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I have one of these cars in the back of my shop and watching this created a mixture of emotions - and joy wasn't one of them. I hope they catch these guys and put them away for a long, lomg time. http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/local/classic-car-theft-caught-on-video-20100725

It may be more economical to use the Modelhaus '59 sedan delivery and a '60 El Camino annual off Ebay. Some of theose don't sell for a lot of money - especially if they are incomplete. You may also be able to do something with the Modelhause '59 delivery and the Quicksilver kits. Those things are everywhere on Ebay and again, some go pretty cheap. I know the Modelhause '59 is pretty nice as I have one. Just two other options.. Actually, I may scoop one of those myself and compare it to my '59 to see what would be involved in replacing the roof. I have a real 1:1 '60 sedan delivery here if you need any photos or information. Don't hesitate to ask. Hmmm.. I wonder why no one is casting a stock bodied '60???? *hint hint, nudge nudge*

Thanks for sharing, guys. I am always amazed at how many different ways there are to do certain things. Many of us have learned from trial and error and others have learned from someone who has "walked through the minefield" before us. Many times, those people learned by experimenting and finding a solution. One of the nice things about this hobby is how people share their knowledge to try to help others. Another nice thing is that there are no "carved in stone" rules for most things - it's what ever works for you. Thanks again and please keep the posts coming.

It's guys like you that make my inferiority complex bubble to the surface!!! Seriously though - that sure is a work of art!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can not believe how it turned out.. what a cream puff! Judging from the remarks in the posts, I'll stay away from TKM stuff.. my skills are no where near yours. There are few words to really do justice to whatyou have created. A masterpiece indeed!

It's always nice to see one saved. Sure looks good! I like the colours - unique combination but very attractive. Makes me want to get back on the Chevy sedan delivery of the same year that I started eons ago. yeah - pretty car, Sam. A worthwhile effort and save.

The casting really is pretty good IMHO aside from the little issues that I described. I forgot to add that the thickness of the body is pretty much on par with styrene kits.. and aside from the one little blemish on the rear quarter panel, it is very smooth and should paint up as nice as a styrene kit. Please give us your views on the Edsel sedan delivery - that one sounds interesting.

Just thought that this may be a thread that a lot of guys ( and girls?? ) here on the board could benefit from. It's one of those little things that knowing how to do it can sometimes make a big difference on a project. After all, it IS the little things that really make the difference, isn't it? So what procedures do you use and what materials do you use to make - say for instance - a repop of a fender script or a small part? And what do you use to create that repop of that fender script or small part? And how do you trim and attach it to the project? And another question - how do you make a mold for a larger part - say an exterior visor for a pickup and what would you use to cast it? I saw some casting stuff at Micheals the other day and thought about buying some but figured I'd ask here first to see what you the professionals and experts would suggest. Perhaps a tutorial as a sticky on casting small parts might be a good idea because it is something that a lot of us are going to want to probably try to do sooner or later. Just a suggestion..

