RSchnell

How about the VFW/AMVets halls like mentioned above? Lots of times those sit empty and I'd wager they'd be welcome the extra income.

Had some time to kill today & hit up the local indoor flea market. The usual flotsam & jetsam that you see in such places, but there was one booth that had 4 kits one of which followed me home. Seems the '56 Nomad is getting hard to find at a good price, much less the corrected version.

One of my absolute favorite model Swap/shows is held in a big open air pavilion at a county park. In addition to the park venue, I've been to shows held at Shriner's Halls, hotel ballrooms, community room at a retirement home, several churches one of which the church ladies sold a very solid lunch with hamburger, potato salad, chips & drink for $4. While not model car related, the Solid Axle Corvette club I was a member of even held a meeting in the chapel of the funeral home I worked at when our normal venue suddenly became unavailable that month. There's a lot of venues for cheap, sometimes you just gotta poke around!

I see these guys all the time living here in Florida. The 1:1 cars are a little more tan than the model you posted. I think the closest you'll get in the Tamiya line of spray cans is TS-46 Light Sand and if you do a white or light grey primer coat it'd be even better. As an aside back in the 90s FHP used Fox body 5.0 Mustangs. I had just finished up the restoration of my '62 Galaxie Convertible. 390/375HP 3x2's & 4speed. I was out on some backroads letting the old girl stretch her legs. One of those FHP Mustangs passed me going the other way, he must've been running radar as he turned around and hit the blue light. My dad said "that 390 can walk that Mustang, hammer down!" That Mustang got smaller & smaller in the mirror but I learned about 5 miles down the road you can't outrun the radio! After the chewing out and no ticket(one of the guys waiting on us was a family friend, thank God), the Mustang guy says "Son just what do you have in that thing? I was giving it all I had & you just kept pulling away" Thanks for letting me ramble and apologies for the thread drift!

ICM posted this on their Facebook page. I may pick up a set as it's a good excuse to try their paint. I've read decent reviews about it online so this is good as reason as any to give it a shot.

They could do a Victoria, A-400, any of the Tudor & Fordor Sedans using the tooling they have now. Coupes, Roadster & Pickups used a different rear fender. I would love to see a 1/24 or 1/25 Model Y kit. Somewhat of a novelty over here, but a club member had one about 20 years ago and would bring it out on tours. I thought it was the neatest thing.

The Merritt Island, FL store still has a good selection of kits left. a Few '57 Corvettes, Pintos, Charger, Joker Dodge Monaco, and all the Barris BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH.

Al Jourgensen of Ministry fame covers Friend of the Devil by the Grateful Dead. I'd love to see him do a metal cover of this song!

I didn't take a photo of it, but you can see it in the background of this shot. It's some kind of rat rod truck type deal with different make parts on it.

Saw this clean '55 Nomad & '63 Corvette leaving the show Saturday. More photos of the show in the car show forum.

One of the more unique shows I attend. The show is held at a park where they placed various historic structures from all over the county. Years ago this show was limited to pre 1959 stock vehicles only, but that rule has been relaxed for several reasons. Here's a small portion of the photos I took.

Hit up a couple record shops in a faraway town and found quite a few CD's to help fill the gaps in my Grateful Dead collection.

Quite possible. I'm pretty sure passenger Fords built for Europe got rubber running boards. I have a couple original Model A Part price lists from Germany & the UK, if I can find them easily I will look them up. Russian Model A's aka GAZ A's use quite a few truck parts in passenger car production. AA Truck radiator shell, painted headlight buckets, running boards etc. This could be where ICM got the idea for the pressed steel running boards! I consider this a bonus as there are no GAZ A Ford kits in this scale and it'd be real easy to convert this kit into a GAZ.

Twofer at Lowe's earlier today. Sodbuster pickup and a clean VW about 4 parking spots away from each other.

I only see a couple things of note. The radiator shell is a '31(the catalog art shows a '30 shell) and the running boards are the pressed steel style used on trucks as opposed to rubber covered ones used on passenger cars. If those are the actual style tires that are going to be in the kit, that's great! They're nicely done copies of Firestone tires-the same tire which you can still buy to this day for 1:1 Model A's & other cars that use a 4.75x19 tire. The instrument panel shown in the CAD drawings is the style used until Oct of 1930 when it was changed to a round instead of oval speedometer. The Radiator shell would be easy enough to backdate to a 1930 piece to match the instrument panel. Chances are 98% of the people building this kit could care less! LOL I'm definitely in for a few of these. Hoping this leads to other body styles, stock Model A kits are sorely needed!

Nice set of pics! Thanks for posting!

I didn't have the gas station, but I did get an old Marx Cape Canaveral Missile Base set as a gift from a family friend. I spent many hours messing around with it, launching the missiles etc. Hadn't thought about that set in years until I saw this thread. No clue what happened to it but would love to find another one! It's ironic as I work in the spaceflight industry at Cape Canaveral now. Not my set, but a photo I found.

I'd definitely be interested in any 50s car kit that came out. One of my biggest regrets in the past couple years was passing on a very nicely built-almost contest quality AMT '58 Ford Convertible for $75 at one of the local swaps.

The Merritt Island. FL Ollie's kit selection is frozen in time. Compare the pics I took today with the ones I posted on March 2. LOL I figured the scalpers would've cleaned this out. Even HL had a bunch of untouched clearance kits the other day. Weird!

On my way to get a cheesesteak saw this Valiant Wagon at an apartment in Cocoa Beach, FL. Also saw a nice '32 Ford 3W Coupe street rod, but was unable to get a pic.

Stopped by Ollie's for some household stuff. A couple more kits somehow fell in the buggy & I didn't realize it until I got to the register.

Trying to fill the gaps in my VW kit collection! Still need a couple more.