Chuck Most

The car looks very sweet, but those drivers look just a little bit sickly...

Nah, that kit's not too bad. You ought to see the Arii '72 T-Bird kit!

I'll take 'em!

This is very cool. I've wanted a Horn Toad for, like, FOREVER. But I don't want to pay collector bucks for one. I love that slant-mounted Pontiac 6!

Love it! Who makes that kit? And do they make a Mangusta, as well? I must have one!

Weird- I've got a '67 Fury 4-door, too, and the Jo-Han '68 kit. I'm planning on doing the opposite of what you did and use the model as a kind of '3D Concept Sketch' for how the 1:1 will look when it's finished. Great job- I only hope mine turns out as cool (the model AND the real car).

It looks like a cut-down '56 grille to me, with the Desoto teeth underneath. The cab looks '53-'55. If I were going to build it, I think I'd use the AMT Trophy Series '53 F-100 (NOT the flipnose!) and raid a grille from a Revell '56 F-100.

The new tool Ala Kart was no turkey- turkeys have grace and sophistication! The Ala Kart was just a substandard surrogate for the original kit. If the Moebius Hudson were somehow approaching THAT level of 'non-goodness', I wouldn't be nearly as excited about it as I am! Never having touched the actual kit, I'll say again I'll reserve my final judgement until I've got one in front of me. In the meantime- here's a REAL turkey!

I do agree with you, Casey, but in the case of the Magnum, I think the base model looks way cooler than the R/T and SRT models, just because it doesn't have the blinding polished wheels and chromed headlamp housings. Give me the satin-finish wheels and blacked out headlamps any ol' day of the week, thanks! I could do without the 2.7 liter V6, however, and I think most modelers would, too!

I guess I do have a couple more!

He also consulted with George Barris in the late '50's and early '60's, before he became head of GM design. Yep- some of the General's finest were produced under his watch.

Not to be too nit-picky, but the white truck has 'drums, one crate, and the push broom'. Come to think of it, though, that bed looks a bit naked with only one crate, kind of wonder why they only supplied one in the kit.

Idiotic question, I'm not even close to being an expert on late model Mopars- but what would be so difficult to convert the existing SRT-8 kits into the R/T versions? Other than 're-dressing' the 6.1 into a 5.7, adding different wheels and a different front fascia, what else would there be to it?

Yes! I'll finally have that '89 Mercury Tracer kit I've always wanted!

It's amazing how much junk you forget all about on your photo-sharing site, isn't it? This one is pretty cool- it's an HO (1:87) scale model of a '39 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery. The bumpers and wheel/tire castings are white metal, and the body appears to be cast from fiberglass resin- it's kind of a 'muddy water' color, and is nearly transparent. It is also quite brittle, as fiberglass resin usually is. Detail is fairly good, but the resin body has some pretty nasty pinholes in the running boards and headlamps. I have no idea when it was produced, but it came two to a pack- The back showed some of Maguson's other products, which were a pretty eclectic mix of HO scale detailing items- And here's a built up example next to the unbuilt kit- here you can see some of the pinholes- I used the better of the two castings to build the black car, the more worse-off pieces are to the right. It's pretty obvious I suck at small-scale projects, but the thing is remarkably well detailed for its size! I actually found this digging around in the aircraft details 'bargain bins' at Dean's Hobby Stop in Flushing, MI. I've never seen any others like it, nor have any of the other local modelers, but I just had to have it!

One of the things I love about this hobby- all the diversity! All we need on this thread is a monster truck and I think we'll have all the bases covered!

The big gripe with the way AMT did the front chin spoiler isn't really a problem with the kit, per se. But most builders simply paint the entire thing dark gray, and from certain angles, the front bumper looks like it has a big chunk missing out of it, because its color blends in with the wheel opening.

As soon as I decide which stuff I 'need' as opposed to what I merely 'want'...

Great. Another innovation from Kevorkian Recreational Products... Does look like fun, though!

This is the old 1981-era Monogram kit, you know, the one that was a collosal failure and hasn't been reissued? Yep, that one. This one is mostly box stock. I did hack off the roof, and replace the rear door with a tailgate. I also took the spare off the hood (which I always thoght looked kind of stupid), and moved it to that tailgate. The whole thing is hosed off in olive drab, and features a black "Rhino Lined" interior. Not too shabby for a six-hour build, I guess!

What Adam said, Joe... it looks way, WAY better on the rocket bird than the squarebird!

I don't mind if others post pictures of their models on my threads, but I usually won't do it myself unless it's asked for, or if my model has absolutely no chance of outshining the original poster's model, which is likely.

Glad to know I'm not the only sick and twisted guy on here. I've wanted to do a 1:1 Twin H powered hot rod for years, but now that this kit is coming, I can do it in 1:25, at least! I'd have to guess this would be a great donor kit for the old Hendrix and R&R Hudson kits, too! At least one of 'em will end up something like this...

What Mark said- Steve won't sugar coat it- he'll tell you exactly what's what with everything he carries. I've bought almost all my R&R stuff from him- never once was something made out to be better than it actually is!

I'd say if you can find a casting that's ten or more years old, go for it. Ray was still doing some fairly good casting. THe new stuff is... well... to call it rough would be heaping too much praise on it.