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Went to the lhs to get some primer for an upcoming build, browsed the evergreen racks and got some resupplies, found these Meng bolts and those will save a heck of a lot of scratch building. They had a bunch of nos kits from an estate! Found the Thames panel release 1995 always wanted one, had some partials but never enough to build a full kit. And lastly a fb auction score. Now I’ll finally have a trailer for the attempt 1.

Dude that’s heartbreaking

@Snake45 I finally got to use some of the parts of that original glue bomb, frame, rear axle/suspension engine and a bit of the interior. While not a restore, it did get a second life.

Well I wouldn’t say beating my brains out, more like giving a very strong workout, and maybe I’ve mixed in a couple of pan galactic gargle blasters to get the flux back in the core. Pipe down Scotty you’ve had the engines past warp 5 before ya mumbling Scottish bast…

Test stance of the grape ape

Well between work, life and all the other stuff we need to do in-order to support our hobby. I managed to find some time to get some subassemblies in paint and actually connected together. Nothing ground breaking or earth shattering but the frame and suspension are mated to the chassis. Last details to add are the front and rear shocks( both slowly dechroming) and the front steering. I did manage to try some test shots of the colour I chose and I think even though the temperature is not ideal I should be able to get down some decent enough coats to get a pretty smooth (ish) finish. I’m having a hard time trying to decide on a matching/ contrasting colour for the interior upholstery. So with the colour being (redacted) my options are white, cream, black …… and possibly grey, I’ll most likely have to try some variation of either to see what best fits the build. It’s not a show car but more of a results dude who wanted a pretty spiffy roadster in the late fifties, his uncle owns the local wrecking yard so getting a pretty low mile J2 was easy and his best friend is apprenticing as a painter at the local body shop so getting the body redone was cheap, the rest our ole boy repurposed and painted in black with a brush. He managed to trade some of his mechanical knowledge with a local garage on weekends to scrape up the extra jinglies in his pocket to have some parts chromed. mill keep plugging away on getting this one finished and make some progress on the commission build at the same time. Captain's log 2023.11 all life forms appear to be mute. Drop a comment, leave a like.

I hope you are both harbingers of good tidings for that kit Re release. I only have one partial still in my stash. When they do pop up for sale (fb auctions & evil bay) they are grossly overpriced.

Fuel to the fire for kitbashers! I’ll be adding to the stash as time and money allow. I’m not as “board famous” as the kitbashers mentioned above, but all my builds have been kitbashed or modified to some degree. I love the fact that Atlantis made these available.

Well if you clock them about three minutes ahead they will line up with the spokes and aside from a colour difference no one would be the wiser. My .02 c Canadian says keep ‘em!

Well I’ve seen these pieces of paper in some of the boxes, I thought they were useless propaganda so I never bothered to look at them.

Please explain to me how making a model from only the contents of one box works please?

I hear ya on that Craig, I’m gonna try some test shots of primer this afternoon, the garage is my only place to shoot now, it’s holding a balmy 16c in there now, outside temp is 5c. Not ideal but we will see how it goes. I miss my paint booth

Now that in my humble opinion is the best rendition of that kit I have ever seen.

??? I’m from Newfoundland so that makes me half Canadian as well hahahaha.

Great more Canadians! Newf landlocked in Alberta. Welcome

Well today started off as a productive Sunday. Got some parts painted, got some engine work completed. And then my friend whom we shall call the hoarder calls me and asks me to come over to his place as he has some parts for me( he usually does not disappoint(this time he did))! So I head out and pay a visit. He hand me a box of stock model t parts. Well beggars can’t be choosers, but wait there’s more, last year he had me do a commission build for him of a mild strip/street 31 Willy’s which he raved about for a long time, it actually lives in a glass case not just on a shelf gathering dust like the rest of his vast collection( he has a room of nothing but General lees and other movie/tv cars) he digs around on his build table and hands me a 32 3 window resin body. It already been painted a wild purple. The man knows I love 32 fords( not model t’s) so who better in his mind to build him up a wild one right. So I take my prizes and head home after another short trip to a different LHS. So needless to say my build day was short on my own project but I plugged ahead and got some parts figured out for the commish. Knocked up a supercharger intake for the revell hemi from the 32 3 window kit( I may have a couple of those around) looks pretty good to me so far. Pics, oh yeah pics. Last years commish, current mish mash of parts for new commish and what I managed for myself. Enjoy, comment, critique, laugh! Comments would be good as I feel this is more like a blog. gimme some random ideas on where the commission build should take me (gasser/street freak maybe) flames, scallops polka dots…

Thank you Bill, the great thing about havin the ole interwebs is it makes researching so much more helpful. The Burb is 4wd, gonna need it up here in the ole snowy north.

That’s a dang fine example of weathered steel!

Well today I visited my LHS and stood at the paint rack for way longer than I should have. I was trying to envision a colour for the roadster that would fit into the mid to late 50’s, seeing as how we have a 57 ish mill in the works we need a colour that fits the era. I got bubkus… nothing, no vision came to me at all! Then I walked the kit aisle to see if there was any inspiration there, Zilch. Back to the paint isle and then it came to me. Hiding in the bottom row was a colour that I had over looked. I grabbed that can and held it up to the unnatural light of the fluorescent ceiling. Could it be? I walked the can to the closest window, and bam there it was the colour I had to have.

I sure hope they do! Kitbashing that kit with the recent new tool roadster would be a dream!!

I saw 6 of them at my local hobby shop today, was it a recent reissue?

Picked up a Brookfield collectors die cast of a 1995 suburban, gonna make it into a replica of my current daily. last pic is how it will hopefully by spring.

For me it’s any iteration of the revell 32 ford kits, and add in the recent line of 29/30 ford kits. Also any revell kit that has a flathead in it. Wish there was a better source for small block ford engines.

Plugging away at some engine details. And a new first for me fuel lines! Looks a little untidy atm but once I marry the carbs to the manifold I can straighten the lines a little.

My local pie place puts a dough ball in the center so no plastic for me