novadose71

I caught the chase, and wing ,scenes of that about 20 years ago, early afternoon and I woke up to it(Camaro,Roadrunner and a couple others IIRC), have been trying to get my hands on it ever since..always hard to find and pretty expensive on VHS, $80 from one guy ...finally came out on DVD within the last year or so but still around $30....maybe the fathers day givers will take my hints some of my favorites Vanishing Point-just does it for me for some reason and about the only movie I can put on just to listen to...the driving music reminds me of the first couple of Desert Sessions albums...or vice versa Dirty Mary Crazy Larry-has some of the greatest driving in it and no fast forward scenes Gone in 60 seconds(Halicki)-Great chase/destruction scenes. Smokey and the Bandit 1- Very fun, even with too many fast forward scenes it's still a great one-this and Dukes of Hazzard were great "learn to drive" video's for a certain 13 year old Iowa boy Gumball Rally is pretty good, way better than Cannonball Run. Crank up the surround sound, the Cobra Ferrari chase in the LA riverbed is worth it even if the rest of the movie was terrible(which it wasn't) Mad Max/Road Warrior-always great ones in my book and plenty of destruction Blues Brothers was fun and I've always wanted to drive through a mall Junkman-not nearly as good as Gone in 60, seemed like he was trying to outdo himself and showoff his impressive toy collection, some great stunts and real life close calls, but I can't get past using that Cadillac for a vehicle, even front wheel drive IIRC Bullitt-finally replaced my VHS copy with DVD a few weekends ago and watched it twice since. I've gotta say that I forgot how disappointed I was with the chase, especially with all the hu-bub about it. It's not that's it's terrible by any means, but hardly the "greatest chase scene" that I've heard it called many times. The Mustang and Charger are pretty cool but I'll take any of the above(except Junkman)over this one any day.

Thanks guys. While not a huge NASCAR fan I do have a deep respect for the drivers and earlier cars, when they looked like cars. This was a great project to be a part of.

Those wheels came from a Dodge Dart modified kit. I was going to reply to your wanted post but wasn't sure where I put the kit wheels. I'm pretty sure you should be able to find something similar in just about any 80's-90's NASCAR kits. Otherwise, I should still have my Matador leftovers here somewhere, I can dig around tonight or tomorrow night and see if they turn up. I'll let you know.

Our club display "50 Years of Daytona" from 2009, as shown at the Milwaukee NNL. The base was built in a members garage over several weekends by all 6 members, with the whole shebang taking around 4 months to build. The construction equipment is90-95% scratchbuilt by one of our members, with the other 5 members building 3 or 4 Daytona specific cars and utilizing a few previously built cars as well. Thanks for lookin' Some progress pics here

Some cool mods you got going there, looks like Mad Max might have some competition

My hearts in mainly 60's era stuff, but I can find cars that trip my trigger from any era, 20's up to now. And if it doesn't do anything for me factory stock, it can always be modified. FWIW My thoughts, and personal opinion, on the new "rip offs" of their own past designs.... I think they did a good job with the new Mustang and the update too, clean designs but I am sick of all the different "special edition" garbage, I don't need 20 models of one car, it's making me lose a little love for Ford and Ol Shelby himself. The new Camaro looks like Hot Wheels designed it...I like hot wheels The new Challenger looks like Tonka designed it and Revell cast it from a diecast mold. The redesigned new Charger (especially the SRT-8 from the front 3/4) makes me gag..... but the tail light looks good. American, Asian, European, Australian, GLHS Shelby, X-11 Citation, 70s Celica...doesn't matter to me. It's all a matter of taste and opinion and when you get down to it, a cool car is a cool car, and if it's not....make it cool...and yes I said X-11 PS bring back the Firebird BTW That rod from the first post is kinda funky

Yeah, no kidding....... there's got to be a good hobby shop or two in Frisco

For getting nice even coverage from a spray bomb, Plasti-cote vinyl colors and their automotive touch up lacquer primers and paints have a blue fan spray nozzle that is a great replacement for the Testors (and other brands) round spray pattern nozzle. I have a few I clean with lacquer thinner and keep for future spray jobs. I haven't used Testors spray enamels in a very long time and like others have said, would recommend using a lacquer for painting a body. I remember the enamels coming out thick and the pressure dying out pretty fast. If you are going to use the Testors I would make sure to have 2 or 3 cans on hand in case you run out of paint....or pressure. I put my paint cans in my dehydrator to warm them, but putting the can in a bowl of warm tapwater will help the paint flow and increase the pressure a bit too, just make sure you wipe all the water off the can before spraying, trust me on this. Practice on a scrap body or at least a plastic spoon to get a feel for the way it sprays, flows out on the surface and for checking dry times between coats. Take a couple deep breaths, take your time, make sure to start and stop your spray past the ends of the body/parts, overlap your passes 50%, give all your parts the same number and thickness of coats and trust me, use the blue fan spray nozzle. There is some good info here, but I would also check House of Kolor and TCP Global website's for possible candy spraying tips, or just a "candy paint spraying tips" general web search should turn up something. Most info will be for 1:1 but just scale it down This was sprayed with House of Kolor spray cans, Apple Red and Cobalt(?)blue candies over pearl white using the nozzle mentioned above. Nice and even with no striping....Yay

