lordairgtar

Just the stuff that is seen. I like to put the date of the build and my name under the interior bucket or elsewhere. I can imagine thirty years from now when someone buys one of my old builds at a swap meet, they wonder who I was.

In regards to Tandy, Radio Shack has declared bankruptcy and will sell off 2400 of it's stores. I knew that when they became glorified phone sellers, the end would be near. Tandy also had a leather store and I believe the Heathkit electronic kits were sold through them.

Or maybe the Fieros are just squashed Lotus Esprits.

Nice art Jairus.

That looks pretty cool.

Change the grille work, engine, and front wheels and you have a Ford 9N. Might be some smaller bits that would need to be changed. You need to get them together and do some photos of the differences.

I am surprised that there is no fitted luggage. I think the AMT kit supplied those. Either way, I will be buying one of these.

Since the Challenger is meant to evoke a 60s or 70s muscle car feel, Torqs are the perfect wheel for it. The Volk wheel longbox put up would look good as well.

Wouldn't mind that Hussein Dodge. I know AMT had one as well in a curbside kit.

No it is not, that is the most misshapen monstrosity I have ever seen.

Where do those come from? I know the kit tires will slowly flatten I hear.

I'd rather have the Aston. Understated bad assery, just like Bond himself. A Saville Row suit hiding kevlar body armor.

Pure basic unadulterated hot rod.

Awesome build, Yuri. I lived not too far from where they built those cars. They were made in a small city called Kenosha. Contrary to what others have said, I thought the Matadors were the best looking cars of that era. I had a four door version which had a completely different kind of body. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/1975_AMC_Matador_sedan_blue.JPG/220px-1975_AMC_Matador_sedan_blue.JPG

Very nice. Reminds me of a small town where kids in the Mennonite community would cruise the main drag in their family car. They bought the most austere version because they shunned chrome. Some even painted the bumpers black, hence the term Black Bumper Mennonites. Locals called this spectacle the Amish 500.

I know the guy who owns the real car. He actually drives the car , amongst others he owns. He has a Boyd Coddington 48 Ford as well. Troy also built his 32. http://image.hotrod.com/f/10181115+w660+h440+cr1/0412_rodp_01_z_trep.jpg

The Ferrari is a nice kit for Revell. The black trim is not hard to do if you have access to Sharpie marker pens. Just color the glass on the underside of the glass and it will look great. Tamiya sprays are very good and easy to use. The come in nice colors and their military line has flat paints that will work on the interior colors. They come in both spraycans and small bottles for brush painting. Flat paints work well with a good brush. Metalizer paints from Testors, Model master, or Tamiya to paint those metallic surfaces. You want that aluminum engine block to look like aluminum. There is not much bright work on a modern Ferrari, so Bare Metal Foil isn't needed, but I would get some for future projects. Basic tools would include an X-acto or similar knife handle and a supply of No. 11 blades to use in it. Tweezers and small needle nose pliers for attaching parts that are small. Sanding paper or clothe in very fine grits starting from 8,000, 10,000, 12,000, 16,000 and so on for wet sanding paint jobs so you can get a mirror finish. Like doing it in the real car body shops. Small drill bits for opening holes for mounting mirrors, drilling out holes in the cylinder heads and distributor for plug wires Finding odd bits of tubing, wires of small gauges is a good thing for your building arsenal. You can also make a small paint stand from a block of wood and some metal coat hanger wire. It's cheaper that way and you don't have to buy a commercially available piece. Or you can just use a spray can to prop the body on top.

Thanks everyone. I thought somewhere I saw a kit of it or had it. The brain gets fuzzy in my old age.

In American body style lingo, a four door without a B pillar is/was a hardtop, as was the two door non post model as well. Sometimes the two door was called a coupe if it had a post and window frame work. Now, it's a sedan, closely aligned to the way the world outside of the US does it. But I digress, I owned a 64 Buick LeSabre 4 door hardtop and a four door sedan. Both were equipped the same but the hardtop gave the illusion of a more spritely lighter car.

Just wondering. I seem to remember a 70s Plymouth Van from when I was still a young kid. Was there such a thing or are the recreational pharmaceuticals I used in the 70s finally catching up to me?

And I can tell you that the engines are really nicely done.

Happy Hobby...awfully weird people. Everytime I'd be in the National Ave. store, that guy would ell me tales of how the owners of Greenfield News & Hobby and Model Empire were sneaking in at night to destroy his store with water on the roof and making holes in the roof. Are any fixtures like paint racks going to be sold?

Where'd ya get the cool machinist's chest?

I build wiring harnesses and do micro soldering plus inspection at work. Nice to get home and just work on the model stuff.

It's gonna get worse. Just recently on the TV news and online, it was said we bathe too much. We shouldn't bathe every day. Sorry, I am not giving up my daily shower. I know the basement dwellers will use this as an excuse not to introduce themselves to Mr. soap bar and Mrs. Shampoo; with a slight dalliance with Ms. deodorant and Miss cologne, more often. Also, when encountering an overpriced kit, I just ask if he really wants to sell it or is he running a museum. I once seen a gluebomb Toyota 2000 GT kit go for the north of 150 bucks...and it was missing a few parts. Finally found one for a lot less only missing tires which are easily found in the parts bin.