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waynehulsey

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  1. Been wanting to try those. Think I actually bought the Tamiya ones at a swap meet but can't find them. Maybe first I should do some desk-workbench cleaning and organizing.
  2. Can see were he's coming from. Sometimes when I post a set of photos from a show or museum and no one says anything, I get a little disappointed. But if I see 50 or 60 people have looked at them, I go mission accomplished since the main purpose was to get them out there so someone might find some reference they can use. Plus I know I look at some posts and don't see any reason to make a comment; or even sometimes if it might be considered as a negative I just keep my mouth shut (unless its to correct what I consider wrong info). That doesn't apply to rat rods, but I try just not to even look at them.
  3. Cool, what type of pencils (or graphite sticks) were you using?
  4. Was wondering were you would fit the Charger III body in. When he ran OCIR in 70 or 71 (brain gets a little fuzzy on some of those dates now) he had a Maverick (really ugly) body on it, but his handout sheet that I still have was the Charger III. Was told NHRA wouldn't let him run it at their sanctioned tracks. Don't know about AHRA or UDRA (I think they were still around). I guess he could use it for match racing also. I remember being really bummed about it not running, cause it was really cool looking.
  5. Did find a listing with MPC code 104 which if memory serves would mean it was the 4th in the series. Remember the motorized surf board (which I think was the 1st) and the Tall T Telephone Booth. Original box art didn't have Hot Rod Mag logo, just said hot rodders.Would guess that would push it into late 65 or maybe 66. Was graduating from high school, workingl and getting ready to take off to college, so wasn't paying as much attention to new releases (especially out of my range) then. Also was boxed by Airfix.
  6. This is a reissue? Don't remember it at all. But then I didn't pay much attention to that kind of stuff then. What year was it originally?
  7. The one time I saw it at Willow Run in Oklahoma City was during a 8 car TF show in late spring 65. I was there go'fering with Bobby Langley's crew. Ivo, the Surfers, and the Frantic Four were booked in West Coast cars that I remember. Think the rest were Oklahoma and Texas cars. since Bennie Osborne is the only other one I remember. The Piranha was an exhibition runs only. I can't remember if it even made a full pass. The hot car pits were across a little creek that ran through the area with a wood bridge crossing it to get to the staging area. It was so low that it trying to cross the bridge it was scraping the front end and picking up gravel in the body work.
  8. Monday morning, annual physical poke and prod time: Tuesday morning jury duty downtown had to go all the way to final route on a armed standoff-police shooting case which would have been a couple of weeks, but escaped at last cut; Wednesday morning, nothing, sitting at the desk goofing, cats well played with and fed--we happy.
  9. Wonder what ever happened to that Lindberg tooling. Got a couple of them. Real simple, but beats nothing. Same for the K&B slot car body. Have one and according to Bob Peeples was one of the more accurate renditions. We'd talked about casting it, then his health started getting worse, and I was dealing with a lot of personal stuff, and ...... Like so many grand ideas.
  10. Finally got this loaded up. https://whulsey.smugmug.com/Trucks/2016-05-01-Orange-Empire-Railway-Museum-Truck-Show/i-TLr2XqF Was going to load a few sample photos, but can't get them to work. So check out the link.
  11. Morons that jump into the left turn lane at the last second so they're at an angle with about 6 inches of their vehicle sticking out into the travel lane. Many times when I was driving the bus the only thing stopping me from booting them was the thought of how much paperwork I would have to do.
  12. As a former graphic designer/pre-press person and art major, John Goschke has an important point. You buy a tube of Windsor & Newton cadmium red today, it will match the one that you've had for 20 years and still will in a hundred years with reasonable storage. Thermoplastics are a industrial chemical that needs to last maybe 10 years at the most for most situations and models from a manufacturing view are short term toys. I had Joe Henning tell me at a show years ago, that his card stock models (build with Strathmore Bristol art board) such as the ones he did in Rod and Custom Models back in the 60's had stood up better then his plastic kits.
  13. Will just list the ones scattered on the work desk or ready shelf, not the dozens of ones tinkered with, or gave up on, or just bored with, or need more research, or.... Heller Renault 1955 4CV Stalinetz 65 crawler c 1940 1/25 from Russian card model site Modelik Ursus tractor c1949 AMT 1941 Plymouth Hawk 1902 Rambler Angram 1934-37c GAZ AA
  14. Wasn't Tower, was a local indie store sort of like Atomic that was in Fullerton; or Stinkweeds over here when it was still in Tempe. Don't remember Tower ever really doing much in-store concerts, mainly just autograph sessions.
