Chuck Most

The setup I menioned earlier wouldn't be what you want- it had two engines meshed at the crank, and a slipper clutch ONLY- no transmission at all.

I've always wanted to try this stuff out, but the old 'thin flim of superglue, dusting of baking soda, and paint' route has always worked pretty well! That, and anything pertaining to Martha Stewart kinda puts me off...

I LOVE doing that! Always love seeing old geezers get riled up over absolutely nothing (and the HAMB is about 60%) old geezers. My policy over there is 'never participate in a thread unless I'm 90% sure it'll be deleted before noon!

I have an AMT Scirocco, maybe I can do the 'Robin Super Sport MK VIV'

I've seen something similar done, I believe a slipper clutch was used. I'll have to do some digging and see if I can find some reference pics.

No, but now that you mention it...

Yes... sans any lug detail.

ENOUGH with all the 'serious subject' kits already! Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! Let's have a little fun and revisit our inner six-year-old, shall we? This is the reissued AMT Lil Mixer, via Stevens International. Unlike the C-600 Ford Tractor kit, THIS Stevens reissue isn't horribly overpriced- mine was $23 bucks at my local shop. The casting quality is pretty good for a kit of this age, and the chrome plating is nice and bright. The decal sheet is also pretty nice! The engine was the selling point of the kit for me- it's a blown Ford 427 'Cammer. Not the most detailed or accurate version of the engine, but then again, I don't think any 1:25 Cammer I've ever seen was totally perfect. This one is fairly good, though, and might well be adaptable to drag and hot rod applications. I really like the OOT, full-blown, cheesy '60's/'70's Show Rod mojo this kit has going for it, and the bits and pieces seem like they fit pretty well, though I'm afraid of a little touch up on the plentiful chrome plated parts. And if you're like me, a guy who mostly sees kits as boxes of parts for every other project on your bench BESIDES the kit they came with, you'll find quite a bit to like- four two-piece hard plastic Goodyear slicks, the aformentioned Cammer, some very cool kidney slot wheels, and a whole bunch of other doo-dads for rods and oddballs- the 'Motometer' radiator cap/temp gauge would look very cool on any period rod, be it mild or wild. That big, Z'd chassis could also work for a 'rig rod' project. I couldn't reccomend this kit to anyone, but the truly distorted among us should LOVE it!!!!

Best use of a Monster truck kit I've seen in a while!

As far as muscle cars go, my tastes are pretty easy to pin down. Simple matter of ABC... Anything But Chevrolet!

Jeesh... good thing I didn't suggest the 1769 Cugnot Steam Wagon! And I'm patiently waiting for the Amphicar from Ma's Resin... sure hope Al makes a bit more than ten bucks off that venture!

The cabin air filter (if applicable to this car) was mentioned- you might also want to think about cleaning the HVAC ducts. Mold is pretty insideous, and it can get into places you'd never expect. I know this because my '96 Plymouth Neon was pretty much INFESTED with the stuff when I got it.

Is there a 1:24 plastic kit or die cast replica of one? Stop it. Stop laughing. Stop it now!!!!

Forget that. Call me when Moebius (or anyone else) does a Scott Sociable kit!

I've heard of a Stingray boat before, but come on...

Wow. I don't even like the new Camaros, but I like the progress you've made on this one, I like where it's going, and I can say with near complete certainty I'll like how it ends up! I've seen a few 5th gen models given the pro street/ pro stock treatment before, but never to this level! Should be killer when it's done!

The best of the '07 reissues I had was almost as good as this one, the worst was almost unbuildable. AMT's new plastic seems less prone to sink marks than the greasy gray junk RC2 used- maybe that's it. The chrome is way better than all three of the '07 reissues I had. Yeah- I pretty much bought it for the trailer, too, but I'm picking up another one, because one will end up (possibly) becoming and Olds, and one will be a demo derby car!

Kind of inconsistent with the quality, and what's up with the shape of those door windows? Still, I'd rather see one of these than another parking lot full of red '57 Chevys and first-gen Camaros.

I'll take ANY Kaiser (besides the Henry J, which already exists in kit form, albeit as a drag car). And for gawd's sake... how many people must I maim before we have a bullet-nose Studebaker kit????

Moebius Tucker... build it as the stock verison, or the 'Lower 48' street rod version! Oh, yeah. I don't even like the Tucker, but I might be inclined to pick a couple of them up.

Yes, the '74 Monaco is an ugly car. I'd love to have that in kit form, though! I think there are quite a few ugly cars in kit form already (Late model Dodge Charger, '78 Chevy Monte Carlo, any Corvette built after 1967...), but I'd still like a big old '70's Mopar land barge done up to today's tooling standards. As long as it isn't a near-total turd like the Trumpeter Monte Carlo, that is.

Well, Art and I wouldn't mind a Kaiser or a Frazer in kit form, and since I must've seriously misjudged demand for the Marauder, Fury, and GP, maybe we're not the only ones!

OH, forget all the '57 Chevys, Novas, and Chevelles. Take all those kits, scrap the tooling, and use the money from the scrap drive to tool me up a '69 Mercury Marauder X-100! Or a '70 Plymouth Fury... Or a '67 Pontiac Grand Prix... Or any other kit I'd love to have (and would buy caseloads of) but I'd be the only person buying!

Another little side project I did today. This isn't the F-100 fender-based shell shown earlier, but rather, this was made from the rear fenders from an MPC/AMT '53 Ford Flip Nose. Probably don't need to point out they are quite similar to the pieces found in the earlier (and much better, IMHO) Trophy Series kit. On this, I added a few extra details, mainly a front-mounted electric fan, with a silver drybrush to help it show up against the modified Model A radiator- I used real, live, 1:1 window screen for the grille. The bent piece wasn't intentional, but I liked the way it looked, so I chose not to fix it- I also added a flange to the back, a surface where the hood and hood sides would attach. This was made from thin styrene sheet, which was cut to fit, then drilled, and a relief cut was made in the top to clear the still-AWOL radiator filler neck/cap. This does not depict any particlular 1:1 tractor or auto shell, just something I threw together for fun.