ZTony8

1) An Airfow-Chrysler or Desoto,doesn't matter. 2) 1941 Packard Le Baron Sport Brougham 3) A Gordon-Keeble 4) '66 or '67 Olds 442 5) Chopped '30 or '31 Model A on Deuce Rails.Olds or Caddy powered please. 6)Ferrari 288 GTO 7) Dodge Dart Swinger 340 4 speed 8)A Ford GT-circa 2006 9)'71 or '72 Firebird Formula 455 H.O. 4 speed.I had a '71 and should have kept it. 10) Porsche 956 or 962.

I'm not an intentional colector and there's only a little nostalgia in it for me.If I was only a collector I wouldn't open most of the kits that I buy.My intent is to build what I buy.It'll just take me 400 years to do it (if I stop buying kits-not likely).So cal me a builder-a slow one.

A local hobby shop has a clearance every January so I make it a point to pick up kits that I normally wouldn't buy at retail price.So yesterday I bought a Fujimi Williams FW16(San Marino version) and a Revell Germany 2011 Mercedes DTM race car.I'll go back for more kits later.

I have an extendable work light on my model desk(non magnified).I bought an Optivisor years ago thinking I would use it more than I use it now. I can use my reading glasses for most of my model work but every now and then I don the Optivisor when I feel the need for extra close vision or when working with very tiny parts.

I've always been put off by the shape of the Monogram/Revell kit at the front fender/bumper/headlamp extension area.It's always looked too squarish to me.The AMT kit looks closer to correct to me.

Maybe those are his winter tires . Wouldn't want to ruin the 30 inch tall tires in crummy weather.

My current project is a Revell '40 Ford coupe mounted on a Wagon Rod chassis with a Corvette independent rear suspension grafted in along with a Nissan Skyline turbo inline 6 engine.It's gonna be a drift car. Then I'll take the ZR1 engine from the Wagon Rod and stuff it into the Skyline(or should I use the flathead from the '40 Ford? :wacko:)

I like the variety in your excellent builds.

I just tossed some Autoweek issues from the 80s and 90s(I needed the shelf space for some boxes of model car magazines).But I'll keep the rest of my magazines.

My resolution is to make no resolutions. My model goals are to finish more started projects and expand and hone my skills.

A semi quick project is a '40 Ford for an in club contest.I'm building it as a drift car !

Future is the preferred material.If you insist on using paint over your decals Testor "One Coat" clear works fine and won't wrinkle them like TS-13 does.Spray it as lightly as possible-it goes on a bit thick like all Testor paints but once it's polished out it looks great.

I just got the coupe kit(in a Testor box) last week as a gift.Since the engine looks a bit too basic the kit looks to be a candidate for an engine swap.A Ford small block or maybe a GM ZL1 come immediately to mind.Blown Gasser Hemi Porsche perhaps?

I hope that someone does pick up the molds and continues production of the engine kits.Excellent products.

It made me chuckle when I read that Roger Penske announced that his group was going V8 Supercar racing in Australia just as Ford was pulling out of the series(and the whole Australian car industry is heading to the dumper).Perfect timing,RP,perfect timing.Marcus Ambrose may be back stateside sooner than he anticipated. BTW,V8 Supercars aren't anything like NASCAR Cup cars.Cup cars are tube frame,non production based cars.V8 Supercars(correct me if I'm wrong) are production car based racers with a cage system added.

Deals happen where they happen.I've gotten deals at model shows,club meetings,hobby store clearances,purchased collections,and swap meets.When I'm feeling bucks up I'll make a special trip to the Model Cave in Ypsilanti and get deals there from John and Melissa on the offbeat kits that I like.

Ah,the joys of B&W TV.Ours was an RCA on a swivel base with a blond wood cabinet.We were deluxe though-we had an outside antenna lashed to the chimney(No Tenna Rotor-those came later).I didn't have my own color TV until 1976 when I bought one for myself. It's chilling to think that now is going to be someone else's "good old days" in 40 or 50 years.Ugh.

The Little Deuce is out in modified form now(different wheels and decals).I was disappointed in the kit upon purchase.There's not a full chassis under it!

The MPC 1/20th scale STP Turbine race car.

I think the most I've spent for a kit is for the re issued Big T and Big Deuce.They were in the $70 dollar range each and that's with a discount.I used to think that $50 was ridiculous for a kit but that was a while ago.Now the new Ebbro Formula 1 kits are in that range. jherald-I bought the Gunze GTO many years ago for $45,back when that was full price.A couple of year ago I got,as part of a larger kit collection I purchased,one of the engineless versions of the GTO.After selling off a large chunk of that collection I think made the effective price of that GTO to be about $5.

Any one of the Fujimi Enthusiast series Ferraris.By the time I got down to the last of them I think I'd finally be good at building them.

The prototype for Clearview 2000!

Look for Super Clean(used to be Castorl Super Clean ).It's a bit stronger than Purple Power and I've found that it works better.

AMT markets a Porsche 935 that's a rebox of an ESCI kit.I have that kit plus an ESCI boxed Porsche 934 "baby" that's the same basic kit.They're aren't the greatest things ever molded,lacking in a lot of detail-kinda like some of the later Heller rally car kits.But they're above a Palmer or a Premier kit.

Tom,I know I have a partly started Testor(Fujimi Enthusiast) 5000 Quattrovalvole parts kit.If it will work for you you can have the one from my parts kit.PM me with info(and maybe an instruction call out number) if you want it.