Dan Hay

Looking good! It has a great profile. White top all the way.

Knowing your attention to detail, this should be stunning!

Awesome Tim! I keep walking by the display case and I pause to look at it and it takes me back to my youth! Thanks again.

The model, and out in my garage a few minutes ago.

That fade looks pretty good from where I'm sittin'! You sure Winfield himself didn't shoot that? 😁

Thanks Dennis! I really appreciate that. And thanks to all the other kind comments. I really enjoyed this build. I have an idea to recreate something like the "One Night at Skip's" Diorama by Chuck Layman from another issue of SAE, but that's an enormous undertaking and unlikely. But I can dream... He had a motor under the table and a track so the cars actually circled the restaurant. My mind exploded when I got this issue and saw that.

It looks great. I wouldn’t strip it, it’s good to have early representations of your building skill around so you can see how much you have improved. I wish I still had some of the builds I did as a kid, flaws and all. Just build another 61 but a little different. 61 Chevys make great mild Kustoms!

Incredible! Stunning!

Stunning! Thanks for the info on where you got the wheels. I've been looking for a wheel like that for years.

I really like this little coupe. The two-tone, combined with the wires and stance really nail the look you were going for. I've had a build of this era in my mind for a while and this gets me excited to build it. Nice build!

I know nothing about boats except the pointed end is usually the front... but I love them old Chris Craft wooden boats. Really cool!

The title says "Stock", so I was a little surprised to see the custom grille and molded surround, but I LOVE IT! Really great looking 58. I'm building a 58 right now so you gave me some good ideas.

@tim boyd Your words are very kind and mean a lot! Thank you again for your dedication to the hobby all these years and your participation in this forum. Just browsing your fotki albums has given me lots of ideas for future builds. Hopefully our paths will cross someday and I can shake your hand and thank you in person.

I've really enjoyed reading the @tim boyd posts about the Model A's, especially @Dennis Lacy 's woody and closed cab pickup. Tim posted a picture of this model A while back, as well a link to his Fotki album of all his builds. Needless to say, I didn't get much done at work that day! I immediately got on ebay and ordered a copy of SAE 57 with the Woody on the cover. Wow, talk about nostalgia flooding my brain. I remember wearing out that issue, reading it over and over again and drooling at that cool woody. It dawned on me that I had that kit in my stash and it wouldn't be too difficult to just build one for myself... So, thank you Tim for being such an inspiration to a young kid of 11, and I'm still building all these years later. Here are some pics of the build. The video below is private and won't go live on YouTube until this afternoon, so you great folks of MCM forum get a sneak peak of the video before anyone else. For those who don't want to watch the rather long build video, here are some pics of the build.

That's one sharp 57!

Amazing! I believe Tim K. is on this forum and posted build pics of that Offy powered Model A.

So awesome! You totally nailed the look of that era that I remember well.

Thanks for the info Tim! One of my favorite tail lights for customs.

Just scrolled through this again for inspiration. I'm about 75% done with a 29 Woody, I'll post in under glass when done. Very nice detail, I kept the molded in chassis of the AMT kit but I had specific reasons for doing that which will be explained when I post about it. Nice work as always!

Really cool, where'd you get those 58 Delray tail lights?

Love the story behind it. I don’t have any of my early builds. The oldest build I have is only about 30 years old. Really cool to see the different versions, and I appreciate a good build up of an AMT 32 which is a kit I tend to avoid, as the Revell 32 came out just after high school. Keep posting the stories!

Great tutorial fixing the “gaping maw” of the wheel opening. I might actually build one now instead of robbing all the cool parts for other builds.

Incredible!

Thanks for bringing this back up! I really did enjoy the read.

Nice build! I just finished one as well. Love this kit!