Chuck Most

Kenny is one of those rare casters- the only issue I have with him is I never buy enough from him! I'm always happy with the quality of the product and service from Bandit, and his prices are very reasonable, to boot.

And while I'm at it, here's one I converted into a Terra pickup.

Not a big truck, but a Binder nonetheless- '78 Scout II, AMT reissue, with some of the kit's major malfunctions addressed- Yes, yes... IH engine should not be body color, but I liked how it looked. I also left the air cleaner housing and valve covers plated, because I liked how they looked!

Might need to look into this, cost be darned... I've got a few projects stalled for the simple fact they have some old paint remaining on them, paint which has so far shrugged off everything I can throw at them short of freakin' sandblasting! A few stubborn, clingy spots can ruin your whole day, and I don't see ANY stubborn, clingy spots in the pics posted.

I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

I can't believe it, but I actually do have one. It's a Dodge L-700 race truck, powered by an Allison V-12 aircraft engine. It also has a modified A-100 bed.

Sweet!

That's the lifted-truck equivalent to a 'donut' spare. Nicely done! Not one of Revell's greatest kits, but one of my favorites, and I always love seeing these built.

You should have seen the main article in last month's issue: Mold Lines and Sink Marks- How to use them to your advantage. I'll never prep a body for paint again! The tutorial on painting models with a foam roller was also very useful, and taught me it was okay to use a worn-out roller even if it left chunks of foam in the paint! Can't wait for next month's feature- "Bare Metal Foil... who needs it when you have metallic gray craft paint?"

Love the 1:1 Ghia, and love seeing it done in scale. Yours is fantastic! Really digging the color and the wheels/stance.

I'm on the fence about the chop... but I do like what I see with regards to the rest of the kit. If nothing else, the custom parts included in this version of the kit would look killer on the older drop-top kit, or even the Woody wagon.

Don't quote me, but I think the alumium fins were added because the rockers got rusty, and they decided to go that route instead of replacing them with more conventional pieces.

Bought and sold through that site, and it's a pretty trouble-free routine either way.

Love this! One of the few Voyager episodes I distinctly recall. Centuries of floating around in the vacuum of space must slow rust down pretty well.

Not always. Some brands of window screen are woven, and they aren't simply flat pieces of mesh. I know that Self Serve Lumber locations sell woven metal window screen, but a lot of the bigger retailers carry only the flat metal or nylon style.

Same way in many parts of Michigan's UP- no cell service, and not many people in those areas own one.

Whenever someone posts ROTFL, I think of Scooby Doo saying 'Waffle'.

Thought I'd dredge this one up... this one's back on the road! Here's the skinny- its a Hiawatha, manufactured sometime between 1957 and 1960, it's been in the family since new. Hiawatha was kind of a store brand and was sold by Gamble's Hardware- the name was also used on snowblowers and outboard motors I've seen- think of it as Gamble's equivalent to Sears' Craftsman brand. This had not been ridden since 1995 or 96, when the original rear tire and tube blew out. I disassembled it in 2002 with the intent to restore it, and bought new inner tubes and whitewall tires at that time. Well, flash forward a decade, and it's back together, with its brand-new, ten year old tires and tubes, and not restored one bit! And... if you look at it very closely, you can faintly make out a few barely-visible old waterslide decals from early '60's AMT kits stuck to it in random spots.

One of the reasons I don't enter my models in contests, and refuse to be a judge in contests when I've been asked. I've seen exactly that kind of thing happen at the little hole-in-the-wall shows I like to attend.

Oh- there is one other piece of advice I feel like giving. Don't resist snapping a pic or two, even if it's just a run-down looking building that's still in use! Sometimes, the building itself may not get torn down. Years ago there was a delapadated (but still active) horse farm about 30 miles southeast of me. The buildings were still solid but had a kind of 'patched together' look, the area outside the stables was overgrown, and there was a row of old farm equipment lined up out front- I mean everything from steel-wheel tractors to horse-drawn hay rakes! The building is still there, but sometime in the last ten years, the property has been cleaned up- the building has new siding, the overgrown lot is now nicely manicured, and all the farm equipment is gone, except for one horse-drawn hay rake being used as a yard ornament. Don't get me wrong, it is a very attractive piece of property, but it just doesn't have the same 'grab' it did for me when it was shabbier looking.

For many years, there was an abandoned farm homestead a few miles from my house. The house itself, a barn, a couple of small out buildings, and at one point there was even an early '40's GMC dump truck on the property (though that disappeared some time in the late '80's). The whole property was overgrown, and I always wanted to snap a few pics of it for use as diorama reference. I did get a couple of images of the house approaching from the East... I never really got any shots of the building from the West, or the front, and never contacted the owner to ask permission if I could get some more close-up pictures of the buildings and other debris scattered around the homestead. I figured, "Hey, I can do that later." Well, I headed out to the location yesterday to do exactly that, and here's what greeted me. Did finally get a shot of the property approching from the West, though. That big bare spot is where the house stood. My point? If you see an interesting piece of property, it is best to stop and snap a few photos RIGHT THEN, and don't put it off! If you can, track down the owner and see if it is okay to go onto the property and capture a few detail shots. This house had stood abandoned for as long as I could remember, and the homestead had been there for over a century, I just kind of assumed it would be there 'forever'. Wrong! Get your reference pics today, because you never know- the subject that inspired you might not be there tomorrow.

'Bout time, Art! Lovely little Hornet.

Good gawd.... Can't blame Autocorrect for THAT one...

You forgot 'styled to resemble a Dust Buster hand held vac' and 'blind spot city'.

That they did! But the bad part is the kit is just as ill-fitting as it ever was. Then again, this basic tool was pretty much in production continuously from 1975 (when the original 1966 alumium molds were replaced) to 1996, so I guess I shouldn't expect a state of the art, 'shake and bake' type of kit anyway.