Chuck Most

Satan's Taxicab! Love it, love it, love it!

All hail the Snowman! Gene Snow had some of the coolest looking rides on the track. Great job on the model!

I think I'm going to dig out one of my Turbo Coupe kits and build it like my old one- rusty quarters, scaly wheels and all!

R&R makes a resin '72 longbed, but it isn't great. The one I had was poorly molded, and the interior is all wrong- it's '73-''79 style, basically a straight repop of the old AMT kits. The side marker/nameplates are also a joke. If you can find an older casting, I'd say jump on it if you can look past the interior gaffe.

That's about the only gripe I have with this kit, as well, but other than that it's a pretty good kit, despite the fact it's a snapper.

Bait and switch! The AMT '62 Bel Air is about on par with the '62 Cat... can't tell you a thing about the Revell since I haven't bought one yet!

It's spelled 'silhouette'. Regardless of spelling, I like it, and the '58 is cool too. One question- did you build the matching trailer?

Nah... just two of the three decades I've walked this Earth!

It's a pretty good kit- pretty much on par with the other RC2-era new tool kits, like the '06 Camaro and '04 GTO.

Hey, at least you didn't lose everything BUT the A-arms, and the chassis wasn't the only non warped part!

now, if only they could make it stick right from the get-go!

I've had pretty good luck with a brass-bristled wire brush and GENTLE pressure, but I've never tried cleaning one out quite that small. I will say do NOT try solvents- you (or rather the drill bit) will be worse off than before.

One of my favorite kits to see built up!

Once it's done, I'm willing to bet your only gripe will be it's not 1:1!

Hmmmm, Tim, so I guess this means that your orange '07 is long gone? One little gripe- the "Aerobird" bowed for '83, not '84. The '80-'82's were the last of the boxy, scrunched-down Granny's car T-Birds. The Aerobird was a D-R-A-S-T-I-C improvement over that generation, and only got better as the years wore on.

Probably not. But still....

Looking very good- I keep passing on this kit at my local shop, but now that I'm seeing some of the individual subassemblies going together, I'm leaning more toward the "gonna buy it" side of things! Oh- I do use superglue to fasten plated pieces such as tanks as well. If they do get fogged, a thin coat of gloss clear will get rid of the haze.

Cool to see this old '68 being redone. That Pro Street Nova frame works pretty well with those Phantom Vicky wheels- I've used that combination of pieces myself in the past!

Very cool!

The windows are the thing that have kept me from trying to do exactly what you are trying to do! I've never had much luck with flush-fit glass. This would be cool resin piece- I know for a fact that the '93-'97 Rangers all shared the same cabs. For a '98-up Supercab you'd just need to scribe in the panel lines for the rear hinged 'flap' doors. The regular cabs were different- the '98 and up were stretched about 3" behind the doors. Hope that conversion job works out for you James! Maybe it'll inspire me to get started converting my '95 kit into an '01 Edge!

I'd really like to see the '66 kit reissued. I'm really suprised that kit isn't seen more often- it's easily the best air-cooled Beetle kit ever. Then again, I'd really like to see somebody do a Thing kit, and apparently I'm the only one! Wish in one hand, do something else in the other...

Andy shouldn't be too mad at you for what you did- it looks killer! He might get a bit testy if he sees what I've got in store for one of his center-door '15 Model T sedan bodies, though.

I think he's right- Champagne Gold might work, but it's more, well, GOLD than beige. I can't really tell, but is the box art car metallic or solid?

Hmmmm... the 'star car' of Summer 2011's biggest blockbuster... 4Fast4Furious...Moscow Breakdown!

Just curious... what kinds of models were these "Negative Nancies" bringing to the show? If they were picking on the 'newbie' modelers, I'd have been over at their table with a big ol' poop-eating grin, Simon-Cowelling the living daylights out of each and every one of those guys' models!