fairlane1320
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The story of my life. I don't know (and don't want to) how many unfinished projects I have.
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On 4/2/2018 at 2:20 PM, Muncie said:
Is that Competition Resins? Their web page has always looked kind of old - haven't heard that they were done. Always had good service. Competition Resins products are also available from Slixx Decals.
I have not had good service. I bought two teardrop hoods for AMT '65 Mustangs. They were both undersize. Here's their response....
"I checked those hoods out and you are right, they are narrow
The master fits, just made a new mold for those, don't know how I got
so much shrinkage on the new mold. Most of the hood I do are a bit larger
for a better fit. I'll take me a few weeks to make a new mold
or you can try to add a piece of strip plastic to the side."
So I asked for new hoods, and never got another response, or new hoods. I'll never buy from them again.
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Great work! How did you make the bales of hay?
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On 3/10/2018 at 9:46 PM, Curt said:
Very clever work on the accessories, Ron. This is an impressive project!
Thx Curt!
More progress.....the front wall "glass" is installed, and the Zephyr letters are done.
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Thanks for the post, I'll be ordering one asap. I'm thinking Dirty Harry...
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I decided the station needed a candy machine, so I threw one together today. I found a photo of a vintage candy dispenser, added my fav candy bars and printed it out on photo paper.
Next I made a simple plastic box and glued the images on. I used brass rod for the legs.
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On 1/19/2018 at 9:49 AM, Eshaver said:
This one was in Miami, next to the Tropicaire Drive-In.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/16525/photos
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32 minutes ago, crazyjim said:
Very nice. I would have left the lid up in the men's room.
I thought about it. But, it seems like no one bothers to lift the seat on public johns.
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Thx guys
I received the toilets and sinks from Scale Equipment. They are very nice, and come with everything shown here.
I did some measuring and found the toilets are slightly undersized; the sinks are way too big. So I "resized" the sinks to fit the tiny bathrooms.
Here's the finished women's toilet. I glued a piece of clear plastic in with Elmers glue to simulate water.
For a look at the "realistic" gas station men's toilet (not for the easily offended!), click here........
http://public.fotki.com/fordflashback/dioramas/gas-station-1/1520210354476.html
And the attendant's uniform is getting some detailing too....
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Around 1979 one of my brothers bought a '66 Special with a 300 V8. Just like this one, except for the cool wheels. I need to find a Skylark kit to build a replica. Was the 300 a nailhead?
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WOW that's freakin' cool!!
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More progress on the station.....
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I've played around with some of the Motormax 69s. Good cheap fun!
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23 hours ago, Jhedir6 said:
Is it safe to assume "55,00 EUR" is 55 Euros?
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On 2/15/2018 at 6:08 PM, Can-Con said:
Here's one I did on commission a few years ago.
Not a hard kit to build, pretty strait forward. I did swap out the engine on this one and add some extra details to the engine bay as the 1/1 had a small block and the kit only has a small block. IIRC, I shaved off the emblems as they didn't match what was on the 1/1. The tires are from another kit. Probably did a few other things I can't recall right now, it was over 10 years ago when I built it.
I have an original built-up too and there's a few more differences than Mark mentioned. The biggest being the glass parts. The current issue has separate windshield and rear window. The original had a 1-peice glass with the windshield, back and side glass all as one part, similar to what you'd get in many Japanese kits today. The stock rally wheels [shown on my build] are much wider now than the original. Also the front metal axle was replaced with shorter plastic pins and corresponding wheel backs.
The seats are new with slightly wider pleats and the front ones are 2-peice with headrests now. The originals were one-peice with no headrests.
There's probably more differences but that's the most noticeable ones to me.
WOW! very very nice!
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On 2/15/2018 at 11:40 AM, Mark said:
It can be produced as either. The original annual GT fastback kit became the Stocker. That kit had the Cobra grille/bumper from the one-shot coupe/convertible kit. AMT (the original company) took some shortcuts with that kit compared to other Modified Stockers. They removed the molded-in exhaust from the chassis, wiped the door panel detail from the interior bucket, but didn't remove the windshield wiper detail or other emblems from the body. All they did was whack the wheel openings out.
Ertl did some remedial work including new body side "slides" for the tool, which put the wheel openings back to stock. They also scratched some door panel detail back into the interior, and created separate pieces to put a stock exhaust system back in the kit. Someone had the Modified Stocker produced as a one-shot deal about fifteen years ago, and RC2 (not Round 2) ran the stock version again after that, so apparently it can be produced as either version. There aren't as many differences between the two as you'd think: the main one would be the wheel openings on the body.
Thanks Mark, good info. I was hoping to see the GT reissued some day.
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This kit has the cool tall Mercury valve covers. I have a set on my 1:1 Fairlane.
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Is there any chance this kit will ever be reissued/updated?
Or was the tooling changed to produce the Modified Stocker?
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4 minutes ago, Mark said:
Yes, it has two engines/transmissions as the previous Round 2 issue did.
Cool THX!
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Does the lastest reissue of the AMT 1960 Starliner come with the factory cast iron headers?
Thx!
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Where can I order one?
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So I've finally got some Zephyr decals made, time to get the station back on the bench.
Not to hijack ismaelg;s thread, What's YOUR 1;1 Dream car ?
in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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There's so many, it varies day to day. Today it's this............