Junkman

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.

That is a 9" Ford right there. Trust me, I know. I used about 50 real ones in the past 25 years.

I have no friends. I'm a car modeller.

Well done. Especially when one considers that our hobby leaves little time for such activities.

Here is one: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/SPEED-RACER-imai-Mach-Go-Go-Go-Plastic-Model-Kit-Japan_W0QQitemZ300388748490QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45f0908cca Now figure it with every imaginable grade up part, resin, PE, you name it.

Imai did a superb 1/24 Mach 5, then issued a plethora of 'grade up' parts for it, so in the end it was possible to build it into a museum quality model. Then they upped the ante and released it in 'crystal', i. e. clear plastic, so it is possible to build one where you can see all the underbody details - if you can find that stuff. I seem to remember that it is going to be reissued, but can't remember where I read it. Rumour has it that Aoshima is going to release the movie version.

It looks like the vote goes ever so slightly into one direction.

I'd love to have the Land Cruiser and Jimny. But it looks like a black hole has opened and swallowed all 1/20 scale kits.

In this kit are these wheels and these tyres Entirely btw, I just noticed that the body has a copyright 1999. It's hard to believe that this kit is already 11 years old.

I finally found some time:

Anyone able to paint with an airbrush says this. Please count me out. First, I'm not Anyone. Second, I tried countless times over a period spanning four decades. I cannot do it and I will never try again.

This engine is for a Daytona???

The Hubley diecast kits were first released in the early Sixties. They were available off and on from various manufacturers until about the turn of the century. This Hot Rod and an Indy style racer are the rarest of the bunch - they were only available for the first two years and have never been reissued.

The 'poor' owner of a brass era car had his servants polish it on a Saturday afternoon, while he waited in the club until it was finished.

You. Can. Not. Spray. Acrylic. Clear. Over. Humbrol. And entirely btw, I have never achieved a glossy paint coat with an airbrush. Hence I don't use them. There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who can spray with an airbrush, and the ones who can't. I am one of the latter and I admitted defeat a long time ago. Being able to paint with an airbrush is a congenital ability. One cannot learn it if one doesn't have it. A bit like plaster work.

My ewewen yeaw owd Dauwter showed me.

They always look like this. I'm never convinced myself at this stage. But you will see how correct they look all of a sudden once they are painted.

This is going to be a bog standard 60s Mitsubishi J-58 like the myriads which were trampled in the Godzilla movies of my childhood. The starting point is this Aoshima kit: It will basically provide the body only and a few ancilliaries. The chassis and wheels will come from this 1/20 Mitsuwa Willys: Why? Because the Aoshima Jeep is one of these 'can be motorized' deals, so this is what is supplied as a chassis: Hence this is what is best done with it: This is the body supplied by Aoshima: The fender flares are already removed in this picture. As you can see, the floor is way too high up in the body to clear the intended mechanicals for the motorized version. Therefore, my first deed was to cut it out completely: