Bernard Kron

Thanx Tim!?

Great to see you building in this style. The result is Too Cool! ?? And I've always wanted to do an uber-hip Trad flatty like that with those RepMin parts. Love seeing one detailed out like this. Looks terrific. And if I have identified them correctly, those are AMT '34 Ford Coupe skinny whitewalls you used at the front. They've become my go-to favorites for this style of rod. I've wanted to build something like this for some time now. I really like the look of the Revell Tudor, but I want to do one with a chopped top, which I decided would require gluing it all up into one unit and strengthening the A-pillar and seams before doing the chop. Many moons ago I tried my hand at one but landed up wiping out the belt line molding during the cleanup operation. Since these Revellogram '29/'30 kits are basic parts kits for my hot rod builds I have no lack of additional body shells. Your nifty build inspires me to have another bite at the apple, LOL.

Remarkable how far Koenigsegg has come in the past 20 years. And yet the basic body design of the original CS8, with its low wraparound windscreen and cab-forward proportions, continues on to this day. For this reason for many years I tended to think of Koenigegg as sort of a kit car. But if you look back to even the earliest cars, Christian Koenigsegg went to great lengths to re-engineer as much of his cars as money and experience would allow. Today his company is a technology leader, perhaps earning as much from a steady stream of patents as the motor car business. The Jesko and the Regera, both two-seaters in the classic Koenigegg mode, are powered by conventional turbocharged V-8s. The Regera, the third of Koenigsegg's current 3-car lineup, is a pillarless 4 seater (their first ever 4 seater). It's a radical departure from their previous cars, Koenigsegg's first hybrid with in-house designed high-output, lightweight compact electric motors driving all four wheels and the radical Freevalve turbocharged camless 3-cylinder motor. Camless 4-cycle internal combustion motors have been around for awhile. Renault ran them on their F1 V6's starting around 2002-2003, applying for a patent in 2003 on their electro-pneumatic system which was granted to them in 2005. The Freevalve system is similar in concept - Christian Koenigsegg is Charman and CEO of Freevavlve, Although camless technology has been used in F1 for more than 15 years, and camless 4-cycle motors exist in marine and industrial applications, the Gemera will probably prove to be the first application in a production motor car. It's also interesting to contrast Christian Koenigsegg's hands-on involvement and encyclopedic knowledge of every detail of his operation to the elusive mystery of Horatio Pagani or the Chapman-esque Britannic nostalgia that infuses the work of Gordon Murray. Each of them, although dyed-in-the-wool engineers everyone, seems to get to the same place from radically different directions.

Merci, Zed!?

I dig the rake on this impeccably turned out full-fendered Deuce. All 3 of your builds do ample justice to those well-proportioned and detaiedl Drag City resin shells. Big thumzupz! ??

I just went to Mike's and he already has a few BDR items in stock but he has a long way to go to stock the full BDR line. I hope he does. Nice stuff!

I finished this AMT Sedan Delivery last December.

It occurred to me that I hadn't added my most recent Deuce Roadster to this thread. from last September, it's a 50's style high-bucks channeled show rod. Like all my Deuce roadsters it's based on the Revell kits, this time with liberal use of my spare parts box. Also, I left out couple of other builds from My Back Pages. This is a representation of "The Deuce" from the original 1959 Trophy Series release box art, but done almost entirely with Revell parts. It's from November 2018. And a quick-build from 2014, again from the Revell kits, this time almost straight OOB. Aptly named "Therapy" since it was a slump buster, it went together in less than a week, hence the black primer paint job.

Nice backdating of the Rat Roaster, RRR. Nothing like classic maroon to set the tone. Bravo!

This is the Fisher Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 5 as built by my friend Raul Perez in 2012. Raul has always admired the B.A.T. series so I chose this model as a thank you gift for all the encouragement and advice he gave me as I was re-entering the hobby back then. Now I only wish I had treated myself to some of Paul's masterpieces...

What a great idea for a topic. I'm glad it got bumped because I missed it the first time. I built car models as a kid and into my teens but stopped when I went away to college. It was only in 2008 that I resumed building after decades away from the hobby. So my contribution will be shorter term than most, my progress over the last 13 or so years. I recently sold off many of my earliest builds on eBay to make room on my shelves. But I have photos of them all and took fresh photos of many of them before letting them go. Here is my first model from April of 2008, a channeled Revell '32 Ford 3 window coupe. The thing that interests me now is that I was building with very little knowledge of what had happened in the years in between my misspent youth and the re-start except what I was seeing on the Internet. And needless to say my mind was blown with all the high detail stuff and aftermarket parts. And I must have been a glutton for punishment, deciding not only to channel the body on this thing, but include the cut down hood sides as well. I had zero parts for a stash, the kit being all I had, so it uses the parts on hand. But it strikes me now as a pretty aggressive first stab on modeling again! The photos are from 2021 for my eBay listing. This was my second attempt, from the summer of 2008. Another channeled rod, this time a '34 Ford based a car I saw in Rodder's Journal. Even now I think it was a radically better effort. I was buying additional kits and aftermarket parts, learning how to paint, and generally making progress. I have always liked it and I still have it on my shelves. The photos are from 2017. Here are a couple of equivalent projects from 2021, a couple of channeled Deuces. The two are somewhat different from each other although they're both in the 50's-60's traditional hot rod style I mainly build. The roadster is conservative and simple in it's single color, which it shares with the 2008 red coupe along with the cut down hood sides. The other shares the technically ambitious character of my early builds - I guess I remain a glutton for punishment - with its chopped top and panel and flames paint. I've gotten more ambitious in the paint department, apparently. And I think I have my stances more under control.

