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Interior is finished, cuttin the holes in the seats fer the seat belts and doin the shifter wuz fun, painted the body acoupla days ago, Scale finishes Alcapulco blue. quick mockup to check the stance. BMF and decals next.

MPC 1968 Mustang 427 GT...sealed inside.

Deckid hinges on a Monte Carlo Nascar that I made fer this kit when it wuz first issued lotsa years ago. I make hood hinges the same way, sheet plastic cut to shape fixed to the body and hood or trunk than a hole drilled thru both and a piece of fine wire glued in place for the pivot point.

Batman Forever Batmobile.

A coupla Scale Motorsports Cobra Daytona coupe kits.

Mpc Ford J car...mint kit.

AMT Wild Dream / King T double kit...mint kit.

Johan '66 Olds Toronado...minty kit.

Early issue of the Johan Caddy Hearse with the Coffin... bought it sealed, recently opened fer giggles.

Car Craft November 1965, this issue debuted the Uncertain T with a 3 page write up about the car. In the Modelcraft feature on page 82 there wuz a small piece about building a replica with a list of parts and sources to build a model of the car. This, of course wuz before Monogram had tooled up the kit.

IMC Ford GT...late '65 maybe '66, No paint or detailing, just put it together. My dad helped me a little but I did most of the kit myself, didn't turn out too bad, everything worked...doors, hood, Bonnet, steering. Guess I kinda had a knack fer it. Bit of a back story here...my Dad wuz a bit of a Big Wig at Ford in Dearborn and we were always going to Spitler/Demmer Ford in Wayne Michigan fer service and to get new cars. One day my Dad came home a little early from work and said were goin to the car dealer, cool I thought, maybe I'll get one of the new Mustang toy cars. I had seen pictures of the Ford GT and my dad would talk about the cars and the racing that Ford wuz doin so I wuz familiar with the Ford GT. As we pulled up to Spitler/Demmer Ford I saw it...parked right out in front of the Dealership...the very same car that I'd seen in pictures...the white and blue Ford GT, I wuz thrilled. I couldn't believe that I wuz in the presence of THE Ford GT...doesn't get much better than that fer a junior car nut like me. I got to examine every nook an crany, look under and all around the car and ask a buncha questions. It wuz great! But wait, there's more...it wuz gettin kinda late and they were gettin ready to close up, but one of the salesmen (they all knew me) asked me if I'd like to sit in the Ford GT...Hell yes! He opened the door and helped me crawl in over the fuel tank and I plopped into the seat and he closed the door. I wuz practically laying down...this wuz so cool an I'm thinkin wait till I tell the kids in school tomorrow. Then, while I'm trying to take all this in a guy in a Ford uniform gets in the car next to me, closes the door and asks me if I'm ready...ready?, ready fer what? Then it happened...the loudest sound my young ears had ever heard comin from behind me, the Ford guy had fired the car up, kicked the throttle a few times, and drove us into the building. What a exciting experience fer me...I got to ride in the Ford GT...a short ride, but a ride nonetheless. A short time later my Dad bought the IMC Ford GT kit fer me, my first model...and the rest, as they say is history.

Thanx fer replying to my question, yup, the real wheel is extremely rare and apparently just as rare in scale. These wheels were used on the Green Hornets Black Beauty. Jimmy Flintstone gave me a resin Black Beauty kit in 1/24 and I want to replace the wheels with sumthin a little crisper, wuz kinda surprised to find nobody's makin em resin recast or printed. The wheels are unique and rare so I would think they would probably sell pretty well sized as a 14-15 inch wheel and as a modern 17 thru 22 inch or so wheel just as sumthin different. You could flow color into the finned areas to contrast with or compliment a cars color. No big deal, Round 2's Black Beauty kit is comin soon enough and I can always use the resin kits wheels to finish the kit that Jimmy gave me. Lemme know if you decide to do the wheels, I'll buy a few sets.

Looking for a set of 1/24 scale Appliance Apache wheels 3d printed or cast. Doesn't seem to be anyone doing these super rare wheels. I know that they have been done in 1/25 scale but I need the larger scale. Any info appreciated.

Looking for a set of Appliance Apache wheels in 1/24 scale 3d printed or cast. Doesn't seem to be anyone doing these super rare wheels. I know that they been done in 1/25 scale but I need the larger scale. Any info appreciated.

Gopher offers a general under hood decal sheet and Ray's Kits has decals for specific builds that generally have under hood decals.

