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Working on this one as well as the Zundapp. Made some progress on the engine this thing is tiny considering this is a 750 and the Zundapp 800, not a lot of difference, this one is a lot smaller. These pics on my laptop are 10 or 20 times the actual size it is about the size of my thumbnail

Thanks. Engines done it's a bit hard to photo as it is the size of a US penny. Starting the wheels now each one is 8 parts that make a sandwich (5 wheel/tire slices, 2 photo etch spokes, 1 hub) the engine was actually 15 parts

There are just so many things you can go with this kit. My 1:1 has the six it cane with, the 396, later on we dropped a 302 in it. You could change an engine in an afternoon and drive it that night

Actually I think most of these new “super cars” have a sameness about them I don’t find them all that attractive

We lost our favorite one a little over a year ago the black and white one. Still have some the tiger loves to sit on my lap when I am trying to work. For some unknown reason, maybe because I found her outside starving and nursed her back to health, she just worships me. Most of the rest ignore me except at feeding time or when they want to take a casual stroll through my workbench.

Sweet

But swapping engines in the 1:1 cars was almost as easy as it is in the models. You can run practically any combination of anything and it works

For myself I would probably go with this one. It isn’t the best of kits but it is my favorite Duesenberg kitted

Interesting. I wasn’t so much thinking of building the same one over and over but if you only had one left to build.

That Mercedes is just a beautiful car

Honestly even at these prices it would be hard to make a living at it. Using the 100 hour benchmark and $1,300 price at 50 hours a week that would be $750 a week minus eBay/PayPal fees do say $700. Then pay expenses, kit, paint, etc, and even before you begin to pay taxes your down another $25 per week. it would be a good supplemental retirement income though

If you could only have one 1/24 or 1/25 scale kit to build which one would it be and why? Subject matter? Accuracy? Level of detail? Quality of Molding? Ease of construction? Or a combination of these?

I used to have a 65 Chevelle six cylinder bench seat someone had tricked it out with mag wheels and painted "Big Six" on it I put a 396 in it muncie 4 speed hurst super shifter 12 bolt posi 4:88 gears holley 800 double pumper edelbrock manifold the shifter barely cleared the bench, you could cover it with a jacket, and a quick glance inside showed the column mounted shifted that wasn't connected to anything had these neat Y pipes mounted in controlled by choke cables under the dash, pulled them back and the flames bypassed the mufflers and came out just past the headers and right under the front of the doors yup is was fun to drive and looked nothing like what it was it was a true sleeper

I agree that caddy looks a little off. I was never a fan of the 59 but this one it’s hard to tell front from back

Don’t need the decals mine was all black with no trim. Gold snowflake wheels Radial TA tires. I had headers not the stock exhaust and the custom intake manifold.

1 to 1 for brushing?

Zundapp was a major German manufacturer in the 1930's as far as I know this was strictly their own design. I don't know what it weighed but with the pressed steel frame and 4 cylinder with a shaft drive it was fairly advanced for it's time. I made some progress on the engine shown on a US Penny for scale. Not super happy with the plug wires but I will live with them still need to do some detail painting

Just scan though the posts here almost every page of under glass or on the workbench has at least one variation of a 32 from Vicky to roadster to 3 or 5 window coupe. Stock, chopped, hot rod, salt flat, and on and on if it isn’t the most kitted, and I would bet it is, it is definitely the most modeled

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Cobra_(1986) nicely done

With an asking price of $275,000 it isn’t like your too worried about driving it to get groceries

Then you get cars like this which are just art

We had one that looked similar when I was a kid. Briggs and Stratton motor the throttle was wired open as we didn’t have the cable and if I remember you stopped it by leaning down and yanking the spark plug wire off or something

1932 Ford?

Started this one as well it is a shaft driven opposed 4 cylinder motorcycle circa 1938. I am doing a civilian version my hope is to make it look like the one in the third photo below

Nice brings back memories