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    Salvino’s 2021 Chase Elliott Camaro?

    in WIP: NASCAR

    Posted · Edited by MG Brown

    Salvino's JR Has announced the following today.

    More details are expected to be announced in the next 30-60 days.

    This is all that we currently know and all we are likely to find out until the above mentioned announcement.

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    It has been hinted that these are all-new tooling but that is only a rumor.

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    Let's see your TV and movie cars!

    in Model Cars

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    I am at the start of converting the Vanishing Point Challenger kit to the "Spy Guy Car" Special Agent Edition from the FX TV series "Archer". I am going to try and get as many of the "spy" accessories in the build as I can. 

    Although the car has 440+6 emblems, it appears to have a 8bbl Hemi under the hood. Not sure what engine I will put in it. Thoughts?

     

     

    Salvinos JR Monte Carlo

    in WIP: NASCAR

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    First shots of the Monte Carlo from Salvino's JR Models Facebook Page. They say there are some more details to be worked out before production. 

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    This is all I know- contact them directly if you have questions. Thank You.

    Moebius /Model king 65'Mercury Cyclone A/FX

    in Car Kit News & Reviews

    Posted

    On 8/16/2018 at 10:12 AM, Force said:

    Ford used Holley model 4160 carbs with vacuum secondaries and no choke on the FE race engines with dual carbs, the carbs are turned backwards so the distributor will fit because if you turn them the normal way the float bowl on the front carb will interfere with the distributor cap.
    So these carburetors will work nicely for your build.

    Otherwise you can use the carburetors from the AMT 1960 Starliner Custom or 2 'n 1 kits, they looks pretty good too.

    For the Injection manifold you could use one from the AMT Street Freak Mustang or similar and use aluminum tubes.

    Thank you very much for this most appreciated information.

    Moebius /Model king 65'Mercury Cyclone A/FX

    in Car Kit News & Reviews

    Posted · Edited by MG Brown

    Please forgive me if these are dumb questions- but I have done some web searching and come up without an answer.

    Since the carbs are so exposed on these engines, I am thinking that using an aftermarket resin cast carb like the ones from Fireball Modelworks might dress up the engine bay- but what carb to use?

    If building the "match racer" injected version of the Comet, what intake manifold would work best? I'm assuming that the aluminum stacks from the AMT parts pack would look good.

    Thanks in advance for any information that you can provide.

    Improving the Greenlight Bluesmobile

    in Diecast Corner

    Posted · Edited by MG Brown

    On 6/15/2018 at 3:44 PM, 57peppershaker said:

    The car is too clean out the box. Im planning on weathering mine too along with painting the interior as its too bright

    I just took out the interior (carefully) and removed the SCMODS unit on the transmission tunnel (I'm reasonably sure the Bluesmobile was not so equipped).

    I then sprayed Tamiya 'Smoke" to tone things down. We'll see how it looks after drying overnight.

    Improving the Greenlight Bluesmobile

    in Diecast Corner

    Posted · Edited by MG Brown

    I realize that I am late to the discussion- but I just got my Greenlight Bluesmobile diecast today.

    There's quite a bit that can be done to make it more realistic... but the thing that jumped out at me immediately were the WAY undersized license plates. This will not do I said to myself. So I found a company that sells 1:1 reproductions of the license plates used on the Bluesmobile and captured a high res pic from their website.

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    I pasted the photo into a document, resized it to .25" H by .50" L and printed it out on my Canon color laser printer on heavy stock light gray paper (photo paper might be better but I wanted to go for a weathered look). I carefully cut out the images with a sharp scissor, being sure to round off the corners. I attached them to the scale Bluesmobile's bumpers (the rear plate attached with a slight off center look- as seen in the "I Hate Illinois Nazis" scene) with clear contact cement and here is the result:

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    I think that looks better and I hope that you do too.

    Next mods:

    - Detail the backup lights (very obvious in several scenes).

    - Handles in the interior for the spotlight.

    - Possible weathering and 'junk' in the interior such as sunglasses, pack of cigarettes, 8-track player with "The Best of Sam and Dave" tape, etc. (if I can get to it)

    - Interior rear view mirror (again; obvious in some scenes)

    - Replacing the rear window. Yes I know at one point in the movie the car has the rear window shot out- just my preference.

    - Rust near the passenger side front door handle.

    Ollie's Bargain Outlet deals

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted · Edited by MG Brown

    I'm sure that it is not news to the majority of people reading this forum that Ollie's Bargain Outlet stores are closing out a large inventory of Lindberg plastic model kits. Many Lindberg kits are on offer (cars, aircraft, space, naval, police-fire, dinosaurs) apparently with different inventories by store. I have visited stores in Indiana, Michigan and Georgia and each had a different selection of kits.

    The kits that I was the most interested in were the Dodge 330 Super stock 'Maverick' and 'Ramchargers' which were selling for $7.99. I did snag a few because I felt that at that price having them around for spare parts was certainly worth the cost.

    Earlier in this week I visited an Ollie's that I hadn't been to before and bought the Lindberg Mercedes-Benz SSK and Bugatti Royale classic kits. I bought them more out of curiousity than anything. I will be the first to admit that I am not a classic car buff- kits of cars from the muscle car era are what attract me.

    Just from a brief look in the boxes and at the 'trees', these look to be very good kits. The Mercedes-Benz SSK (for example) has no less than 4 trees of 'chrome' plated parts and a set of nicely molded tires with whitewall inserts. Both kits have the bodies molded in white plastic instead of the colored plastic which can sometimes be difficult to work with.

    I haven't started building either of them so I can't speak to the ease or difficulty of assembly or how they look when finished. The general opinion on the forums is that if you take care in building, these kits can end up very attractive looking.

    At the prices these kits are being offered they might be right for a club group build or for young modelers to start with. Perhaps if you are in a modeling slump, building one of these classic kits might be the cure.

    As I say- each store that I have visited so far seems to have a different stock of kits. I do not know how many they have in a warehouse somewhere or if the stores might get a restock, possibly with different kits.

    As someone mentioned Ollie's also has spray cans of Duplicolor 2X paints at bargain prices. Stash a few cans of basic colors (IE: black, white, silver) for your upcoming builds.

    If you are unfamiliar with Ollie's they have a 'store finder' on their website to see if there is a store near you. Other than the kits they have general closeout merchandise similar to Big Lots or Dollar Tree stores.

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