Nice save of a cool kit

Nice work so far. What's the plan for the engine?

I was negative 10 years old, didn't see a thing

This was built from the last LRW version molded in red. It's a cool kit that builds into a sweet little replica, and the doors weren't even too hard to get to open correctly. The "440" is actually a 273 small block IIRC but I didn't install it. This one's not finished yet, I need to weather it, make an old topper, add some cargo, put a red rag in the gas filler and build/install the engine. There's a couple more of these in my stash too, one will get the van body with a slant 6 and the other......???

This is insane...incredible work John.

I like where this is headed.

Those fit perfect.

I built one of these years ago with the kit wheels and tires and I have a hard time looking at it with them on there, just ruins it for me. Yours looks great with the F40 rolling stock.

Killer Nova

Cool idea, love the ram air louvers.....and yes, do tell, how'd ya do em

Very nice build of my favorite modern Ferrari

Thanks, 2 ERTL Diecast 40 Fords gave up their wheels so I could get the duals for the rear. The first was one of my sons that he destroyed when he was younger, and I had to buy the other online, then explain to my wife why I was immediately removing the wheels and shoving the remains in a box. She still doesn't understand me. Here's a shot with the Model King racers wedge set behind it, would have probably worked fine but for me it just took away too much of the fire truck look.

Thanks Danno

Due day for the challenge ,with what's left of the Auburn.... which isn't much, just the body Rolled back with the rest of the challengers Here's the chassis as it is now, plans are to go back and repaint the engine in a more correct color, install the rest of the suspension parts, weather and leave it alone Finished interior..will get more weathering and some detail bits That's where I am now, and with several other projects going now I'm not sure when I will get back at it, but hopefully soon. Now that the deadline came and went, when I do I would like to go back and weather the whole thing and I originally planned to widen the rear of the cab like below, I still might go back and do that too...we'll see when the time comes

This was started for a "Stash Raid" club challenge where we go to a members house and each pick one kit from his collection to finish by a deadline chosen by she stash owner, usually a year or longer. This was mine last year that I was dared to make it into a hauler and the darer had to build something cool out of the Lindberg(?) Auburn to be hauled. It was on....he finished, I got bogged down trying to make a functioning rollback that would be long enough to haul just about anything, could be adjusted for width, yet stow away narrow enough for the sides to line up like original.....mission accomplished on the functioning rollback but not enough time to finish it up. This is my first mockup with the kit pumper bed parts trimmed to where I wanted things to be Starting to get my idea's transferred to plastic and brass.....Club challengers Auburn on back Underside of "bed" showing slot for front and rear center sliding I-beam Underside of track slider. Evergreen strip slides into rectangle brass tube, Evergreen I-beam slides over...... and is notched on top for track to lay in to This is the structure almost all together, sliders in...... .....sliders out..... .....all stowed with sides and tracks installed

This was built for a club diorama with a deadline so it's built curbside. I used a Matador kit body and a Kodak car from the old double kit for the chassis. I started by molding in the 1/4 window filler panels and fuel filler, widening the windshield opening and sanding off the molded in rear spoiler. I then drilled new fuel filler and overflow tube holes and made a new spoiler and drybreak filler from Evergreen styrene. With the body mods finished I could get it in paint using Tamiya sprays for all three colors. The kit grille needed some attention to better represent the real deal. I sanded off the molded in detail and used a combination of BMF, aluminum tape, and some black mesh I had on hand to detail it. I used wheels from the Dart Modified and some kit tires with the molded detail sanded off, the window net is from Plastic Performance Products. Decals are a combination of aftermarket, custom and a couple are from kits. Looks like I still need to add a Goodyear decal above the front wheels but I'll deal with that another day. Thanks for lookin'

Superclean takes the chrome off in about an hour or less and will remove the clear coating usually within 24 hours. Just did a big batch of bumpers this week, even removed Modelhaus chrome/clear.