Junkman

Any small town engineering company can do the pipe bending. Just check the local yellow pages.

You are really better off starting with a cruiser frame, honestly. These are way too many mods to make it feasible.

I don't doubt for a second that you built this model. And I like it. One thing to improve is stance and wheel alignment. Also, the tyres could be mounted a bit more carefully. Always keep in mind, that stance, wheels and tyres are what make a model plausible - actually not unlike a real car. As for cleaning models - I wash them, believe it or not. I wash each and every model before it goes into my display cabinet.

Found mowe: After you cwick on 'Wanguage Toows', cwick on the fowwowing wanguwages: "Bowk, bowk, bowk!", "Piwate" and "Kwingon, uh-hah-hah-hah". Make suwe yew have the wumber of an ambwuwance sewice weady.

Not a single occurrence in 30+ years.

Go to google.com, type "ewmew fudd" in the search line and hit 'I'm feeling lucky'. Once you recover from what you see, click 'Wanguage Toows'. Hawdly ewer wawed this hawd. Then go back and click on 'Advanced Seawch'. wmao.

What exactly is the problem? I am painting whitewalls with a paintbrush and matt white Humbrol for over 30 years now. It has never failed and even the first ones still look like new. I do it exactly like Dennis Doty describes it in his book. It would have never occurred to me, that there could be any other method. And whatever other methods there are, they all sound more complicated and ineffective to me. With Dennis' method, I have four superb whitewalls in less than ten minutes and I can even do it when the tyres are already mounted on the model, hubcaps and all. Need I do a tutorial?

Pics, or it didn't happen.

Deliberate picture quote. Is that guy behind the car stealing petrol from the tank to drink it? Very nice build, btw.

A few weeks back, I opened a thread for exactly the same reason as this. Obviously, it was equally ignored as this one will be.

Oh god, that's terrible. I know exactly what it feels like. I had a 2500+ collection, which was taken away by my lovely ex-wife.

You know what we all should do? We should take the first (car?) kit we ever built, and build it exactly how we inteded it to look back then - but with the skills we have today. Now THIS would be a funny community buildoff, nay?

I found an ordinary frame like this in my local skip. I built it into a vintage path racer style:

Me too. No, actually mine is still a real Dyno. Rare now. I think the bike Jody posted is a Switchblade. Jody, I need to see pictures of the bike you have in order to make useful suggestions.

Actually, this is my work of this weekend: From this: to this:

Hmmm... After cars and model cars, bikes are my third passion:

I still have these: They didn't come with plated parts. Hence, I sent all parts which should be plated off to Bob Shebilske years ago. I should really build these now.

I started my foray into the plastic world with an Airfix Ariel Arrow. My first car kit was a Monogram Mercedes 540K.

The simple reason for not doing this is that I don't have a Revell 57 Ranchero.

I was thinking to use the chrome bumpers, wheels and chassis from the Revell flatpack. This way, that kit would at least yield something useful.

I use Humbrol matt white enamel. Not a single problem in 30 years.

This is the 59 Ranchero: It's actually not a bad model and could be built into something very decent.

Remember those fine dinosaur kits they made when we were young?

[anorak mode] The B series engines were the first to be designed by the new corporate engineering department. The RB (“raised B”) arrived just one year after the launch of the B series engines, with the 413; just as all the B-engines had a 3.38-inch stroke, all the RB engines had a 3.75 inch stroke. B Engine: Bore Stroke CID 4.06" 3.375" 350 4.12" 3.375" 361 4.25" 3.375" 383 4.34" 3.375" 400 RB Engine: Bore Stroke CID 4.18" 3.75" 413 4.25" 3.75" 426 4.32" 3.75" 440 4.03" 3.75" 383 See, a B as well as a RB 383. The 383 cubic inch RB engine was only available in 1959-1960 in the US built Chrysler Windsor and Saratoga. [/anorak mode] Gosh, did I tell you guys already that I am NOT a Mopar man?