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Nice job. Are those aftermarket tyres? They look a bit beefier (pun intended) than the usual AMT fare.

Indeed. Revell flat boxes, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways: They collapse under their own weight if you try to stack them. You can't store a WIP or built kit in them. In some cases the unbuilt kit doesn't even fit comfortably. Any loose parts will inevitably find their way out between the box and the end flap. I could go on, but I'm getting wound up just thinking about the damned things. With apologies to E Barrett Browning

I see. I wouldn't have got that - I even looked up the Capri, but only found mention of it being designed by an American, so I didn't dig any deeper.

The MPC kit has their typical vague parts location and soft detail, but the body looks decent. The ex-Monogram 1/24 Revell kit has a nice body, but simplified Monogram tooling. The body in the new 1/25 Revell kit doesn't look right. I would rather deal with one of the older kits and add detail than try to correct the new Revell body.

Well, I've been through at least a couple of dozen blog and reference pages on this car, and I'll be damned if I can find any mention of the design being put forward for anything else. :/

Look for a Revell '69 Camaro, Yenko or Baldwin-Motion. It has one of the better 1/25 renditions of a big block and it has the carb you need - about the best you'll find in a kit. IIRC, it also has headers, but those might not fit a '56. The current Baldwin-Motion reissue comes with a chrome pan type air cleaner instead of the B-M "fly-eye", but that's what you want in this case, just build it up to look like it has stacked filter elements. The trans is a four speed Muncie - presumably your brother meant M21, not M31 - but it has a stock bellhousing.

Got some prep done. I've broken down the dump body and have it soaking in oven cleaner. Used up all the over cleaner on that, so stripped the chrome parts with bleach. If I want any bling later, I'll use Molotow chrome.

Mine will be getting a dose of oven cleaner tomorrow.

Pretty sure it's just a rebox of the RoG tooling. I found one on Ebay and it gives the address as Brooksville, FL; they moved there in 1992.

Never mind...

Funny, mine went through.

That looks great: an honest, no nonsense working truck. I'd much rather see one of these than a stupid over-stretched thing with a visor covering half the windshield, 8" straight pipes and a bumper with 1" of ground clearance.

I know what it is, but I'm still not sure I get your meaning. There are many things it isn't, but nothing's leaping out at me as the obvious answer to your question.

Zeger does some amazing work. https://modelbrouwers.nl/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=49561 https://modelbrouwers.nl/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=47435 https://modelbrouwers.nl/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=48864

He might be something to do with Willy. We see a lot of Willy's drag cars.

Thanks. Wheels are American mags from the Miss Deal kit. I keep thinking about stripping the chrome and making them look a bit more realistic - they're a bit bright.

I only have one finished '32 to contribute.

Wow, epic posts! I especially like the photo above - makes me long for simpler times.

It was over 8 years ago... "The Best in Show car was a 1936 Delahaye 135 Competition 'Disappearing' Convertible, an elegant Deco sculpture, which itself nearly disappeared under the marquee behind the winner's podium, at the end of the day. A freak accident which, amazingly, found no one nearby to injure... whether sabotage, a mischevious djinn, or plain ol' Friday the 13th, the inimitable sound of a $6 million car being crunched was a shock to everyone's sensibilities. I shed a tear - not for the car, but for Gordon and Courtney, who didn't deserve such bad luck after all the effort to create this amazing event. While ultimately an 'insurance moment', that sound and my shock have resonated for days hence, a memento mori: we are temporary caretakers of our treasures, and exit this world with nothing. What truly matters can't be found within a machine." http://thevintagent2011.blogspot.com/2010/08/pebble-beach-week-2010-quail.html

Olds from the AMT '39/'40 Ford sedan.

I haven't unpacked it yet, so I don't know what's in the box or what mods it will need to fit the dump body.... I've never built one of these. Apart from a stalled Freightliner, I haven't touched a truck kit since 1986. I gather from other threads that it has an oddball rear bogie with a wide axle spread (I'll probably change that), and the cab/hood were modified from the first issue, so that needs correcting.

I figured the blue banner said "Welcome to Yorkshire".

Yep, got it.

I'm in, add another DM600 to the list.

OK, I decided on this, with the dump body from a gluebomb Autocar I picked up from Ebay. The body will get stripped and rebuilt.