torinobradley
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I built one when I was 14 or so and loved it. Mind you, I didn't have the OCD about accuracy, fit and finish I have now. I have several of the kits that I am looking forward to tackling now that I can do them much better. The only issue I remember is the headlight buckets wouldn't fit to make the front hinge forward. I loved the separate bundle of snakes exhaust headers and actually got them to fit. It won second place way back when.
They look great when done but can be a bit finicky going together so test fit everything.
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Thanks for the replies! I haven't done too many stock cars in my modeling history (last one was the Petty charger way back in the '70s) so my knowledge of them is rather limited.
Now for the kicker. I picked up the Petty Talladega this last weekend and seeing the build-ups and the pics of the real one, knew I needed to both relocate and update the gas cap & vent. Last night, got a wild hair and started cleaning off my bench and found some resin I picked up at a show about 6 months ago. I bought the resin parts for use on street rods and such. Included with them was a racing gas cap I can use with some clean up and a little file work. So, now I'm down to making or finding the vent. Looks fairly simple to scratch.
Thanks again!
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Yes that can common on most cars, you have to remember the cars are painted on a assembly line and they are not wetsanded and then polished before they leave the manufacturer, only high dollars cars will come from the factory with flawless paint.
I was in Vegas a few years ago and was oogling the high dollar cars and saw orange peel on a brand new Bently... Bad paint happens to even the best cars...
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Picked up the Petty Torino Talladega this last weekend and looking at the pics of the real car and build-ups online, I see one build utilize the Lookout Designs fuel filler & vent. A web search (ebay too) has prooven fruitless for either the Lookout Designs pieces or pieces from someone else. Then again, maybe I am looking in the wrong place. Thus, here I am, asking those that know...
Does anyone have a source for these or reasonable alternatives?
Many thanks!
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I am considering a '70 Mustang. Drew up some designs a few years ago that I wanted to do and then this contest comes along with the '70 in it. If I can get my other two contest builds done by their deadlines, I should be able to thrash one out...
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As a former multi-Vega owner and road race type enthusiest, I would love to see both the Vega and the Pinto make their modeling combacks. Would love to use them as the basis to build either the road racers that tore up the tracks in the '70s or models of my own '76 street racer hatchback or '74 V8 wagon or even my brother's '71 Vega Panel Truck (registered as a truck with Texas Truck plates!).
Let's get 'em back!
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Preiser did some figure kits in G or 1/22.5 scale that include a lot of different heads, torsos, arms and legs in different positions and postures. You just used the parts you wanted to create the pose your looking for.
The problem with these figures (or best part for some of our more demented personalities) is that they are without any material coverings, requiring you to create the clothes for them as well.
Preiser also has 100s of other figures both painted and unpainted in all kinds of poses/professions/dressings/characters. Just do a search and be in awe of the variety and say ouch when you see some of the prices...
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You might consider refrigeration for your kits come summer!!!!
As a (now) fellow Texan, one piece of advice. Don't store your kits in the garage, attic or any non-temperature controled storage... Otherwise, you'll end up with a lot of parts kits (if your lucky).
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I have many boxes of all types of cars along with 20-30 of the double sided cases and still have boxes full of loose cars. I ended up with some rare ones along the way. I'll have to see about getting some pics of mine.
I have to say, my favorite cars are the Tomica Pocket Car line. I have a few including a very nice Pantera with opening hood and a Lotus Esprit with pop-up headlights. They aren't worth much but they are rare as they can be and that's why I like them.
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The Expendables with the chase scene where they virtually destroy Stallones customized F-100.
What spoiled this one for me was how the stock chase cars (blazer?) were able to keep up with Stalone's West Coast Customs souped-up hot rod truck and awesome driving skills...
Anyone mention the Bond movies? Those had some really cool chases in them that included all kinds of spy gadgets, spiral jumps and a flying Matador...
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Looks like fun! I just dissasembled my '73 in the hopes I'll have some time to devote to it. Picked up the Racers Jornal (IIRC) and the Cady decals for it so I am plotting and planning. Also picked up the '66 Malibu (saw somewhere it was a good doner for a chassis) but will have to swap the rear to a leaf spring. The chassis fits with some trimming.
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Time is relative to mass and speed. The larger the mass and/or the faster you go, the slower time goes. Einstein's theories on this have been proven on the ISS.
Thought I'd take a crack at explaining things.
Another thing many are maybe not understanding, RPM is a measure of how many times an object rotates on it's own axis, not in relation to distance or speed of travel. The more distance between any point on the rotating item and the central axis point, the greater speed at which that point travels. So, given the earth as an example, someone at the north pole will be slowing turning so that they will make one revolution in one day (but travel no distance) while a person on the equator, in relative to the bored north pole stander is whizzing around him at over 1000 miles per hour (but is just as bored because everything else around him is also whizzing right along with him). Thus, the pole guy travels 0 miles in a day while the equator guy has gone well over 24,000 miles. It's when the outside diameter hits the gravel & petroleum products when the RPM get's transmitted into speed and distance relative to the axle.
