tim boyd

Bob....those are looking very promising. Here are a couple of photos from the Goodguys Nats in Columbus a few days ago. Completely stock (icluding paint and upholstery, other than wheels and tires) and very, very sharp 'surviror" style '71 Impala Custom (formal roof) two door hardtop... Best of luck with your projects going forward....TIM

Here are the other shots of the car, during the main event on Friday..... ....plus several more closeups of the Ford Y-Block engine (which would be easy to duplicate using the unit in the Revell '57 Ford Custom Sedan kit and the tri-power manifold from Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland or the old AMT '57 T-Bird kit.... http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/11-scale-automotive/2014-goodguys-colum/page21.html Best Regards....TIM

********************** Bernard....can't wait to see this one take shape. There was a simply killer '27 T Turtledeck at Goodguys Nats this weekend - not only that, it was Y-Block powered. YEA! It's not exactly what you are doing (for one, it doesn't have the '32 frame), but I do think it's in the spirit of those that you show above. Here's a look: There's several more images at the bottom of this page of my 2014 Goodguys Photo Album - these are from the Host Hotel Party Thursday night, but I'm almost sure I took more shots of it on Friday at the main event as well; these would be much further along in the 2014 Goodguys folder (UPDATE - these Friday shots are shown in the next post below). Here's the link: http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/11-scale-automotive/2014-goodguys-colum/page5.html I also built a couple of these myself - a channeled '27 T Turtledeck (with a Y-Block) about five years ago, and a '27 T Roadster pickup on the Revell '32 Frame about ten years ago. The body that seems to show up most commonly among the resin vendors I think may have its roots in either a master from the late Ron Cash, or perhaps the master from Tim's Resin Rods (a NorCal resin vendor who was active around the turn of the century). But I guess I need to check out that Altered States body you mention, as the ones I have are not 100% correct as you indicate. Anyway, great project and really looking forward to you applying your design talent and model building expertise to this subject. Best regards...TIM

http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/11-scale-automotive/2014-goodguys-colum/ Thanks for looking....TIM

I remember this being said as well...but I also thought it went farther and said that the Monogram and MPC teams more or less admitted to the writer's hypothesis that the MPC kit was tooled from the Moogram Masters (e.g. pantagraffed down from 1/8th to 1/16 scale). I believe Hank Borger may have been the source of this latter info>?>?>> TIM

Marcos....the kit appears to be based on a relatively recent restoration of the original car which was the subject of a five-page, all color feature ("Chariots of the Gods, by Paul Zazarine), "in the October, 2008 issue of Popular Hot Rodding magazine. (I bought an extra copy and sent it to the team at Revell back then when I was campaigning - along with many others, apparently - for a new tool '70 Hemi 'cuda kit). This article has most if not all the photos you would need. I expect it's still available as a back issue (though PHR itself is about ready to publish its last ever issue, sadly), and it might be on their website as well. Some photos from the article have appeared in a Google Image Search. There were also a couple of photos of the restoration in an article called "Sox and Martin - Making Plymouth Great a Quarter Mile at a Time" in the October, 2010 issue of Mopar Muscle magazine. But I recommend the PHR story. Will be looking forward to seeing your project take shape! TIM

I checked the photos of the restored car in the Popular Hot Rodding feature in 2008 (presumably the car Revell referenced in developing the kit). It does not have side mirrors, and it does not have side marker lights. TB

Full coverage of the 23rd Annual Camaro Superfest at the link....enjoy....TIM http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/11-scale-automotive/2014-camarofest-23r-1/

Thanks Brett and Andy. Best Regards...TIM

Two cases....yikes!!!! Can't you buy just one box and verify the window size before you buy two cases worth??? What if I make a mistake??? (smile) TB

No changes to the fender flares.....TB

John....SRC.... Scott Richards Case (may have been Richardson as you note) was later shortened to SRC...their "Milestones" album was as good as any rock album produced in that era.....TIM PS - pretty amazing links you had there with these A2 based artists! tB

Felix.. I presume you are talking about the backlight/back of cab wall window ....I just checked the new kit against my original issue T500 kit....the cab back windows appear to the be same, or if not the same, very, very close to the original. If you haven't already done so, you can check out my photos of the kit contents (not a test shot) and commentary here... http://public.fotki.com/funman1712/first-look-at-all-n/new-amt-t500-califo/ Best regards...TIM

Jay...thanks for the additional info. This is really hard to figure out...I just checked my kit again and it has none of the fit issues you describe (fitting it as a one piece unit). The fit is very good (in the context of a kit tooled in 1964/5). Makes me wonder if your kit had a faulty glass shot somehow??? Recommend you write to Round 2 and ask for a replacement glass unit. Don't know that it will solve the problem, but never hurts to try. Thanks again..>TIM

