Ron Hamilton

Your work is never boring. I love them all.

I like what I see.

Beautiful work, Chopper.

And it takes the Checkered Flag!!!! A hole in one!!!!! Out of the park!!!!! Touchdown!!!!! Swish!!!! One!! Two!! Three!!! Goooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaalllllll!!!!!!! Did I cover most of them? It looks like a superlative model to me. Thank You Moebius for sweating the details!!!!

I have one of those in my basement with a cracked "A" pillar, which gives me the excuse to fix the too steep windshield angle, as well as other kit problems.

It is a Modelhaus body, and it does build up nice. Here is the one I did.

Have you considered chrome decals, similar to what Vintage Racing Miniatures does. I used them on my '58 Biscayne for the "Fuel Injection" script.

Beautiful work.

I love tis one. I worked a little on my 1965 Corvair Corsa Build. I am at the point where I am about to shoot some primer, but I have not decided on a color combination. It will be a replica stock build.

Zoli, you did it again!!!!

Last week, I was able to get a copy of Missing Link's Resin 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 4-Door Sedan, mastered by my fellow club member Howard Weinstein. Howard did a masterful job modifying the AMT 1964 Galaxie 500XL 2- Door Hardtop into a Galaxie 500 4-door sedan, nailing the 4-Door Sedan roof shape and rear window contours, rescribing the door cuts from 2-Door to 4-Door, removing the "star" from the rear fenders, and adding the "Galaxie 500" emblems in the right places on the body. Howard also made a set of separate door panels, a front bench, and rear seat, which are pretty faithful to the '64 Galaxie 500 upholstery pattern, which drop into the AMT "Nascar" interior tub. The kit consists of the one piece promo-style body, a clean interior tub, separate side panels, and separate front bench and rear seats. The builder must supply one of the AMT '64 Galaxie 500XL curbside model kits, which are pretty easy to find, for the "glass", tail lamps, chassis, chrome grille and bumpers, and tail lamp bezels. You are pretty much on your own for wheel trim, even though he latest issue of the Revell '64 Fairlane 500 Thunderbolt, as well as Trumpeter's '65 Ford Ranchero kit will yield a set of steelies and accurate '64 Ford "dog-dish" hubcaps. The Trumpeter Falcon kits also have an accurate set of '64 Ford optional wire wheel covers. If you go these routes, you will have to add a set of tires, axles, and wheelbacks. On my build, I am going with a set of '64 Galaxie 500 full wheel covers mounted on white stripe tires, which I modified from the AMT '64 Galaxie kit, as this is the combination I have seen on most of the '64 Galaxie 500s I saw as a kid. I applaud Missing Link Resin's marketing of the various Ford 4-Door Sedan resin transkits from the '60's and '70's, as they have a myriad of applications, from family cars, to taxi-cabs, to emergency vehicles, and I appreciate Howard Weinstein's willingness to share his modeling talents with the rest of us by allowing his work to be cast. I just had to get this one up on it's wheels to see the direction I am going to take it, which is going to be just your ordinary family sedan from the '60's.

As of tonight, I have the Missing Link '64 Galaxie 500 4-Door Sedan up on its wheels. I will photograph it in a few days.

Happy Birthday to me!!!

Yes they are. I have the same sheets that I bought from Fred.

Now I know why I like your work, Marcos. Simply stunning!

Here is mine, converted from the AMT Hardtop, using a Modelhaus Boot. I made an operating reclining passenger seat, swing away steering wheel w/column shift and floor shift blockoff plate, and yes it has a 390 V8 and C-6 from the AMT '66 Fairlane Kit. I added the trunk trim to the deck lid. My Grandmother's '65 Galaxie had it. This is one of my favorite builds. I also have a '66 Galaxie 500 7Liter Convertible, and a '66 Mercury S55 Convertible to go with it.

Lookin' good, Lyle!!!

Beautiful build. That one brings back memories. My Grandmother had a blue '61 Galaxie 4-Door Sedan, which I plan to replicate in scale. It was also the first car I drove the night I got my driver's license.

I have the same questions. I have not even unwrapped the ZR1 kit yet, the Z06 iks still in the box, and the C6 is mocked up. As much as I love the C6 Corvette, I do not know what color combination to do them in.

No, the bodies are not the same between the 1964 Galaxie 500 4-door sedan anf the 4-door Hardtop. F & F Resins used to market the '64 Ford 4-Door hardtop like what is pictured. However, the Missing Link Resin 4-Door sedan is quite a bit more complete as a transkit, and to fget an accurate representation of what you want to accomplish, you would have to re-dhape the side window profile, and re-do the rear window, which is not all that hard.

The Blue is Testors' Boyds Blue enamel.

Yes they did, and they are quite expensive in the marketplace. Even for busted promos and glue-bombs. I was very fortunate to get this one.

I have long been a fan of the 1960's Green Hornet TV show. With all of the hoopla over the new Polar Lights' Batmobile kit (yes I have one), I want to do something from the Green Hornet show. Over the years, I have been making an attempt to buy a JoHan Chrysler 300 Convertible to do Britt Reed's personal car. The prices they have been going for have ranged from ridiculous, to sublime, even for a built-up, a glue-bomb or even a promo. I all but gave up on the notion of doing the car, as I have had in my possession for many years, a clean un-painted built-up hardtop, which included all of the parts in the kit. I disassembled it, and put it in the box for a later build. I toyed with idea of whacking off the top, and turning it into a convertible, but cooler heads prevailed. Earlier this summer, I came across a rather raggedy un-built hardtop kit on that well known auction site. I placed a bid on it, and surprisingly won as I could not pay the normal high price these kits have been going for. When I got the model, it was in worse shape than I thought, as the roof was crushed, and there was a crack in the cowl. I have fixed a few old convertible kits by using a Modelhaus resin windshield frame. In the Modelhaus catalog, there is no 1966 Chrysler frame listed, so I used a part meant for a ‘67/’68 Plymouth that I had for another project. I cut the roof section from the car, fixed the crack in the cowl, and carefully trimmed the Modelhaus piece, and epoxied it onto the Chrysler body. The pictures speak for themselves. The car in the TV show was Beige, with a Saddle Tan interior and convertible boot (which came from a JoHan '68 Chrysler 300 Convertible), and that is the color I am going with. And yes, I am going to attempt to do a 1/25 Scale “Black Beauty” to go with it, using an AMT Imperial hardtop, as well as building the Batmobile.

I started on my Hudson a couple of days ago. This is what I am aiming for.

The model in question is beautifully done in a tasteful color combination. It may not be absolutely perfect, but there are some folks out there who can afford to purchase such a model at the price. The market dictated the price of the model. Period. The modeler offers some cleanly built and modified unique subjects that are not normally seen on the shelf. Personally, If I wanted something built to that level, I will do it myself, as I cannot afford to spend that much on a model. If he can get that kind of loot for them, I take my hat off to him, and wish him well, and no, the price was not too high in my opinion.