JPL-ACE

I just love your detail. Thanks for the fine detail update.

Your detail is just incredible. Keep it coming.

Nice job on the roof. It is really hard to deal with the casting marks. It is really one of the things that shows the dedication to detail for model building, IMHO. Quality work.

Yeah, keep em coming James.I got mine on Auto Art and will keep looking for the presentable ones to post.

This is just my kind of models work. Creative, detailed, artistic, etc. Very nice work and thank you for explaining things as we all can always learn more. I try to put little tricks in my works when I figure out something clever or at least out of the ordinary. Even if my talent is from 50 years ago. Thank you for your work Mike.

Here is another drawing but I dont know when except late 60s or probably early 70s.

Thank you James. A lot in common here. Waiting for your drawings.

Thanks Ken. More to come...

Well, I found some dated material to verify my poor memory for the time period of the drawings. A couple of 12th grade drafting class drawings I did for extra credit. And some large size paper drawings of the same vintage but undated, so a little questionable. Below are 2 of the best sheets. A full 2 part drawing and a partial. The front and side view are trial designs for the Fisher Body contests offered in the day. I even labeled the last drawing that, though it was more of a doodle. The stylish big G is the emblem on the car. Anyway, they are dated 1964, my high school graduation year. I will upload a few more related but undated drawings in a few days. Later I will upload some drawings with related models. Some drawings before the model and some after. Stay tuned... OOPs, sorry about the big blank area, part of the scan.

OK, here are 3 more views of the 60s interior. I am not satisfied with the painting quality up close but it looks pretty good from a distance. The steering wheel will be different than shown in the final assembly. The Dash especially looks good from a distance but up close, in the last picture, it looks like a kids Crayon work. I may try to use tape off (masking) in a future painting to see if I can control the sloppy look. Not sure if I can tape such a complex part but maybe I can reduce the mis-paint to a more tolerable level. I already use pens to pre-do some seams but I need more than a black pen, which gets kind of expensive to cover all the possible colors. May not be worth it for the slight improvement in paint quality. Update: I painted the face of the Tach on the dash and will try to update a picture including the steering wheel and Tach later. Could be a little while as I am also busy scanning and uploading some drawings form my distant past. See them at "VERY OLD ART" in Auto Art forum. From the 60s and 70s but kind of modern if I do say so myself ?

Thanks Greg, I will have a few more pics in a few days.

Well, after a considerable time, I am back. My next car here is another practice car, a 60 Corvette. My goal is a 58 Vette very much like the one I had in the late 60s early 70s, which I have a Revell kit ready to go. But I will do this 60 kit as practice. I am not satisfied with my build quality yet, as you will see. This 60 is a partial kit already started and many parts lost. What I have is not built parts shown in the (and near) box plus the frame. No parts were painted yet so that is my work you see so far. The frame actually had working spring suspension and steering. I was luckily all the parts were still there in the box. In the Hood pictures, the stock hood is the only one the kit had. I found the open hole hood in my parts box. I also found a 64 Mustang hood with a Ford hood blister and cut it to fit the Vette. I wont use it on this Vette but it is nearly identical to the hood on my 1:1 58 (TBC). The 4th picture below is the seats, Engine Bay and built motor from my stock of motors I built before I started a car for this model club. I tried to draw in some wiring on the Bay which came out pretty good. The engine is very similar to my 1:1 58 with cross ram and home made headers (that dont look much like the on this engine). The last pic is another part from my stock. I had to add a 2 mm tip to the front springs (the white tips). I dug out some wide ovals and mags similar to my old 58 too. More to come and hopefully not as tardy as this entry.

Thanks Chris. Like I said to Ace above, show us your work. How does the 90s relate to the 60s? Lets see the contrast.

Thanks Ace. So show us your drawings, maybe? Not much action on the forum in Drawings recently, it seems. I am going to put some drawings on that correspond to some models I started years ago and put the models on WIP. Actually I am not sure how to do it yet. How do I cross reference them?

Another doodle, my wing rod, for lack of a better name. I liked to mix things up so I put a wing on a modern rid. Not bad for 60/70 era, if I do say so myself.

Just saw this thread and it reminded me of a local car dealer with a VW bus body mounted on an old army tracked mule or weasel (I think that is the name). Looked really cool. Your 1:1 and model are also very cool. I cant get over how creative people are. Nice model work and paint too.

OK, a few days later... So here is another doodle I drew in 60s or early 70s. I thought it would be cool to treat the VW like an Thames or Willy's like Gasser. And then the hot rod is quite modern for that era, IMHO. More to come in days ahead...

How can anyone badmouth workmanship like this. I would call this professional model building. I am also from the 50s and these are some of my kind of cars, but all of them are quality work ad deserve respect. Great stuff.

Man that is super nice and only 1/32. I had for a year or 2 in my youth, a TR-4 but I put American mags with 7 inch racing tires (illegal on street as kids are prone to do). So your skinny tires looks strange to me, correct as they may be. Funny how we perceive things. Great work.

Thanks Atin, The hands just dont work as well now. and Its only been 50 years. Go figure... So did you post any old (or new) drawings? I am kind of new to the forum and cant find any of your publishing's (drawings or models) in your profile. I notice you may be bit distant from California. Amazing to talk to friends around the world. Cool. I will upload another one in a day or so. See ya...

Thanks. As I mentioned, mine are from 60s and mid 70s. Girls not impressed? That have anything to do with my never had a date in HS? My degree was in Engineering and I went on to fly spacecraft (slight exaggeration, I never left the ground). Now I am a SpaceX fan boy. I am using a $32 Cannon printer/scanner and slowly scanning in a box of drawings from storage. Tedious work but I want to put up some more before they fall apart. Yeah, I lost a couple favorites too. So keep them coming and we can remissness the good old days (or at least claim they were good!).

Man I like your stuff. and as it happens, my 1st real car was a 57 Ford 2 door post. Guess which drawing got my eye. But they are all good. I am releasing a few 50 year old drawings I did while in school. Look for "VERY OLD ART" in Auto Art forum, if you are interested in pencils. Is my 57 T-Bird good enough?

I really like the detail and precision of the drawing. Great work. I am releasing a few 50 year old drawings I did while in school. Look for "VERY OLD ART" in Auto Art forum, if you are interested in pencils. The dragster, while not as good as yours is only a doodle from school, not at home. HaHa.

This is my kind of art. I really like it. Lets see some more. I am releasing a few 50 year old drawings I did while in school. Look for "VERY OLD ART" in Auto Art forum, if you are interested in pencils.

WOW, is your dads name Ed Roth? This is beautiful stuff. I grew up with Ed Roth stuff. I am releasing a few 50 year old drawings I did while in school. Look for "VERY OLD ART" in Auto Art forum, if you are interested in pencil doodles. No Rat Fink stuff that is good enough to print.