Chuck Most

Funny, I've been building models for over two thirds of my life already (23 years, if you must know), and today I reached a milestone. I painted my first body entirely with an airbrush. And to sweeten the pot, all the paints used were Tamiya acrylics, which I literally started using just last week! Body- MPC '32 Chrysler Imperial Phaeton cut down into a truckster tub. Colors used- XF-9 Hull Red (base coat, touch up in spots inadvertently sanded down to bare plastic), XF-56 Metallic Grey, and a touch of X-15 Light Green above the beltline. Not sure if it was beginner's luck or if those pots of Tamiya paint really are as bonehead-proof as everyone claims they are, but I dare say it turned out presentable enough. Yeah, I know some of you are thinking "Huh. Big deal." But I think I just beat another level!

Oh, no, it's there- the boom is visible just above the stake sides, the legs for it are on the same sprue as the stake sides, and the crank is just between the chassis and firewall. The hook and taillamps for the boom are on the chrome sprue. Weird how they scattered the parts for it in so many places, but that's how they did it! One more little aside- previous issues had the Goodyear slicks, those are absent from this issue, only the stock Armstrongs are included. Here's a mid 90's issue for comparison. The earlier '90's issues, IIRC, had no stake bed and a tuck and roll pattern on the tonneau cover. Later ones like shown in the link had twin 'blade' spoke billet wheels, and the tonneau engraving was changed to a vinyl snap texture. http://public.fotki.com/ChuckMost/kit-contents/lindberg/lindberg-34-ford-pickup/

Never been married, never want to get married ('cuz then comes the kids and the minivan and the white picket fence and all that stuff just appals me...), but the girlfriends I've had have always been at least tolerant of it. Most of my female friends are into it to, even if they don't build themselves or even understand the 'why' part. Then again, none of them have actually lived with me, so maybe that's why! And Charlie, other than the 'masonry' part, that's my mentality as well!

^What he said, with the caveat that the Goodyear Gatorback tires are not included. Here's what comes in the kit- http://public.fotki.com/ChuckMost/kit-contents/lindberg/34-ford-coca-cola-s/

Or the old Jeepster Commando with the snowplow!

I always glue the wheels solid! And I'm a stickler for a nicely detailed engine, even if the car has a hood, but I pay no attention at all to chassis detail!

I do rather like the approach Round 2 took with this particular kit- using simple die cut pieces and an existing amber sprue to provide a few building options. And tooling for bed mounted tow booms and snowplows already exists... who knows? I, for one, would be all over it!

Settling into new digs as far as my work area goes. Not getting much done, because I intentionally left enough room on the bench for the laptop... But I did see a cool old Pinto wagon, AND a Scout II (the official Bigfoot hunting rig)... I've managed to put up a tack board, to help utilize some of that wasted wall space and keep stuff off the bench and out of drawers- And projects? Yeah, I've got a few of those... Somehow I ended up with one of Dr. Cranky's unwanted projects, a '51 Chevy hardtop A Turbine powered Beetle, which will probably become some kind of post Apocalyptic ride... '32 Chrysler Truckster tub... And the beginnings of a beater, rat rod... '95 Toyota Supra????

Loved seeing it go together, love seeing the end result!

And here's the rest... The box top- The 'hard parts'- Etc...

Almost want to try it in 1:1.

Amazing doesn't even begin to describe it!

Cool! All that's missing is a Dodge Warlock!

EXACTLY. As George Carlin once put it- "You show me a product that HASN'T been linked to cancer, and I'll show you a product that hasn't been invented yet."

"Well... I got sick of losing my silver '03 Taurus in the parking lot with all the other silver Tauruses, so I figured I needed something that stood out a little bit better..."

I think that's the main hurdle such a kit would have to overcome. And Dave, I agree with your first statement, and please add the Lincoln MKVii to that list as well!

Norm is one of the few resin casters who could show the styrene kit manufacturers how to PROPERLY mold a part! Going wrong with RMCoM is utterly impossible. Period.

My feelings exactly, though I can think of all sorts of more appropriate applications for 'em!

Loved the Seven! And this one is shaping up to be a killer little rod as well. Man, I need to find myself a couple of these kits!

A few nights ago, I was watching 'World's Dumbest' on True TV (what can I say? Frank Stallone and Danny Bonaduce entertain me to no end....) and one of the things they showed was a cab over semi tractor pushing a car down the highway. Apparently, the driver had been merging onto the road, and was hit by the semi, and the semi driver didn't even notice. He pushed the car sideways down the highway for quite a distance (and at what looked to be a considerably high rate of speed ) until another motorist signaled him and he found out he was PUSHING A FREAKIN' CAR DOWN THE HIGHWAY!!!!

It will definitely need to be widened, that's the one thing stopping me from putting one on a Freighliner Dual Drive COE. I really like the idea of using one on the Titan, I've never seen one of those kits built up as anything other than a highway tractor.

I don't see a Challenger (I think it's a Satellite, or a GTX or Road Runner), but yeah, I'd drive any one of them. You could have a Hummer stuck under your bumper and never even realize it!

Two Round 2 AMT fortfied reissues- Texaco '50 Chevy Pickup and '62 T-Bird.

Oh, yes! Not seeing a single one I don't like! My contribution for this Friday, my first ever MCM forum 'On the Workbench' buildup, a '29 Model A Turtle Deck roadster with a Ford 170 inline six-

I do like them, especially when somebody takes the time to build them this well. Never built a 1:32 Pyro kit, I do have the Minicraft '10 Packard kit laying around somewhere though.