Of course, you guys realize we are whizzing around an 870,000 mile wide nuclear fission fireball at about 67,000 MPH on the apple-peel thin skin of a rather molten ball of rock???
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They appear to just for show, it would be interesting to see somebody make headers that would connect to a set of 4 into 1 style sidepipes on these vans though........can't imagine which one I'd have less desite to fabricate and install, that setup in 1/24-1/25 or on the real thing!
Most 4 into 1 sidepipes only had one actual input pipe out of the four shown. In scale, just run the downpipe from the stock exhause over to the second or third input pipe on the sidepipes and your done with a typical installation.
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Front cover from an F1 kit of some type?
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I have a couple of builds that I will be replacing and creating better sidepipe headers for and am looking for a suitable diameter solder for it. The engines are big block Chevys so the header tubes need to scale out to about 2". I have a short lenght of .093 from a plumbing pack but cannot find any outside the plumbing pack and don't want to purchase another torch/tank/etc just to get some more .093. Does anyone have a good sorce for model suitable solder in or around the .093/2mm size? I also read somewhere I'll need to stay away from certain solders because of content or rosen core. Anyone know the skinny?
Thanks!!
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Go cart frame?
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How about using it for a Joe Dirt Movie Car????
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I don't know where this fits in but my '71 (IIRC) by Johan had '73 or '74 ovalish taillights. Even the instructions show the correct rear but how this thing got the later lights...
I will have to order the correct ones from Modelhaus or somewhere and fix the body to accept the correct lights. Were there any other changes I need to be aware of?
Also, there's a '69 on epay right now at $86 still with over a day to go. That's another one to be aware of (kit, that is).
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There was a Rodney Dangerfield movie (Easy Money) that had him trying to build a 1/25th Messershmidt(?) with some comment about Foch...
In the game Fallout, there are Nuke Cola trucks and little blue 50's Indy type cars you can collect as well as a real nice static model in the Tenpenny Towers penthouse (can't get that one though).
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I did get it for cheap. It was at a Big Lots and if I remember correctly, I only paid about $5. this was also several years ago. They had several but this one was the only one I picked up and did so because of the turbine. Maybe someday it will cross the bench and get a few details. I was just curious to know if it was based on a real car or custom or just a figment in styrene.
Thanks for the responses guys. I had never seen anything about a turbo V6 vette. Interesting.
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I did some research and found out about Granatelli's Vette. Still think it's funny that "normal" city driving was only done with the brakes.
This kit is pretty simplistic in what it is. I got it because of the unique power plant. Though, aside from the box-top, I have never seen a built one... Would be fun to do a detail job on it, I would think.
Thanks for the replies!
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I've seen a few turbine cars popping up on the forum lately and it brought to mind a kit I purchased a while back. I found it at a discount store and it was the Testors '80 Corvette kit but this one had what appeared to be a turbine under the hood. Anyone know about the history of this kit and if it is based on a real car? I know Grenatelli tested the turbine for his racing car in a Corvette. I bought it because it was different and for the off chance it was a reissue of that one.
Anybody???
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How about reading the odometer!?!? I have one of the Grand Sport sheets (enough for 5 cars with a few extra decals thrown in) and it is beautiful.
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My favorite part of Donks is watching them try to turn into a parking space... Rubbbb, grinddd, scrappeee, creak, groan, etc...
Someone say a 13 point u-turn...
Not my style but fun to poke fun at...
Oh, and what about those belly scrapers. Speed bumps? Driveways?
Hi-Jackers. Ever watch a jacked up Camaro try to corner?
Funny you mention "clown car". My dad used to say that too. Way back in the '70s when people would put wires, curb feelers, wild colored super flake paint jobs, light-up hood ornaments, landau bars and extreemly padded vinyl roofs on pretty much every type of car out there.
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I have been looking for a Fujimi EM Porsche 356 for a while now but am not willing to pay the $50 everyone wants for them. I had been searching for them via the web and the shows I attended the last few years with no luck. I have also been holding off on purchasing the Flintstone 550 spyder for $20+shipping. This last weekend, I went to the local show and found a sealed 356 coupe bundled with a Flintsone 550 for $30 and then another sealed 356 roadster for $17. I have a partial kit that I can use to build the 550 so in all, netted 3 buildables for less than $50. Also picked up two Penske Vettes, the Revell vette with cross webber intake and minilites, a Petty Talladega, a Jeep Renegade and a Fiat 131 Abarth.