Dave Darby

Hi Alan, I have no idea how I missed this thread. You and the other posters have put some really cool Deuces on display. Since you since mentioned my corrupting you into building one of your "faux-vivors" as we call them on the Survivors group, I guess I could share a few of mine. The 4 in the center are my builds, bookended by some survivors on the Vintage Workbench. A better view of the Vintage Workbench, with a few more survivors, and my black full fendered Deuce Coupe. And a greenish yellow survivor clove. Here is my box art coupe, which is far from box stock. Build notes here: I'll go out on a a short limb and guess this is the build Alan is referring to... Clone Clone and survivor...

Beautiful day 2 Shelby.

That color scheme conbined with your excellent craftsmanship nails it all day long. I love this thing!

Righteous. Love that fiddly Jim Keeler perfect scale fidelity. You did it proud.

Sorry Gary. I don't like it. I love it! Gawgeous!

I like your thinking. The 36 is certainly feasible. The 34 saw a good deal of modification to create the ZZ Top Eliminator and the Thom Taylor Cabriolet. So much less likely. Then again, if Round 2 can do it, Revell GMX can as well. But would they...?

Well, it seems to have worked with 63 Nova Wagon.

Not so much the love of money as the love of power and control.

The cabriolet parts would be in the Coupe tool. Wasn't that SSP issue somewhere around 1995?

You were fairly close. Anthony Hazelaar http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/tonhazelaar/wwwhome/34-towtruck.html

I fully agree. I don't think anyone has ever matched Jim Keeler's level of detail and scale fidelity. Never mind the ejector pins. If I need plating I always have my trusty Molotow markers.

I'd love to see some of that Heller stuff come back. Like the Matra / Brabham F1 set.

Well now they're working. Maybe my work server has imgbb blocked. Wicked cool phaeton.

Way cool. I wish Round 2 would either find the tool, or otherwise recreate Hot Curl. https://surfsimply.com/surf-culture/the-legend-of-hot-curl/ https://www.lajollalight.com/lifestyle/outdoors/sd-cm-ljl-hot-curl-20190425-htmlstory.html

Back in the day, those cars were considered ugly ducklings, but you turned it into a beautiful swan. So I have to ask, what did you paint it with? The color looks familiar.

Hey Bernard, looks like your photo links are all broken. The build sounds awesome. Any chance you could repair the links? I'd love to see it. I know one of the admins (Dave Ambrose) can give you editing abilities, because I fixed some broken links on some of my old posts.

These look great! I actually built a 64 Galaxie in the same color about 30 years ago. Only difference was mine had a white roof, and a black interior. I cut the front seats out and spent a long tedious time adding very thinly trimmed Bare Metal foil to the seats for piping. Got in a fix about 15 years ago and sold it on ebay. Love the Revell Lancer, the 57 looks stellar, and the Nova is just plain bitchin.

Any word on a release date?

Those were available into the 1990s. I used some of those when I was building box art models for AMT/Ertl from 1990 to 1995, and buying them at WalMart. Never hurts to revive an old thread, right?

I think they were also using ABS plastic for promos.

That isn't styrene, as what you have here is a promo model. The kit version has an opening hood, and is molded in styrene.

I haven't built the MPC kit, but if it's anything like the AMT kits, the windshield frame mounts from the inside, and is sandwiched between the cowl and the windshield glass. The squarish frame is for the phaeton, and the shorter grill shell is a custom 29 Model A shell; a curious option that's been around pretty much the entire lifespan of that kit.

Sonofagun that's cool!

Man, that is lovely... What paint is that on there?

Cool box art, does this one have 4WD front axle?