tim boyd

David.....it's the highboy version interior from the Revell '30 A Five Window Coupe kit, built straight from the box with paint detail only. Michael, Jon, James and Jeff: Thanks for the feedback, as always, very much appreciated TIM

Here's a real one from the Concours of the Americas at St. John's last summer.... TIM

...this episode of Hot Rod Hints is a nice compliment to the article showing how to build a highly traditional Model A-framed Roadster Highboy in the new Model Cars mag issue #203.and the article on building and kitbashing the '30 A Five Window Coupe highboy version in the new April Issue of the other model car magazine. Just like building a full scale hot rod, it is often the fine details that make a large difference in the impact of your finished hot rod model. In this chapter, we’ll demonstrate some of the finer points of building a model hot rod, touching on firewalls, windshield frames, and more on the subject of proper placement of the radiator/assembly. Check it out the articles in the magazines and Chapter Three at the link below....and be watching for Hot Rod Hints Chapter Four....available in a couple of weeks from now. Thanks for looking....and hope this inspires you to build a new hot rod model or two. Here's the link. TIM

Just adding my two cents worth here, Mark is spot-on with his recommendation above...TIM

Sharp, sharp, sharp!!!! TIM

Heh all....thanks for the feedback. I guess this was pretty popular photo album on the web (if not so much here), I got 40,000 individual page views on Saturday alone....TIM

Del......sounds to me like what you need is the J2-like engine from the Revell '50 Olds Custom kit (the second release from that tool, not the first factory stock version). If you aren't familiar with this one, let me know and I can post pictures The other Olds option I like is the 4-71 blown Olds from the Beatnik Bandit kit. It has the same basic block as the Orange Crate, but is setup with a water pump/generator fan belt drive and dual strombergs - both important for street use. TIM

Alan makes a great suggestion for those that gotta have an SBC in their Ford hot rod.....and another excellent is the blown Chevy 327 in the '62 Corvette Gasser kit. Here is more on both of these engines.....

Why not swap in the Nailhead from the Revell 29 Roadster kit? This is a simple swap.....and can be accomplished with no further modifications if you know the right parts to pull from the Roadster kit. I think there will be instructions on how to do this in the next issue of the other model car magazine. There are also instructions on how to further personalize the Nailhead in the newest (Issue #203) Model Cars magazine, published a couple of weeks ago.. TIM

Snake is right here, although I think it was more mid-1967. Aw....what the heck....let me go check.....(brief pause)......OK, here's the answer. Car Model Magazine, March 1968, "Woodie Rail Job", also featured on the cover lower right hand corner. TIM

Scott.....the Dennis Doty project was originally published in 1981 as a single paperback book under the tab Imprint. This was an excellent book, but hampered by dark and difficult to see black and white picture reproduction. It was republished in 1989 as two separate volumes, again under the Tab imprint. The other book that sounds a bit like what you recall was credited to author Bill Neuman in the 1960's as I recall, but it had a number of Don Emmons projects inside (though he may not have been credited as such). I thought I had a copy of this book in my basement library but apparently not (I just checked). One of Don's most loved how-tos was his Parnelli Jones '63 Mercury, originally published in Rod and Custom (or Rod and Custom Models); it is likely the book had a reprint of this article. Does any of this sound more familiar? TIM

Thanks Scott.....here's the link for those who are interested............

From what I understand, there is at least one idea in this thread that is under consideration and if it materialized I suspect it would be an excellent seller. As for me personally, I'd love to see the '61-'63 F100 Unibody, such as the one Jesse posted above, but I doubt that one is going to surface as a new kit from any of the makers.... TIM

First I've ever heard of this. Sounds unlikely to me; by the late 1960's luxury branded annual kits (Lincoln, Cadillac, T-Bird) were not selling very well, and development capital was tight, particularly at AMT. But as we all know, never say never......TIM

Andy.....great thing about the NNL is that we are all on the same pedestal. The thing we all share is our interest in model cars and building model cars. That makes us all equals. Doesn't matter one wit who's won awards and who hasn't won them. Nor whose work has appeared in the mags and whose hasn't. Or which models have hundreds of hours of minute detail vs. which ones are just clever ideas assembled for fun. We're just a bunch of really good friends trying to get together for a few hours of friendship and sharing the hobby we all love. That's the vibe that we always got from a visit with Tom and Karen at their Ohio model kingdom, and it's what we've tried to maintain even though NNL's now draw hundreds and hundreds of people to each event. That's also one of the reasons why Tom, Chuck, and I have always skewed towards a preference of "no awards" at NNL' s (while pragmatically agreeing to requests from event organizers the idea of a few "people's choice" awards voted on by the participants). TIM

See full coverage (297 photos) of day 1 at the 2017 Cobo Autorama, gerenally considered one of the two most important inside Hot Rod Shows in the world....see link/message posted in the "1/1 Reference Photos" section below...TIM

For your viewing enjoyment and as inspiration for current of future modeling projects....300 photos from Cobo's Detroit Autorama, Autorama Extreme, and the Great 8 Finalists...Enjoy...>TIM 1962 Kellison racing coupe....

I did a two-part article in Model Cars a couple of years ago with a C800 race car transporter and trailer like this. It does require some kitbashing to pull off. Recommend you check out the back issues department for the articles if you are considering a project like this............TIM

I can't speak for whomever has $100 to spend on any single model car kit purchase,. On the other hand, this one (despite some minor inaccuracies) is a truly outstanding kit that replicates the single hottest topic in the 1/1 scale hot rod world right now. TIM

I'd grab any you see on the shelves right now, Charlie. TIM

Gary....here you go.. These are missing some header extensions that were added before the car was photo'd for the article that is ???? .

If anyone wants to try this conversion, you may find these photo albums (which were set up for this purpose) helpful......TIM http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/correcting-or-kitba/192829-model-a-coupe/ http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/correcting-or-kitba/193031-model-a-coupe-1/

Replicas and Miniatures still makes a '30 Model A Coupe body. It is excellent in its own right, and includes a couple of cool features - a louvered decklid and a windshield visor with holes, that are not in the Revell Model A Coupe. Ironically, I sent an article to Model Cars in late 2015 showing how to use that R&M of MD body, and the extra floorboard that was included in the '29A Roadster kit by mistake, to make a '30 A Coupe model....this was about 9 months before the Revell '30 A Coupe kit became (briefly) available. Harry immediately formatted the article for issue #204, but as we know given the switchover and associated issues, we have yet to see either that issue or the one before it. Here's a leftover shot of the completed project. TB

Terry....I thought I had photos of this in one of my Fotki albums but I couldn't find them. I had taken photos of this build along with the earlier AMT Nitro Charger for an article, but it never got published. The photos are hiding somewhere on my current desktop after the folder structure I had used for organizing (Nikon Picture Perfect) did not transfer over from my old to my new desktop when I purchased it c. 2013 or so. Curses! TB

As I mentioned in an earlier post above, there were also Pontiac Astre and a fictitious "Peanut 1" kits based off this tool. And yet another one I had forgotten, a "Ford Pinto/Mercury Bobcat" kit that had body inserts for both makes. How cool is that? There may have been a companion dual Vega/Astre kit as well, but I can't recall for sure. TB