Jon Cole

Chuck, another awesome Hudson! I found a car that looks similar. What a comparison!

Very nice. You may want to check ink levels in your printer. Looks like you are running low.

"Bought it on Friday, finished it on Sunday." About the same amount of time it takes me to feel comfortable enough to glue together the engine halves without screwing up a sequence. That is an awesome Hudson! Really like the new roof.

No I haven't, Brett. But I do like the idea. Hope to get on that this evening.

Thanks for the info regarding the newest release (green box art). I am no marketing expert, and It really doesn't matter what actually happened in 1954. At least to me. It's 2016, these models average about about $35. (around here). Seems to me, if you want to keep milking the tooling over several different versions, it helps to add more, not less. I believe it is a model first, and a replica second. Doesn't matter to me that the car offered this time is more basic. The kit should offer more, not less. More, as in addition to the Kelsey Hayes wire wheels. You already have them! Also, add whatever plain wheels, as are in this version. Whitewalls, one side only. Blackwalls on the other side. They can paint the ww's black if so desired, or put the ww's on the inside. But why offer just blackwalls? Buying two Hudson's to get the new version and the K-H wires will cost me around $70. I just don't have that kind of cabbage on hand. Give us a break. Offer more, not less.

Tasty!

I like Testors Liquid Cement. But when I need to replace it, I plan on trying Tamiya or Ambroid. Meantime, whenever I cut off those little round ejection pin bits off clear parts, I drop them in my clear cement. once it dissolves, it has a little more body to it.

It's being listed as a '77. Google Image shows the '77 as the original "low" hood.

Z Wheels!

"1964 Plymouth Belvedere Lawnman Super Stock Car" Co-sponsored by Miracle Grow, no doubt.

Liquid glues, as well as small bottles of thinner, I store mine in an inverted Krylon cap. The kind with the inner ring of plastic.

Hot Curl even has a page in Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Curl

Me'es thinks that, in the case of the chrome on the four fenders, there is a body style line stamped into the steel. It appears just a tad above the top of each chrome strip. Same thing happened with the Hudsons. Many built ups I have seen, the BMF was incorrectly cut on the body style line, rather than the top edge of the chrome trim, just below it.

Correct. All quite peculiar.

Thing is, the Hudson kit has gone through several versions. Yet as of today, only ONE version has offered the desirable Kelsey Hays wire wheels. I have no problems with them waiting beyond the first release to issue them. Now that the K/H rims are out in the first 1954 kit, why not reissue them in the next issue? I already bought two kits to get the first issue sporting the K/H wheels. If I remember correctly, the '54 with the K/H's didn't appear until the third street version. Add the NASCAR kits, and that number is even higher. Now, they intro a bland '54 fastback with plain wheels. So, we get the boring saucer plates once again, but have to attempt to hunt down that one kit with the wires. Two kits to get one good one. Plus, apparently no white walls in the newest issue? Are they going to also offer a scale ugly stick they beat this thing with? Hey, I love a decked out Hudson. Proud of the '53 I built. Just don't dig the plain Jane version. And with the going MSRP's on, well, all of today's new issue kits, I just cannot afford to buy a now out of production kit*, just for wheels. Especially when they could have easily included them in the latest version. I'm still going to buy it, but.... please include the good stuff! And... if they should, by chance offer them with the inverted bathtub, looks like I will be stuffing my face with crow! *It IS out of production, no?

Bump.

So, does the latest issue (green car on cover) have anything beyond stock steel wheels?

While researching the 914... A 1970 (or '72, depending on which caption you choose to believe) 914/6 by California coach-builders, Troutman and Barnes.

Best way to deal with lack of wipers on a sports car kit... turn it into a race car! However, if one must have wipers, look in other kits that have already been designated as "parts doners". However, the best idea is the most challenging, yet also the most rewarding. Picturing a pair of wiper blade assemblies, it is nothing more that a few small shapes. The arm base is a tapered wedge. From that comes the remaining thin arm. All this can be done with Evergreen Strips, available at a well stocked hobby shop. A nice, easy way to get into scratch building. Don't forget the blade itself. You could either cut sheet stock, or again use something like their .030 x .030 strip stock. Use your fingers to gently persuade it to the curve of the windshield. Use jewelers drill bit to add a flat head pin to the base of the wiper into the body at the bottom of the windshield. To attach the blade to the glass, use a sparing amount of Devcon 5-Minute Epoxy. You will have approx. 4 minutes to work. After that it will start the curing. Any glue that oozed out around the edges can be cleanly removed with a gentle hand, a sharp Ex-Acto #11 blade, and... most important- a toothpick! Six or seven minutes in, poke at the curing glue....IN THE MIXING CUP. If it's time, go to work on the model body. If the glue feels rubbery, use the knife, followed by the toothpick to work free the excess epoxy. as the rubbery consistency works in your favor, use the pick to peel it up and away. If any residue left, keep at it with the pick. Be careful to avoid scratching the window with the knife. Perhaps a sharpened toothpick might be the way to go.

I just have to chuckle at what they used to call "racing seat" ! I sure wouldn't let that stop me from buying one, tho.

Tommy, that is one fine looking Cadillac! You did a remarkable save!

I have to agree with the consensus that the '58 cars would be a problem in today's market, as so many don't seem aware of the kits vintage roots and sparse parts count. So if they did locate them, they would have to find a way to market them in a way just short of making the customers sign an affidavit acknowledging it's roots.

I always run on the theory that I will never get the early model Corvair coupe, or truck. "Too odd" I thought. Then we get a Hudson. Then we start getting one year off variations of cars we already have in plastic. So the heck with that theory. A 1964 Greenbriar Van sure would be sweet. This could be followed up with a Corvair Rampside Truck. Finish it up with a Corvan Panel Truck. Of course, if they wanted to do a Rampside wheelstander, I won’t complain! You won't get quite the mileage out of the tooling as the Hudsons, but at three versions, not too bad. And the drivetrain could always be used on a '64 Monza Coupe or convertible!

Already available. Or should I say, it was recently. Of course, an old kit save by Model King. If Moebius does a version, obviously it would likely have a lot more detail. I built one in red similar to the one in Ken's photo.

That sure beats the stuffing out of the only game in town when I built this a few decades back. Now I will buy this new release and do it right.