Foxer

I love your detailing and diorama work .. very realistic looking

Grats on all accounts! I think most of us have taken breaks from modeling for house and kids .. but it all comes back and so mush nicer building in your own house.

That is a beauty ... all the major bodywork done just right!

I'm thinking about starting a fully equipped food truck and your build, Brad, is inspiring me! Just a great build!

Your interior plans sound like what my daughter would do to hers ... but she was in college with it and had no funds. Now it would be beer tap, huge speakers and endless music.

Will be good seeing one of these go together. I like your idea of upgrading it. Speed is not required for building here .. and I'm the best example! Nice you got a body with windows out .. took me some long research, contemplation and time doing it for a build of my daughter's '83 GMC from an A-Team kit. If you're interested, this is the WIP, but I warn you .. it's long and fraught with problems. I'll be looking foward to following your build ....

Welcome to the forum. Give a toot when you pass thru Massachusetts!

Well worn and nicely done. Just right weathering.

This kit would leave a huge hole in out car pool of kits if it was never done. My thanks to AMT and Bill C for making it so. How many other forties cars are there? Just the old L-head has found it's way into untold Chrysler Corp. cars from '30's to the '60's.

The tires really bring it to life! .. looking good!

This is looking really good ... keep it up if your other parts come in or not!

It comes with a drive train but is curbside .. no engine. You couldn't see it in this anyway .. on the1:1 the engine is buried eheh. Resin is a common material used to make bodies we don't have in plastic and other parts. It's a bit different but not much from plastic. Look here to see all the parts that come with it.

I'm going to miss tuning in on this build .. simply MAGNIFICENT!

This kind of racing was almost all we had in the '50 and '60 back in the northeast and I loved going to see these go in circles. I have one in the works, but not done. The coolest part of these is they are all homemade and different ..backyard racers and many gas stations had a rig and all were unique. You can't do anything wrong building one. Yours is looking good, Bernard .. of course. Will be interesting following this one.

yup .. I'll never know! eheheh

This I have been looking for for a number of years and now is being produced by Jeff Ballard at Motor City Resins. Anyone wanting a step van should not hesitate on this! and, yes .. the sliding side doors will operate!

I just got my Grumman from Jeff today and what a magnificent package! It is 2.9" wide at the flat sides and 8.375" long The box was securely packed and cushioned in the shipping box. The kit box had labels on 3 sides (!) and all parts were in two zip lock bags with the body and frame/floor wrapped in bubble wrap. The body looks fantastic .. white resin and not a pinhole I could see and smooth as silk. I had trouble locating any flash on any part. Still not sure this isn't injected molded plastic. The large flat sides do curve in slightly but mostly comes out when the floor is in place. The floor/frame has positive location notches in the body at the rear and fits like a hot dog in a roll. No one should have ANY hesitation with this kit ... Jeff Ballard has done a professional job with every phase of producing it. Now, to start measuring up my son-in-laws- food truck for an interior!

It was immensely enjoyable from the passenger seat!

but a beautiful model! well done .. ))

I haven't seen one closeup, but if you look at Tom's photo of open book you can make out the strips that hold the stamps. They are spaced vertically for stamps so the spacing is pretty good for all those small decals to slip in. And larger decals just cover more rows.

Tom, for sure there's no better deal than what you mentioned .. of course that assumes there,s a Hobby Lobby within a days trip from you. I'm just happy you let us on to this decal storage idea.

I had to Google up some images and there are some interesting subjects there. I also came on this in AMT's wiki page ... AMT was the most successful company in the mid-1950s to mold accurate plastic models in 1:25 scale and sell them to auto manufacturer dealerships, but it was not the first promotional automobile model maker. National Products of Chicago, Illinois, starting manufacturing pot metal promotional models in the 1930s. Among their models were the 1934 Studebaker, 1940 and 1941 Buick 4-door sedans, and a variety of other cars and trucks. National Products was purchased by Banthrico in 1949. Banthrico started making promotional banks of animals and buildings in the 1930s. After World War II, Banthrico continued with a focus on precision metal replica banks of cars, accurately painted, and mostly in 1:25 scale. According to promo aficionado Clarence Young (accessed 2010), these car models were used as 'paint chips' to display real car colors to prospective buyers. Through the early 1950s, Banthrico was the leader in metal promotional models.

The cool thing about this thread being resurrected is the following isn't in it ..meaning we ARE getting NEW wagon kits

Nick definitely gave one of the most basic of our painting rules, but Wet Look Clear is so good. IMO, that I would do a test on a scrap body or spoon to really see if the particular enamel reacted to Wet Look. I don't believe Wet Look is a particularly high lacquer paint .. meaning it doesn't seem to act like an auto lacquer .. like it has a lower lacquer content. Anyway, I really like Wet Look and was planning to use over an acrylic .. after a test.

The ferrule intake tubes are in and not the best work but they will do. One thin I did that could have been left was file the flange where the tubes almost touch .. the 1:1 has this done and it is very obvious. The copper color is showing through now. May do a little silver touch up. I really didn't have to do this with the small flanges. Here's another shot with the kit tubes in place for comparison