Andria H

I am seeing a 1940s California style hot rod (think Harry Westergaard or early Barris) here

Really impressed with this Racine.

thanks Michelle!

My old Chevy Van as seen on Google Earth around the time I bought it. Color is hideous and inside even more so.

Gonna need.

It's ready for under glass.

This Mako was a very fun build and not that complicated.If you are used to MPC Streaker Vettes or C3s this is scarcely different.

Hi, If anyone has extras to part with, would love one or the other or even both to try to build to go with my 1/50 diecast trucks. I know Ollies has lots of White kits but I am nowhere near any location. Short on cash due to the holidays but could accept a RAOK/gift or do a trade or maybe some other way

1/50 scale diecast I found for $6 at an antique store. I added interior and exterior details & floor coverings inside and everything else is stock. Only markings are "Open Top Bus Company, 2002, China" underneath and there was a $22.50 pricetag on it as a Glacier NP souvenir in a basic green box. I believe it is made by the same company who makes the Krispy Kreme 1/50 Flxible buses and Menards 1/48 Denver Diecast. 500 of these buses were sold new in 1/1 scale and all were delivered to the National Park Service. Design was by Alexis de Sahnoffsky.

I could like a Seville of this era.

thank you! I believe the filler was thinner in person than photos made it look, but you are absolutely right.

My latest

The night's last progress

Fresh primer.

Got this yesterday. Opened it immediately and almost immediately got to working at it. The kit had lots of flash, was an MPC/Ertl era kit judging from the imprint on some of the sprues and was molded in an awful shade of blue. But happily, it was not as brittle as some oldies I have had, even though the body sides were a bit wavy and the frame was warped & replaced with a modified 1967 Streaker Vette frame and will get an AMT '34 Ford street rod kit's Corvette rear end grafted in to replace the dodgy, frail stock rear end with poor details. After initial body work. A Excellent source of info on the 1/1 cars. John Silva created the first replica of the Bill Mitchell Mako Shark II on a 1960s era Corvette chassis in 1969, though few pictures of period Silva Macos exist to confirm whether he started with a C2 or a C3.

thank you!

another I would like to see is the old Monogram 1/16 Rolls nose VW or the original version with a Dick Dean Shala-Vette style body or a custom '66 VW bug.

thanks!

thank you Larry

Hoping they have the old 1/24 scale Studebaker Weasel tracked scout car. Not just to build, but as a donor for half-tracked trucks and civilian adaptations of Weasels.

Coming early next week from ebay. I am going to be keeping the stock dash in it because the design ended up used on the Astro/Titan and General/Bison trucks and RTS bus in different forms and inspired Pontiac's 69-77 Grand Prix and Grand Am dashes & I don't think Bill Mitchell's design needs to be adulterated with a stock C3 dash. Otherwise I will be building it as a Silva/Motion Maco GT kit car on 60s era 427 Vette guts/frame and newer AMT rims & wheels & a full rear window instead of louvers.

Started with the new AMT Orange Fanta "fantasy van" (aka AMT Phantom van in a different box with a decal sheet that went straight in the trash). Used interior bits from what I recall to have been a junk Greenlight Shasta Airflite trailer I parted out years ago & painted the whole lot bordello red with simulated rosewood interior panels. Engine is all but invisible but is a 351W/C6 I believe. I can see my progress in handpainted 2-tones... my acquisitions of drawing tools like straight/flexible/architect's 12in rulers, a French Curve and a protractor for straighter lines and good painters' tape has paid off. As has my drawing of gauge faces with a white china marker.

taurus, torino & Dekon Monza for me.

One of mine. Matchbox/M2 Machine bashup

That's Entex/Gakken/Bandai tooling. What are you looking for?