instructions. Found some English plates to use on this. Not sure if they where ever sold in England but this could have been imported at a later time. Only modification from the out of the box model is that I made my own aluminium plates to stick the registrationdecals on as the kitsupplied ones are quite thick. But all in all, a very good kit and I built it faster (just 1 month) than I have built any other models since my son was born two years ago. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/Atmobil/1979NissanSunnyGB121/IMG_5660.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/Atmobil/1979NissanSunnyGB121/IMG_5579_cropped.jpg

I think the hardtop can possibly be scratchbuilt or possibly cast in resin quite simply (at least if one does the sides and top separate)

I got the latest reissue, from last year or something like that. Can be built stock aswell as custom. Looks like a very good kit.

I see that others are also posting team trucks. I built the AMT C900 tractor as a JPS team truck, got plans for the AMT City Transporter trailer to go behind it but that has been a WIP for 3 years now Started this build in 2010 and finished it in 2011. Had to strip and repaint the cab 3 or 4 times as the paint bled under the maskingtape and also the paint came off with the tape at some point. But I did finish it at last. Put some interior details in it, maps, magazines and a sleepingbag and lunchbox. Made a roofrack for it. The fit on this kit was not very good. Had to use my Dremel to take out material to get the interior and the glass to fit without sticking out under the bottom of the cab. The last picture show the trailer that will one day fit behind this.

This is an old Imai/Aoshima kit. A bit simple and not perfect but as a quickbuild it is nice. Built straight from the box, built in 2011 or 2012 I think. As you can see in the picture of the underside this is a very simplified kit.

This model I built from Revells old 1:25 68 Beetle (this was the 90s 60s beetle issue with flowerpower decals) prettymuch out of the box. Got the wheels from different soruces, don't remember where the tires came from but the rims are from AMTs partspack. Modified the rollcage with parts from two of these kits (I got several of them), the molded in flared wheelarches where sanded down to a stock look. Raised the suspension a littlebit both front and rear. Fitted it with the skidpans front and rear that comes in the kit. Bucketseats are from some other source, meybe they was in the dragversion. Don't remember exactly. Windownet is from a bugnet that you buy on rolls to be fitted inside of windows in your house to keep the bugs out in the summertime. Anyway, painted green and with partsbox decals and some wheathering for the effect of a car that comes out of the desert.

This is Italeris Superliner with a resin daycabconversion and aftermarket photoetched emblems. I scratchbuilt the dumperbody and used parts from the scrapbox for the cylinder and hingemechanism. Finished this in 2012. This was my first time using photoetch so the MACK letters on the front are a little croocked. The second to last pic is before it was finished. It is the only one I have that shows the bed raised.

Cool!! I got a parts of an old gluebomb but not being complete I have not been able to restore it. Will buy this one

Not really sure if this qualifies it a as a girls car globaly but I guy I know was buying cars with faults and fixing them up and selling them with a little profit some years ago. When he bought, fixed and tried to sell a Mercedes SLK the only calls he got was from female laywers and it was sold to a woman that was working as a laywer in the end aswell. The car he did up before the SLK was an Audi TT and on that one he got calls from guys only. So, is the SLK a girly car?

Here is a picture of the Doyusha mk1 Capri 2000GT that I built some years ago. Never took pictures after it was done but it is not a very good kit. I think it is to big and it does not have a good interior as it is very shalow. The window/glass part does not fit properly in the body and the tires that came in the kit are BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH (I used tires from AMT 67 Impala) I would have bought a Baja/Sand Scorcher version of the Tamiay 66 if it came out now but how popular it would be globaly I don't know. Was Colombo popular when it was on tv in the 70s? If so, the Peugeot 403 convertible he drives would be a great kit. Other TV connections could be Ferrari Dino and Aston DBS from The Persuaders, some of you may have read about the Aston that was sold at auction not long ago: http://www.bonhams.com/press_release/16573/ AMT did the 71 Duster, how about a conversion to Al Bundys "Dodge"? It was a 72 Duster, I plan on bulding a model, got resin dash and grille and taillights.

Yeah, I guess that like most of the old promos they have almost all of them warped beyond repair. To bad as the Rekord P1 was a popular car here when they was new. My fathers first car was a Rekord P2 wich was the one that replaced the P1. Here is a picture of one I took in 2008, also beyond repair I'm afraid.

Thank you for the links. I got out the 64 and tried the 72 cab on the chassis. Looks like it fits very well, so I guess I will buy another of the 64/65 kits to use that. Needs to be stretched abit to fit the longer bed but this looks to be a easier way than to to it than than modifying the Blazer frame.

In this thread there is pictures of the kitcontents of the Italeri Land Cruiser. Looks pretty much the same as my Esci Phillipines taxi version expept the hard top, funky decals and chrome horses. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53031

Thanks a lot for the tips there. I have seen that film before, infact I downloaded it from the website that you can see on it and have played it in ultraslowmotion in my vlc player to look for references on how the USFS pickups where equipped in the mid 60s. Here is some pictures of the chassis for the 64, is this very different for 67-72? On this one I used the differential for the frontaxle from Tamiyas Jaguar mkII, as it was what I had at the time that looked most like what was on the 1:1 cars I used as referance. The springs comes from unknown kitsuspensions from the scrapbox and the centediff was scartchbuilt with a part from a Italeri truck kit (I think) and some putty.