  15. Were are you copying the images from and in what format? Usually you would need to save the image as a jpg and then copy the jpg to a printable page file like one from Word or Open Office. For print, use control P if nothing else.
  16. Jonathan, kute kitty! Picked up the repop of the MPC Gangbusters 28 Lincoln at the local hobby shop for $6 with the engine semi-glued together. Plus a couple of sanding sticks and a package of Evergreen strips. That may be the 1st car kit I've bought this year. I got the Ferguson tractor earlier in the year and at the last couple of swap meets only picked up a few tools and books and 3 1/72 30's civil aviation planes. Oh just remembered. I did get the ICM Ford Model T fire truck earlier. Not much coming out that really interests me.
  17. Not one of their better offering. Got to remember it came out in about 1975. May I recommend one of the newer Revell to get started again since most of them seem to go together pretty well. Or if you want to spend the bucks a Tamiya kit. They can be a bit complicated but usually go together well.
  18. This type of questions always intrigue me: a combination of being around when a lot of the items under discussion were going on and then meeting Budd Anderson in the late 70's after he'd relocated to SoCal and becoming a friend of his over the years before his passing. First concerning IMC, Budd went there after leaving AMT. They were doing a lot of sub-contractor work for the automotive and appliance industries, but were looking for something to expand production. At that time, model car building and slot racing were really strong. They approached Budd about becoming a developer for them due to his hobby background and contacts with the automotive industry, especially Ford. Have never seen any sales figures for them, but from working in a hobby shop in the early 70's, would say their Ford GT series and the Mustang II show car were their biggest sellers. Eventually there was a falling out and Budd left and went to MPC on the invite of George Tethoff who Budd had worked with at AMT. Here's a interesting legal thing I dug up: http://openjurist.org/492/f2d/1281/monogram-models-inc-v-industro-motive-corporation-g and http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/448/284/100832/ This probably had a lot to do with IMC selling out to Testors. Then it seems Testors leased some of the tools to Union - a Japanese molding company who did a lot with other people's tools including Heller. Seems like most of those tools disappeared into limbo; which is too bad because there were some interesting and unique models: Chaparral, Lola, Lotus-Ford. Not sure if Heller got theirs back, since the one's I remember under the Union name like the open wheel and Le Mans cars I don't remember ever being reissued by Heller. It would be great is someone found those tools in a warehouse somewhere in Japan or Korea. That would probably be a big legal mess to sort out.
  19. Paul Budzik has a series of excellent videos on You Tube. There are lots of others also. Use Google and look for model building techniques. Putting a line of rivets on a Sherman Tank or Peterbilt tractor is the same technique, just like in scribing new panel lines doesn't make a differences what kind of Mustang it is.
  20. I'm not comparing the cardstock tires to 1-piece molded vinyl tires except to present a solution to the chemical reactions that seem to take place between the vinyl or rubber and polystyrene. I've had old kits with parts burned through by the tires, tires melt into the shelf, or eat the wheel rims off. It seems that chemically there doesn't seem to be a completely positive, workable solution for the problem. If so at that point the other solution is to use a non-reactive compound to make the tires out of. If styrene then for most would require a multi-piece tire like the example that Luc showed or a very intricate, multi-slide tool that would still produce at best a 2 piece tire. Maybe not the most desirable solution, but would solve the problem. If resin, then you're talking about a labor-intensive process. There are military kits that have resin parts in them so it is doable at a price Any of the methods would add to the cost of the kits. So it sort of comes down to pick your poison.
  21. One of the few good things of living in the Maricopa County (Phoenix) area. We have several area general hobby shops within 30 minutes driving time plus a couple of more specialized shops. Plus with ASU a couple of good art supply shops which are always a good source of materials.
  22. Not being a tooling designer not sure how difficult and expensive it would be versus the PVC molds. The military kits seem to have pretty good results. Don't see why there would be assembly problems as long as tolerances are accurate. But even if they were molded together, don't see were there would be much problem painting except having to do a bit of masking. Not completely finished with these, but they're (wheels and tires) made out of matt board and card stock.
  23. Nice job on that. Have photographed a few real ones at military vehicles shows with the thought of doing one someday. Glad to see someone else had the same idea.
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