Kromolly

OK, I'm hooked. I like the color choices.

Residence: Chuckanut Drive

Awesome build. What a neat concept. Cool details including the missing passenger side door handle. Well done!

David, thank you for sharing your artwork from your youth! That is really cool stuff, and shows that you had a lot of talent as a young man (and you were resourceful). What strikes me more than anything is the fact that you still have this stuff! I wish I had been forward thinking and kept projects from my youth. Very, very cool.

In my senior year of high school our auto shop teacher had us bring in models to build for the last couple of weeks of school. That guy is my hero!

Both of these I built 25 years ago. Just coming back to the hobby after that many years away.

Very cool. Love those '63 Galaxies! Nice job.

It looks like you'll have to click "Super Dumps" at the top right hand of the page. The link doesn't go directly to that page for some reason. The pictures aren't great for detail. If anyone is interested in better photos of these Super Dumps, I can probably get some and post them.

What an amazing collection of gorgeous trucks. Brian, that P.I.E. IH is so cool! I used to see their fleet on the highway all the time, especially back in the '60s, '70s. Juergen, how about some more pictures of that LA County lowboy and dozer? That looks amazing!

Fantastic looking truck, and the residual asphalt at the end of the box looks great to me. I love the HD truck builds. A local company builds a "Super Dump"; tandem axle, three drop axles and a tag axle. One of these would make a good subject. Here is a link to some images: https://oswequipment.com/gallery/

Thanks for the information and reviews, guys. My big decision is whether to buy, or build. I have a nice Jenn-Air exhaust fan that is itching to be incorporated into a project. There is also a certain appeal to buying and being done with it. Glad to know those units are working well.

What do you think of this booth now? Have you had a chance to use it much? Thanks

I had a similar experience with this SEM primer. Hard to describe, but it looked like the primer shrunk as it dried leaving cracks and voids. I was able to strip it in brake fluid and the model is fine, it didn't melt the plastic. I just shot it too heavy. I tried again on a scrap body and it seems fine in light mist coats. Haven't tried to sand it yet, but I've used this on a 1:1 project and it is nice primer for that purpose and sands nice (that's why I had it on the shelf). I used to have a trick little paint booth that I had made, but several moves later I have no idea where it ended up. I need to build a new one and then go back to air brushing all of my primers.

With my renewed interest and a workspace set up, I've dug into long ago stored (25 years) boxes. There is a '65 Chevy C10 long bed conversion in progress, a '59 Corvette that I had painted red, but didn't like the shade I mixed and felt like I was in a rut with red, so I changed it to black with silver cove. I don't remember what paint I used, but I didn't like how it turned out, so there it sits with a still primed cove. A '50 Ford F-1 that also was painted but I stripped it, I don't remember why. There was a '55 or '56 Chevy Cameo that was painted and ready for final assembly. I've been puttering on that over the past several days and with just a few details that will be the first model I have completed since 1996! The one I am really looking forward to is the '40 Ford coupe below. A good friend had a '39 in the early '60s that he used to show. I copied pictures he had and intended to build a replica. I futzed with the suspension and ride height and didn't get it where I wanted it, and subsequently stuck it in a box for 25 years. In the meantime I moved several times and lived a lot of life. I've played around with it over the weekend and I think I have it where I want it. Back in the day he had a Cadillac engine in the car, so I had long ago set aside a Cadillac V8 with tri-power from (I think) a '59 Cadillac kit. The actual car was a candy green color, and then orange. I am going with the green. Unfortunately my friend passed nearly 10 years ago, but I will remember him while building and eventually displaying the car.

Thank you Tom, the compliment is very much appreciated. I did get a chuckle out of "Stop lurking and start building". This site is addictive, but also inspiring. Thanks again.

Really sharp build and the weathering is phenomenal. I agree with others on your engine choice, very cool.

I thought the variation in your paint was intentional. It has a nice patina in the light, like faded lacquer and maybe some touch up over the life of an old pickup. Really cool build Paul. I built that same kit 25 years go, out-of-box. I posted pictures in the introduction yesterday. I like your modifications.

Thanks guys, your compliments mean a lot coming from you. This forum is great, so much information, talent and eye candy. Back in the mid '90s when I was last building, information was limited to a few publications. I learned quite a bit from those, but the amount of information here far eclipses anything I could find back then. Someone once said "stop lurking and start building!" Easier said than done. ?

Very cool and nice looking build. For some reason the voice of Johnny Horton is echoing in my head.

Such a cool subject and a really clean and well-planned build. Nicely done!

Corvairs are cool. You did this one justice. Nice color.

Beautiful paint and amazing detail.

That is a beautiful build. I have this kit, found it at the Goodwill for a few bucks. I wasn't aware of the deficiencies. Your pictures make me itch to build this one. Thank you for sharing!

Very, very nice build. Color is great and I really like the detail of the Korean War era chrome on the bumpers. The chrome wasn't shiny and flawless on those cars and you nailed it. OUTSTANDING!

Cheers. Been lurking for a few days and decided to join and introduce myself. Like many of you I built models as a kid, in the 1970s, primarily cars and trucks. Mom and dad tried to get me interested in other subjects (ships, submarines, airplanes, flintlock pistols... YAWN!). They finally figured it out and left me to my misspent motoring youth. I wish I had kept the models of my youth, but they are long gone off-gassing in a landfill somewhere. Fast forward to the mid-1990s when I was thirty-something, and I got into the hobby again and built some cars that I now have on display, and share photos below. I spent a couple of years building and then life got busy and everything got put away in boxes. With kids long grown and gone and retirement nearing, I'm itching to get into the hobby again. I have about 40 unbuilt kits that I collected mostly in the 90s, an eclectic collection of muscle cars, antiques, gassers, fuel-altered drag cars and heavy-duty trucks. My profession is fleet management, so it seems fitting that I fill the house with rolling stock. As I said, the models below were built in the mid-1990s. I haven't built a model in 25 years. I am currently working on a replica of my wife's high school car, a '72 Mustang notchback. This required cutting the roof off of the MPC '73 Mustang fastback and grafting a the roof of am AMT Street Custom Mercury Cougar roof to the body, and also removing and filling the hood scoops. Just about ready for primer now. A couple of the models below had a few mods, the most mods being to the light green '55 Chevy pickup. This kit in the 90s had a wide back window, V8 engine and chrome. I wanted to build the low-end pickup of the day, the "Thriftmaster" with 6-cylinder and no chrome. I just noticed the battery is missing, I'll have to remedy that. The firewall was modified to accept the longer 6-cylinder, the wrap-around back window was filled, chrome was stripped and parts painted white, and the spare tire well was created in the left rear fender. The blue Buick Riviera is a replica of a car I owned in the early to mid- 80s. Hope you enjoy the photos. The quality isn't great, they were taken with a smart phone.