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Another cool Sedan Delivery. Looks great. Well done.

Nice Nova. That thing has 80s all over it. I really dig the clean, uncluttered style. Well done.

Good looking Cuda. You did a great job mixing the paint. When I first saw the photos, I hoped the colour was a commonly available, off-the-shelf colour. But alas, custom mix. Anyway, very nice, clean work on the Cuda.

Very nice looking Olds. I really like the two-tone green. Well done.

Coming along nicely, Matt.

Nice! That one is high on my 'want list', too.

I have long wondered about both this kit and the Merc C-111. I've not seen either one in person or built up. I'd love to build a C-111, but the choices seem dismal. The Marzal is a very cool subject, too. Maybe the 3-D guys will come to the rescue. I found an outfit (whose name I regretfully forget) doing nice looking 3-D kits in very limited runs, and producing many unkitted subjects that I've wanted to do for years, including a Lamborghini Espada, which is the marketable version of the Marzal. Unfortunately, I discovered the place after the kit run was over.

Good looking collection, Kurt. That's a tasty stack of Ferraris. Good to see Cooper the guard cat is keeping an eye on things.

Just hearing this news now. Very sorry to hear. Love his style. Great taste in hot rods, too. He will really be missed. Never knew who he would collaborate with next. No matter how unlikely the pairing, the result was always pleasing. R.I.P Jeff Beck. Thanks for the lovely music. Think I’ll head on down to the basement and crank up some Blow By Blow.

Seriously cool short tracker. Very nicely done. Love it.

Nice looking stash, Keith. Looking at your built-ups, what colour/type is the paint on the mossy metallic green Challenger T/A? It's a great colour, and looks right at home on the Challenger.

Cheers Gary. Unfortunately, some of the more interesting sports car kits are hidden in behind, including a stack of Ferraris and a stack of GT-40s.

It's good to have another Canuck onboard, Devin. Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum, Ulf.

554. A few years ago I added a third tier to the shelf, and took the opportunity to organize the stash. I had reached maximum storage capacity, so decided to thin the stash to make room for new acquisitions, and to finance some high-end kits (MFH, etc) and some hobby gear, such as a lathe and a resistance soldering set-up. In my first run through the stash I pulled 130 out to sell (everything on the bottom shelf), 40 of which have sold. Among other things, they paid for my long coveted Harder & Steenbeck airbrush. I mainly sell at our local annual model show, but there hasn’t been one since covid, so haven’t moved any kits lately.

Underslung places the frame below the axel.

Very nice work on the Turbine. You have captured the look well. Nice clean work. I attempted one of these as a kid in the 70s, but did a less-than-stellar job of it. I'd really like to take another crack at one of these kits.

Cool project, I'll be tuning in. Sounds like an exciting life experience. Are you in the photos?

You are a man of tremendous and admirable restraint, Dave

The only other magazine of that nature I read on a regular basis was Popular Hotrodding, but that was mostly in the 70s. Nonetheless, it could be one of those. The search continues.

Many moons ago I had a magazine that I am quite certain was a Hot Rod mag, which featured what I figured at the time was one of the coolest boulevard cruisers ever. It was a '62 Ford Starliner with a Cammer. It had a big effect on me at the time, and I wanted to build a model of it, or at least heavily inspired by it. Over the years I've purchased a '60 Starliner and a '61 Galaxie kits from which I might cobble together something similar, whenever I get around to it. I probably have the magazine in my huge stash, and will dig it out for reference when the time comes. But then this thread appeared with a link to all Hot Rod magazines, and I was glad, as this would be much easier than digging through my daunting pile of old magazines. But alas, I can't find that Starliner article. My search thus far has been rudimentary, but I was sure the cover was a staged cruise scene with the Starliner in the background. This would be 80s or early 90s. Memories being what they are, I probably have this all wrong. Maybe it wasn't even Hot Rod, but I think it was. I'll have to dig deeper, I guess. The search continues.

Yes! That looks fantastic. Nicely done, I'll be using this method for sure. Cheers.

Greg, that is brilliant. And I disagree with your comment about PE. Your method looks much better than PE ever could. One could even take a little section from the top of each tube section, exposing some of the wire passing through it, much like 1:1 plastic wire looms do. You could even install them by snapping it over the wire, rather than running the wire through it. It would make for a cool effect using a black loom on yellow or red wires, etc.

Progressing very nicely. The whole package 'looks right'.

Things are coming along nicely, Jim. I'm loving that rack of carburetors.