Star Fleet communicator from the original Star Trek TV series. Built this some years ago with parts from various sources. It is quite accurate to the screen used prop in most details from the first season. I used exactly the same parts and materials as the originals wherever possible. Built the "antenna" (the perforated brass cover) from exactly the same material and in exactly the same fashion as the original props, the control knobs are Aurora HO slot car wheels, the light bezels are N scale train wheels and the small microphone screen is cut from the speaker cover from a 1960s transistor radio. The communicators body is vacuum formed from Kydex plastic, the exact match for the texture and sheen are very hard to come by so I got as close as I could. The mid plate is cut from aluminum plate. I added some crude electronics, open the antenna and it makes the iconic "chirp" sound and lights the red light indicating that unit is on and the blue light indicating it is receiving. Push the button and the blue light turns off and the yellow light light comes on indicating transmit. The lights are grain of wheat lamps to be as accurate to the original prop theme as possible (no LEDs in the 60's).

You are correct, thank you...guess my CRS is gettin worse. And thank you fer yer comment.

Star Fleet Phaser type II circa 2266. Built from a very hard to find injection molded bootleg kit from the '70's or 80's. The kit is somewhat crude and requires quite a bit of work to make a respectable replica but it is doable. A little Star Trek lore...Phasers of this era used a Phaser type I (black device on top of grey pistol frame) mounted in the type II pistol frame to increase the type I power output. By rotating the silver wheel on the top of the black Phaser I the weapon would turn on lighting the red power indicator, pivoting up the silver grid (the Electron Aspirator) and rotating up a sighting window (the gloss black rectangle in front of the silver grid) which allowed sighting the weapon through the window at the front of the pistol above the beam emitter. The weapon was fired by depressing the silver button near the grip which is also a detachable power pack. Power output adjustments were made thru the dial at the rear of the pistol frame and the wheel on Phaser I. Settings range from stun thru heat, cutting, burning, and disrupt among others. The entire kit required much refinement to more closely replicate a Phaser. I added the red power indicator, the flip up sight window (shiny rectangle in front of silver grid) and the Electron Aspirsator (silver metal grid on top/front of Phaser I) and a more screen accurate power indicator dial. I also added the sighting window at the front of the pistol frame, and the Phaser I release (brass rod) on the left side of the pistol frame. It's not perfectly accurate to a screen used prop but it ain't bad from what the kit started as.

Batman's ride from the '89 movie. Built when the kit wuz first issued, outta the box.

Yup, clear plastic material fer the windshield wuz hiding in the instructions. I posted a corrected pic.

Thank you fer yer comment...who's Donald?

That's pretty cool.

This is why I much prefer injection molded plastic tires or resin tires, you can make em look more like real tires than the vinylish mystery plastic tires that have been eaten up the plastic in kits fer decades. And resin wheels aren't safe either, at least not the finish, here's some pics of my SWC Willys that wuz best of Show at the Detroit Autorama in 2006...the front wheels are resin and the tires are vintage MPC funny car front tires, figured I didn't have to worry about the tire melty thing cuz of the resin wheels...wrong! The wheels are painted with Testors gloss black enamel and then Alclad polished aluminum. As you can see, the the finish on the rim edge is "melting" just like a plastic wheel would do. I suspect that it is the enamel reacting to the tire but I'm not sure, I've done resin wheels this way with vintage or vinyl type tires fer years and never had this happen before. I tried Tamiya Lacquer for a base coat but found that the Alclad doesn't like to stick to Lacquer as well as enamel so that's why I used it. lesson learned...no more vintage tires. Fer what it's worth.

Just got the Atlantis "Boss Fink", how very cool to have this kit re-issued...kinda. Original "Tweedy Pie with Boss Fink" kits are extremely rare and have sold for more $2000.00...when they come up for sale...which ain't that often. The Last pic is the original box art. I'm pretty sure when Revell first offered this kit in '65 as the "Tweedy Pie with Boss Fink" it included a complete Tweedy Pie kit and the Boss Fink figure so I wuz kinda expectin ta get the figure and the complete (restored) car...silly me. So not all the parts to build Tweedy Pie are included such as tires, decals, wheels, and other misc. pieces but I'm cool with that cuz Tweedy Pie kits I got, it's the Boss Fink Figure that that I wanted. Just a heads up fer those who care.

Thank you fer yer comment. Desperate situations call fer Desperate measures. I came up with the tape player thing when I built the Monogram Talladaga, wuz building it to Box Stock rules so I couldn't change the tires and at the time no correct transfers or decals fer whitewalls were available. I seem to recall readin sumwhere (Scale Auto maybe) that sumone had used a compass and some kinda special pen to do whitewalls on tires so that wuz my inspiration.