Junkman

Original AMF Voyager: Der Blitzen Bike: GT Dyno Glide Deluxe: GT Kustom Kruiser Deuce: Pre war Steyr Racer: Phil McKee's 1961 Reg Harris (unrestored): 1959 NSU Quickly:

I do. I have a bicycle collection actually.

My favourite:

Important cars? The only important car is the one that brings one forth and back to work every day. And this would in my case qualify for a Concourse D'Elegance over here even less than a stock car, trust me.

Stock cars at a Concourse D'Elegance? If you can enter a stock car in a Concourse D'Elegance, it was either not properly raced, or it isn't a proper Concourse D'Elegance where I'm from.

You know how it goes, Bill. You first look into the box, almost get a stroke, then start to tackle it. In the end, they are great fun to build, but you can't really consider them 'scale' models. I find them charming and full of character. A bit like old Märklin railways. Maybe I should post a few pics of the Duesenberg Town Brougham I have in untouched condition, so the ones not in the know can see how they are delivered?

Wanna race? Or how about beating the lawnmower LSR? http://www.projectrunningblade.co.uk/

We have a resource thread in this very forum. Have you checked there?

The Revellogram 71 Plymouth used to be a Road Runner before it mutated into the GTX. So it might be worthwile to search for an original RR kit. It also had the strobe decals included. Then there was the MPC 71 Road Runner in 1/25, including phantom Superbird parts. Also worth checking maybe.

Since when are you clairvoyant? I would not go so far as to try to figure out which real car Hubley tried to depict - because even they didn't. I take these 'models' for what they are - Vintage kits that ooze character. I'm not even attempting to make this into anything authentic. I will do what Hubely intended me to do with it. I would have loved to use real leather for the interior, especially since this particular issue didn't even come with the stickers for the door panels anymore. But, alas. And yes, Dragline, this is really heavy metal.

To all fans of polar-bear-friendly motoring: Get out your water based paints, pour yourself some red wine into the beaker you made at the last find-yourself-through-pottery workshop, listen to the latest whale songs, and place your order: http://www.hlj.com/product/fuj03822 Makes me want to let a twin double pumper equipped Hemi sit and idle for no reason except to ventilate my frustration about what this world has come to.

I just hate these stupid dog dishes. Someone who can afford a car like this should have the money to buy some proper wheels for it.

No pictures, but here is a good website if you need to research original paint codes: http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/colour_codes_menu.htm

For those, who do not know these kits, this is already the result of hours upon hours of parts preparation: First 'check' coat of primer: Engine block mock up: It is interesting to note, that the block of the engine is metal, whereas the parts which actually are natural metal on the real engine, are made of plastic.

Gives me the creeps. I hope we will see nicer stuff soon. I mean, there must be an epitome to ugliness. After this is reached, styling can only improve. Gosh, I'm thinking this for 25 years now. And everytime I think it is reached, something uglier is unveiled. I mean, would you sleep with somebody who looks like a BMW bootlid?

Installed the engine: Underpinnings: We've got wheels! And the first dress rehearsal: No worries, the body will come down about 2mm in the front once it is properly fixed. The stance is exactly how I wanted it.

I'm really getting into it now. This is today's progress. This is where I left yesterday: Finished the engine: Installed seats and door cards: Finished the interior:

And I thought cars couldn't get any uglier.

So it's all in essence Preßstoff?

I think it was quite popular in Japan and Europe.

De quel sont les jantes?

You did a superb job bringing this one back from the dead. And the kit itself - the spirit of hot rodding cast in metal.

Och nee, Jürgen. Nicht Du jetzt auch mit den doofen Dogdishes. Aber sag mal, woher kannst Du so gut Modelle bauen?

This looks fantastic. Simple. Nice. Very stylish and classy. Not one of the usual circus tractors. You have taste, Sir.

Then there was 'Everflex' in England. Weymann and Van den Plas used it for entire bodies, see the Blower Bentleys as an example. It was actually invented in - you guessed it - Germany. They called it Preßstoff (press-fabric). It is actually made of specially layered and treated paper pulp (cellulose) and artificial resol, the latter being not dissimilar to enamel paint. So yes, the Blower Bentleys were in essence covered with paper.