sjordan2

I started in the hobby in the early 50s. Then, we didn't even have aerosol spray paint for modeling, and airbrushes could only be afforded by professional painters and art schools - more expensive then than today.

Hot stuff from the Sixties to more recently in the Dix Mille Tours in the south of France. 250 shots. http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/event/318/2012-Dix-Mille-Tours.html

Great detail, especially on the electrical parts and the convertible boot. Is the maroon car the Testors-Italeri 540K like the one you posted recently?

As the story goes, Enzo Ferrari was committed to the fact that "a Ferrari is a 12-cylinder car." "The "Dino" brand was created to market a lower priced, "affordable" sports car. The first brochure described the Dino as "almost a Ferrari". Ferrari intended to do battle in the marketplace with Porsche and its 911. The more expensive road going Ferrari V12's of the time were no match at their much higher price point. But Enzo did not want to diminish the Ferrari brand with a cheaper car, and so "Dino" was born."

Wow. Just fabulous - looks like quite a kit. Did you take any shots of the interior?

Just a note: I have an unused box of transparency sheets for overhead projectors and report covers, which I've had for about 5 years and has been kept covered in the house. The sheets are starting to dull out and yellow a bit, and some of my old report books with clear covers are really getting yellow. My supply of clear styrene sheet for modeling, about the same age, hasn't changed at all.

Did you do anything besides using clamps to straighten the chassis?

You misspelled misspelling (no hyphen is used). But I bet you knew that.

Sorry, I don't know what kind of box you're talking about. Is it exactly the same as the one I just showed, which has a sturdy enough interior box? In any case, it's simple enough to put a wraparound paper wrapper on the typical boxes of today to show more information. It's still going to be shrinkwrapped. And if the box insert is the same as today's normal box bottoms, what's the difference? Sorry, I must be dense, but the box concept I showed above would seem to provide not only the same rigidity and protection as a typical kit box, but more since it wraps around. In short, it's the same as today's kit boxes with a box top and box bottom, except the top also wraps around the bottom to provide more real estate for showing what's in the kit.

How? When? Where? Why? Please explain. That makes no sense - why would the marketplace want less information under the shrinkwrap? What would you do to satisfy the need for more content information on the box as expressed on this thread?

This is what I'm talking about. Opening flaps at both ends on the same one-piece art, which simply folds around. Like I said, more space for graphics, regardless of the box dimensions. TOP SIDE: BOTTOM SIDE:

The car for the TV series "Bearcats" was an exact replica built by George Barris' people for the show,..does your kit have the machine gun? :-) I have a 1/16 Aurora curbside that I want to build as a replica of the one John Wayne drove in one of my favorite movies, "The Wings of Eagles." I think I can steal the engine and other detail parts from the Lindberg 1/16 1914 Stutz racer. The movie car was part of the Bill Harrah collection. Here's a shot of the same car as used in the Disney movie, "Summer Magic."

On a normal kit box with a top that lifts off the bottom, that's correct. On the box I'm suggesting, it's 6 panels - 4 on the sides, and big ones on the top and bottom, all in color and all printed in one run-through. Having a sprue chart in black and white on the bottom is good for existing kits, but I think this approach is better. Some makers, even decades ago, pasted a color appliqué on the bottom of the box, like the old Metal Master classic kits (but the bottom just showed other kits in the line, not more detail of the kit inside).

What particular kit do you want to know about? Most of the Monogram kits don't need to have seams filled because the pieces are cut where the real cars had them, and in certain areas were filled with a cord seal (such as where the fenders meet the body shell). You may find a few mold lines that just need a little sanding. Pretty simple: 1-piece fender/frame part; 1 main body shell part; hood may or may not have multiple pieces for folding open. Generally straightforward, with no worries about installing the interior. One exception is the Monogram Mercedes 540K Coupe, which requires more work because the hardtop is a separate piece that mates to the main body and needs putty filler where they meet. If you're in search of total accuracy, both the 540K Cabriolet and Coupe have the wrong louvers on the hood, and front fenders are for a 540K Special Roadster, not for either of these cars. You can see what they should look like in Erik Olijnsma's build of the Testors-Italeri 540K Cabriolet C: http://www.modelcars...showtopic=63839

I'm sure you're familiar with this current thread. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=64448&st=0

The same packaging concept could be applied to any size box (and is used by thousands upon thousands of products). The idea is that using all of the outer part of the box provides a larger canvas for more color pictures of what's in the box and how you can build it. This is accomplished in one run through the press on one side of the box. Box assembly might add a small cost, but this is so common that I don't think it would be a big deal. If cereal boxes can be printed this way, so can model kits, which are going to have a 2-part box anyway. I'm sure many other model kits have already been done this way. But, then again...maybe some kit companies DON'T want you to have that much information on the box.

This week I received an older Testors/Italeri kit of a Mercedes 540K (recently shown in under glass by Erik Olijnsma - The Creative Explorer), which has one of the best solutions I've seen: There is an outer box with a large beauty shot of the built kit on top, plus many built detail shots on the sides and bottom, all in color. The box opens at an end flap, and you pull out an interior box with the kit contents.

Great job, very slick. I wish the pictures were bigger.

That is the bee's knees and the cat's pajamas.

Is this what you're looking for? If not, 1/12 '57 Chevy parts show up now and then on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Firestone-Tires-4-Stock-Wheels-1-12-Model-Car-Parts-Monogram-/350612864617?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item51a227be69

I hope they were marinated in lime juice and cilantro.

A mere $6 million. Really. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/17/lamborghini-aventador-1-8-scale-model-costs-12-times-the-real-th/

Excellent. Looks like you're winning in the decal Super Bowl (I can't tell, though - have you scored the panel lines, like doors, etc., where they're covered by the decals?)

Some excellent links with great collector car reference. I keep them in my bookmarks folder. The Auto Collections (Las Vegas Imperial Palace Hotel), with a bit of everything. http://www.theautocollections.com/ Fantasy Junction, mostly sports and racing cars from all eras. Tons of crisp photos for each listing, and changes frequently. (I have no idea what the animal is in front of the Talbot-Lago, but it looks like an armadillo preparing for his role as roadkill). http://www.fantasyjunction.com/ Auto-Salon Singen. Huge variety of collector cars, mostly European sports cars and classics. http://www.autosalon-singen.de/en/ Michael Sheehan's Ferraris Online. Most Ferrari fans know this one, but if you haven't seen it, don't miss it. Click on Cars for Sale and on Cars We Sold. http://ferraris-online.com/ This just in, thanks to Cato...Canepa Collector Cars, huge variety, with tons of images. Check both Collector Cars and Sold Vehicles. http://www.canepa.com/inventory/collector.html

Here's some food for thought, owned by a Metallica band member. Love the venetian blinds. I don't know why the page link below takes you to the home page, but you have to go to Cars for Sale, then scroll in alphabetical order. http://goo.gl/Amkw5