Falcon Ranchero

Almost Forgot Due South's Ray Veccio's Buick Riviera, and the new Ray, Stanley Kowalski's GTO

I think I mentioned this once before somewhere, but thought I'd share it in the broad daylight of Model Cars Tips, Tricks, Tutorials. A little build motivation trick I find that helps me for some reason, is if you position the box art to be facing you while you're building the model, it motivates you to finish the build. Works for me every singe time. Not sure why. I guess maybe when I'm sittin' there, workin' and the motivation's not happenin' I see the box art a foot and a half away from my face and I see the completed car or some sort of illustration; even if it's not the way I'm building the kit (rarely do I build box stock), it ends up having some sort of motivational merit. I know it sounds kinda dumb but give it a try next time you're not feelin' it. Maybe you'll be surprised?

Lately been simultaneously working on two builds at a time; one arguably the very first build I did (Revell's 2015 issue of the snap tite '57 Chev) and the latest which is a '66 T bird. Haven't done two at once in a very long time and I don't think I miss it. Mainly because my work area is basically room enough for one car's parts, but even with the less amount of parts the snap tite has, space is tight. Almost had it complete last night until a major set back occured. I wanted to change the wheels on the thing as it came with custom ones I didn't want to use, so the wheels left over from my '60 Impala were commissioned and I had them all done up nice, ready to fit on the metal axles and so I put them in the chassis, and then I noticed they stick out wayy to far so the skirted rear of the wheel openings would never house the wheels. So now I have to cut off some length on the rim backside, and drill the hole farther in so the axles go in deeper, and thus, the body will take to the new wheels. The Thunderbird's coming along nicely.

Mopar Fans, here you go Look at the upside down one; it's so actually daffy duck

Ok now I want these

The Pintos

For the Caddy Fans

"Wherever you are, you're always there" - Hank Yarbo

tuesday, wednseday ,happy

Our local Michaels used to have kits, but now there's absolutley nothing of the sort. There's no competition from the local Walmart as they've never carried kits. The hobby lobby in Sault Michigan is fairly new, and about the time it opened, the local Michaels here started losing the kits. But in March 2020 you could go in and there was an entire side of a hall dedicated to kits, then they got pushed to a back wall shelf, very small, and now there's just puzzles, not a trace of kits ever being there. It's wierd because there's no Canadian competition anywhere close to here. If I had to guess it would be huge lack of interest in kit building. Why carry them if only one person buys? I guess.

If you need build inspo for a Country Squire, there's this super nice one that has been for sale for ages, probably 'cause $55,000 is a large sum to spend on a wagon, but it's pretty outstanding 1963 Ford Country Squire | Classic Cars | Guelph | Kijiji Classifieds

beard's happenin' too

Still have one more week before it's back to school. Kinda sad once this week's over but hey I had four weeks of christmas break instead of the regular two I used to have in elementary and high school. Double the holiday and it was a blessing. Still no call backs for the 3 jobs I applied for but I still had a wonderful and full christmas break. Pleased that next semester we got "Equiptment Certifications" so we get to drive snowmachines, Four'wheelers, boats, use Chainsaws and other stuff. Pretty crazy cool.

isn't that a good thing LOL

Tryin'a grow mine (the hair one not the model car one)

Stunning detail on every one, your signature addition to your builds is the lights and it's way cool👍

That Fairlane sure is neat

the Jetson duo are my favourites

Cool stuff I like the Judge GTO and the sizzling Demon

From the Econoline

Drives a Galaxie

Yesterday disassembled the 2015 Revell snap tite 1957 Bel Air as I intend to re build it after I originally built it box stock no painting when it was new. Also got an actual vinyl top applied to my 1971 Olds 442. Some parts fell off in the process though.