Junkman

BTW, we are collegues, David. This is what I drive at work:

Did you guys notice that the new RoG Samba Bus is NOT a repop of the Hasegawa mold? It is a brand new tool with an up to now unequalled level of detail. This makes it the third Samba Bus incarnation by this company. The 1950s flat pack original, the Hasegawa in disguise, and now their own effort again. There are photos of a test shot on their website: http://www.revell.de/de/produkte/modellbau/service/info_channel/bildergalerien/samba_bus/?id=873 They say the kit contains both versions: The domestic one and the 'Export' with the US-spec bumpers.

Yay. Are Group 5 Rallye cars allowed? I mean, they were among the most insane formulas ever in motorsport.

A stockcar F1 cannot be compared with a sprint car. The stockcar is two to three times as heavy (minimum 1350 kg, on non-paved tracks there is even ballast added to the cars), yet tyre - sorry, tire - threads may not be wider than eight inches. If you don't make it lose, you go fencewards. And I talk fences here. Some English tracks retain what is known as 'post and wire', or vulgo 'cheesegrater', as the outer boundary. Here is some typical shale action: Note the shale type wings as opposed to the tar type wing on my model. Also note that contact is by no means avoided. Here is a track with post and wire fence: And here is tarmac:

Preiser is expensive. Try Schleich.

How about a pearl white nose, fading into gold and then candy red? Then you could add a yellow blob that has the car's name written in it to each door and add some really amateurish flames to these. Gosh, my imaginaton is throwing bubbles again...

Holy sh...moly! Gosh, I will have to sell my children if you show me more of this. As for the axle/coilover/frame layout: The rulebook specifies two straight beams that run the length of the car. Mind you, this is a contact formula, so the frame has to take quite some impact. Hence, there are no kick ups front and back to accommodate proper mounting directly to the frame. As for the wings, I think they are more a hindrance than a help and disputed them quite a bit during the past 25 years. I have a basic sense of aerodynamics. But to no avail. This is how a guy in Scotland makes them and it is impossible to talk the racers out of them.

Show me yours.

The colour is stunningly beautiful.

It's one of the colours you can't photograph properly. Ther eal think is mindboggling tangerine pearl. I mut be in my orange phase atm.

The wing is correct, this is England. I cannot change the axle/frame/coilover layout, because this is how it is required by BriSCA rules. This is how the real ones are built.

Despite I have a different taste when it comes to hot rods, I admire your razor sharp paint seperation and general detailing level.

No, this kit cannot be tackled. I wonder whether you traded off your soul for your abilities! The result leaves me in awe, to say the least.

Thanks god it's not me who has to provide the real estate to accomodate it. It's already promised to a friend.

This is the only car I own, hence it is my daily driver. It is going to be replaced with a 1982 Chevrolet Caprice Classic though. And when I don't use my car, I ride one of these:

So am I. They seem to have used leftover stuff mixed together for the plated parts.

Yes, I'm planning to build this one stock.

The Revell 59 Skyliner. It comes as a flat-pack, like IKEA furniture. Equally to when attempting to assemble the latter, I not only failed miserably, it left me the same shivering, twitching, salivating wreck. After weeks of post-Swedish-furniture-assembly-attempt trauma-therapy, I was able to look at model kits again without having a severe seizure.

Mine is white just to annoy everybody by being different

This is one of my scratchbuilding projects. It's still in a very embryonic phase. You can read here what it is all about: http://www.brisca.com

This is one of my scratchbuilding projects. It's still in a very embryonic phase.

I can't believe my luck! After just one day (!) in the bleach, the entire paint was stripped. See:

I never was quite happy with the general body proportions of the 59 Revellogram Chevy which was released a decade and a half or so ago. Hence, I hunted down an original SMP 59 Chevy, since I believe they captured the real thing a lot better back then: The model is crudely handpainted in atrocious colours, the chrome is shot, the wheels are incorrect, the windscreen has crazed and the car had custom fender skirts (spats) installed with lots of glue. But The windscreen frame is undamaged (sensational for a 50 year old plastic kit!), the glue damage from the fender skirts is restricted to body surface only, so no detail is lost, and apart from the incorrect wheels, the model is complete! Hence I consider it restorable. General detail level leaves much to be desired, as would be exptected from a late 50s kit: I will therefore only use the slightly modified body from this model and 'marry' it to the underpinnings and chrome pieces from the AMT 59 Chevy El Camino. The interior I will use from the Revellogram 59 Impala. The first step in any restoration project is to disassemble the model. Once disassembled, this is what I got: The chassis will be discarded (stored) and the rest of the pieces are ready to be soaked in thick bleach to get the paint off. Two weeks in fresh bleach should lift off all paint. I will show you the parts after this is accomplished, so you will have to wait now.

Thanks to one of my decently stocked parts boxes all ingredients for a 409 were quickly found: Not sure whether I'm happy with the Muncie M22 crashbox though. Might cut it off and swap it for a Hydramatic. The body is now clearcoated, polished and foiled: