Chuck Most

They look GREAT, especially considering no chrome foil AND how long ago they were built. (Not that I like to admit 30 years really is a long time....) I wonder how guys keep their models looking this nice after so long, when mine look terrible within five years no matter what I do. Sigh...

Fantastic color combo- kinda reminds me of a root beer float for some reason. Lovely work on the build.

Sorry if I missed this on the thread, but is that the R&R Vacuum Craft body? If so, it looks way too clean to be one of their more recent castings!

Not sure if the Corvair-mutant thingie will still be what ends up on the trailer. Sheesh, I'm still not sure if I'll go ahead and do a tri-axle, two car hauler like I've been thinking I should! I'm thinking something really nutty for the trailer load- like a nutty, over the top, so-in your face machine that could only be trailered if it were 1:1. Rat rod trailer queen, in other words! Any suggestions/thought would be helpful!

Truer words are seldom spoken. I have a few remainders of 'donor kits' which will eventually end up as junker/abandoned projects.

This keeps up one more night, I'll be sleeping in my truck with the A/C on full blast, as my home unit isn't quite up to snuff! So if you see a Ford F-250 idling somewhere at night, and there's a (possibly nude) guy sleeping on the seat, worry not, it will just be me!

I use EVERYTHING, in the long run... All of these are either the results of direct kitbashing, or the use of lefover parts from former kitbashees... As far as 'plan'? Well, my standard MO is this- randomly spike parts into my workbench, and whatever doesn't shatter is whatever I'll use on that particular project! If you can call that a plan, well, that's my plan!

And let us not forget IMC!

I wasn't much a fan of the engine in the Tamiya Wrangler, I thought it was a bit on the 'Lego-y' side, but the rest of the kit was pretty well up to snuff. I really could have done without the molded side steps, though. I can't believe I forgot about the Revell Midgets! Yeah, probably not 100%, unflinchingly accurate, but about the closest any mainstream kit has ever come.

Love it!

So... this is your FIRST TIME modeling a building? Looks like you're a fast study- it's all amazing, every bit of it.

Might need to pick up a few of those valve covers!

Well, if this kit is a hit (and I'm fully convinced it will be), maybe there will be other model years kitted using the '53 kit as the base. If not, there already are a couple of resin Hudson bodies out there, and I'm sure the aftermarket guys will step in with all sorts of options for this kit once it is out, even if Moebius cannot.

Mine has some nasty sink marks on the cylinder heads, now that I've really dug in and started working on it. But other than that, the kit is molded well. Just wish my 1:16 parts box had stuff I could use on it, besides the stock parts I took out of this kit!

Well, I mentioned the why I do it part, so here's the why-I-got-into-it part... I was surrounded by cars from an early age. From being driven home from the hospital after I was born in Dad's '67 Continental, to spending my childhood playing in my granfather's Model Ts, Model As, his '66 F-100 and his '59 Ford C-600, to learining how to drive a manual at the age of nine in Dad's Chevette. Since I've pretty much been submerged in automobiles for as long as I can remember, it was pretty much preordained I'd end up being a 'car guy'. But I never was into the same kinds of cars as my friends were. Even as a kid, when they were drooling over bright red '57 Chevy drop tops and pink '59 Caddys, I was walking right past those and checking out the crusty '59 Buick four-door and the beat-up brown '61 Plymouth. I've never considered weathered, or oddball vehicles to be 'uncool'- I was into this stuff back when everyone else shunned it! And of course, model building goes hand in hand with 1:1 automotive ventures. It allows you to be a car enthusiast, even if you can't spin a wrench. I personally know my way around a car's anatomy fairly well, but I do know some modelers can barely check their own tire pressure! But they still love cars, and model building is a way for them to participate.For many a parent or older sibling got them into it, but I just found it on my own. My father built models, but stopped in the mid '70's before I was even born. I was the oldest, so no older siblings building. In fact, NOBODY in my family built models, though my brother started a few years after I did. (He mostly got into Star Trek an military stuff, though, with an odd Indy car or Craftsman truck thrown in every few years.) Wow, if I had only known what that 1:32 Fox-Mustang snap kit I built another lifetime ago would start...

I just sidestep all of it by never selling or buying on eBay.

MCW does a few Olds kits, but they are all mid to late '50's. Modelhaus sells quite a few too, rangin in years from '57 to '62. Promolite 2000 did a '59 two-door post a few years back, but I believe that particular one is no longer available.

I've been messing around with this small-block powered Corvair rear subframe thingie- maybe this will end up powering whatever goes on the trailer?

I'd love to see somebody do a four-door sedan body for this kit, so I could model my old '66. Oh, Ed... most resin is way, way, WAY better than R&R!

Love the color, even if it is a little less bright in person, and the subtle but nicely done changes to convert it to a '50 model. Just plain yummy!

I believe the Lonestar kit is molded in China, I would assume the Hudson and Chrysler will originate from there, as well.

Rear axle mounting issue or no, the underside of the Moebius kit looks pretty good to me. The Trumpeter Falcon's piece is far from perfect, but it's a far cry better than the original AMT piece everyone compares it to. Sorry... no way, no how is a one-piece slab with everything molded to it and a hole in the engine block for the front axle going to come close to a full-detail chassis, even if it's less than perfect. Just my opinion. The Hudson kit's underpinnings are a much better representation of the real car, and like Dave says, I can creatively work around the 'generous' rear wheel well issue.

I've been using paint can lids and toothpicks as paint stands for years now, but a local modeler saw me using this technique a few days ago and said it had never occured to him! The photo pretty much explains it all.

Good- just checked my '66, and there's some underhood stuff missing anyway!

Well, I'm not even going to think about getting a Falcon unil it hits the clearance shelf, so for me, the price issue is totally moot. But yeah, factor in the respective MSRP of each kit and the Hornet is a solid value. Know what? If the Moebius Hornet were selling for the price of what Trumpeter wants for the Falcon, I'd still think it was a fair enough price. (Not trying to give Moebius any pricing ideas, just sayin'...)