I too some new pictures of my kit, it has glass and interior but none of them fit the body anymore. Here is the contents of the kit, not many parts. And here is the instructions One of the montingtabs for the cahssis had broken, I superglued it in place and here you can see the glass in the body. There is supposed to be a monting tab at the front also to fix the glass and interior in place but it is missing. Windows don't fit. And with the interior in place, that doesn't fit either. And I tried to see if the chassis would fit....no it does not.

I don't think the Gordini has ever been issued by Esci, looks to be some other logo on the box and also has Japanese writing on it. Reminds of Unions boxes. I belive that the Italeri Land Cruiser is a reissue of the old Esci kit and it is only the boxart that fools us into beliving that it is a SWB kit. I think that you have to modify it into a SWB if you want one.

I have not looked trough all of the 42 pages of this thread but has anyone posted this before? It os 1:25 scale (1:25ish anyway) and like many old promos made in acetat plastic so like so many old promos it has wapred beoynd repair. Very simple kit, apparently sold by the Buick dealers (that also sold Opel in the states). I got if of Ebay some years ago. Don't remember what I paid for it but who cares about the price anyway

I did look at this "gem" of a Mercedes from Sharp when we was at a modelingshow in Sweden last year. It is truly bad, I'm interested in one but only because I own a 1:1 Mercedes /8, a 1975 240D and to be honest, if I had bought it I would never have built it. Here is some pictures of the contents: They seller wanted 1000 swedish Kroner for it, quite a lot when other kits I bought there was Revells Ice Patrol Chevy pickup with snowmobile and also Revells 1:16 Chevy stepside with motocrossbike called Mountain Cruiser. These where 400 swedish kroner each. According to the online currency calculator 1000 Swedish kroner is 133USD at the moment. I have seen more expensive kits but they have also looked more like what they are supposed to look like.

I wouldn't happen to be this kit that Higgins was building on in the Magnum P.I. series? I remember he was building the bridge over the river Kwai apparently because he was there when the real thing happend. I belive our hero Thomas managed to destroy the model at one point, maybe because he was chased by the lads?

I think that AMT kits in Esci boxes may have been made for certian markets (Italy maybe) because it was a more wellknown brand than AMT. I do know that you guys in the states got a lot of kits with Entex logos on that often was kits with different origins (Japanese makers like Bandai and such). Maybe it's the same thing with Esci/Amt kits? I remembered that I actually got one more Esci kit, a BMW 320 (E21) group 5 race car with Carling Black Label decals. I also have a tamiya kit of the same type of car but that is not the same kit. Tamiyas (with First National City travelers Check and BMW North America livery) kit is simpler in the chassis design as it it designed to be motorized. The Tamiya kit also has quad headlamp grille (like on the higher end 323i) and the Esci kit got the simpler grille of the 316, 318.

I got the black box with red car on that was sold at Ford dealerships (box contains no Esci markings, onlu Fords blue oval) and yes it looks like a decent kit and I could have wanted more of them. Same contents in the red box as the others except the decals. I did make a sugestion on the Share your dream Revell site: http://ideas.revell.de/ideas/item/5257/ in case Revell has the rights to the molds. The kit depicts a 1984 model, don't remember exactly what was special but I think that there where some differences between the years and this one is 84 only. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Transit

Hehe, thank you very much

I think one can build a standard range rover out of it if one cuts out the areas where the windows should be. To bad they did not do the same as the Paris Dakar version of the G-wagen. That one had separate bits to be put into the window holes and all the stock parts in the box aswell as the paris-dakar bits.

Congratulations I remember how it was, being roadlegal at last. It was really great. Just remember to be carefull, I also remember how it is to be a fresh out of the box driver

I have quite a few of the Esci kits, the Mercedes 190E, 190E 2.3-16 aswell as the crystal version (in my eyes that is just stupid as the rest of the parts are not clear) and a dutch police version of the 190E (only differnce to the ordinary 190E is decals and a blue light for the roof). The 190E was also re-released in the same period by Revell Germany as a Kamei X1 kit, with extra bodystyling bits. I also have the Mercedes 450 SLC (W107), Mercedes G-wagen (also re-released by Italeri and Revell later), 1984 Ford Transit (have gotten rare and expensive to find), Land Rover series III 109" (also rereleased by Italeri a few years ago) early two door Range Rover (rereleased by Italeri a few years ago in a Paris Dakar version), Toyota Land cruiser (was very expensive a few years ago, saw one on Ebay go for 236$, but has been rereleased by Italeri and can be foudn quite cheap I think), Renault 5 Alpine (planning on using bits from the new Renault 4 two make a standard looking R5) and a 1:32 Volvo F12 truck that is a snap kit but still quite well detailed. Common to all these kits are that they are quite well detailed but not up to modern kit standards. The Meredes 190E, SLC and Renault 5 has engines and I think you can get fairly nice detail out of them with research and work. The SUVs (G-wagen, Ranger Rover, Land Rover, Land Cruiser) and the Transit have no engines but are still very nice kits. Well detailed chassis and and suspensions. I built the G-wagen and the Land Rover and as I remember they went togheter without much problems. A mate of mine built the CJ7 and he claims it to maybe be the best CJ7 kit out there even if it has no engine. Here is a couple of pics of the 1:32 Volvo F12. Not painted and without headlightlences, only put togheter. And here is a few of the Land Rover, never got pictures of it finished as it was going in to a diorama that I never really got around to. And here is the 230G I also saw pictures of the BMW M1 some time ago and it looked nice. I think that one can possibly compare the Esci kits to the MPC kits of the late 80s. Not quite Tamiya in quality but still not bad. They also had some interesting subjects in their lineup.