TarheelRick

I looked for many years trying to find the chopped top glass and finally found a couple of them at a model show/swap meet. Now if I could just find a complete set of the stylized custom pieces I would be in hog heaven. EDIT: PM sent

Plastic spoons can also be cut and made into fender flares.

Yep, forgot about the space vacuum. Thanks for clearing that up.

Yeah, I miss that ability to develop and print my own B/W pictures. Haven't used my film camera in a while. It was having some issues, the internal mirror would occasionally stick and I think it may have a small light leak around the film door. I checked with every camera shop (remember those?) to see about getting it repaired and they all tried to sell me a new digital camera. I contacted the manufacturer and got the same run around. So now I have a formerly great film camera with a good selection of lenses, which is collecting age in a box in my basement.

I use Duplicolor primers but have a devil of a time with their colors. My issue is with the nozzles, they seem to spray too much paint which quickly overwhelms the detail of the body. Last two times I tried I also got runs. Maybe I am behind the learning curve on these, but I think it would be easier to decant and run through an airbrush.

Really nice build and excellent photography. I have never really been a Star Trek fan, something about Captain Kirk's overacting turned me off. So I have one question about this starship. Was there a radome to cover the antenna on the forward underneath pod? Not really sure how aerodynamic that open dish would be at warp speed, nor how well it would hold up at that speed. Just a thought about the technical issues of this ship and in no way detracting from your excellent build.

That beast is way over the top. Excellent workmanship and creativity. Who would have thought of an Audi chassis in a '58 land barge Chevy? My hat is off to you, two thumbs up. Beautiful paint job, also.

Beautiful Sunliner. I also have one in the works, it is on it's third paint job , and heading for its fourth repaint - on the way to the dehydrator a gnat landed on the rear fender. As you, I did not wire the engine, I am building this one box stock even using the funky wire wheels.

Beautiful model and I like the way it is displayed. For the MIG, just crumple a piece of paper and lay it below the F-86, should be a fairly accurate diorama.

Very creative concept. I have one of these complete roofs in the parts box, and your build is giving me some ideas of how to use it. Looking forward to updates.

I am working on a Dodge Magnum SRT8 RPU

I saw this movie in an "outdoor theater", not a drive-in. I was in Thailand in '71-72 and one of our base theaters was outside. Anyway, I remember during the chase scene I was leaning in my seat as the cars swerved and on a couple of occasions I felt my self pressing into the seat as if I had just landed a jump. Beautiful experience, have watched it several times since but have never felt those sensations.

Love these old lead sleds so will be watching this revival. I like the looks of that forward hinging hood, do you have some better pictures of how you did it?

Don't know what you said, but I am glad you said it - that means I am pretty much computer illiterate. Also glad to hear you are recovering. I'm sure there will be some grumbling along the way, yet the finished product will be worth the wait.

Way cool early 50's style show rod before "show rods" got out of hand.

Going to be an interesting project to watch. While in the USAF many years ago I worked on T-28 trainers, they were radial powered. There is nothing that sounds the same as these engines. Similar to a Harley, their sound is very distinct. Enough nostalgia, let's see some updates.

9 up 19 from left, yep.

Thanks to hurricanes Florence and Michael I now have to spend another $4000 + (guesstimate) on getting my basement waterproofed. For many years one particular corner of my basement had been leaking when it rained. I finally broke down and had a company come in and fix the problem. They only did the east and north walls at my request (stupidity). We had never had problems with the south wall area leaking. The aforementioned hurricanes changed that. These walls are the ones I have my shelving for my models (they did not get wet - whew), all the shelves screwed to the wall for my power tools and other basement stuff, one corner is where my model working area table, etc. is located, and the other corner is where my heat pump is located. I called the company on Friday and they have not returned my call; I was on hold for more than 8 minutes before speaking to anyone, so I am sure they are going to be quite busy. They did an excellent job on the part they finished. One small light in all this is that I have already paid for the sump pump system and dehydrator so the only cost will be trenching out the concrete and installing the drain tubes, still not very cheap.

I think it might look pretty good although it would have been better using a lighter background. I think I detect a two-tone on the roof and hood.

It appears to me there are a few members here who believe they know everything about everything and are not open to the idea others may also have a bit of experience in the topic. I grew up in the early 60's as a complete motorhead. I do remember some nose-high (a relative term) drag cars, some that come to mind are the Chevrolets of Sox & Martin and Don Nicholson. The early magazines also ran articles on Gassers and some of them did have a somewhat nose-high attitude. Just to add a bit of trivia, some of the nose-high cars are optical illusions. If you put a straight axle under the nose of a tri-five Chevrolet it will normally have a bit of a nose-lift, if you then remove the bumper and grille, it will have a more pronounced look of being nose-high and it will be a bit higher from the loss of weight of the bumper and grille. All this being said to maybe get some of the harsh antagonism out of posts. And yes facts are facts, but it appears some are more unwilling to accept the FACT their facts may not be 100% accurate factually.

Quite often they will reprice them and put them on the "Clearance" shelf. I picked up a Revell T-bucket w/trailer for $7.49 at the local H/L, it was only missing the T-bucket - very nice parts kit for little money. Although not very common at Hobby Lobby I find this quite often at our local Michael's and A C Moore. At those stores when I find an opened kit I will take a glance at it and make the store manager an offer. I have picked up a complete Revell '69 Charger for 60% off, but I also got what looked like only missing tires '70 Chevelle for 50% off and when I got it home it was also missing the chrome tree and the major engine pieces. Pilferage has been a problem for many years, that is one of the mitigating factors that caused Rose's stores to stop carrying models and I will wager it also had some input as to Wal-Mart's decision.

On all the pictures Steve posted, at least the ones noticeable, it appears as if the engines may be a bit lowered in the chassis, thus meeting the 24" rule. I like gassers either way, nose high or level. To me they were the ultimate drag racing machine affordable by the masses of racers. What I don't really care for are the slew of altered wheelbase cars called gassers, when that is a definite taboo in the gasser ranks.

The most annoying to me is Dick Vitale, sports "announcer" for college basketball, all too often when my UNC Tarheels are playing. I used to turn the sound off and listen to the radio, but I discovered many times I was watching a different game than they were.

I used some on a car trailer I build several years ago and it look pretty good.

Nice save. Since I am not much of a MOPAR fan I didn't realize this year Roadrunner existed. Still a nice clean build.