Brian Fishburn

Screw the "Pros & Newbies" stuff. If you're having fun building, you win! Most of us fall somewhere in the middle, anyway. Nice work on the Monte. You've caught the derelict look pretty well, especially for someone who hasn't done a lot of it. You mentioned ideas, I have one: Consider adding some debris that isn't actually parts of the car. most cars that end up in junkyards have some stray stuff floating around the interior: dirty old oil bottles, burger sacks, a cassette tape or two, etc. Also, youmight consider adding some tool that someone forgot and left behind under the hood when they were scavenging the injection system: pair of pliers, combo wrench, whatever. Maybe even add some rust to it to give the appearance that it's been there a while. Either way, you've got a darned nice model already. Looking forward to seeing more from you!

Hear, hear! HUGE thanks to all those who gave it all for my freedom. HUGE thanks to all of those who have, do, or will put it all on the line for my freedom as well!

Another thing you might consider for the interior is junk and debris. But the body is beautifully hideous. Don't change a thing with that!

Phil, those are some sharp builds. I don't care much for lowriders, but nicely built models are ALWAYS nice to look at!

My plan is simple- I like you and all, but when the zombies are chasing us, I'm going to trip you.

Let it never be said that you are not ambitious! This should be fun to watch develop!

Great replica of a great 1:1! More pics would be cool.

Revell's 41 Woody custom has boards, as does the reissued Johan 59 Rambler wagon. I'm noit certain about the most recent reissue, but previous reissues of the AMT 64 Mercury had a board, but it was a longboard.

You bet it does! Thank you very much, Marshall!

Anyone know of any casters making these wheels?

Very nice! The whole design just "works."

I bought every opne of these kits I could get cheap as engine donors (I'm an FE fan) and now you're telling me it has TWO engines in it? WOOT!!!

The Charger had nothing on Roscoe's police cars. I remember one where Roscoe hit a ramp in a Dodge, flew through the air in an AMC and landed in a Plymouth. Take that, disappearing R/T emblem!

Oooh, baby! I like this one a lot!

Ken, what is the likelihood of KTR offering the mid 70's F600 conversion kit? I can promise you a market of at least one

The R-M kit in general would be a good starting point. It replicates a '79, so the stripes are wrong, and the hood "scoop" and fender gills will need a bit of a rework

If you have to modify a figure to get the pose you want, keep in mind how the human body bends. In most places, you'll want to pie cut the joint to make sure the limbs don't end up longer when bent. Ken Hamilton did a great article about this, but then again, doesn't EVERY discussion of how to do something to a figure come back to Ken? I'm not too bad at figures, and I attribute 85% of what I know to Ken. For the record, the remaining 15% breaks down as 13% trial and error (emphasis on the error) and 2% dumb luck. As for the sheet, you might try a piece of tissue paper. wet it with thined white glue, and get it in the position you want while wet. When it dries, it will be fairtly stiff and will take paint well.

For the wood, I followed Steve Milberry's technique almost to the letter. I used cheap craft store acrylics. I don't remember the exact colors, but on the flat panels, I painted a sandy tan base that I let dry before doing the grain, and on the structural pieces I used a yellowish wood color as the base. The colors used for the graining were a slightly darker tan, a medium brown and a very dark brown. (very apringly on the very dark) When doing the "graining" I used one of the cheap, stiff testors model brushes (yes, they ARE good for something) This thread has Steve's, as well as many other people's techniques for doing woodgrain. Check them all out, then try it on a scrap body, piece of paper, boxtop, whatever. If you go with the craft store acrylics, it costs less than five bucks, and you will be amazed at how easy it is to get decent looking wood. You'll be digging out the woody kits just to try it out on a real model in very short order. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.p...amp;#entry57415

Hmm... 67-72 Ford Pickup, preferrably a longbed, and preferrably with different options for grilles, allowing one to build different years/trim levels. Any or all (preferrably ALL) of the GM Collonade Body cars. If I have to pick just one, I'm going with the '73 GTO 56/57 Lincoln Premier

