Chuck Most

Awesome!

I'd say it's got to be the Premiere Studebaker Champ kit, which was listed at 1:25 but was really more like 1:26. I've only ever seen one, and most of the 'old timer' modelers I know aren't even aware of it.

Very cool! I built something similar about six years back... yours is already looking way better than mine does.

Nah- I think it has more to do with what he was up to in the late '60's...

I do prefer 1:25 and 1:24, though I do lean more toward 1:25. To echo what others have said- if I like it, I'll build it no matter what the scale, but odds are it'll be a 1:25 model I'm working on 99.9% of the time.

I will say that I am now satisfied with how the Moebius Hudson looks. This weekend, I subjected it to the "Ed Test". A bit of background is in order- Ed has a very good eye for a car's lines, even though he really doesn't know much about the car itself. Know a guy who thinks Olds 4-4-2s had 442 ci engines? Or one who thinks all Ford 429s are of the Boss variety? Or insist GTO stands for 'Grand Touring Option?' Yep- Ed's one of those guys. But, he can correctly ID just about any vehicle built before 1980 or so. He's not a modeler, but he has noticed the flaws and proportion problems on quite a few kits of mine he's seen. He noticed the crooked, faint body crease on the AMT/Ertl '67 Comet before I did- sure, to a modeler such a flaw might be obvious, but remember, Ed is a non-modeler, he isn't 'trained' to look at a model car kit in the same context as we would. Ed did take note of the close-but-no-cigar shape of the window openings, but overall was fairly pleased with what he saw. There you have it- the "Ed Test". Not very scientific, but works for me! Then again, should I really trust a guy who who insists a 2010 Impala is rear drive?

I did the exact opposite thing of what everybody else has been doing lately- my screen name was my real name, then I went to this 'Count Chuckula' nonsense simply because it was funny to me. But I do use my real name (or some variation on it) on 90% of the boards, though I do have a few weird screen names on some of them.

Why, it's a Shelby, ya big doofus!

No! You don't say!

They don't do it anymore, but it refers to when the kit manufacturers introduced new-model year cars in kit form, usually after the dealer promos. Many were updated each year, but some, like the AMT '66 Mustang, have been reissued countless times since their first run.

The '59 Retractable reissue is stock-only this time (it did include some custom parts in past issues), and is molded a bit better than older versions. The decals are very nice, too, except it still has the cheesy "Miami Vice" graphics. It's a pretty good kit- IF you take the care to get it together and working!

Every other Flintstone body I've used fit perfectly over its intended donor kit, as I've said, this one's a first!

Yeah- this is the first time I've ever had a real issue, too!

Regarding the Ala Kart- The new kit is Ok. The old one is just better!

Really cool build, Clay. Seems like I tried the 1:32 monster truck chassis under a 1:25 Daisy Duke Jeep CJ-5 and it worked pretty well. Never finished the model, but that had nothing to do with the chassis swap!

That sucks, Jeff! Is it just me, or does this kind of stuff actually seem to pick up around Christmas time? Holiday cheer, my hiney!

That's why I used the Buick nose on this El Camino SS kit! Reverse engineering at its... well, not finest, but reverse engineering nevertheless!

This was patterned after the new- tool '62 body (the one that's out now as the Passionate Poncho). Theoretically the body should drop right on, but the fact its just a little bit smaller than it should be is the problem. The body is by Jimmy Flintstone.

Gang- Here's the situation. I recently picked up a resin body for a '62 Pontiac kit. It looks good, and it didn't need too much cleanup, so I thought it would be smooth sailing. Then I started fitting pieces from the donor kit and noticed that just about everything seemed too big to fit the body. I started measuring, comparing the kit body to the resin one, and the resin one is roughly 2 scale inches shorter (or narrower) in almost every dimension! I've seen more than a few warped and distorted resin parts in my time (I'm a big fan of R&R! ), but this is the first time I've seen one that appears to be shrunken! I'm pretty sure there's no way to fix it aside from trimming the AMT parts to fit it, but I'm worried about a couple of things. Is it possible the body could shrink even more? I'd hate to get this thing done, only to have the body spit out its chassis a few years down the road! And I've got quite a few other resin bodied models- could this happen to any of those? Like I said, this is the first one I've seen that looks like it shrank a bit after it was cast. The body has no other distortions or other problems besides that.

He's right... the old Packard plant is still there! Well, what's left of it.

Hmmmmmm......

Very nice color on Maggie, Rick! Been a while since I've seen you lurking 'round...

Meh, they'll never replace the original.

Man, I've gotta go big-scale one of these days!