Scott Colmer

I forgot about the Miss Budweiser. The box says it is a Rolls Royce engine. Hosted on Fotki

If you can ever get your hands on the Stroker McGurk version of the MPC Phone Booth, it has a pretty cool version of an older Aircraft V8 with an up draft carburetor. I had one, but let it go. Here is a shot of the real thing. Hosted on Fotki

Best link in years. So many ideas. Thanks for posting it.

It been over 2 years?! Wow. Well, I have been working on this. I want to finish it. Here we have the engine I am replicating. You can just see to T/F blower on top. My biggest problem was the valve covers and heads. I could not fin them in 1:25 scale. I had to make my own, which took a good deal of work. To save time I also decided to try my hand a resin casting. The masters are pretty good. I could not get the upper/lower case lettering in the pic, so I grafted in all upper case from a donor set. The raised letters are a little lighter than I would like, but that is the best I could do. Casting was a learning experience. My first resin cast was goopy. I learned I should not have sprayed the silicone mold with silicone spray. They do not like each other. I made a second valve cover mold and things are looking better. Here is the 1:1 Hosted on Fotki Here are the molds with a fresh pour starting to solidify, masters, some castings, some of those chrome plates and breather vents on the right waiting for alclad. Hosted on Fotki Next is getting the blower up to snuff. I shaved the ribs and I am making new ones with the correct count and spacing. The technique is to lightly CA glue a block of sheet and shape the whole thing. Then I use debonder to separate them. It worked 1/2 the time. One side did not debond, so I had to shape them one at a time. Hosted on Fotki Until next time.

This is model related. As a kid, I built a model based on a a drawing in CARtoons. I gave it to a friend after college who kept the good parts. Now, of course, I wish I still had it. So I get to thinking about that model and how I would like to build it again. Then I start looking for the article. It took a while and a lot of CARtoons searches until I saw a cover that looked familiar. One showed up one e-bay, (very lucky) and I picked it up. Inside was the article and the drawing I replicated. The one I built was the Sleepers club car. I used the AMT 34 ford P/U Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

I just peeked in a Revell Hot Wheels IMSA Camaro and found the slicks were starting to melt into the hood. That's circa 1992. It repairable, but not good.

Hey Curt. Not this year. I'm deep in lesson plans. Too bad, I had a good time talking to you and the crew last year.

Nice work, Curt. That should seem a few extra tickets.

I was fine with Open Water. AKA - I did not hate it. One of the worst I have seen last year...Lost City of Z. The lead is NOT a good actor. There is an interesting stranded movie out there called Frozen. Made in 2010. I saw it one weekend and was talking about it at work and one of the guys said that same situation happened to him and his friends. They got out but his back was jacked up from the fall. You can figure out where they got stranded.

I've got a few, even if they are oldies. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki And one on the bench. Hosted on Fotki

A nascar chassis could be a good start too.

I've always been partial to the chassis in the old Banshee from Revell. Double tube construction with full independent suspension. A little more trick than a square platform. You may have the add extra tube bracing where you see fit and lose the belly pan if you want to show it off. Hosted on Fotki

If I remember right, the current CI limit is 500. I'm not sure how long ago that became the rule. They might tell you in the Mongoose intructions text.

This is my Christmas present. The Ghoul Duo is a replacement of a childhood kit. I just ran out of shelf space. Happy problems. Hosted on Fotki

My old high school car had a hot Wankle. It was loud an fast. I disintegrated the fiberglass front end before I got it in paint. I have another shell and a hood. The original power plant plan was a small, aluminum V8. Now that I've been driving our Bolt EV, I'm going electric. EV vehicles accelerate like crazy. Isn't that what street fun is about? I'll bet I could set up a sound system to sound like an engine (any engine). Fake side pipes could be the speakers. 'Cause like ACE, I like that sound too. I also want to run it through a transmission. I'll take the added drag just so I can shift it. Hosted on Fotki

Fotki good.

Watch out for those train nuts, some are square instead of hex.

I picked up the reissue Beretta Prostreet to go with the original issue decals I got earlier. The original issue has always been one of my favorite box builds. I want to replicate it (with maybe a couple small changes). I looked for an original issue, but they are hard to find and the ones I saw were pricy. I also got some very thin Dremmel blades for cutting open panels and such. Used carefully, these make a very thin cut. The downside is they like to eat fingers, so respect is due. Hosted on Fotki

Great Thread. I'm saving this. Model Doctor used to have some, but they are long gone. I've been using hex shaped styrene, but getting a straight cut is a challenge. I've had good results from Scale Hardware. Especially nice if you want to bolt on certain larger 1/25 scale parts like wheels and such. When trimming PE pieces that like to fly away I back them with masking tape first. Cheap insurance.

Great set. I really like the TD box builds.

Are you talking about the California Star? former AMBR winner? Hosted on Fotki

Caught this nice ride out side a Jack in the Box in south Corona. SoCal treats. Hosted on Fotki

Tom, LOL. That was spot on! Scott.

Great subject matter, John. Excellent work as always.

Most of the money on spent on kits as adult was replacing what I had when I was a kid.