spencer1984

Mostly box stock build of the Italeri kit. Italeri loves their weird panel breaks and this was no exception, with the body being made up of five parts: the fenders, the full sides up to the trim line (including the sides of the hood), the top of the body from the door sills to the base of the trunk, and the hood top/cowl/windshield. That meant that, although it includes a full engine, there's no way to see it without cutting the body up even further. That was more than I wanted to do here, so it's a curbside. A full write-up of the build is available here, and as always any comments/criticisms are welcome!

Very cool!

Very nice!

Beautiful work on all of them!

Hey, if you're only going to do one they don't get much sharper than that - nice work!

Some excellent work, nicely done!

Both are beauties, nice work!

Great looking group!

Awesome work, I especially like that van!

Awesome work on all, but I particularly like that tanker!

Excellent work, it's nice seeing that old '63 Corvette getting some attention.

Some great looking builds!

Thanks! The one I built is the curbside version, I believe it was a Revell of Germany kit originally. I think the one that you have is an earlier version of the Magnum P.I. kit, released by Revell North America. I had tried building that version many years ago and found it to be very frustrating, mostly due to poor quality of the casting - lots of flash, poorly defined details, etc. If yours is indeed the earlier version, it should hopefully be a bit better on that front.

Thanks, guys!

Very cool!

Great work on both!

Some great looking builds, nice work!

They look great, nicely done!

Very nice, I really like that Corvair!

Nice looking group!

Beautiful work, I especially like that Olds! Do you have a WIP thread on the Jag? I'd be interested in seeing how you did the dash and door tops.

Some great looking rides there, nice work!

Thanks, guys!

Very clean work, that looks great!

Somewhere along the way, I found myself with a bunch of late C1 parts, including most of a Revell "Skip's Fiesta" Corvette (labelled a '60 but really a '59) and a badly gluebombed AMT '59/60. I happened across another gluebomb at a toy show, this time an AMT '62, and decided to bash all three together with whatever else was needed from my parts box to finally build myself a '61 Corvette. To keep it with my usual theme of pop culture builds, I made it to represent the mild custom used in the 1988 movie Hairspray. Most of it was pretty straightforward, at least in theory: '59 front end, '62 rear, and Skip's Fiesta for the chassis, engine, and interior. The interior was wrong for '61, but the seats in the movie car happened to have the '59 style crosswise pleats so that saved me some work. The door panels and dashboard were done in tuck and roll, which I replicated by gluing half round stock to flat styrene and the kit-supplied dash. The trickiest part came from trying to get all three to fit together, especially around the seats. Lots of test fitting, carving, and retesting until things nestled together. Parts box items include the wheels, tires, headlights, and mirrors. The nose and cove badges are Model Car Garage PE, left over from my '62 build several years ago. While it's not my cleanest work, I'm pretty happy with how well the three very different kits came together in the end. A full writeup of the build is available here, and as always any comments/criticisms are welcome! With fellow musical movie car, the "White Lightning" from Grease: And a couple of pics with my '60 and '62: