Chuck Most

Well, I have my choice for Marshall Burns' car down to two possible subjects. Once I pick one, it's all systems go.

I just stumbled across this online one day, and made arrangements with the guy who found it to get it into my possession. Paid fifty bucks for it and I feel like that was a screaming deal. I do have a couple of '62's as well, but one is unfinished and the other I no longer have any pics of, so I'll exclude them for now.

Probably AMT's '69 Lincoln Continental annual- this started as an untouched original kit. I still have the box, instructions, and decal sheet somewhere.

Every MX-5 (Miata) has been sold in North America since the very beginning. If I recall, I think the very first MX-5 actually made it's world debut at the Chicago Auto Show. Also... if I recall... an American (Motor Trend's Bob Hall) spearheaded the project from the get-go, and the car itself was developed by Mazda's North American unit. But yeah... a lot of the really cool stuff ends up staying in the "home market".

Cool! In high school a buddy of mine had an '83(?) Malibu wagon he always wanted to turn into a 2-door panel. Obviously that never happened, but that body makes me think he might have been onto something, rather than just on something.

Well... since I "needed" the engine and 4x4 running gear for other projects, and most people who build one of these will lift it if they choose to modify it, I decided to go the opposite route and do this as a slammed... well... slammer. Slab chassis, blocked out interior, and just focus on the body and slap some Pegasus Phat Daddys on it.

Oh... I forgot, this in 1:24 please.

Looks awesome! I've thought about doing one of these as well, might have to come back to this thread later and copy off your test.

I did manage to snag a '56 Desoto promo for ten bucks last summer. It's an original JoHan, and sometime in the past someone made up an elaborate chassis plate and brass "roll cage" thingamabob to straighten the body back out. I'm planning to use it as filler in a junkyard scene, so I can live with what warpage is still there.

It's shaping up pretty nicely. Some of the most fun projects are the ones where you just say "I'm just going to wing this and let the kit tell me how it wants to be built."

The irony is that now these repops command more money than the original JoHan promos because these tend not to warp themselves inside out.

Anything in 1:24 can stay 1:24 as far as I'm concerned. I would like to see the early '90's Lindberg 1:20 scale light trucks (specifically the Nissan and previously mentioned Explorer Sport) done in 1:25, though. The Econoline van has been mentioned numerous times (Motor City Resin Casters makes one in 1:25, ya know?) but I'll mention it again because it's another I'd like.

The style (and even some of the custom parts) look an awful lot like the artwork for AMT's '69 Lincoln Continental. Different subject and company, obviously, but I wonder if the same guy did the artwork for both boxes? Troy and Detroit aren't too far apart after all.

Very nice! I absolutely love these cars, but I have no idea why.

Marvelously macabre.

Yep, Scout II. Specifically a late style ('77-'79) Scout II. No doubt in my mind.

The color combo sort of reminds me of the "goon cars" from the '89 Batman movie. I like it.

Well... Ed Sexton hasn't said anything about any of this, has he? Stevens may be a credible source, but personally, I'd rather wait and hear the news from Revell itself before I go flying off the handle over any of this. Given the fact that this tooling has (allegedly) gone from damaged, to in-repair, to destroyed, all in the space of about a month and a half, I'd be comfortable guessing that something weird is going on. But the simple fact that Revell itself has remained mum about it publicly makes me wonder. "No news is good news." Here's hoping I'm right.

It could be done for the Revell kit if they just added the earlier style inserts to go in place of the modified '90/91 stuff, but then there'd be some nasty seams along the sides to fill in, and I don't see how that would fly with the average modeler.

Modelhaus did a '57 in Ford and Mercury versions- but, good luck finding one for non-ridiculous money now. At one time Hendrix reproduced the AMT '60- I don't know if they're still casting it, but Steve Kohler at STAR Models might be able to help out with that one. I'm not sure about a '58 or '59, but one of those could easily be made from the '60, as you probably already may have guessed.

Hang on- there's a model of that one in the works. Just not sure when it's going to happen.

Junkyard truck, with a junkyard 3.0 twin turbo swap, just because you can do stuff like that when you have enough junk laying around. This it the third MPC '82 annual in a row I have built, and I can now say that I no longer have any MPC '82 annuals left in the stash.

Cool story and an even cooler model! Has the look of one of Big Daddy's creations.

Nice! I mean the hobby room, and that Monogram Land Rover in the stash.