Chuck Most

That's how ya make lemons into lemonade! I can't tell you how many of my favorite models of mine were the result of accidents and foul ups! Great save on this one.

Tuesday night, about eight forty five-ish. (I was disguised as a hat rack.)

Highway without his MCM fix...

I think I'll join in... WHEN my workbench is clean enough for anyone to actually see it. I'm not kidding- it's THAT BAD!

What, for the happy cat? Or the one I actually had when I posted that? Chuck Most- AKA Oklahoma Slim, AKA Biff Webster, AKA Also Known As.

More like what DIDN'T I get today! Big Rigs- AMT-Ertl International Transtar 4300 AMT White Freightliner Dual Drive Revell Peterbilt 359 Non Big-Rigs- Revell Viper GTS Revell '99 Mitsubishi Eclipse AMT '62 Pontiac Catalina AMT 'Cuda Digger

I know that the earlier Tamiya RX-7 kits (the second gen, '86-'92 body style) had an engine. Not the greatest detail wise, but it played the part fairly well. I haven't cracked open a Tamiya 3rd-gen RX-7 kit yet, but now that the question has been asked, I'm a little curious about the kit now, too!

Huh. Really?

Lately I've been back in my rat rod groove, mostly accomplished by finishing up long-forlorn old projects. I chopped the cab and Z'd the frame (Revell '41 Chevy pickup) a year or two ago, and the stuff has just sat around until the last week or so. All told, I've got maybe 20 hours into this thing... stretched over roughly an 18 month span! Anywho, here goes... Key ingredients- (Besides the aformentioned '41 Chev parts)-Pontiac 250 I-6 with exposed timing chain and a turbocharger from an International dump truck, spiked helmet 'carb scoop, Pontiac bumperettes containing '59 Caddy bullet taillamps, rear frame kickup with nitrous bottle and battery from a Revell Pro Sportsman '55 Chevy, vise grip driver's side door handle and double end box wrench inner door handles, and the following scratchbuilt junk- bed, fuel tank, rear frame and floor pan, dual remote oil filters, header (aluminum solder), distributor and coil, alternator brackets, and oil filler tube (capped off with a skull from a Games Workshops kit).

Another one clear out of the park, John!

Parts from these two kits usually combine pretty well, this one is period perfect!

Coming along very well, I do say! Don't let what others are doing discourage you- maybe you can't scratchbuild NOW, but it'll be something you can always delve into later. A great model is a great model, no matter how it's built!

Meanest Flattie I've seen in a long time!

Very nice looking model... and if it were mine, 1:1 or 1:24, I'd leave the 5.0 badges OFF... just to mess with people!

Great stance, and that green looks VERY good on it!

Ah, the last of the De Sotos! Another of my all-time faves.

Yes, forgot about the lefthanded screwdrivers, but I've never had anyone ask for non-adjustable Crescent wrenches or "3-in-1" paint!

Down perhaps, but not out!

Wow... all those customers of mine at the shop I called fools were asking for products that do, in fact, exist! A bit off topic (well, I guess this whole THREAD is off topic, really...), the parts place I used to work for was a few blocks from a college campus, and the various houses there would initiate thier new members by, among other things, sending new members in and having them ask for things like muffler bearings and blinker fluid. It was pretty funny... for us!

Of course, I post something in 'On The Workbench', and it decides to take a little side trip to Limbo for a while! Hopefully, that'll change sometime this week...

That is turing out very cool. I've never hacked into a die cast model before, and I've got to commend you for that! I wasn't too sure about the way you did the top in the beginning, but the more I see it, the more I'm liking it.

This is quite possibly the ugliest car EVER made... and I love it! Great model!

Hmmm... that must explain all those spares you used to have!

I paid just north of $40 for mine at my LHS... I've seen old reissues of the Munster Coach going for that much or more, so I think I came out alright. Oh, and no shipping, and the fuel I burned is a moot point, because I was on my way home.

Update! Add the resissued tin box Dragula and Munster's Coach to my previous post!