Well, I did get the '59 Chevy 2 door sedan on Monday of this week but I have been too busy with too much to do to have a lot of time posting or really take a good, close look at the car. My wife left to visit her sister on Wednesday morning and the heat here during the day has been nothing short of brutal! To start off with, I want to say thank you to Marc for making this kit available to me. Thank you Marc - I truly do appreciate your kind gesture and Marc, I owe you one. I'll attempt to give an honest, unbiased description of the car as best I can but again, I am just happy to get it, so I may be a bit leniant in my comments. It has it's good points and it's points that are.. well, not quite so good but all in all, it is pretty decent and I am very happy with it. I'll list the good things first and then the things that IMHO, the casters could make a few improvements on. With a bit of work on their part, this could be a very nice, unique model and totally accurate! It's close though.. The casting itself is really pretty nice and crisp with VERY little flash to clean up. As I look at it here sitting in front of me, there is only some minute, very light flash around the bottom of the rear window opening, in the door vent windows, around the back edge of the engine bay opening and in the grille cavity. Both front wheel openings have a tiny bit but I am sure not knocking the model because of this - the flash is no where near as bad as I have seen on some styrene kits. The tail light pockets look like they may need some minor cleaning up as I am not sure if the Impala tail lights will fit in as the pockets seem pretty shallow. All in all though, I would say that as far as the casting itself goes, I would rate it at a 9 out of 10. The one flaw - and it is pretty minimal, is a blemish on the passenger's side right in front of the tail light opening - that is by far and away the worst of the model's casting but it will clean up just fine IMHO. No real complaints from me in this area. But then, maybe I am more easily appeased than some people. I think most of you would agree with me though and I am just telling it like I see it. It's fairly obvious that who ever did the master for this kit doesn't know an awful lot about '59 Chevys because it appears to me that what they did was take a Revell hardtop kit and used that body as the platform and this resulted in several errors in this casting. First of all, the roof is too low for a sedan as the hardtop roof was actually lower than a sedan, wagon, or El Camino. The convertible and two and four door hardtop all shared the same windshield which I seem to recall is about two inches lower than the sedans, wagons and the El Camino. But it is not that noticeable on this car really and to the person who doesn't know this - it likely would not be very obvious as nothing really would appear to be out of place to most folks. One other flaw with the roof is that it does not slope down properly over the top of the rear glass which on a two door sedan, is considerably shorter than on a coupe and sits on a steeper angle... but again, the inexperienced eye would not notice this and it is only apparent when you look at the car directly from the side. Another issue that will need correcting is the rear deck lid..the Impala 2 door hardtop has it's own unique rear deck lid. It is considerably longer than any sedan or that of the four door hardtop. I have attempted to show the difference in windshield heights but it is difficult to do - but here is my attempt = There is absolutely no side trim on the body at all ( including door handles - but the Impala kit will supply those ) and this could be both good and bad. The way it is, the car could be built as a dechromed rod or race car , or a replica of Junior Johnson's trophy winner. It could also be built as a Bel Air or the lower line el cheapo Biscayne. It would also be a perfect start for a businessman's coupe if you left the back seat out and put a platform for holding samples and sales materil in it's place. The El camino would likely be a good candidate to make castings of the full length side trim for this car or the Biscayne trim will have to be hand made from plastic strips or a casting taken from a Modelhaus Brookwood 2 door station wagon which has the Biscayne side trim - and as I recall, even it isn't perfect as it is longer on one fender than the other. It amazes me how stuff like this gets missed before the molds are made. *sighs* I'd just cast the one side that is closest to being accurate and use that casting on both sides. When I build my Brookwood, I'll just recast the flawed side to make both sides equal in length. So either way, if a person wants to make castings of the trim and attach them, then there are templates available. I have compared an AMT El Camino and it appears that the El Camino side trim will fit with VERY little id any work. The bodys of the cars are very close in length to the point where I really do not see much of an issue at all doing this. Also sadly missing is the Biscayne scripts off of the rear quarters. Not sure what can be done about that little glitch. If you want to build a police car, this would be the correct body style - but I think that a Bel Air two door sedan would be even more unique. My car has no interior or chassis, so the Impala will donate a bit of that. I would be much more inclined to build this as either a six cylinder car or a small block 283 as you would not have found many Biscaynes with 348's in them. Of course the highway patrol or state police cars would likely be big block cars but this one will likely get the 235 that I just received from Model Car World or possibly a 235 from the AMT '60 Chev pickup. The AMT pickup has the wrong valve cover to be authentic but it could be modified. I do seem to remember that someone else casts a late '50's/early 60's 235 and the proper car air cleaner - I will likely do my due dilegence here before I open the MCW engine kit and see what else I can find. As for the interior - well, the Impala is just too wrong to use as it is. A Modelhaus Brookwood wagon interior bucket would be the way to go here ( yes, they do sell those seperatly). I have one here and I cannot believe how it fits! It has the correct upholstery patterns on the seats and side panels for a Biscayne and if the rear cargo are is carefully removed and the package shelp made and installed, it will be so righteous!!!!!! It's almost scary that two resin kits from two different manufacturers can be combined and the fit is so close! The other alternative is to sand the Impala side panels smooth, and try to replicate the El Camino door panels - or substitute by cutting and glueing the door panels from an El Camino interior tub onto the Impala interior. The rear side panels on a Biscayne two door could possibly be modified from another El Camino tub as they have the same upholstery pattern on them as the door panels. But I think that the $10.00 plus shipping sent to the Modelhaus for a wagon interior would most definitely be the way to go! just a note to say that the side panels are all two toned on the Biscayne series.. either a light silver/gray colour on top with a dark grat bottom, or the same in blue, green, and apparently red or brown although I can not say with certainty that I have ever seen a Biscayne with a red or brown interior except in the sales brochure. I say these things about interchanging interior side panels not having really done any test fitting, but I think it may be possible. Others may disagree.. but I do see it as an option. Here's the Hendrix Biscayne/bel Air sitting between the revell hardtop and the good old AMT El Camino... I wish I had my Modelhaus Brookwood wagon handy - they'd make a nice "family portrait". You'll notice how close the El Camino is to the other two models.. it appears that a lot of parts may well interchange to make for some awesome one off builds.. To do a Bel Air interior would take some imagination and creativity if you wanted it even close to stock, but I reckon that with a lot of time and patience, the Impala seats could be converted. I have seen things that seemed far more impossible done on these forums.. You'd want to use an EL Camino dash and steering wheel as well as the Impala has the wide aluminum panel that runs across the lower part of the dash. The AMT El Camino dash is wrong for an El Camino as it does not have the narrow aluminum strip running across it that the real 1:1 El caminos had, so it is correct for a Biscayne or Brookwood. Yeah, I know.. weird... The El Camino in real life was sort of a mish mash of interior trim - Biscayne upholstery and door panels, Bel Air dash trim and Bel Air side trim. Here's the Hendrix car with the Revell Chassis and platform and below, it is shown with the El Camino chassis.. The revell chassis seems to be an awfully tight fit for width for some reason while the AMT chassis is a bit narrow but the sides of the car could actually stand to be tucked in just a bit anyhow. So what else can I say? I have test fitted two different chassis - the AMT El Camino and the Revell hardtop All in all, I am really pretty tickled with this car and when it gets built, it will be interesting to see just how close to the real thing I can make it. Despite it's few little issues - all of which I have probably magnified and blown out of proprtion - it will make a nice addition to anyone's collection. The revell Impala fender skirts fit too, by the way - and I just discovered that they will fit the AMT El Camino with very little effort. I hope that I did not come across as harsh or condemning because I did not mean anything I said that way. I am just telling what i see and hopefully this thread will encourage some of you guys to step out and buy some Hendrix stuff. Even with the little issues, I'll likely be buying several more of these Biscaynes - one to build as a police cruiser and one to be built as a Bel Air and one for...??? maybe a businessman's coupe like the one that was on Ebay awhile back in Texas. It was a bizarre car - optioned out with the 348,. SOrry for being so long winded fellas but I am just trying to give an honest assessment.Hmmmmmm.. now of only someone would cast that four door Brookwood wagon that I have been longing for....

