Chuck Most

Too late to warn you, but once you start casting your own parts- the floodgates are wide open! It gets a bit addictive, and you'll find yourself casting multiples of stuff you don't even need. Well, that happened to me anyway!

So I've been a professional expert all this time? Jeez, you'd think I'd have picked up on that long before now. You know, being a professional expert and all....

Five, with four more on the bench including the one I just posted. Yeah, it's a disease, and I don't wanna be cured!

Mark VIIs always look best in all black, if you ask me.

WE???? How many of you are there?

Oh, yeah. I've seen my share of those! A bit off topic - ever notice how every built up model you see on eBay is built by a 'professional' or 'expert', even the ones that look exactly like the ones you're describing?

I was just over at a friend's house today, and he has the AMT '59 Imperial. It has both seats molded in and very little side detail... so maybe you would be better off going with Bill's suggestion of starting with the '57 300 and modifying/scratchbuilding from there.

I don't see how this is a recent trend- I've seen photos of hot rods from the late '40's and '50's running artillery wheels. Maybe they're more popular now than they were then, but there have always been artillery wheels on hot rods.

You said that... and that was Hannibal from the A-Team's line... and you started with the A-Team kit... Seriously, though, AWESOME! I've had my eye on this one for a very long time, so great to see it so close to 100% after all this time.

Fun fact...that same vehicle also portrayed the 'Paperboy 2000' in the old sitcom 'Get A Life'.

Might wanna adjust those hood hinges. Other than that, she's pretty close to perfect.

Looking sweet, Niko! I just started on this one, a '53 Club Coupe on a stretched Corvette CR-5 chassis-

Hate the color, but love the rest of the car.

Miller did quite a few '50's subjects in the '80's, maybe into the '90's. Most of them were based off old pot metal banks, but later on there were subjects cast from scratchbuilt masters and modified kits. He passed away about ten years ago, and I haven't seen any other casters who've picked up any of his old products. He also did an EXTREMELY rare repop of a 1:12 scale promo of the 1959 Buick Electra.

Actually working on the Falcon! As Roger (plowboy) suggested, I fit the '67 Mustang suspension to the Nova frame, after I'd ground off the Nova's engine mounts, lower control arm mounts, and the crossmember just behind the torque arm boxes. Worked great! I also had to slightly cut down the Nova chassis just behind the fuel cell, and remove the molded drivetrain hump to fit against the Falcon's interior tub. Obviously there's still lots more to be sorted out, but it seems workable now!

Yeah- those only had the brackets for the electric fan molded to the core. Still not great....

Anyone know if they're still in business? I'd love to get their '50 Ford Panel transkit.

Just had the chance to dig through one of these up close and personal, and all in all I'm pretty satisfied with what I see. I can look past the inaccurate (but still very usable) frame and see the potential in this kit- I have to think that Revell knows practically nobody is going to use this to build a 1:25 duplicate of the real Rat Roaster. The only thing I don't like about this kit? That electic fan blade. Please, Revell, stop molding these to the radiator core! Make it separate or mold it to its housing.

Wouldn't the best thing to start with be the Model King reissue of the AMT '59 Imperial? I don't remember if that has the wells for the top bows, but I'm guessing it would, and those would need to go for a four door.

Same here. A modern SVT Raptor (even a curbside or , I dare say, snap kit) wouldn't exactly kill me, either.

The one where there's no inner sidewall at all? Yeah. Could be worse...

I've never gotten any glue or paint on the tire assembling the two-piece type, maybe that's just me.... Of course now that I've come right out and said it I'll routinely get glue and paint smudges on my tires when installing them on two piece wheels. You are correct about them being common to die cast model kits, and if you've ever taken apart a factory built diecast you'll see that many of them have the wheels engineered the same way as well. Personally, though, I don't see them being that much easier to deal with than a typical two-piece wheel. And there are some wheels (like the Revell '50 Olds) which are two-piece but still accept the tire via the ribs molded to the outside... wouldn't that type of design really rule out any simplicity advantage the one-piece wheel design might have over the typical two-piece design?

Grind off those 'paddles' and the Moebius wheels will fit inside a typical AMT/MPC tire- And to solve the problem of marring the sidewall, just push the wheel into the tire from behind- you still might scrape the sidewall, but it's less noticable on the inner side of the tire, and no chance it'll scratch up a printed or decal whitewall. As to why some manufacturers are going to that design... can't help you there. I've wondered what if any advantages attaching the tire this way has over the long-standing two-piece wheel.

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Billy Gibbons! On that note... am I the only one a bit confused by the fact that Frank Beard is the only guy in ZZ Top who doesn't have a beard?