OldNYJim

Wait, where did it say they were doing that one?

I had one of these on my Amazon wishlist for a year or more in case anyone bought me one…which they didn’t. The price on them dropped low enough this week though that I decided I’d wanted one long enough… Amazon smooshed the box by shipping it in a padded envelope rather than a box, but it looks ok, luckily…need to start collecting some other parts packs now to be able to make the whole thing out of only period correct AMT parts

I’ve been a fan of your work since seeing that Corvair wheelstander years back Tim, and you keep turning out model after model that I wish I’d built myself. Thanks for sharing your work!

This is one of your best builds yet Bob…and I was already a fan of your work. Keep going, it’s looking great!!

Oh man, that parachute looks amazing - love the little brass washer and the eyelet poking through. Nice work!!

I would bet there’s still people FROM 2002 waiting for their parts. They had a reputation for taking YEARS to deliver, if they ever delivered at all, and a search of this site will find threads as early as 2008 and as recent as 2019 complaining of the same practices. Definitely ‘buyer-be-cautious’ situation…

Not to encourage dishonesty, but I doubt anyone at Etsy knows which kits are or are not vintage...or does the site require some kind of information (product codes or something) that could tell the difference?

I re-read this thread and mentally voted for number three this time, then realized I already voted ? Glad to see this one back on the bench!

Agreed! I love that color (on that truck anyway…)

Well, that’s awesome! I wanted to build a Tweedy Pie so that’ll be a good opportunity to switch out the wheels and build one!

Question for anyone who knows - the Roth Tweedy Pie ‘car-toon’ kit there…is that the same as the regular kit besides the big oval wheels and the Roth figure? Or did they tool up an entirely new kit?

Super helpful - thanks fellas! Turns out it's worth more than I realized! Of course, that's not to say the insurance company will offer us what it's WORTH, but its good to have done some homework...

Great start! It's cool to see ANY showrod kit get built - especially when they have some added thought put into them! Keep going!

Thanks fellas! Four weeks in, and the local police only just wrote the report on the accident, so not a thing has happened. Turns out the guy who hit us is also with Allstate…they called my wife and offered her a rental car for THREE DAYS. Not sure what use that is - need to follow up on why only three days (my wife somehow didn’t think that was unusual ?) Side note - the local tow company where the car sits now apparently charges $120 a day for storage…they’re going to be the real winners in this whole deal… Anyone here have access to Kelly Blue Book pricing and cad valuations? I’m curious as to what they’ll offer as a payout so I can start finding her something else…

Post lots of builds and enjoy your stay! ??

(Do you see what I did there? ???)

Welcome Jürgen! Here's a couple of Beetles I built

Awesome - thank you! I like the figure holding his ears ?

A little more progress this weekend… I’m trying to get everything far enough along to start the paint but I had a few little jobs to do first - including figuring out pulley placement on the engine to make sure I won’t have any surprises further down the line…I used the pulley assembly from the 390 engine but separated them so I can add a more in-scale belt later. They’re a little (lot) not straight in this pic because it’s all held together with poster tack… As you can see in the pic above I’ve figured out the steering linkages too, swapped out the blobby kit steering wheel for a similar one from the parts box and smoothed out the kit firewall so I can add my own detail later. Next, after a couple of rounds of filler and priming, I’m ready to shoot some color on this thing. First up, I mixed up some Pepto Bismal pink: I wanted some real loose 60s seaweed flames for this one, so I laid some out in Adobe Illustrator: The kit box art made for a useful template in this case, but a photo or scan of the body works well too, usually… Cut some masks: Next up, pearl plumb purple: And some careful unmasking later… Couldn’t resist dropping it on the body to see how it’s going to look, a little: Next up, breaking up that big flat roof a little with some stripes: These will be a LOT more subtle than the contrast between the main color and the flames…going for just a little color variation here, so I mixed up some clear with a pink pearl powder and some Createx Interference, which flips between white and blue: Some more careful de-masking… Looks really pretty as the light catches it at different angles… Not done with the paint yet, but needed to seal in what I had finished already so I can do more this coming week…more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

I’m curious Tim - what makes it so good?

I’m excited for the twin-pack Fiat dragster kit:

I’m particularly excited about the Midget racer, although I know they’re not super detailed kits: And the Swamp Rat is presumably this: I wonder what the Fuller dragster is? The silver car that came boxed with the little T dragster as a twin kit at one point?

Another bunch of releases announced this evening!

I have reason to suspect that Atlantis might have that tooling (although I don't know for sure, and have no insider info). I would like one of those too!