I can't wait to see how this one turns out. I have one of those kits in mothballs - always wanted to build it as a stock ambulance.. I think it would be a nice model. Yours is looking really good though. please keep those photos coming.......

Thanks guys.. this is a learning curve for me as i am not a coupon guy 'cause my wife does all of the shopping. I'll see what I can do and any other little hints and suggestions will be appreciated. I have a feeling that I amnot the only one learning here.

I had to take my wife to the airport yesterday and on the way home, I stopped for the first time at a Michael's store to look around. I have driven past that store countless times and usually I am too rushed to really stop and look around. We live an hour and a half from Kelowna ( where the store is located ) so we don't get there on a regular basis but I did stop and I went in to look around. First off - their prices make the two other smaller hobby shops seem pretty affordable and economical to say the least. But having said that, they do have a decent assortment of model cars and some modelling supplies. I did not spend as long there looking about as I would have liked to, but they do have some other pretty interesting( but expensive ) stuff that can be used for building kits and I will definitely go back for an unrushed visit in the next couple of weeks. OK - now the question - where do I find these coupons that you guys keep talking about ( I am assuming the local newspaper? ) or can I find them online? I think that i would sooner support the small hobby shops and I do my best to buy a kit from each one - or at least some supplies - when I go to Kelowna. But I'd also occasionally buy a kit from Michael's if they were on sale and I was in town at that time. Thanks in advance for the input and advice.