Richard Carroll was added to the International Model Car Builder's Museum under their new "Historic Famers" category meant to "recognize vintage builders for their great contributions to the advancement of our hobby". You can read about this in Model Cars #187, pages 10-11. Denny Johnson, Jim and Ray Yonts, Robert A. Smith, ,Richard Mike Johnson, Bob Nordberg, and Jerry Svikek were similarly honored. TB

We did manage to get Richard to one of the earlier NNL Nationals IIRC, to honor him and his work when their was an NNL Hall of Fame award each year. It was pretty impressive to see all his creations together in one setting. Richard, in my view, was more of an "artist" than a modeler. His creations were nothing less than contemporary art, using 1/25th scale car design as a medium.

Yes...very familiar. In the late 1960's, Ann Arbor had "Free Concerts" each Sunday, first at Leslie (?) Park, between Miller and Huron Streets west of downtown, and later on in Gallup Park (an Island in the Huron River near Huron Parkway. Both these groups, and others of their ilk ("SRC" was a terrific Ann Arbor group as well), were very controversial with parents of teenagers in Ann Arbor at the time, including mine. But I did manage to ride my bike to at least one or two of the free concerts when they were at Leslie Park. It's pretty vague but it may have been the MC5 (btw, John Sinclair's communist ramblings aside, "Ramblin' Rose and "Sister Anne" are two great cuts - the later having what may be the best opening riff of any song of the rock and roll era....) I remember when the Stooges album with " I wanna be your dog" and "It's 1969" came out. I thought the music was awful. Shows you how much I know...I did go to a concert at a local Ann Arbor bar that honored Ron Asheton after his death, and my former boss J Mays (the Ford Group VP of Design) sat next to Scott Asheton on one of his frequent Detroit-London trips and told me he was a really nice guy.... TIM .

See post #71 for photos of the actual car at the Museum. According to Gray Baskerville in Hot Rod magazine (late 1980's), it is the original car. It was sold, then later acquired and just mildly refreshed as it had not been greatly modified. The car appears to represent the Malco Gasser in its final as raced form, which evolved somewhat from the original status of the car as featured in Car Craft magazine. The very cool thing is that Round 2 includes decals for both the original, and final versions of the car. TB

Anyone have a picture of the Chevy Fisher I6 cylinder head (as included in the AMT '51 Chevy Bel Air) that would show the location of dual spark plugs per cylinder???? I can find plenty of pictures of the cylinder head/spark plug locations for Fisher heads with single spark plugs per cylinder, but the AMT kit includes a distributor cap with 12 (not six) spark plug wire terminals, leading me to believe that there must be or have been a Fisher dual plug cylinder head out there somewhere! And if so, I need to see a picture of it so I route my spark plug wiring properly. Thanks in advance if anyone can help....TIM

Yes, those cars were the original Zingers, as conceptualized and modeled by Dennis (Denny) Johnson. And they were exactly where MPC got the idea for the Zingers. TIM

You should use the blower, and intake manifold, from the AMT '33 Willys as they are much more correct than the MPC kit parts. i think that the MPC blower drive is more accurate. TB

Harry....I think that the Tamiya TS-13 paint gives a smoother/glossier finish without having to do the additional step of rubbing the finish out, which I have to do with Testors One Coat Wet Look Clear. For those that can get consistently good results from TS-13, that makes it worth it to use that paint. I, however, have had enough problems with TS-13 that my overall success rate is below 50%, so for that reason I use the Testors Wet Look Clear paint, which I find has a near 100% success rate, albeit requiring the extra step of rubbing out the paint. Thanks..>TB

I agree that the issue with bubbling can be correlated with putting on too much paint at once, but I think it also correlates with getting the sprayhead too close to the model (which may trap some of the aerosol propellant on the body surface before it has time to evaporate as it leaves the sprayhead. Between this and the tendency it has to attack the basecoat (causing it to pull away from seams, door lines, etc.), which yielded multiple messed up paint jobs for me that had to be subsequently "rescued", I finally migrated to the Testors Wet Look Clear. But if you can master the process to deliver consistent good results, TS-13 is the way to go. TB

Great shots!!!! Thanks Maxx.....TIM

John....I don't recall that one specifically, but I did check it against the 1990's Ertl release (with the brown car on the box art). If I get a chance, I'll try to check it against some other issues....I did look at the '66 kit and it was an entirely different unit.....TB