Eric Stone

Just one: Can I have it when you're done?

Man, that's looking killer!

Very cool! I'm not a big lowrider fan, but you've done a good job. Colors are very striking! I like it.

Got this stuff at the HAMS contest yesterday... The Corvette was $5.00. I built one as a kid, and decided I'd like another. Odd thing, it has a big block Chevy with smallblock ram's head exhaust manifolds... Might do an engine swap. The Thunderbird came from Matt LeBlanc, in a trade. Thanks, Matt! The S-10 was $10, and I ended up getting both Impalas for $15.

I tried one of the Alumilite kits and tried to copy some wheels. I don't think I ever got one perfect copy- had air bubbles in most of the parts in critical places, like the rim, lug nut detail, or center cap, so the part ended up like a short-shot styrene piece, where the farthest extremity wasn't there. You might be able to get decent results using a pressure pot, or casting parts with less intricate detail.

Great photos, Phil. I friended you on Fotki so I can find your pics again later.

I can only do one at a time, it seems.

Soon as I finish my '66 Chevy II, I'll be back in on this, either with the MPC 79 Cobra I've already started, or an MPC 84 SVO (or both).

That came out pretty danged good! I saw what was probably the 1:1 featured in your reference article at a show here in '08. Wish I had known you were building it, I'd have shared my pics, but I'm looking at them now and it looks like you've done a pretty faithful replica. Good job! My pics of the 1:1 are at the bottom of this page: http://public.fotki.com/Chevelle350/cars/keels--wheels-2008/

I was on call for work this past week, so I didn't make it to the meeting, but I'll be at the show!

If they get new kits every week, someone around here is buying them up, because I don't see that much change in their inventory... I have seen a couple of Italeri armor kits, but haven't been interested enough in them to note or remember what they are. There are about four different Tuesday Morning stores around here I pop in on periodically. The one nearest my girlfriend's house seems to be farthest off the beaten path, and has the biggest model selection of the four I go to. None of the other three have had the Ford truck, or the Lindberg 1/32 cars.

Just looked at the two again, and oops, you're right.

None of the pics work.

Let me guess, you stumbled across them at Tuesday Morning, or a similar closeout store? I grabbed both of them, as well as a Mount 'N Goat Jeep Commando at my local Tuesday Morning a while back. The T Police Car shares quite a few parts as the AMT 25 Ford Roadster kit I got in a trade here, and an old molded-in-black chopped T body I got somewhere also appears to fit. Lots of extra parts in the T. The Lil Mixer is a show rod. It has a 427 Cammer in it, but it doesn't look that great. Another Tuesday Morning by my girlfriend's house also has a similar school bus show rod, Lil Yeller, AMT Ford C900 tilt cab Tractor, and four of the Lindberg 1/32 cars- 52 Chevy, 37 Chevy, 34 Ford, and 49 Ford.

A nice pair of digital calipers from Harbor Freight or somewhere similar will help a TON when you start into the measure twice and cut once routine. If you're ordering styrene online, you oughta just get a little bit of everything, since you're paying for shipping anyway. Order more of the stuff you use up the fastest, and don't order more stuff that you haven't run out of yet. I bet you'll find a use for each size of stuff you get.

Those look great, Romell. You've captured the 'look' of each car. Good stuff.

Mike, G & G Model Shop Inc 713-529-7752 http://www.gandgmodelshop.com/ 2522 Times Boulevard (Rice Village area, just off Kirby) Houston, TX 77005 and Mike's Hobby Shop 281-577-8250 21768 E Knox Dr (Just off 59, north of Kingwood) Porter, TX 77365 Both shops are pretty train-heavy, Mike's especially, and Mike's has a lot of large scale train stuff, so they might have some building materials like brick wall sheets, I'm not sure. G&G has a decent selection of stuff to build buildings and architectural models, and may have what you're looking for.

I recently started checking out Four Eyed Pride, and I get the impression they're much more into restoration and preservation than modifying and/or hot rodding. Fox Body Forum is big into tech and performance, and won't criticize you for changing an old four eye from stock.

Good looking build. I have the same kit, and have been thinking I'll do it in the same exterior colors.

Yeah, I don't know if it's possible to caption an uploaded pic, because it's not displayed within the text like one posted from Photobucket, Fotki, etc.

The Buick is currently on store shelves. I asked a lady at Hobby Lobby about the 62 Impala, and she pointed out that the 62 Buick was "brand new". (I didn't bother explaining reissues to her...)

Yeah, it probably shrinks. Plus the Sculpey could distort as you remove it from the part to be copied. Guess we shouldn't mess with Brett's methods, as it looks like he's given us the right stuff to use from the start.

I think Silly Putty would be way too soft for this, but I wonder how Sculpey would work...

Muffler bearings http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=10

Is that supposed to be a log type manifold molded into the block, just below the head?