lordairgtar

Something about the side character line bothers me, it seems it slopes downward at a very steep angle when compared to the picture above.

I have to say about 40 or so. I do have enough unbuilts to stock a small hobby shop though.

It's sad when leaves a hobby because of eyes or other health reasons. At least he decided to send it off to someone who could continue on.

Wouldn't that be a cool model kit.

The colors are close to what I've seen on the streets of Havana. What the Cubanos have done to their extant American iron is amazing.

Good start so far.

I got the 63 Nova wagon kit in a model club raffle last night. Nice kit it seems.

I have not located a 72. I know there is a 71 Road Runner kit you could use as a basis. It has the the body you need but you have to redo the hood and the trim.

...and then the narrator says..."Could it be?? Are Mike And Frank descendants of The Knights Templar??

We know it's not spontaneous but it does make the show interesting watching Mike or Frank almost fall through some rotted wood finding an old something or other. I do wonder about Oak Island though...I mean...they seem to find some little bit of leather or an iron object, but nothing of real worth...well...maybe the lead cross from a few years ago. Or the wood they keep find 80 feet below ground. Hmmmm, maybe Mike and Frank will find that treasure.

Near a park where we hung out as kids in the 70s, we were exploring a creek bed. It went under ground into a culvert. Inside the culvert about 50 feet in was this little odd car. The Subie 360. I think someone either stole the car or abandoned it and drove it in there. Had we been smart, I think we should have pushed it out into the light of day and maybe took it home.

Still searching for the Buick Riviera boat tail they made. Really hard to come by apparently. I have the little Ford Pickup hot rod and the Chevy box truck that had come with a garage and even a body and chassis of the Chevy van, How that got in there, I'll never know.

This one just came in the mail today.

Possibly an old PYRO tool?

I'll admit I like the Picker shows. I just wish they would pick up one of the model car kits I sometimes see and say something about it. They usually pass it over and say nothing. Saw a JoHan Superbird kit in some old lady's attic and nothing was said but they sure looked over the falling apart lamp fixtures like they were golden. Saw the episode the OP was talking about...amazing stuff in that guy's collection.

Ebay looks to be the best bet right now for both USA and Russian sellers. Could contact Hachette directly too. https://www.ebay.com/b/Hachette-1-24-Diecast-Toy-Vehicles/222/bn_79920222

One thing in the forums has bothered me. Pictures containing the Photobucket watermark overlayed over the pic. Makes it very hard to study detail I want to see. Is there a way to not have the watermark?

I was searching around eBay and found a 1/43 scale AMT Mark II kit. Never knew it existed.

Thanks for the reply and help. Your six looks beautiful. As my boss really doesn't feel the need to display the engine with bonnet open, I will probably just use the thing that passes for an engine in the kit...although I might get ambitious and create one for my own version of the long wheel base car. I will get close and personal with the interior as that seems to be seen easier. Nice to have the actual automobile handy to look at. It seems I will need to learn to assemble my own 3D printer but that could be easy as my boss' son has a 3D printer and has been experimenting with it as well. I liked the Hubley (I think mine was a kit judging from the really sloppy glueing that went on) because it did not have the badly aligned body tooling at the point where the front wing meets the door. I have never seen the Revell version.

I'd love to do a farm dio of my grandfather's farm from the 60s. Yours is amazing.

I really liked the Rolls Royce collection you built up with the Hooper diorama. Have you ever considered building one of those cars into the long wheel base version? My boss bought a Rolls from Europe and it belonged to a Gabor sister's husband. I think she was named Magda Gabor, not Eva or Zsazsa. It's a long wheel base car and I'm doing a build of it. I took a Hubley kit and cut it in the rear door area and added a 1/4 inch section from a MiniCraft kit. Also reshaped the rear side window section. I have to learn how to put pics on here to show it off so far.

Might I suggest one of the Jeepster kits for the Buick V6 instead. Same basic block but the heads and valve covers are more accurate are more accurate.

That thing was so slab sided but I liked it because of one thing. The hood trim was actually on the hood, not like AMT's kit which was stuck to the grille surround.

Then you buy more tools, a 3D printer, a lathe, maybe some stuff to do your own resin. Eventually you will be standing at intersections with a sign that says Model Car Builder, Please Help.

Probably the Revell Monogram. In pictures of the cars online, even the sedans seem to be all over the place. I notice that the rocker panel area has height differences too, probably to compensate for the height of the grille. It's all confusing. I see resin sedan bodies and I wonder if they are correct for the Cord kits.