Chuck Most

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.

Thanks, guys! I was thinking of doing something more subtle and putting "Type R" graphics over the original "Type 10" badges in the rear windows, but didn't have anything suitable for the job. I may still add a Honda badge where the bowtie used to be, as I sanded that off because it was a tad malformed.

Thanks guys! For the trim, I brush painted the silver parts, then went over the black with a chisel-point permanent marker. It's not 100% even, but it's the only way my ham fists can get a presentable finished result on such trim.

It doesn't effect me. I've spent quite a bit more than thirty bucks on some questionable purchases.

This is the '82 MPC annual kit. Other than being lowered and fitted with the wheels and tires from the '82 Cavalier kit (the same actual '82 Cavalier kit which became the Civilier posted elsewhere) it is box stock. Paint is Testors Ice Blue.

Down under? Isn't that the land where the women glow and the men plunder? Welcome aboard.

Great build of a great model. Hard to believe this kit first came out in the early '70's, isn't it?

Almost looks like old photos from the time Grandma's old Fairlane got pulled out of the garage for the first time in years. Perfect.

LOVE IT !!!! Yeah, that tire rub would be quite unfortunate on a 1:1, but I have to say I absolutely love that little detail on the model. I'd have never thought to do such a thing, even though I do have a couple of models where such damage would be applicable.

Thanks guys. Believe it or not, I actually did a little research after my brain farted out this idea. I wanted to see if such a swap might have merit in 1:1. The '82 Cavalier is only about 100 pounds heavier than the '99 Civic Si donor, ditch some of the needless junk like sound deadening and the back seat and you might be able to get it close to the Civic's curb weight. Maybe less Obviously I didn't go that route on the model- I even added some weight- like the speaker boxes behind the (non-deleted) rear seat. Considering how easily tunable the B engine is, you could get it considerably making more than the original 160 it came with without even tearing into the internals. Given the original Cavalier engine made about 90, I'd be more worried about that flimsy GM unibody holding together under the strain of almost twice the power from a powertrain that enjoys a good redline slam-shift. Even if you babied it you'd enjoy a lot more passing/merging power, and you'd have an engine that wouldn't sound like gravel being poured down a sewer grate, the way those old GM fours always did once they had a few seasons on 'em. My original idea was to use a Toyota 4A GE, because that would have tied into the GM/Toyota partnership (which led to an actual badge-engineered Toyota Cavalier in the J-car's second generation), but did not have one handy at the time I started the project. Maybe next time...

This is an MPC '82 Chevrolet Cavalier, powered by a Honda B16A2 and five-speed transaxle from a Revell '99 Civic SI. The wheels are Watanabe RS-8 from Aoshima, and the smoked glass unit came from the '83 Cavalier kit. Paint is Testors Blazing Black. This was basically just a "spare time after work" kind of project from last week.

Is 34 considered old? Because I can do all of that stuff. Well, except for getting somewhere because REAL MEN DON'T ASK FOR DIRECTIONS!!!!!