Chuck Most

Update- the buy two get one tags are still up... but they've been joined by 50% off tags, and all the Revell kits ring up that way. Bottom line- now they're half off.

Oh, my. That is lovely!

Sorry, but the El Camino itself was an abomination, period. It was supposed to feature all the good features of a car and pickup, but it only had the worst features of both. I know this because I used to own one- a '75... which wasn't one of the El Co's best years, either. (Oh boy, here comes the hate mail...) If you want a two-seater with a lot of cargo room, get a late model Corvette. Way pricier, sure, but way less rust prone, too.

Just a basic, curbside beater, basically built as diorama filler. That Rocket V8 was just too pretty to hide under a hood...

This one's done... should have Under Glass pics sometime today.

Ditto. And his standup acts are awesome, as well. The best part of his sitcom? His real-life father gave the actor playing him tips on how to play him more convincingly.

Sweet- I already like it! About all that's missing is a little Buick influence... though a three-carb Nailhead under the hood would fix that one little issue quite nicely indeed.

Just a Stanley Steamer would have been cool enough- but you really knocked this one out of the park!

Hello, Steve? Anyone ever tell you you bear a strong resemblance to Butters?

That's the one thing I ALWAYS hated about Tenax. The stuff would evaporate more quickly than Vanilla Ice's career- expose it to air and TAH-DAH... it's gone. Never had that problem with the Ambroid though. Haven't tried the Tamiya glue yet, but if it works as well as Tenax or Ambroid and won't evaporate as quickly the second it's out of the bottle it might be worth looking into.

Sounds like a plan to me. Also- I know it's just in raw plastic now, but that red fender/white body look is starting to grow on me.

Deciding on a smallblock Chevy or a Dodge Red Ram.... Red Ram all the way... leave the SBC in the Camaro or box van it belongs in. It WOULD be cool to mate the ZF to the Hemi, though.

Slight shift in concept with the interior- I'm just going to leave it as-is and not add anything beyond what's there already- with the full glass and grimed up windows not much will be visible inside anyway, and anything that'll help speed up the building process for this one is fine by me. (Remember- this is basically going to be a big piece of diorama filler.) Hope to have this one wrapped up in the next couple of days- then I can think about making up a top skeleton and tattered fabric for the Hornet, and maybe starting on another junker for the scene.

Corey- How far are you from DeWitt? That store has the '68 Mustang, '50 Ford F-1, and the '49 Merc in stock, as well as the '62 Impala California Wheels and the Viper.

Fine print- the 'free' one has to be of equal or lesser value. But yeah, I've taken advantage of this deal.

You might not be happy with the way the bumpers fit to the body on this one- as in, they don't fit too well at all. Other than that, looks like a fun project!

I don't have this kit yet, but I've seen one a friend bought, and I'll say this. It only took 50 years, but the Y-Block V8 engines in the AMT '56 and '57 kits are no longer king of that genre in 1:25. I know there's always seemingly an issue or two with Revell's body proportions or why they designed this or that the way they did, but if the engine builds up and responds to detail as well as their other recent kits, I'll be buying a few more of these just for that engine. And I'm not even going to get into the obvious improvement in underhood/chassis detail compared to other late '50's Ford kits...

One more for today.... The weathering is getting there. Still a bit of work to do in that regard, and I still need to weather and possibly mangle the bumpers a little bit.

This is the first body dropped LUV I've ever seen, in scale or in 1:1. Should be pretty sweet.

Exactly. It's the trim level. Not the model. "1993 Silverado" is telling me nothing. Now, if you call it what it's supposed to be called, say, 1993 K2500 Silverado, then I know you have a 3/4 ton, four wheel drive truck. (With the Silverado package. ) But just calling it a Silverado would be like me calling my truck a '94 Ford XLT, or my neighbor calling his truck a '99 SLT Laramie... and nothing else.

First stages of weathering have begun. A round file, some heat, and a little cutting came into play to create a few dents and a rusted-out rocker. The hood and trunklid will have a few rust holes as well. I see I neglected to take a photo of the passenger's side- that side will have the rear skirt in place. This side, as you can see, will not. And the first stages of the actual finish- a mix of Tamiya Hull Red and some cheap-o hardware store yeller paint. Brush painting, washes, and some selective sanding will handle things from this point.

"Original Miles". Originally, the car had ZERO miles. It's actual miles, people.... "Tri-Power" It's a three two-bbl. carb setup... on a PONTIAC. Chevy, Olds, Ford, Mopar... those are not Tri-Power. They have their own names for their three-carb setups. "Posi", "Posi-Track", or "Positraction". That's Chevy's brand name for a limited slip diff. Your Ford 9", therefore, is not equipped with a 'posi', no matter what. If your 'Sawzall' isn't made by Milwaukee, it's not a Sawzall, it's just a reciprocating saw. Silverados are Silverados. C/K series trucks are not. They also aren't called Z71s or Cheyennes. Jeep is not a generic term for 'SUV'. (I'm looking at YOU, Missy Elliot). They're 'brake pads' not simply 'brakes'. There's no such thing as a Chevy GMC, Chrysler Jeep, Chrysler Plymouth, Jeep Eagle, Ford Mercury, Ford Lincoln, or Toyota Scion. It's one or the other. Also, that truck is an International, not a Navistar, or a Navistar International.

Since the Olds 88 was about the only car that could give the Hudson Hornet a run for its money at the racetrack 'back in the day', I figured it would behoove me to build a '50 Olds which somehow complemented one of the many Hornets I've built. But which one? I knew I wanted to trash at least one of these new Oldsmobile kits, so I decided to go that route. Going for something like this long-abandoned '52 Hornet droptop... Eventually I want to display the Hudson and Olds together in a proper diorama setting, but I might build a few more cars for that depending on how I decide to lay it out.. Anyway, onto the Olds... Since I 'needed' the engine for something else, I glued down the hood. I misted the body with primer and was happy that the majority of the mold lines were gone after a few minutes of wet sanding. Even the sink marks in the hood (over the locators for the hinges) went away after a few passes- what little is left of them are minor enough to be dealt with by subsequent coats of primer and sanding. The car will eventually be sunken into the dirt, so I'm not doing any detailing at all to the underside- there is just enough suspension installed to keep the wheel and tire assemblies on the car, and I left out the rear springs entirely to get the car to 'squat' a bit to depict the car having no engine and worn rear springs. The chrome is stripping as I type this, and I'm hoping to have the interior at least dialed in shortly. I still need to map out rust/collison/etc. damage to the body, and what kind of junk I want to use to fill out the interior.

Well, in a sense. This '51 Buick has been an on/off project for about three years, though it spends much of its time not on the bench, but in an AMT '51 Chevy box off to the side. Maybe that's the problem?

All parking lots need to be like this.