My daughter picked out this kit for me at a model contest, and the seller (Mike Anderson- a clubmate and friend) gave her the kit, since she wanted it to be a gift for me. Since her favorite color is purple, I used HOK Pavo Purple on the fenders and hood after smoothing them a bit. I also learned to paint woodgrain for this model, and am pretty pleased with it as a first effort. Woodgrain painting turned out to be fun. I also finished up a new version of Katie- ready for the pinup contest at the car show Revells 49 merc donated the rolling stock after I chopped away at the suspension enough to lose the 4X4 look. Engine is from Revell's 32 Ford. Also finished up a couple of Hot Wheels restorations, too. US Python and blue interior HK Custom Camaro

I always hated figure painting, as everything I did looked horrible. When I started on the Distinctive Motors shop dioramas, I decided to bit the bullet and paint up a female figure or two to represtent "Klutzy Katie," the shop helper who doubles by posing with the finished cars. I read every Ken Hamilton article i could find, gritted my teeth, and jumped in. And fell in love with figure painting! I also began to love the challenging figures- trying to make something worthwhile and somewhat realistic out of some of the rougher Chimneyville figures, and some of the caricature-like Jimmy Flintstone figures. Painter Katie in my avatar started as Chimneyville's repop of the woman in the "Uncertain-T" kit. The clothes and hair were totally unrealistic to me, and the face was marginal at best. A little bondo and sanding created the coveralls and a new hairstyle, scratch out a respirator at half mast to halfway disguise the face (and draw the eye away from it) and add a parts box spray gun converted to gravity feed. Jimmy's "topless burger gal" turned into "surfer Katie." I reposed the arms, "deaugmented" her slightly (plastic surgery?) and made a top out of bondo, aluminum wire and some custom decals. Preiser makes some nice figures, but their best stuff are the "adam" and "eve" sets. The sets come with seven torsos, seven heads, and a LOT of arms and legs in various poses. The figures are styrene, and assemble into nudes, so unless you're doing a diorama of an orgy, you'll have to create clothing, but bondo, wire and tissue paper can be used to get what you want. The figures are models, too- don't be afraid to hack and change on them. And if you mess up, you can always throw them back in the box and forget about them for a few years (just like the cars!) I need to create a photo album on Fotki just for the various versions of Katie that I have done.

Did you have fun? Yes No (check one) If you checked "yes," no matter who you are or whether you worry about mechanical believability or not- YOU WIN!!

The 59 Body is resin from Jimmy Flintstone The surfboard in the 59 is from the AMT 41 Ford Woody custom. The boards in the 66 are from AMT 64 Marauder kits. The decals on all of the boards are from the JoHan 59 Rambler wagon.

OK, I had the three longroofs on the bench at the same time, and planned to finish them all, and unveil them as a unit. But, since then, another longroof has joined the bench, so when I finished the '66, I decided to post the first two. Katie went with the "surfer girl" look for this rollout. Hard to see in the direct sunlight pics, but the paint is kandy red fading to kandy wild cherry The dullcoat gave me fits on this one, but I still love the Kdog lines and the scratched cooler and "refreshments" in the back.

Best build buds ever are my late father, my nephew Justin and my 8 year-old daughter. But, I've made some OUTSTANDING building friends through local clubs and contests. To name a few names, in no particular order: Art Anderson, Bill Zeihen, Jeff (J.J.) Johnston, Jeff Watlington (Time machine resins), Lance Jasper, Jim Casassa, Chuck Ryan, Mark Harper, Viper Dave McGaughey, "Chopper" Lear, Okey Spaulding, Tony Franklin, Randy Meyer, All the members of SCIMA, and a bunch of others that I'll remember as soon as I submit this post. About eleventy billion great guys I've talked with/traded parts with on message boards. Some of whom I'm planning to met up with before too long. Also- fairly new to my fold, but coming hard: Great guy, full of enthusiasm- MCM forums own Abe Dooley!