Chuck Most

None of the Lindberg issues have the dual rear wheels, as far as I know only certain issues of the AMT kit did.

Yep, stuck with the VHT 'Burnt Copper'. Funny, all the burnt copper I've ever seen looks kinda greenish... I peeled off my botced BMF, shot another coat or two of body color on th car, and cleared it. The wheels are 20" Intros which I think are from a Revell '58 Impala. The chrome was iffy, so I stripped them and painted them to match the body. I'll foil he outer rims later. The rotor/calipers are from a Revell '65 Chevy pickup kit. Next I'll re-foil the trim, shoot a couple more coats of clear, and rub it out. Interior should be fun- I'm thinking of cutting out the molded in bench seats and going with quad buckets and a full console. We'll just see. I'm also perusing my spare kits for a quad cam Ford Mod V8 to power it. I'm going full modern custom on this one, I think it'll bookend the traditonal late '60's style custom '69 Connie I built a year or so back.

Very cool. Utilizing the kit custom parts, but putting your own spin on the design.

Glass seems pretty good, at least in my kit. Kind of on the thick side, but pretty good otherwise.

Not sure if this one will be quite up to master standards. The hood is already non-stock (cowl induction scoop). And I am thinking of turning one intoa a Cimmaron, just for a few sick thrills! Yeah, I'll have to convert the 2-door hatch to a 4-door notch, but those things were so angular it shouldn't be a big deal.

Now I just need to build the OTHER one. (Yes, I have two of them!)

Hey, I learned to drive in an '82 Chevette Scooter! To a young punk kid, it sure seemed racy! Always found it weird you had to press down on the shifter to engage reverse. Man... AM radio, driver's side mirror only, cardboard inner door panels, no glovebox door, 'hubcaps' about four inches in diameter... you couldn't give away a car THAT bare-boned today!

Sprayed some paint at the body yesterday (HVT Burnt Copper), but some of it peeled off just above the drip rails as I was removing the foil. Grrrrrrrrr. I guess a touch up is in order. It appears the paint wasn't as well cured as I thought. I'm 50/50 on the color, I think I'll need to let it soak in a few days to see if I actually like how the car looks in Copper.

Yeah, I don't get that. I didn't build the house in which I live... does that mean I'm not a 'true' homeowner?

Oh, yeah, loving this one! Roger- I believe Bandit Resins does a GMC wideside tailgate. I've got a half-dead '72 GMC kit with a cut down Chevy bed somewhere, I tried foil copying the GMC letters off the hood and transfering them to the tailgate, if I recall, it didn't work too well!

Feel free- I'd love to see them! I'll highjack my own thread here, because there's actually another guy working on this same kit right now! That's got to be the first time since 1962 two guys have been building an AMT '62 Connie at the same time! He's using a few of the kit custom parts- http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=44357

A buddy of mine once tried to convine me that disassembling a diecast and rebuilding it 'didn't count'. I hit him with this- "By your logic, your '28 Model A isn't a hot rod. You started with a worn out old factory Ford car and rebuilt it into a hot rod. Why does it differ from doing the same thing in small scale?" IT DOESN'T!!! Disassembling a small scale, factory assembled car and rebuilding it your way is the same thing as doing it 1:1. I seriously don't believe it's any different. I think Terry's beef was with the subject in this particular case was a tractor, not a CAR. And no, Ken never tried THAT arguement on me again!

Pretty much my sentiments. I'm pretty sure I'll projectile vomit if I see one more (insert the latest Revell modified reissue here)buildup, but something like the Fordson, or the Chevy Huckster... THAT keeps me going!

I've let Round 2 know EXACTLY how I feel about availability of this product! I already have plans for those 'red line' slicks!

I guess we're even on that end, though. I just stumbled across mine! I don't even remember what kit I was looking for when I came across this one, but when I saw it was in stock, I called Dean's and had it reserved, and picked it up two days later. (Then it spent another two days in the purple pond to strip all that paint!) Yeah, I wasn't too keen on either roll pan, but I like how you set the front end up on yours. I just like the look of the stock Connie. Of course, now I've got to order some new taillamps from Modelhaus, as one of my kit's missing pieces was one of the stock tails!

It's better to let it out than keep it bottled up inside and build into a slow-boiling rage, after all! (Believe me, I know... )

One thing first- who said die casts aren't model cars? Model cars are small scale replicas of real vehicles, does it really matter what material it's made of? What's with that? By that definition, I wonder why nobody slams resin kits, being they aren't styrene. Now, the 'cars' part... nobody complains about motorcycle models in MCM, and motorcycles (I think we can all agree) are NOT cars. But they get regular coverage in the mag. Not that I have a problem with that, but when Hot Rod used to run Harleys in the 1990's, the reader hate mail was pretty strongly against it! I loved the Fordson article (and the Bill Borgen buildup of the Entex steamer a few years back), but I'll be the very last guy to lead a charge for more tractors in MCM! So Terry, I suppose I do agree to you to a certain extent, but for my money, I'd rather see a Fordson tractor than another Mustang, '57 Chevy, musclecar, or whatever kit I've already seen built up ten times already. I'm thinking of robbing Chuck's techniques to use on a Farmall H diecast I have. I have very little interest in modern race cars or muscle cars, and MCM is chock full of them, but that does not seem to hinder my enjoyment of the mag at all. I don't collect many pre-built models, yet Wayne Moyer's column is one of the first things in the mag I check out when I get it. I enjoy seeing good models, no matter what material they're made from. I would gripe about aircraft, armor, or sci-fi kits in Model Cars (though I do dabble in those subjects every so often myself), but I can let a tractor every couple of years slide. Let me guess... you'd be against my buildup of the old Ertl Massey Ferguson 1155 1:25 kit being featured in the mag? :lol And Terry- PLEASE do not view that as a personal attack, I'm just airing MY opinion. I think we're both pretty much on the same page, but there might be a paragraph or two separating us!

Nope, mild custom. I'm toying with the idea of stuffing a Mod motor into it.

Judging from the responses I'm seeing so far, looks like a go!

Very cool! I've seen the IH farm tractor kit, but never the JD. I'd love to see these reissued!

John from Round 2 mentioned they were considering this about a year or so ago, and yes, I would buy several sets of 'em! Stop sitting on it and make it happen, Round 2!

I'm thinking of leaving it 'hardtopped', if for no other reason than to save a little work! I did manage to fill the holes for the mirrors and spotlights, they appear to have been opened using the good old 'jab the Exacto blade and twist' method- And blackwashing the grille on this one REALLY helps the look!

Less than $50 for an untouched kit? Man, now I feel like a doofus spending $35 on my started example! Really like how you reworked the stock bumper into a custom piece- mine had both the pans attached, so I had to take them off to run the stock bumpers! Goes without saying, I'll be watching this one.

I'm thinking "Phantom Yenko Chevette". (No, seriously!)

MUST try out that Hudson Bonneville racer. I liked all of Jairus' renderings, but I kept going back to that one... Chuck's Fordson was incredible... my grandfather restores Fordson tractors as a hobby, and he built one out of spare parts as a 'garage ornament'- it bears an uncanny resemblance to Chuck's model. I ALWAYS look forward to Dennis Doty's stories, and this issue was almost Doty overload! JB Welda's Lakester,the Chevy huckster, the base-line Comet body in Resin Talk, the overview of the Tamiya Lexus kit, and I'm not even covering everything... I'm going to go out on a limb and say #158's the best MCM yet, in the four years I've been reading it. The chrome powder article was cool, but kind of a bummer at the same time... Only thing missing was a Scratchbuilding School column, and that'll change next issue.