Joe Handley

You're right, that does sound good Dang it, now I'm hungry Beautiful work Gramps, now I just have to wait till I work with the same kid again to show him how it turned out!

Just showed the hood to a couple co-workers, one of them thought it was for a real car!

I started building this back in '95 or '96 and it got put away, it's AMT's '64 Impala with the chassis from the '62 BelAir, TPI form Monograms Monte Carlo SS, and wheels from Aoshima, guess it's was going to be a little ahead of it's time

IIRC the stock trim was going to stay, but I was thinking about the stock "skirts" and the kit's Baby Moons with hand painted wide whites. I have been thinking of Flaming Orange, Ice Blue or Pearl White on this one too....maybe both with the blue on top. I did have a co-worker suggest putting Electric Pink on the upper half, but I don't think that will happen

Don't even want to think of how many I've had that happen to, usually it's some kind of custom that I botched in some way and can't think of a way out of it other than make it a parts kit. The chopped '49 Merc that's posted in "On the Workbench" is one of them because of an issue with the plastic's reaction to excessive amounts of that putty being applied. I got frustrated and put it away hoping that the plastic would re-solidify to the point it could be saned again.......and forgot about it until yesterday

For me it's the front side marker and trim (too big and well defined) and the hydrolic piston for the D/S door.

Thanks guys, I appreciate the good words! It looked like the plastic has stabilized enough that I can now start sanding it again. Been trying to remember what I was doing for the window openings, I'm thinking I was going to glue in some strip over the top portion as a bit of a flair over the top of the opening (kinda like making a fender flare, if that makes sense ) With any luck this will be a bit of a head scratcher once the primer is on it and the surgical scars are covered since the pillars aren't technically cut down at all Anybody else think that some of the new Model Master and Testor's lacquers would look really good on this car too?

I found this AMT Merc that I started chopping a few years back and put away when the chemicals in Squadron Green Putty turned the roof and windshield opening to rubber when I put too much on without realising that would happen. What I did is chop the part of the roof that is directly above windshield then cut the body above and below the C-Pillar and back window then leaned the whole roof forward, which required removing the B-Pillar as well. Thought I'd take pics of it after findind it while looking for kits to get rid of and post them here to see what you guys though. What do you guys think?

Real, but that left rear looks really screwed up

I've seen the 1/16 Traxxas stuff run and would love to get my mits on one of the Mini-E-Revo's but I've been working on getting my Losi Comp Crawler running and my Axial AX10 that I was competing with swapped over onto a SCX10 chassis, so what little money I've had to spend lately are going into those. I ran the LCC at the SCRC comp at Illinois State Beach Park in Zion, IL a couple weeks back and tied with another LCC owner for 4th place. Amazing part was both trucks were being run in their first comps, on a difficult course (sand and rock not dirt or clay) that neither one of us (as well as about 90% of the competitors there) ever ran before. Here's the two trucks; Here's the Axial, it's eventually going to be getting one of the HPI Wrangler Rubicon bodies And here's an early pic of the Losi, I've since swapped over to Losi's Rock Carver Tires with memory foams up front and added about 17oz of weights to the rims (10 up front and 7 out back) and a Trinity Monster Maxx 21t 550 motor.

Those look alot like the "Fitipaldi" rims that the Stealth R/T kits from AMT came with too.

CRIPES! Good thing he had on a helmet

Hmmmm................Rust, Natures own Lightening Holes! Cool build!

Nice, looks like one quick little grocery getter!

Considering how tall Obama is, that should give that limo at least the same roof height as an unlifted Jeep Cherokee like mine if not more

We've had a few engines come in like that, especially the early 2.5's, but this it the first one I've seen where the rod actually split on the wrist pin and punched through the top of the piston.

Why not, I've seen a Ford Festiva R/T with VTEC and a Grand Caravan Sport Si

Apparently this one sounded a bit like a V-Twin when he fired it for the first time after getting it back from this shop. The guy who ran that shop called the one I work for asking if the guy was telling the truth because he was trying to get a new engine for his truck from this shop because of this. Sounded like from now on he will be shopping with my store from here out for his hobby needs. I was just showing a carnage pic here, figured that even though it was RC related, there might be a few good stories in 1:1 and smaller scales that would match this pic

x2 on shaving it, laughed my butt off on the Chevette emblem idea though

We never pulled the motor apart, the guy is probably going to exchange it for a new 3.3

Yup, I resent the pic tonight too David, I think the crank finally stopped turning when the big end of the rod got near the wrist pin.

Had a customer bring in a 3.3 Revo that had just been tuned by another area hobby shop and it quit shortly after he got the truck home and started driving it For some reason the piston got stuck half way up the sleeve on the compression stroke (Dad thinks it was run HOT sometime very recently, most likely by the guy who "tuned" it for this customer) and the crank and rod kept going. The rod split length wise in two after getting shoved into the wrist pin and continued it's path through the top of the piston before the rod and crank finally stopped just short of the head and plug!

Real, the rolling stock and flags do look "funny" though.

Or the Corgi figures also for the Goldeneye movie too?

That is going to be sweet when you're done with it