Chuck Most

Today's Haul... Man,had a little trouble getting "all the kids in the picture" this time! Top row: (L to R): AMT '32 Phanom Vicky, Gunze Sangyo '56 VW Beetle Middle row: (L/R): Monogram F-350, Lindberg-Model King Triumph GT6+, AMT American Hot Rod Mustang GT, AMT '25 Model T. Bottom Row: Revell '32 Ford Roadster W/Diecut McDonalds', AMT Double Dragster (yep... bought another one, tin box and all!), and an MRC Texaco station! I also picked up a bunch of discounted rattle-cans... All the kits came from Dean's Hobby Stop except the Double Dragster, which I bought from Hulings Hobby House. I also got a new tire on the car, but didn't take a picture of that. Hope nobody's too disappointed by that!

Hot diggetty! Trouble is, I can't bring myself to perchase anything with Martha Stewart's name smeared all over it like so much feces , but if it's equavalent to the more recognized flocking out there, it may well be worth a shot!

I don't know, as the owner of a '94, I find myself insanely jealous of the owners of '99-up Super Duties. I want a truck that looks portly and overstuffed!

DAN! This is the MCM Forum, not the Penthouse Forum! (And yes... I've been waiting years to say that to somebody. Sad, really.)

I always thought Tamiya did a 4-door Beetle kit, and I've been looking for them for a while. If I'm not mistaken, that other 4-door beetle I saw was built by a Finnish modeler as well. I think a 4-door Beetle is to nutty NOT to love!

Ah... yes! The salt technique! I swear by it! Well, sometimes I swear AT it, but still, 99.99999% of the time it never fails me!

I built this Maisto '99 F-350 back when the kit first came out, and I do believe it's the oldest surviving model I have. Mostly because my dad has it, and keeps it in a display case with all his Danbury diecasts! It's box stock other than the decals, from the original issue of the Revell '41 Chevy pickup. It's not the greatest kit ever (even by late '90's Maisto standards), but I like it simply because it's a Super Duty! Eleven years, where'd they go? Eleven years, I don't know!

I know... but I've got some catching up to do with the snow removal!

I hate shoveling snow, and I love having old, crusty mechanical devices laying all over my property. Huh... looks like I killed two birds with one stone here... It's a Massey Ferguson Model 12 garden tractor, which I traded for that nasty '46 Chevy dump truck I was going to build into a rat rod! Oh, and in the first photo you can see my other MF... the Ski Whiz sled, which is currently running! (But still needs a little work.) Massey Ferguson- the most destructive and deadly force to emerge from Canada since Celine Dion! Now, I'm thinking I'll need to scratchbuild a 1:25 model of each of these!

Yeah, it is a touch depressing. If it makes you feel better, here's one from the same yard that is going to be sold whole- Who knows... maybe parts off those other two will help keep this one on the road!

Man... I LOVE it!

Spent a little time at the junkyard today, and spotted a couple of old COE Transtars on the lot. Maybe this will make you want to dig out one of those old Ertl kits you have stashed away!

Liar! Liar! What a great couple they make with Chrysler, huh!

I agree- it's tough to get this kit much lower than a 2wd 3/4 ton pickup, which is understandable given it's gasser roots. I do like the stance you ended up with on yours!

Here are some shots of the AMT Blueprinter edition: http://public.fotki.com/ChuckMost/kit-contents/amt-blueprinter-sun/

Scale of 1 to 10... I'd say about a 6. The fact I changed quite a few parts aside, some stuff was a bit more fiddly than it needed to be. All in all, though, not to terrible! On my kit-ranking list, it's well above the "I'd rather have an explosive case of the squirts than build this kit" ranking!

This should be interesting...

It was molded like that. This isn't the same version, but this hotel taxi and the Waterman van kit share just about all the parts except the rear side panels. And of course, the "Waterman" version also lacks the seats the Hotel Taxi comes with. The Hotel Taxi box art is similar, but the truck is red.

You know.... global warming can kick in any old time, now!

The cute little redhead USPS girl sent me this today, courtesy of Scale Central... Very nice kit, by my initial observations. Too bad I'll end up doing something very untoward with it!

Here's a styrene soldier who fell along the way... A Citroen Hotel Taxi rat rod that was damaged in a shelf-shuffling incident. It's still in pieces in a box as I write this, and may well be for a very long time to come. On the plus side, this '29 A Ratbed suffered more or less the same fate, and came back better than before: Before: And after: So maybe all hope is not lost!

Well, I can finally cross the Fiat from the Double Dragster kit off my bucket list... Since it's mostly box stock, I'll just focus on the mods: The engine is the blown Pontiac 421 from the AMT Parts Pack, installed with the Fiat kit's engine plates. The wheels also came from an AMT parts pack. The scoop is from a '64 Impala. I didn't like how the grille just was supposed to be 'slapped on' over the grille shell, so I cut an opening for it to fit into. I sprayed the whole mess in Chrysler Industrial Red engine enamel. Now that I've got a feel for the kit, I've got a few more ideas in mind- including a more detailed altered coupe, and a street-rod version! I love this kit! And I've still got enough stuff left over to build a couple of early style rails!

The old AMT '28 Tudor is one of my 'bucket list' kits. Seeing one built this beautifully both makes me giddy as a school girl and depressed as a grunge rocker at the same time!

Haven't gotten hit too hard up here in Michigan (yet), but the downtime has given me chances to get crackin on that Fiat from the Double Dragster reissue! See- There's always a silver lining!