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Excellent. The retro "69" typography is just right.

At my age, I try. No luck yet.

Evidently, it got moved to the Trucks section. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92685

You should post this again in the diecast models forum at http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showforum=51 Send a PM to one of the following people, who know this stuff well Art Anderson Scale-Master Or ask your question on Google. This isn't the only model car site out there.

Just wonderful, so creative and well-done. Interesting how today's passenger jets are using the upturned wing tips. When I was a kid, we used to fold our paper airplane wings that way.

Drastic Plastics was effectively shut down for a while. The instructions portion seems to have been transferred from their own url (thedpmcc.com) directly to their Fotki account, linked above, which is still missing a huge amount of the material they used to have (note that the Fotki url above says it's under construction). The Revell portion was very large, though the more complete Revell instructions can be accessed separately as shown in my post #6. As for the old url, many of the functions no longer operate, such as the forum and journal.

As I mentioned, Monogram apparently based the coupe on their cabriolet (that's a whole separate issue: Sindelfingen roadster fenders vs. Cabriolet fenders. Too complicated to go into). This coupe was a special-order model, one of three built, and the kit fenders are wrong, as well as the side hood louvers. The first of them, shown below, was introduced at the 1936 Paris Salon, originally painted brown with tan plaid cloth seats. It's the only prewar Mercedes known to have come from the factory with chrome wire wheels. I have pictures of a blue version, but not the third. But the main irregularity in both kits is between the combination of hood louvers with fender design. the recessed lower fenders are for the Sindelfingen special roadster, not the cabriolet A or the special coupe.

Looks awesome. What scale is this? If it's 1/12, would the 1/12 Monogram Cord 812 provide useable donor parts? If so, I'd be in for a body. EDIT: I see you mentioned that's it's just under 1/8, so I assume you have no intention of marketing the body since there would be no donor kit.

I can't speak for all of the Monogram classics, but their Mercedes 540K roadster and coupe kits were woefully inaccurate, body-wise. Both have the wrong side vents on the bonnet (they have vertical stamped louvers instead of correct horizontal chrome vents), and the coupe version (just an adapted version of the roadster with a separate top and too-large rear window) has wrong fender molding. Convex fender bottoms should be on the coupe, and a concave fender line on the bottom of the roadster. Even the pro collectors at AACA.org say they've never seen real ones like these.

Time for an update.

As I mentioned earlier, I have the very impressive hardtop coupe version of this kit. Based on the post above, I got this version and found it equally as good. Anyone interested should get this version with full -cover box art, and NOT the reissues with white borders on the box art, which have tons of flash and poor chrome.

All of which are still running. But no two are alike. I can hardly wait for someone to pipe in here with "more money than sense."

Agreed. There are different levels of everything, and different standards for one-of-a-kind collector cars with legendary provenance vs. others. 2-3 years ago, the Mullin Museum paid a reputed $35 million for one of only four Bugatti Atlantics ever built. And I'll bet anything that there are private art collections hidden away in places like Japan, Russia, China, etc., where the prices were even higher, on record at auction for well over $100 million -- like Picassos, daVincis, et al (that would be Al Rembrandt).

Waiting for the finishing touches so you can say it's done.

You can find a multitude of information in the "Modeling How-Tos" section of this forum under Tips, Tricks and Tutorials. If you don't find what you're looking for there, you can always use the Question & Answer topic in the same section. Google, of course is useful.

This is one of the best ones online. http://www.italianhorses.net/Tutorials/tutorials.htm Also, if you follow his builds of individual models, you'll find those just as informative (click on the individual links below the fold). http://www.italianhorses.net/

"The Surrey with the Machine Gun on Top." ["Kids and Moms and Dads better scurry..."]

Awesome to find it again, though it appears not everything has survived. Thanks for the links.

How about a really huge one? http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/showthread.php?88009-1959-Caddy-convert-project

I once built the companion kit to this car, a 1/12 Alfa Romeo 1750 Zagato. Also just as simplistic as your Excalibur. I was a bit disappointed during building to see that the body and other parts weren't very accurate, but it turned out it wasn't that bad –– the kit was based on a 1966 anniversary replica produced by Zagato for Alfa Romeo. The engine was woefully underscale.

I see that there is a site as you mentioned where instructions can be submitted, but do you have a link to their old completed website with hundreds of instructions? The old site I mentioned was indeed shut down, but evidently transferred. The link you posted is essentially useless in trying to find specific kit intructions, as drasticplastics.com did. The Fotki sites I've found and posted above are very limited and include much less than what used to exist. I will repeat for the umpteenth time that anything of interest to you that is especially hosted on places like Photobucket and Fotki should be downloaded, because sooner or later they will be deleted at those sites.

Jaguar XK SS

A company called Proteus has built reproductions of that car and the C-Type. They, or someone else, also built an XKSS replica.

Drastic Plastics shut down a couple of years ago and most of their reference is gone, but some elements remain in abbreviated form. I have found that it is best to download anything you need for reference, now or potentially in the future, because you never know when it will disappear. http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/ Here's their Revell page: http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/instruction_sheetsh/instruction_sheets/ AMT: http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/

Since my youth, the two most side-splitting comedians i"ve ever seen were Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams. Both true geniuses, with similar demons, and evidently Winters was an idol to Williams. Right now, I don't see an equal anywhere in sight. The only time I ever saw Bob Hope at a loss for words was when both of them were on the Carson show, and Hope sat back and just let him run with it.