Chuck Most

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.

I bought the Texaco station a few years back for $20, opened, but complete. (And no, mine's not for sale or trade, either. ) The only gripe I have about the '50 Chevy kit is the rear cab corner piece- because of the way the cab is undecut, this piece has to be added after the interior is inserted, leaving a nasty gap that does not exist on the 1:1 truck. I have, in the past, added this piece, blended it into the body, and did a little heavy-handed trimming to fit the interior. Kind of cave-man, but it works.

Nah... tires just weren't that great back then. My granfather told me back in the late '40's you'd see five or six cars by the roadside with a blown out tire every day! (Assuming, of course, you live in a relatively heavy traffic area.)

If the central Michigan cops had these instead of Impalas, I might actually welcome being stopped by the po-po.

Just recieved the Fujimi Nostalgic Racer Tuning Parts, which includes a Nissan S20 I-6 and L24 I-6. Thanks, Zukiholic!

Uh.... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!! Please excuse me while I mop up my drool and change into some unsoiled underpants...

Yeah, with THAT attitude!!!!

I really like the RX8, this is the first one I've seen in quite a while. From the 'guy-on-a-ladder' viewpoint, the front end kind of reminds me of a Honda S2000 (meant in a good way!) I wish all the modern Mazdas looked more like this.

I think they're just hyping up the fact it's a relatively recent tool, as opposed to an old 'slab chassis' deal, and that it isn't the snap kit.

Might just be because the LRW version has been reissued, and was in the lineup for a while before this one came out. Yeah, the inclusion of the LRW decals would be a bonus (even though I doubt I'll ever build this kit as a LRW replica, personally), but there's probably going to be quite a supply of the straight stock/LRW versions of the kit in circulation for a while.

AMT '50 Chevy pickup with Texaco livery, Walt. Took a while for the link to work for me, too. (Dial up...) Wonder if it comes with that oh-so-prominent push bumper shown on the box?

Now THAT'S what Chuckster's talking about! Keep 'em coming.

I see exactly where you're coming from, Mark, but here's the thing... When the general public thinks eBay, they think of stuff like burned toast with some religious figure's image burned into it, used clothes, and the like. I've never once bought, sold, or even listed a model kit on eBay. (I confess, I once had an eBay account...) And the 'general public' aren't modelers, so I really don't care how many eBay users know about emodelcars! Emodelcars is my first place to go online when I'm looking for a particular kit/part/accessory for sale, 9 times out of ten. I don't even bother with eBay anymore (mostly for reasons that have been discussed already on this thread). Gregg, I would not be adverse at all to paying $1 to emodelcars whenever an item sells. (Well, unless I sold a $1 item, but still...) One dollar probably isn't cutting into my profit margin enough to matter in the long haul, and if it helps promote the site, so much the better! I've actually been buying a bit on emodelcars the last couple of weeks, and I'm planning on listing some stuff for sale early this summer, so I'd love to see it flourish a bit! Yeah, it'll never be the size of eBay or Craig's List, but so what?