Chuck Most

Reason #78,883 I never want to get married...

Very, VERY cool! First of these I've seen built up.

Those are from the Revell '37 Ford pickup reissue, the new version with the '38 grille and hop up parts for the Flathead.

http://tomdaniel.com/85_kits/frm_85kits.html

Or under the seat? Or the early Mustangs, where the top of the fuel tank was part of the trunk floor. Get hit in the rear and BOOM- gas tidal wave! My next model will be one big, motorized gas tank, with flame thrower exhaust!!!!

Oh, so cool! And gotta love the screen name 'Vegadeth', too.

Not much into bays... I like to let it all hang out! Well, usually...

Who doesn't love late '60's/early '70's, totally off the wall, OTT show rods? Well... I'm kind of lukewarm about them myself, but there are some pretty cool ones out there. The designs of Ed Roth and Tom Daniel are among my favorites, and the Ice T... well, I can't say it's one of my faves.But as a chronic kitbasher, I can say it has some really cool parts that could make their way into other models. As you can see, in typical early Monogram fashion, there isn't too much to it. The big bonus is the parts are nicely molded, and the chrome looks good. The wheels resemble the ones found in the old Monogram Paddy Wagon kit, and you get a pair of those big, wrinkled, 'non -directional' , slicks. I'm also really fond of the twin, side mount, crescent-shaped fuel tanks, which mount just aft of the front tires. The bummer is you'll ruin the plating joining the two halves together and eliminating the seam on the fuel cap. And the kit has lots of other little doodads I find very tasty... the quick change rear diff, the ladder bars, the aformentioned slicks, and I'm really thinking of grafting that roof onto something! I've seen these built up, and they do look cool (oh, jeez...) if you like the style. Mine won't end up looking anything like the box art model, though.

The AMT '62 Buick Electra 225 kit has one. Yep, one. So you'd need four of those kits to net a complete set of four.

Uh. Oh. Well, then. Guess you're already ten steps ahead of me!

Oh, yeah! That's the coolest '59 Elky I've seen.

Love them both! Now you have to build one to match your avatar photo. MCW offers a few Oldsmobile kits covering 1951 to 1955. Hmmmmmmmmm.....

Not totally sure, but the AMT C-1500 and fourth gen Camaro/Firebird kits have small blocks with the center-bold valve covers, not sure how close they'd be to the ZZ4, though.

The old Monogram Cord had way better engine detail, but the Linberg kit is easier to find, and way cheaper (for many reasons). Can't wait to see this one come to life!

Niiiiccceeee!

The Replicas and Miniatures one is good, I haven't used (or even seen) the Modelhaus example, so I can only vouch for the quality of the Rep/Min piece. Bandit Resins also sells one, the lid doesn't appear to be stock, but it has the batwing scoops and it looks very cool.

Only the Warning placard on the tailgate, all the others are spares from kits.

No, this isn’t a die cast or resin cab (though I’m open to making up a second cab and having somebody pull a mold…), it’s a Revell ’41 Chevy pickup reworked into a ’46 IH, this was accomplished mostly by relocating the door handles, redoing the beltline, reshaping the windows, and rescribing the door lines. Probably isn’t an exact ‘replica’ of the real deal, but a pretty decent ‘lookalike’ anyway. I also massaged the firewall to more closely resemble the Binder piece, too, as well as the dash. The grille is patterned after a Farmall 300 model, and was made from two halves of ‘55/7 GM stepside fenders. Around back, the bed is a cut-down AMT ’40 Willys piece, and houses the battery and fuel tank. I foil copied the ‘INTERNATIONAL’ nameplate from the grille of a Transtar 4300 kit grille. The frame is scratchbuilt, with traverse spring up front and a coilover suspension in back. I went with Monogram ’40 Ford front wheels and tires for the front, and modified ’41 Lincoln wheels and tires out back. The engine is a Ford 390 with IH valve covers from a Scout II kit, and headers from the Revell Ford 427 Parts Pack engine. Not much going on inside- a floor, two MPC ’32 Chevy panel bucket seats, and everything else from the parts box.

Not to be too nitpicky, but the Maisto bikes were in 1:24, though I doubt anyone would notice the scale discrepancy if you put it with a 1:25 car or truck model. I have the Maisto Sportster in that scale, but the smaller Maisto bikes aren't nearly as common as the 1:18 scale models.

Shuffling through some of my stuff today, and dug up this... Same issue as what Tim Boyd showed in his model car museam article, except mine's a bit more tattered. The kit inside was a junked out glue bomb, I bought a couple of years back it specifically for the box because I thought it was cool... guess I'm a true model car nut job, huh?

I believe the Aurora 427 even had the gear molded to the end of the starter!

It blows my MIND there is not a Squareback kit, or even a Thing! The Squares seem to be gaining popularity in the VW circles.

I think the old Aurora 1:25 Ford parts pack V8 had full internal detail, but good luck finding one of those things today.

The Revell Beetles, for the most part, are only good for stuff like this ....

I wish I were three inches tall, so I could ride in it.