Chuck Most

Regarding some earlier comments... Sold my "reference material" last week, but since there are six of these things in the area (seven if you count the one that's been out and about painting new white lines on the road), and two of those are owned by a relative, more pics should be forthcoming. Hendrix Manufacturing sells the sleeper cab for this kit. A chopped and slammed C-Series model is on my to-do list, just a matter of when. Highway Orange can become Hillbilly Orange once the vehicle leaves the Highway Department and enters the hands of a hillbilly. But I'm holding off on the big numbers on the doors and flag on the roof.

I think the guy in the Envoy I was behind earlier today thinks you need to apply the brake to keep moving forward- I was behind him for about eight miles, and his brake lights were on the whole time. Then again, maybe GM has a brake light switch fault they aren't telling us about...

The stock Aurora '34 is about as ill-proportioned as any other '33/34 Ford kit out there, but that street rod version...! I've wanted the kit just so I can build that version. I could have gotten one that was built, lightly kitbashed and missing a few small parts for $20 a couple of years back, but passed on it because I didn't recognize it as the Aurora version when I saw it.

Unless that cell phone company was Apple... they have the slavish devotion of iPhone users on their side.

Yeah- I'm really happy with those. Originally I had planned to work on some of the other stuff while I waited for the wheels to show up. But as it turned out, I didn't even get to ordering the wheels until about a month ago, so there went that plan. Getting the wheels and seeing them on the car ended up being the shot in the arm this project needed, because now I'm acutally making progress on it again.

1- You don't need the step and handle to get into the box. You can step onto the bumper and pull yourself up by grabbing the bed rail, just like you would in a pickup that doesn't have a step and handle. Trust me, I spent most of the day yesterday crawling in and out of a 1:1 similar to this one, and didn't once use the step and handle. Neither did the truck's owner, and he has a bad hip. 2- Why would you load the bed from the sides, when it has this neat thing on the back called a tailgate? Again- the one on the 1:1 example I was working with all day had one, and it was fully functional AND much easier than lugging things over the sides. Lift-over height was about a whopping three-and-a-half feet with the gate down. I'd rather lift something that high than up and over chin height, like I'd have been doing if I'd been loading the bed from the sides. 3- If you don't follow the logic of 1 and 2, know that trucks are built to tow as well as haul, so you can throw whatever you want into a trailer, which a 1:1 example of a pickup like this would have no trouble pulling.

I thought GMP already went under, and a few of its executives formed ACME? Or am I thinking of something else?

Finally got the kit a few days ago, and as I suspected, all Revell kit parts work with the MAD body just as though you're using the Revell piece. The Revell stuff has so far needed more prep work done than the body. DISCLAIMER- the Sombrero caps, lake pipes, and unseen-but-present lowered suspension components are not included with the Wagon kit- I nabbed them from the chopped coupe kit.

Got the Modelhaus steelies and caps today- not only do they look great, I think they even improve the look of the kit tire to a degree. I do need to perform a little touch up on the black bumpers and side trim- the clear coat ate away at some of it. I think I'll go with Wayne's suggestion on the flasher too- after finding a base and flasher for the red dome he sent me, I think it looks way closer than the smaller flasher.

Not a '59 Cadillac fan myself, but you sucked me in with Larry Watson, so I had to check it out. Glad I did now! Fantastic job on this.

Oh yeah. That'll do. That'll do quite nicely.

For me, this one hits a little harder than the others. All of them are true, but this one seems to bite me most often of all. And yes, on anything other than skin or a part in the wrong location, it is anything but "instant". I can't tell you how many times I've muttered "Instant, my (fanny)" while at the workbench....

My favorite buildup of this kit so far. Love Mountain Dew. My dentist... not so much.

That's true- he did development work on several Danbury diecast models. He had a hand in the design of several of their models in the late '90's.

True- but being that he's the only one who's noticed it, or spoken up about it, and nobody else can seem to figure out what it is, couldn't it just be a case of one man's Mona Lisa being another's Velvet Elvis?

Like how this is shaping up! I need to post some pics of the one I started yesterday. (Yeah, your fault... )

Something relatively minor irked me today. What is it with '50's doo-wop music at car shows? It's particularly annoying when the majority of cars at said show are from the '60's. I mean, did all those young and hip kids in the '60's still think doo-wop music was "boss" or "mod" when they were dreaming about that new muscle car?

I guess I can see that. But from where I sit I don't see any major flaw with this kit- or even any real series of minor flaws that add up to me not wanting the kit. The simple fact that nobody else has seemed to notice whatever it was Roger took issue with seems to indicate (to me at least) that whatever it is probably isn't a deal-breaker to the majority of people who might be interested in the kit. Or maybe everyone has noticed it and just doesn't care enough to mention it, but that particular aspect didn't meet his standards. Whatever. I've seen some great kits written off by a handful of people for some pretty inconsequential reasons in the past- that didn't seem to matter to the countless other builders who enjoyed building the kit. The majority of people who have this kit, or have at least seen it up close, have had pretty much nothing but good things to say about it. But as we all know, you can't please everybody...

Guy buys kit... guy is displeased with kit. Huh. Like that's never happened. Any reason we need to make a federal case out of it now?

What he said. Ford did not make a factory dually pickup until 1980.

Gonna have to be the sick weirdo here and suggest the Electric Pink.

Thanks guys. That's just a few thin coats of Tamiya clear yellow, brushed onto both sides of each lens.

I think it was AAM (All American Models) which was owned by Art Anderson, but don't quote me on that. The Merkur Scorpio was kinda/sorta like a RWD Taurus. They shared quite a few styling cues anyway.

And even more stuff on the way.

The cost of renewing my tags doesn't bother me, it's just the fact they're due on my birthday. It's like the state saying "HAPPY BIRTHDAY... That'll be sixty-one bucks, please."