SoDak1

Great build with a great history

Throw my hat in the ring, new to the forum and very excited for my first cannonball! Probably scrap the kit engine for something else but haven't decided yet

Looks like you will need a long shelf for the Trantula!

Always wanted a real spyder. Nice to see a stock build of one

I'm a sucker for butternut yellow type colors. Beautiful Impala

I don't think I've seen a 1:1 Trans Am that gorgeous

That duster is some ski themed special isn't it? I saw one one of those at the local salvage a year ago, very odd and interesting edition I had never heard of.

Well done! What is that air cleaner? Ive never seen that before

Thank you everyone, and merry Christmas

Thank you dave!

Great patina work on these cars. Did you use the actual sticker from your bananas? Brilliant

Looks like a fun build

That woody! Beautiful wood grain technique, makes me want to strip mine and start over!

Can't go wrong with black and red steelies!

Thanks Richard!

Looks tough!

Great choice on the color! My father owns a 1:1 56' 150 in a similar dark green/light green combo. I always loved it

Welcome! Vintage kits are the coolest by far, hope you can make do with some of the reissues they have nowadays until you win the lottery and buy the real gems lol

Hi everyone, I've been a guest on the forum for about 10?ish years but never joined, decided that needed to change. I'm a 90s kid, grew up making brush stroked enamel mockery of some of the great amt/ertl kits of the era not realizing how great some of them actually were (my LHS didn't stock revell kits very often for some reason). Anyway the hobby died down around middle school and vanished until I went to college. Started having panic attacks and generally depressed. I figured out I wasn't occupying myself with projects and creative things like I would back home, but what can a guy do in a dorm for little money? Model cars! Got back in swing of building kits and the planets aligned for me again. I built some decent models, got a couple trophies from some small local shows. Then, I met this girl and well you know, the hobby started dying down again. Fast forward 7 years to this summer and maybe 3 completed kits in all, and that same girl who was now engaged to me suddenly passed away. Well, when sadness and angst come around I know the cure for my restless mind, model cars So I'm building again and it keeps me hanging on looking forward to the next day. I want to thank everyone on this forum for the inspiration to be a better builder and all the great tips I've learned over the years. Hope to make some new friends and very excited to participate in this years cannonball run (I love vans!) I'm gonna try a test picture of one of my favorite things in the world I own. It's an advertisement for the now lindberg/mpc little red wagon kit. I guess you could consider it advanced if they are referring to all the work needed to get good fitment! If anyone else has ever seen one of these posters I would love to know!