RSchnell

I already have 2 project cars now I haven't done anything with in a long time! LOL Not to mention I'd have to rent a storage unit to keep the Merc as I've no room here at home.

Having built a few ICM kits my biggest piece of advice is to use a razor saw to cut small parts from the sprue. The plastic is kinda brittle and you'll snap the delicate stuff if you use sprue cutters or a knife.

The 55-56 Mercs are good looking cars. I've had a bunch of 55-56 Fords but never a Merc. There's a '55 Montclair close to me on Marketplace with all the hard stuff done that's been for sale for a long time. I keep talking myself out of going to look at it.

I share the same view. There's no excuse for what he does, especially given the fact he is basically a compensated spokesman for whatever company the kit came from. I've only watched a couple of his videos, but when you assemble wheels wrong and glue tailgates shut, etc etc it gives off a bad vibe. If I was a manufacturer and gave him a kit to review and butchered it like most of his builds, I'd be quite put off. But there's some who think he hung the moon.

Week 2 since my TV laid an egg and I don't miss it. That valuable real estate where the squawk box used to sit will be used to display built kits or something along that line.

I was near Ollies yesterday morning. They had the same assortment that Dave posted above. I did manage to find a single solitary can of Duplicolor Color match, which surprised me. I hadn't seen any duplicolor there in months!

Have you checked Scale Hobbyist? They just about have the best prices around. 90% of my mailorder kits & supplies comes from them, I've probably spent a couple grand there in the past couple years. Good folks to deal with.

Just saw this on the ICM site. Looks like they're packaging the fire truck, Delivery & Runabout in a 3 pack kit. I'll likely snag one as I don't have the delivery or fire truck.

One of my mentors had a nicely built 283 in his '58 Corvette he bought new. The first time he took me for a ride in it I was 11. He'd wind it out, change gears & you'd get pinned in the seat again. I looked over & he has this big Chesire Cat grin going on. I asked him "It never gets old does it?" I can't repeat what he said here, but it still gives me a laugh nearly 40 years later. He was an old school drag racer & loved 283 & 327's. He used to call 350's Kmart motors lol. This is the dude responsible for my '77 Caprice 4dr getting a 327 & 4spd instead of the 305/TH350.

If you still need parts, I likely have them. Let me know & I'll look for them over the weekend

I built the Beetle a month or so ago, Great kit with no build issues! Still looking for the Ghia.

That is nice!! I intend on using the body I have for a streetrod, but I knew to use it for a stock build with the top down I figured it'd be easier to start from scratch.

Good to know, is it a decent kit?

I used a lot of Tamiya Extra Thin & it was one of the main reasons I'd hit up HL. Once they quit carrying Airfix kits and then Tamiya supplies I just about quit going in there. It got old going in and seeing the same kits on the shelf, 90% of which aren't in my wheelhouse to begin with!

Haven't seen mention of this. Was watching the new release video and saw this come across the screen. I like the VW parts & service decals and will be ordering one to go with my 1/16 Beetle I finished up recently.

I was unaware he had a '32 Wagon body. I shall have to order one. I've got several of his bodies like the '53, '57 & '59 Ford wagons and those are great. I was just a bit let down with the B-400 for what I had in mind.

1933-34 commercial rad shells don't interchange with a '32, not to mention 33-34 shells have a slight slant to the rear of the truck, the '32 is straight. This is a '32 commercial shell. Note there's no removable insert like passenger cars and the top part is shaped a bit differently than the car version.

Was going through some photos here on the laptop- The first pic is my Dad's '41 Continental that he bought when I was 6. We took a road trip just outside of Marietta Ga to go pick it up. He never did anything with this car as one of his friends pestered him to death to sell it to him. The second is me & my sister in the back seat of my Dad's '55 Ford Sunliner with my mother driving. It was some parade but I don't remember the details- that was 40+ years ago!

Ordered some paint from Scale Hobbyist, figured I may as well grab a few more of the ICM Ford kits. Henry Ford was back in stock so he's now living in Cocoa Beach. As an aside I emailed ICM about how badly we need a good 30-31 Model A Roadster kit on the market, haven't heard back from them yet.

Not so much pleased as it amused me more- Went to Harbor Freight earlier to pick up a couple things and there was a British couple doing a video tour of Harbor Freight. "Clive show the people back home all the great kit they have here" That ranks second to the Walmart on Saturday when all the cruise ship staff is in there trying to buy stuff with pesos. Living next to one of the largest cruise ship terminals in the US definitely provides moments of amusement.

I dunno how I missed this before, but awesome work!

Did you use a Model A station wagon body to start with? I'd think that and the cowl from an AMT '34 Ford Pickup would get you in the ballpark. The '32 Commercial radiator shell would be the other problem!

This body along with a good 30-31 Model A Roadster body have been on my list for a good while. I was really hoping the Flintstone body would've been better than it was. Projects like this are good for shaking cobwebs loose anyways!

I thought something looked off with the cowl, figuring I'd cross the bridge when I got there. I plan to either scratch a new firewall or use one of the resin ones available as the kit firewall ain't gonna get it, it's not even close to being correct. My ideal plan is to drop the body over the firewall like you do the 1:1 car.

Tonight I rough sanded the Milliput. Got the windows roughed in. I made a couple contour gauges from thin styrene so I had a uniform shape from side to side. I'll fine tune this tomorrow evening and start laying in the styrene strip for above the windows. On the 1:1 car this is the part that the top would snap onto when raised. Sorry for the abbreviated posts, the forum won't let me post anything over a couple paragraphs!