Brian Austin

Nice build of the AMT kit to represent the car as it looked in the movie prior to becoming the Ectomobile. http://www.spencer1984.com/my_models/pre-ectomobile.php Someone's Flickr page with some good reference pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/37350472@N02/with/29469267498/ Sad-looking project car: http://davidsclassiccars.com/cadillac/418851-1959-cadillac-ambulance-original-condition.html

A quick search suggests that Tamiya has done an older FJ in 1:10 scale radio control.

I saw this large rendering hanging in the back of a styling model display at the Henry Ford Museum in 1988. I don't happen to know anything about the design. I always thought the squinty headlights were interesting...

Was there a similar flip earlier in the decade? 1999 seems later than what I might expect.

I think he's going for a general audience.

I wonder if casters will do a resin four-door body.

I saw an hour or two's worth last night. I had to go to bed just after the sun was coming up at the track. :-) I have no idea who might have won. I have one or two TV broadcasts from the '90s I taped on VHS. One incident involved a car going off the track straight up.

Here's another one...MAXmotive https://maxmotive.com/inventory/

https://maxmotive.com/vehicle/2018-chevrolet-silverado-custom-u0629/

I wish I had info on this one, or more pictures. I found this picture some time ago trawling Latin American sales sites for interesting vehicles. Frustratingly, the quality of photos posted with the listings can be rather poor. Many can be even worse than the one posted here. Note the rear window. This 1963 Corvair is apparently from Uruguay.

That's not the cab I was expecting to see on the ramp truck. :-)

Monogram did have a Paddy Wagon rod with a similar C-cab body, though that was among the lineup of another illustrious model designer.

There is nothing stock regarding the Foose pickup. The cab has been heavily modified, and the chassis is all modern custom components.

FWIW, there was a series of these, all designed by T.D. There was a grader, a steam shovel, a dump truck and others besides the roller. My father built the Honest Engine (steam locomotive) in the mid '70s and we still have it. Strange looking for sure, but fun. Models with a sense of humor!

From: https://www.motortrend.com/news/super-models-show-steve-magnante/ The first season of Steve Magnante's Super Models is four episodes long. In Episode 1, titled "Factory-Backed Street Racing in a '67 GTX," Magnante demonstrates the procedure for creating a scale-model replica of the Jimmy Addison Silver Bullet Plymouth GTX. The remaining episodes highlight an altered-wheelbase 1967 Chevelle SS, the Dodge Little Red Wagon wheelstander, and a 1968 Hemi Charger. We wondered how those specific models were chosen. "We needed to choose models that actually exist and are currently available," Magnante explained, "not only so that we could get a bunch of them to use for the show, but so that people watching would be able to find these models, as well. From there the question became, 'What can we do with the kit to make it more interesting than just building it out of the box?' In the case of the Jimmy Addison GTX, I knew that Revell has a wonderful model kit of the Sox & Martin 1967 GTX, and I knew that my parts box was full of parts." ====== One thing that struck me watching the episode was that it appeared to have been filmed at Steve's home, without a large TV crew. So it seemed to be a relatively easy show to produce during the current situation. Actually, it kind of reminded me of some of the YouTube channels I'd discovered during the past year or so, as their hosts were either building things or cleaning up old toy trains they found in their attic during the lockdown.

Adam Savage has a few videos of him assembling the Ectomobile kit from the Eaglemoss series on his "Tested" YouTube channel. Now there's a monster of a diecast! ? He stated that he had been stockpiling the parts sets for later, but decided during the lockdown to put some together. Honestly I'd skip the GB gear and build it as a stock ambulance or hearse, but that would be a bunch of money to throw at it. ?

Adventures In Scale Model Building (pieces of the series are on YT. Hit the YouTube logo at the lower-right for the other segments available) I seem to recall a segment involving the Johnstown Incline railway (funicular) but I don't see it among the playlist. Honestly I'm not sure how the style of this old show would play with today's audiences. But that's the thing. You have to engage a viewer that may not know much about the hobby. Steve's show may not be aimed at those of us who "know everything" so to speak about the hobby. Our hobby isn't as visible to the general public like it used to be, so any exposure is good.

My take is that whenever our hobby (or any for that matter) is portrayed on the screen as a good and wholesome activity, that's a good thing. There are plenty of movies and TV shows that depict characters who are into model cars or trains as childish or evil. Whether we agree with the host's build style or not, this is good PR. There aren't many TV shows dedicated to building models. One series I can recall was aired in the late '80s/early '90s timeframe.

It would appear someone is learning to use the 3D printing process. Perhaps in time their modeling will be more realistic.

Might as well link to another reference post:

Some sales literature. http://www.phantomcoaches.org/saleslit.html

The AMT kit is on the left.