Chuck Most

Both gorgeous!

Ah, Zappa and his famous unibrow...

I've been getting RID of a lot of my stash the last few days, but I'm working on getting a Jo-Han '60 Plymouth Wagon.

Sweet! Looks like a '69/'70 Mustang dash.

The wheels in those were pretty nice, but I just never cared for the big, blocky tires with light-truck sidewalls MRC supplied. At least they had good tread and decent sidewall detail. As far as the hinges? Yeah, I could see a market, but I think a pre-assembled piece would be a bit above the average modeler's acceptable 'price point'. Of course you could make one available in kit form (there already are a couple I can think of, a few shown on the thread already), but with working tension springs? Can you imagine the agony of getting your scale hinge all put together, all that's left is installing the spring to make it functional, and then you hear the 'twang' and see the spring you've spent the last ten minutes trying to install fly off into the darkest corner of the room, never to be found?

I... do not.

I prefer not gluing the chassis and interior in my models, so when they pick it up- CRASH!- everything falls out the bottom. After a while, you get the reputation as "The guy who doesn't glue his models together" and nobody even thinks of picking up your models.

Sorry, mine's been squeegee'd. (Hey, it's not every day I can work a Bill Hicks reference into a post! )

Yep. As if the Dixie Chicks weren't bad enough...

:lol:

Ah... guess it's my turn to be Dimwit. Now if you'll pardon me, I'm off to price out some one-armed Braille-system paint...

Maybe he'll take the Mustang as a trade. I mean, an old Mercedes can't cost THAT much, right?

Still the best looking late-model 'Vette I've ever seen.

Yeah, Grant was the the big dog, but Sherman? He was the nut job. (I.E., the one who was FUN to learn about in history class.) Monty- you might be onto something with that paint-by-Braille system, I mean, how could it have taken the guy THREE DAYS to notice the TP and tape lettering on the doors? Maybe it wasn't pretty, but wouldn't you have to concede that the fact a blind man could not only paint, but OPERATE, a car of any kind is pretty amazing?

I've seen a couple of 'General Grant' Chargers, but I already like this one better because it's a Ford, and a Falcon no less. Hope to see this one finished and burning up cities and ripping up railroad tracks soon!

I have a half-started rat rod Prowler somewhere, and what I did was use a set of spare 17" and 20" rings, then modified some parts box 15" wheel spiders from a '77 Monaco kit to fit in the Prowler tires. Looking back, I think I'd have been better off with using just the hubs from the steel wheels, and making the spiders from scratch to better fit the large diameter wheels.

Well, technically, I think IT found HIM.

Wow, England is just like Michigan!

Oh, and the GMC grille is another long out-of-production AAM piece, but the AMT 'Phantom Dually' kit does have a two-piece GMC grille, without the GMC lettering.

For the 88-98 C/K extended cab, you could just use the snap-together Dually kits and kitbash it with the Sportside or 454 SS kits. The hood is separate from the body on the snap kits, so the firewall and other underhood parts from the glue kit will fit the snap kit cab. That's what I did with the '90 GMC C 1500 I've been working on- If you want to just make an x-cab dually, Modelhaus sells a replacement chassis, which uses the suspension pieces from the glue kits and allows you to add engine/chassis detail to the snap dually kits, without having to stretch the glue kit frame or floor pan. I just stretched a glue kit frame on my GMC, because it's a short bed, and I didn't feel like ordering a part for it I'd need to modify (in my case) anyway!

I never drop parts. No, for some reason, I'll be cutting or trimming something, and for no apparent reason, it will just go flying off the workbench in some random direction. I'll hear it bounce off the ceiling or wall, but I've gotten to the point I don't even go looking for them anymore. My model room has no carpet, only a hardwood floor, but every time I go looking for something that flew off the bench, I come back empty handed. I don't know, can there be a carpet monster in a room with no carpet?

That's the main reason I hate humidity and high temps, right there. Need to do a paint job? Sorry, too humid....

As a kid, I had a Datsun Z car and an Oshkosh snowplow- the Oshkosh wasn't much larger than the Z! One of them was box scale for sure! My Boneshaker is from the 'collectible' line from Hot Wheels, it's quite a bit larger than the typical 1:64 and 1:64-ish scale versions, and I think they even make a larger scale version than the one I have, as well as the smaller version.

Oh, I HATE it when it's humid. Heat, yeah, I can tolerate. But add heat with humidity and a blazing, sunny day... I'll stay in the air conditioned model room and fritter the day away there! Not that I'm a fan of winter... I don't mind the cold, but I hate snow quite passionately.

I'd love to see one, even though I mostly only build '60's drag vehicles. The chassis on a pro mod is an impressive piece, and I know I'm going to build one of those someday. I'll certainly check in if you did the tutorial!