Hope ya didn't lose too much of it Kyle. If it's Model Master probably won't be available before too long. I've had mine for years since it doesn't get used much.
Came in today from Lex's Scale Modeling (ebay seller)
Hood almost a perfect fit, just a tiny bit narrow. Nice smooth finish tho. The underside will need some cleaning up.
Welcome back to the hobby John, a lot to be learned here from the many great posters on here. I too resumed model building after retirement a few years ago and my wife is also supportive....she does her cross-stiching, I model.
Welcome Ron, I also build models as a youngster (tho usually airplanes) then later when NASCAR was "hot" did a few of my families favorites and again due to work constraints stopped again. After retiring a few years ago it picked up again and hasn't stopped. Got a lot of great info on this forum from a lot of great posters. Judging by your screen name, I was born 2 years before you.
Welcome Jordan, a lot to be learned here, a lot of great helpful posters. Those kits for your son to build can be a bit challenging tho, I'm sure some on here would agree a good start would be a snap together kit as a start.
That '38 Chevy looks great Dan, cute VW as well. My wife before I knew her bought a new '68 VW ( We had a couple others later in life). Since she hung around with a pretty notable hot rod crowd back then she couldn't resist "hot rodding" it and blew the engine not once but twice. She got rid of it for a '66 GTO Convertable.
Very interesting stuff here. As has been mentioned, the weight transfer thing was what I always thought the reason to be. It does give the car a pretty cool look tho.
Got this tubbed undercarriage with suspension parts off of ebay today. It's from '66 Nova kit but I don't know which one. Gonna use it with the AMT 55' Chevy Bel Air 2-door sedan body. It's actually almost an exact fit, but will need some alterations tho.