OldNYJim

Looks like that's accurate - found pics of a '98 car and that has the cassette player too: https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1998-rover-mini-cooper

Been messing with a Model A for a couple of weeks - not REALLY building it as such…just playing with parts!

What happened with the clear first time around? Lacquer clear very often won’t play nice with enamels, just in case you weren’t aware…

Hey Bob - sorry, missed your first enquiry! Got caught up in some builds for contests and shows that I wanted to attend this summer (got a couple more in September and October) and then this one will be back in rotation! I had an idea I wanted to try for the frame too - need some brass and solder! More soon!

Great start - I like those wheels!

My brother in law just bought a Tesla, and I gotta say, it's an impressive car. Super quick, does a bunch of cool stuff (and some dumb stuff too - he was pranking me with the car's built-in whoopie cushion feature), looks cool, comfortable, fun to drive. Can walk my Mustang EASILY, and throws you back in the seat as well as anything I've ever driven. I was impressed, and want one. That said, I don't think the network is there yet (imagine trying to charge them if you live in an apartment in NYC, and what happens to the numb-nuts who run out of juice in the middle of nowhere, because people do things like that), and I'd love to have seen a bigger move to renewable fuel sources instead of a move to EVs. But it's happening, regardless of how us car-guys think - the same way vinyl records got largely replaced by Spotify. No one took vinyl away, and you can still get it...but times change, and the average person doesn't care as much as the aficionados do.

In their defense, the original version of the car didn't have a steering wheel either - just some levers to steer it like a skid steer In this video (around the 20 second mark) you can see this guy trying hard not to crash it - it looked kinda 'twitchy' to drive...

Great looking build! Nice job smoothing out that body Which Hobart, btw? Indiana?

I ordered this set a while back, and have been happy with them: https://a.co/d/d4vjcOZ

I've tried getting into this show a few times, and I WANT to like it, but it never quite clicked with me. I think you probably nailed why I lose interest so quickly...I don't care about the people or their drama ? A show that just covers the racing without any of the 'added-for-entertainment' stuff would probably pique my interest more...but that's just NHRA coverage, and it exists already I guess ?

Bummer - looks like the Cults one might be your best bet, currently...

There's at least one on Cults: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/volkswagen-baja-bug-printable-body-car EDIT: And apparently Replicas and Miniatures sold/sells a traditionally resin cast one too, unless you REALLY want it to be 3d printed for some reason...:

I've been watching for them to post the results, so I'll follow up as and when I see them...I wanna see what won!

Maybe someone hamburgled it? I found the event I think you're looking for:

Somewhat related, I'm not all about the 'murdered out' (wherever that phrase came from) all-black-everything trend on older cars right now. Black wheels, paint the all the chrome black, all-black interior, black body, tinted windows, tinted lights...doesn't do anything for me. Ditto the stupid extreme-camber fad, that I hope goes away soon. It's just donks, all over again (but this time, the opposite! ?)

There were a lot of purple and blue builds, for sure!

Howdy Claude! Alas, I do not - they had everyone leave their names off the info sheets that were displayed with the cars...but they were going to post photos of the winning cars and the builder's names on their Facebook page, and as I suspect that one probably had a good shot at a trophy we may find out in due course. Was a cool build - a tonne of detail, and well thought out!

Awesome!! I’d been looking forward to seeing another hot rod project of yours! Excited to read about the Deuce build in the mag when that comes out too! Question about the leaf spring arrangement on the rear end - was mounting the spring directly on top of the axle like that a relatively common thing, back in the day? It never occurred to me to mount one like that as opposed to having it behind the axle, but I love how it looks!

The 20th is a Thursday, so I suspect that won't be it... Just a heads up @Six (in case you're in any way involved in the organization of this...) - the IPMS Duneland has a big show on October 15th that is close by, so I'd try and avoid scheduling for that weekend. I'll try and make it tho! Only about 20 mins from me, and I'd been meaning to check out that store

I like these kits! I don't believe them when they say it's 1/24 though... ?

Made a trip up to Algonquin this weekend for the GTR club’s Summer NNL…a few pics below, and a bunch more here: https://public.fotki.com/NewYorkSpeedShop/scale-models/model-shows-contests/summer-nnl-2022/

Man you guys are good! I had no idea those ‘Bed Bug’ kits were a ‘standard’ non-cartoony kit - I assumed from the box art they were something caricature looking, like a Zinger kit or similar. Every day’s a school day!

The test shot was at the GTR club’s NNL today - looked really impressive, in person. Lots of nice finely-molded detail. Although I’m no expert in Mustangs, but it just looked WELL DONE to me. Nice and crisp and like it’ll build up into a nice model:

I think the repair work you did on that seam is outstanding - nice job hiding it and reconstructing the texture! I thought about working through one of these skulls and laying in pieces of medical tape and airbrushing over THAT, but your way worked way better than I imagined it could. Nice shading with the paint too!

I’ve been wanting to build up my Beetle collection a little, and I hadn’t built the current Revell ‘68 kit yet; concept was ‘what if the Cal-look trend happened on the EAST coast instead?’. Went with some Porsche 356-inspired wheels, cut the roof open, painted some subtle graphics to hide under a Createx candy paint job, added some flake and pearl and pure-white bumpers for the same reason people like showing off perfect white sneakers on the dirty subway platform ? It all made sense in MY head anyway ? Had fun building this one - I’ve actually got a bunch of ideas for these that I’d like to do but wanted a relatively simple build to learn about this kit. I was actually impressed with about everything about how it goes together except the weird 2-layer engine they came up with - the top half is assembled separately from the bottom half and then they mount above and behind the chassis plate. Weird, and doesn’t look very realistic if you want to show the engine off. Anyhoo - some finished pics - thanks for looking!