When I posted the build thread this last year I was surprised at the amount of interest it garnered. At the time, based on what I saw the eBay seller had to offer, I suspected he might be the maker of the master. I think I might be right. He's offering another copy (and his listing is disarmingly frank about what it takes to model from this type of resin casting!). Here's a link to his offering: Resin cast body Maserati A6 GCS 1/24. For more detail about the basic casting see my build thread from last year:

I'd say you nailed it without abandoning your own tastes and interpretation. Nicely done! ?

Write as much as you like. We all enjoy descriptions of what went into a build. I dig it! Krazy Kool!!?

Thanks for explanation. I'm not really into the crafts hobby world. I just looked it up on the 'net and I see what it is now. Fascinating that it's removable and yet firm enough to straighten a slghtly warped resin body. Sounds promising for mockups?

Thanks for the tip. This might sound awfully basic, but what do you mean by hot glue?

Thanks to you both! ?

Thanks Bob. I'm just slightly dismayed that I left so many projects on the bench half-done, which is just not something I tend to do. I'm pretty much a serial builder, regardless of the number of models I start. As I may have mentioned earlier, this at least partly may be due to the effects of Year 2 of the current Situation we're in... I think the workbench may have become just a little too famiiliar to me, LOL.

Looking forward to following this build which very much uses the approach I tend to do when building, but with far more skill and attention to detail than I can muster, LOL! The new series Miniscurtraitzing wheels should capture that detail and care you're lavishing on the rest of this project perfectly. Build on!

I love the imagination that went into this model. The execution is spot on, too. Bravo!

Thanks for the link. The photos show that the car is, at this point, in as highly evolved, 50's-specific, a state of restoration as could ever be hoped for. The estimate of 1-1.25 million USD is extremely strong money for a rod or custom, regardless of provenance, historical significance or state of restoration. But this car certainly checks all the boxes in that regard! It will be interesting to see what it pulls down. Rods and customs can be "soft" in what they command and can surprise to the downside.* If it clears the estimate handsomely it will show that the rod & custom world is (at last) sharing in the current asset bubble. This car is a part of a surprisingly small number of cars that can do it! *It should be noted that most purely custom built one-offs, regardless of style, perhaps because they should not be transported or driven with any frequency since they are irreplaceable, tend to under-perform small production models (i.e even limited productions racing cars, sports cars and classics). Another factor which may contribute to this under-performance may be that they are often unknown to the majority of the less-well-informed-but-wealthy buying public. Surely a car like the Hirohata should command more than a current limited-series produced modern super car, but I doubt it will.

Totally nails that transitional post-billet era style personified by builders like Barry Lobeck, Bobby Alloway and the early cars out of Brizio's when Andy's influence still could be clearly seen. It truly is a "greatest hits" build, a virtual inventory of all the best stuff from the 1/25th Deuce kits. And beautifully executed, as has been repeatedly noted. Bravo!

Thanks everyone! Much appreciated! Thanks Mike! I really appreciate your comment. I'm quite flattered. Here are links to build and under glass threads for all 5 : ’32 Ford “Pseudo Tub” 60’s Style Show Car ’53 Maserati A6GCS Fantuzzi Roadster ’32 Ford ’50’s Style Channeled Roadster Show Car Build Thread: Heavily Chopped & Channeled '32 Ford 3-window ’32 Ford Chopped & Channeled 3-Window Coupe ’40 Ford Sedan Delivery Hemi-Powered Street Rod

Thank you Larry. Here's to a happy and fulfilling 2022 to you and yours.

Beautiful work on a subject deserving of the car, skill and commitment you are giving it. Bravo! I have this model sitting in a box at 60-75% completed. My project sticks very close to the kit. I, too, ordered the correct seats from RepMin and used them. My intention was also to get wire wheels from Fernando Pinto (I have used them before) if the results were up to par. The project was stopped because I haven't been able to properly drill the Marelli distributors to wire the engine. Any tips on how to get this done without trashing the parts? Are there are either pre-drilled or at least indented distributors out there? (I was thinking RepMin from the old motor kits - but Norm is res hopefully recovering so I don't want to reach out to him at this time). Any advice would help immeasurably. In the meantime I'll be following this project as inspiration.