Lyle Willits

That's the one. Bill combined a '36 cowl to a Vanagan rear body.

Inspired by a build from Bill Stillwagon about 5 years ago, I was going to cobble together a '36 Ford sedan delivery. Then I took the easy way out and bought a $10 resin tudor sedan from Flintstone. The wheels are from any number of old AMT kits. They are the chromed wheels with baby moon caps. I carefully grind away the baby moon , paint the wheel other than the trim ring, then add whatever cap I want. I made a split-back front seat and I'm making a back seat from another '36 kit. Going to build up the Olds 354 from a AMT 39/40 sedan kit. BUT,,,,,,,,,just couldn't keep my hands off the new '57 Chevy 150. Duplicolor bright Red, chromed reversed wheels from a Revell '49 Merc kit painted as shown. Seats from a '69 olds kit. It's going to have a 409 from an AMT '62 BelAir. Maybe I'll get ONE of them done before NNL EAST.

Nice chromed air cleaners are in the Revell '49 Merc kit and the Revell '32 Ford tudor sedan kit. For velocity stacks, you can just polish some aluminum tubing and angle cut it.

I'm completely amazed. But then,,,,,,,,,,Dave has been amazing me with his modelling work for 20 years.

This past Tuesday, in Maryland, it was 11 degrees and 6 inches of snow and ice. Yesterday and today it's 75 degrees. GO FIGURE. How's this for timing for us modelers? LOTS more pics: http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/car-shows...morning-cruise/

I have used BOTH for 30 years on all of my models. I can not tell the difference between the two. I use Duplicolor primer under ALL paints that I have used with no problems ever. Buy either can,,,it won't matter.

Lots more pics here: http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/model-clu...meeting-372009/

That is a very nicely done model, but, for the record, what you have there is a '67 Camaro with missing vent windows. '68 Camaros had rectangle parking lights in the grille, side marker lights and no vent windows.

I had just asked a couple weeks ago if anyone had seen Lee lately. I always enjoyed talking with him at Toledo. I guess I last saw him there 4 or 5 years ago. He always told me that he liked my street rod models "because they were so colorful" and that he would have to try building a hot rod model some day. I am very saddened by this news. He was a VERY talented modeler and, more importantly, a wonderful gentleman.

Interior handles came from the Revell '41 pickup kit as did the rest of the interior. Thanks Dave Lindsay for the stock body pics. That should answer a few other questions. The resin body appears to be approximately stock height but the door and body lines are different. So, call it a custom body. Makes a neat street rod build.

From the Revell '41 Chevy pickup kit. I just cut the round "mirror" away from the stalk and added the silver wire. Glad you like the way I did "your" truck.

RMR resin kit. Paint is Duplicolor Cream and Testors Majestic Emerald. Various decals from a Revell '49 Merc kit seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I'm thinking it made the car kind of gawdy. Oh well! Wheels are from,,,uh,,,,,uh,,,,,,some kit. (Duh!) Big block has BOB DUDEK polished aluminum valve covers.

Fantastic build on the '32. Alyn is being modest. I saw on another web site that his '32 won Theme and BEST OF SHOW at the Drastic Plastics NNL. (I would have given him an award just for going to Nebraska in February!!!) Great models. We look forward to seeing more.

Would you have any more pictures?

Tom - beautiful build. Love the colors. Uh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"re came out" ? They must have weird schools in Ohio.

http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/model-clu...09/the-big-sit/

Why would I want your crappy models? That's just more trash I have to clean up after the meeting.

Uh,,,,,,that's the Lindberg boxart photo from the Lindberg site.

I believe he is reviewing this kit. Lindberg bought up old Palmer kits many years ago and have recently reissued this piece of s,,,,,,,uh, this kit. It has NOTHING to do with the Lindberg (formerly AMT) '34 Ford pick-up kit.

That is VERY disappointing news - not because I was waiting to get one but because YOU had invested so much time to this great product. I'm really sorry George. Get back into slapping some plastic together and get back to the shows like the old days. Hope to see you at NNL EAST.

The McMullen roadster - the 1963 version. At the time it was one of the finest built, highly detailed street cars in history. The pinstriping was done by Ed Roth.

That is a wild color. Beautiful paint. Actually, '09 is the 60th anniversary of the '49 Merc,,,,,,so you're right on time!

I use painted masking tape for tarps, tonneau covers, roof inserts on '32 Fords, etc. Seems to me that you could cut masking tape the size you need for a fender cover and paint in whatever color you want with water-based acrylic paints, i.e. Polly Scale.

Replicas & Miniatures Co. of Md. makes the Foxcraft skirts.

The rest : http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/model-clu...eeting-2212009/