Chuck Most

As George Carlin once said- "There's a lot of things you never see. And you know you don't see them 'cause you don't see them. You've got to see something first to know you never saw it, then you see it and say "hey, I never saw that." Too late; you just saw it." I have the Arii '72 T-Bird... mine was not the American Violence version, and the box art was much less amusing... It's way bigger than the listed 1:24 scale- those AMT Rides Magazine wheels fill out the wheelwells quite nicely. I don't own any of the following, but they're ones I'd like to have. How about a Premiere Corvair Rampside? Or the SMP 1911 Chevrolet kit, offered only in 1961? Or, there's the Premiere Studebaker Champ pickup kit- I've never been able to dig up a photograph of one of those, though. Or the one I'd REALLY like to find, the Aurora '33 Ford street rod kit- this picture is from Ken Kitchen's Fotki, and Tim Boyd showed one off in his hot rod engines series in the other mag a few years back. This is the one Greg posted the box art image for earlier on.

One of the guys here, Ernie (oldman23) has made a few working crank mechanisms out of brass- they're near exact miniatures of the real mechanism in 1:25. That's one of the few things I've seen in the scale model world which has actually left quite an impression on me!

I had no interest whatsoever in a '73 GMC... until I saw that grille. Now I might be inclined to go ahead and build one.

There's the beauty of living in a state made up of not one, but two, penninsulas.

Guess I hadn't taken that consideration into account, even though I've seen it first hand. And it doesn't just apply to owner/operators, fleet drivers aren't immune to those kinds of feelings! I remember when Ford sold off its heavy truck line to Sterling. The Gratiot County road commission was using mostly Ford trucks in its fleet, and quite a few of the drivers were NOT thrilled when the Sterlings started being phased in... even though the Sterlings were the exact same trucks they'd been operating as Fords. And of course, now Sterling is history, and Gratiot is switching over to Freightliners now. I'm a little 'out of the loop' with the road commission nowadays, since I no longer know anyone who works there, but I'm pretty sure there are a few drivers who aren't happy about that switchover.

One of the best kits to come out of the Original AMT. Strangely, this and the '53 Starliner are normally slow sellers for AMT, but they keep on bringin' 'em back... and this guy has no problem with that at all. I'll be picking a few of these up, even though I already have a Prestige and Millennium issue. The only gripe I have about the kit is the front seats- they're tiny! They look closer to 1:32 scale. But all things considered, it's still a fantastic kit.

Funny you mention that... I saw an official-looking 'recall notice' from Ikea making the rounds yesterday, asking customers to return the left-handed units included in their kits in exchange for the proper right-handers. I'm wondering how many people fell for it.

Nice! Love those old Triumphs.

To be truthful,the best 'reference' pic I have seen of the heater hose assembly is in Bill and Len's article. It's difficult to get a nice, uncluttered look at it in most online photos I've dug up. Next time I'm in the vicinity of a 1:1 step-down Hudson, I'll be sure to snap a few photos.

Cool way to get around all the body inaccuracies in that kit.

Even though they're designed and built by the same people, and have been for quite some time...?

That is cool! Hard to believe it started out as a big blob of plaster. 7 and a half inches... wow... now imagine how huge a Titanic model would be scaled accordingly with lifeboats that size.

Threw together this '67 a few nights ago- it's the small-scale Lindberg kit, the one that comes with a snap-together garage. Eventually it will be parked inside that garage, and everything will be grimed up to look abandoned.

Oh- car is roughly Matchbox/Hot Wheels size ( just a bit larger) and you'll need to supply your own 'furnishings' for the garage.

I just picked up one of these- might be a pretty decent start to a small scale diorama.

Cute how the driver keeps the wipers on while the windshield is mostly submerged and pushing out a 'bow wave'.

Nice! Love the compact 'Cheros.

He's taking a bit of a break at the moment.

I was wondering the same thing,but the PL Batmobile kit's canopies are quite a bit larger than the Revell Futuras. I'm toying with making a buck and vacuum forming some new open canopies, as I plan to convert a PL Batmobile into a full-detail Futura... one of these days.

That particular kit dates from 1967, and is based on the original annual kit tooling. You can't expect a state-of-the-art model from 45 year old tooling! MPC kits are pretty much on par with AMT kits- the last of the MPC kits ('69 Olds 4-4-2, C1500 pickup annuals, etc.) were just as good as the AMT kits. The '70 Super Bee kit is also pretty good, that one is a combination of the original 1970 body and interior, with a better-detailed chassis and engine added in the late '80's. So, no, not all MPC kits are like the one you just bought.

I know of a couple RMS Titanics posted here already, anybody else have a Titanic built they want to show off? Or did you convert a Titanic kit into the Olympic or Britannic? I'd post mine, but so far all I've done is open the box. It's a small-scale (1:1200) Revell kit. I might do it box-stock as the Titanic, but I'm really considering building it as the HMHS Britannic (third and final of the Olympic sisters) as it appeared in service as a hospital ship, or as the Olympic, when it was in service as a troop transport, decked out in dazzle paint.

Just my way of disposing of spare parts, and parts unsuitable for more 'serious' models. To wit, it is a cab and chassis from an AMT Lil Mixer (both modified), a big block Chevy engine with four turbochargers, and '26 Mack wheels/tires.

Just completed... finished pics in truck section to come.