Chuck Most

Made my side trim disappear today- Trouble is, I accidentally shaved my face with the same razor I used to shave the Hudson. Feelin' a little woozy, so I'm calling it a night!

I dunno... I still like Marty Coffel's Fiat General Lee.

Cool. If I were better at working with diecast I'd turn one into a second-gen Avalance.

Motor City Resin Casters has one.

From what I heard, IMC is a venture between Ernie Petit (spelling?) formerly of Lindberg, and Dave Burket.

Well... that blows away one part of my theory!

as far as I know, IMC is an all-new concern. Dave Burket (Model King) only distributes them, and has the box art/decals made up. Jo-Han no longer has a website up, and I haven't seen him out and about at any shows, I'm wondering if he sold off what was left to IMC.

Its changed since then, but it's pretty easy to figure out.

Custom (Kustom) = not stock. This kit is clearly not stock, so...

Or... the way Revell shuffles around the Revell and Monogram brand names? Like the Basic Builder '32 Ford coupe, which was originally from Monogram looooooooooong before the two companies merged? Or late '80's Ertl's insistence to reissue AMT kits under the MPC brand name and vice versa? Yes, I know, kind of on a different slant from the subject at hand, I know. But still!

There's a real AMC bender going on- the Hornet (Hudson is an AMC 'heritage brand'), this and the custom Gremlin being reissued, and the Model King '59 Rambler! I do hope this keeps up.

Thank you!

They're pretty much the same- in fact I think they are molded from the same tooling.

Name pretty much says it all. Can't seem to find that issue in my stash, nor can I find the article/renderings online.

Something I noticed- it's near impossible to find a Hudson side-profile picture with the side trim off, so I can see where the mounting holes go. Oh, sure, you can find a fender for a '53 Hornet with the trim off, but everything else is the wrong year or model. The one 'frame off' resto album I found had the fenders, doors AND ROCKERS cut off, big help there!

I am a bit bummed it has a V8 and not the inline six, but oh well... Jeff Ballard at MCRC casts one. This would be cool as a late-80's era Michigan beater car, which I think is the route I'll take with my build.

On Three! One, two.... THREE! SNATCH AND GRAB, GUYS!!!!

I know I mentioned Hamilton, Covert, and Cranky earlier, but a few guys who AREN'T known for building rusty models have played a role in my modeling as well- Tim Boyd (duh!), Bill Coulter, Terry Jessee, Bob Downie, Drew Hierwarter, and many others whose work I've followed in the mags over the years. Today, I draw inspritation from all sorts of people and vehicles, but its the models and builders here on MCM where I get most of my ideas anymore. Not a bad thing at all if you ask me!

Cool! Thanks.

Hey... ease off the R&R pal, I love polishing those turds! In fact, one of my Hudson projects is using the R&R '48 Hudson sedan body on the new '53 Moebius chassis. Imagine the complaints on THAT little project!

And from about an hour or so ago... And a glimpse of some of the other 'AMC and its heritage brands' on my workbench at the moment... (The interloper in this pic is a '50 Nash Ambassador, btw.)

Preliminary trunk work earlier this afternoon-

Whoa.... Ford Interceptor and Nissan Titan.... who makie?

Hey... that must have been the Hudson you mentioned last evening in chat, while I was also in chat and working on my own Hudson!

Only thing holding back my Nash right now is the lack of an AMC/Jeep inline six. Anybody have an old AMT/MPC AMC Pacer or Gremlin kit engine they might be able to spare?