I was gonna post some additional ideas to your post but I'd probably get sent to stand in the corner by the mods. Let me give you a hint - in involved... no - I can't say it... D

That is a REALLY nice build!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!! I love that blue that you used on the tractor and the painted wheels really do make the truck much more realistic and more like a well cared for, faithful old work horse rather than a show truck. The graphics are VERY tasteful - not excessive but just enough to really dress the truck up to the "T"! The "load" is well done and real looking and to add to it all, your photography is really pretty awesome too, making the truck look like the real thing. I like the Titans and Astros and this one sure does look sweet! Nice job!!!

It would be nice of you offered these in 1/24 or 1/25 scale.. they sure do look nice though... I agree that you might want to look at offering some American built trucks - especially older rigs.

Nice build! Custom ain't my style but you have to give credit where credit is due and you definitely did a nice job on one of Chevrolet's finer efforts. Your hard work and patience shows through and it is easy to see that you really put your heart into this one! Looks really good!

That is one nice, clean restoration! I can appreciate the work and effort that went into it. As for the reissues - let 'em bring 'em on, I say! But there is nothing like the old originals no matter what! Usually, someone has to meddle with the reissues and change something.

Interesting answers - Maybe this should have been a poll as to what make is the most well received.. I am thinking that the Pete would win that one hands down. I like lots of chrome and "personalization" too - don't worry Highway My heart is with the old stuff actually - old trucks have character and charm - they can be quite cute in their design. We have a '56 International snub nose that was my dad's. I'd LOVE to restore that one some day.. It's totally complete. The trouble is though, that the years are slipping past too quickly for me to do everything that I want to do. I'd have to live well into the next century to accomplish half the fantasies and dreams that I have. That probably sounds familiar to you "more mature" guys, eh?

They do have an extensive line of products and some really unique stuff. I plan on ordering from them later this year - probably four or five kits. I have a Hendrix body coming in the mail. I bought it privately .. looking roward to receiving it and I am anxious to see how good it really is.

So, I was wondering what your all time favorite trucks is in terms of styling and looks. I am talking straight stock here - no modifications such as larger sleeper units or gobs of extra chrome. I am talking just as it left the factory. Let's include GM and Ford and Dodge along with KW, Mack, etc. and not necessarily in order of preference. If you want to put them in order of preference then that is fine too.. just say so in your post. As for myself, I am really partial to the old conventional cabs of the '50's and early to mid '60s. '49/50 COE GMC ( Cannonball style rigs ) 58/59 Chev conventional cab tractors and straight jobs 60-66 GMC and Chevy conventional and forward design cabs B Model Mack Ford C model cab overs Ford Louisville tractors and straight jobs That is just a start.. I have a thing for any old truck actually but those are my favorites at a glance.

I looked at ther site yesterday - thank you. Looks like I will be placing an order. he sure has some nice truck kits - reckon I'm gonna get me on those B model Macks. I have always liked the design of those trucks.

I posted awhile ago asking if there is anyone outthere who makes a resin '53 - '56 Ford Big Job resin cab and fenders but apparently no one does. So, it was suggested that the fenders from ma F100 kit could be widened to look like this - I am no master model builder like many of you guys here - in fact, my skills are pretty pathetic when compared to a lot of the guys who post on this forum. I don't mind sacrificing a couple of cabs to accomplish what I want to do here but I would sure appreciate a bit of guidance in converting a normal fender to look like it belongs on a big truck. I have three projects on the go now but my future endeavours will include some attempting to build replicas of some 1:1 big trucks from my youth. While there are a lot of truck resin castings available, it seems that what ever I want to build is not available. I would suggest that the truck resin casters are really missing the boat with the '53 - '56 Ford big trucks - both conventional and COE models. Also, does anyone know of any web sites that would have scaled drawings of trucks with measurements that could be used as a reference? Any help here will sure be appreciated. Thanks.

Wondering if anyone knows of a resin caster who makkes old style saddle tanks like these - Or is there a styrene kit that has this style of fuel tanks? I want two sets for two projects.. any help will be appreciated.

It's called a sedan dlivery..

EEK! What a mess!!!!!!!!!! It's well worth trying to save IMHO. I mean, you don't see a lot of Scout models out there... please keep us posted.. it looks like an interesting project.

I'll take one as well as soon as the rest of the pieces are available. Will it have a plain Chevelle hood option or will we have to use the big block hood? ALso, will you offer stock wheel covers and/or small hubcaps? Hmmmmmmm.. I was just wondering how difficult it would be for you to offer a '68 version of this??? Maybe a Concours Estate version??