Bobchayer

1912 Ford Model T pickup, 1/20 scale based on a Scale Model Depot Hack chassis with pine wood cab and body and parts left over from other builds.

1909 EMF " 30" Racer, 1/16 scale. Kit manufactured by Fador Mfg Corp., 501 E. Clinton St., Elmira, NY in 1949. The kit contained pine, balsa, plastic steering wheel and road wheels, cardstock, and BRASS AND STEEL WIRE wire of various thicknesses. 0.5 Mm styrene was used for hood, gas tanks. Flat brass wire was used for springs.

Extremely nice presentation! It is interesting to see the undersides of the hatches and how the superstructure opens to allow missiles the necessary clearance for launch. The contrast with US fleet ballistic missile submarines is interesting. The Typhoon has the missile tubes forward and the US submarines have the missile tubes aft of the sail. Also twin screws versus our single screws. They do have the seven bladed propeller as ours does.

New member from north Central Florida. Started building paper models in 1944 because wood was not available during WWII. Attempted to build Hudson Miniature wood kits in 1949, switched to Highway Pioneers by Gowland and Gowland which I still have. Restarted building models cars and trucks in 2002 concentrating on vehicles built in 1927 and earlier. Built all scales using plastic, wood, and resin; scratch building where necessary. Now building 1/24 and1/16 due to aging eyesight.