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innovative, thanks.

It is, ok not on the road but so unique that I couldn't resist posting a picture. It was really an experience to see it live. The gallerist told me it was insured up to 70 million dollars.

Hand painted, swirls, brush strokes and odd color combinations. 😬

Really strange, they were very good cars for their purposes. As a plumber's car in town they were optimum size vs space, we had a small pull out vice at waist height at the back so you could stand under cover under the hatch and solder etc. A bigger car was no better actually, deeper to reach in and harder to park. Revell may well make a double cab, they are starting to get cult status because of the price development of the previous ones.

I seem to recall that five-hole slot mags are four-bolted.

Thanks, I'm glad you liked my jig, here are a couple more. First of all, I have jigs not because I am a perfectionist or that I have high ambitions, I have these to facilitate, to cope. The aluminum profiles are worth their weight in gold to see if it is perpendicular, support etc. The aluminium plate,I have drilled holes perpendicularly (eeeh a mechanical workshop) and I use it to glue plasticard rod to parts just perpendicularly, very good, dry over a nigth or two. Wooden blocks in different sizes are nice to have on hand. As you can see, the roll bar turned out ok but the front track width needs to be adjusted.

Today my wife went for a ten mile walk and in the meantime I read this whole thread, very entertaining and educational.

Harder and harder to remember but like mom paid for a 1975 Jo-Han Richard Petty Plymouth, the toy stores smelled in a special way, safety. All the new kits notwithstanding, Jo-Han is since then No 1.

Did you ? I found a magazine on the shelf and thought like you.

Oh dear, I guess I have to re-prioritize on the workbench again...

It really looks fantastic. We have to remember that repainting has always been around, on summer vacation when I was 14(1980) we went after the fairground to a car book store that was only open Saturday morning and Wednesday evening. There and then a friend of the shop owner came with his blue gull wing, the paint was improved in several places, including around the windshield wipers but he really drove it.

Stylish , very nice.

See what I found. VW T3 Transporter, Revell Nr. 7382 That kit could be a plumber's car one day if Revell is on board. https://www.modellversium.de/kit/artikel.php?id=14084

Fantastic looking build, something that really makes your build so extra good is the black not only in the door gaps but also around the window frames.

I'm late to the party. Tour extension looks amazing, it gives the car class.

Glad that several reminded about PVA, that glue is often forgotten. Vallejo liquid masking can also be used, it is required that there is a side free to be able to dry. The advantage is that it never gets really hard. I took over a friend's stalled project and he had successfully glued a couple of rims from the back into solid Monogram tires and they are secure. After that I have glued some pinned small parts from the inside of the body.

An hour on one of the projects.

One on the table, no more but four or five in progress. I sit at the same table that we eat all meals at and because of that I have to clean up several times during the day which I actually enjoy, sitting alone in my own room does not suit me. I have a cupboard behind me so it's not a big job to clear the table, another upside is that it's always close to the construction table.

I once read an interview with Mr. Tamiya in the 80's where he said that the vehicles that Tamiya chooses to make have something unique something that challenges. Whether the vehicle is popular in 1:1 did not seem to be that important actually.

It's a nice thread, Monogram's kit really deserves some more love. Some 80s are great, some 70s are charming.

Wonderful, an incredibly difficult kit but the reward is a model with both the right lines and the ”right” parts, the best Harley (chopper) kit.

works on everything.

I agree, what if any company say like Moebius could make them like Monogram did.

I differ greatly in that I was 36 years old when I finally bought my first own car but then it was all the more fun.

I have finally found a pipe in suitable plastic for the tank, 45 mm or 1 49/64 was not easy to find. Yesterday I got a shot from the hip and realize that I have to widen the box a bit, I have not taken any measurements on the truck that inspired me but consistently relied on my eye measurement.