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Donnie Allison's Hawaiian Tropic Monte Carlo
Dave Van replied to Merkur XR4Ti's topic in WIP: NASCAR
I don't dis-agree with what you say. I tried to give them a break as a start up.......but as stated they want no help in improving. Had the Monte Carlo been more to my standards I'd bought 12 of them....SO many famous cars to do. But the long list of things I feel the need to fix makes made me buy two kits....and that was to support them, hoping future offerings are better. One question on your build. Did you address the wide gap between the chassis and body?? In playing with mine it looked like 1/8 to 1/4" gap that needs to be filled. Once I get back to building (after 1/1 car season) I will build a MC and show what I feel is needed........and yours may still look better a 3 feet!!! thx -
Donnie Allison's Hawaiian Tropic Monte Carlo
Dave Van replied to Merkur XR4Ti's topic in WIP: NASCAR
I did mean to say Steve did a great job as always....making that kit look as good as it can. Here is one issue I have....... AMT 1/25 scale rear trailing arms on the left....Salvinos model of the exact same parts on the right. No big deal???? If Revell did it to a Camaro kit there would be a 25 page post on how bad Revell is.....recall the 1990 Mustang LX thread. Not try to beat up Salvinos.......I am happy someone is making new kits. But they have been offered LOTS of free help in making things right and everyone was told to 'start your own model company'....oh well... -
Donnie Allison's Hawaiian Tropic Monte Carlo
Dave Van replied to Merkur XR4Ti's topic in WIP: NASCAR
I want to add to the comments on the Salvinos kits. The Monte Carlo addressed the issue of the OLDS having the wrong front and rear suspension. They tooled new rear suspension.....only issue is it is wrong! They did truck trailing arms.....but they are about 1/32 scale and not near correct. I call it growing pain's when you bring kits to market to fast without enough R&D done. I hope they will get it right as they go....but doubt they will ever correct the rear suspension.....so live with it..... The bodies on both the OLDS and MC need some work to get them to look more like race cars than they do box stock.....but if you want to see what they need there is ton of info on Randy Ayers NASCAR forum on how o. -
AC Mack Tractor Trailer
Dave Van replied to BIGTRUCK's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Big Rigs and Heavy Equipment
A conversion like that with box trailer is on my list to do. My grandfather drove a AC with short box trailer from Pocahontas county WV to Charleston. Up one day, back the next....5 days a week. He had to use US 60 which today is pretty much the same as it was back then.....a WILD ride in a modern car.....in that AC.....wow!! Great work and thanks for the push! -
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If I Ran Revell....
Dave Van replied to Snake45's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
That would be the end result for 99.99% of us here. I've done work for a few different model companies......If I was in charge....I may have a hit or two....but more flops! -
Or maybe 1950's era looking cars!!!!
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Last time I heard from Ed he said 'things were in the works'......glad to hear it worked out. Worked with Ed on and off for many years. Good luck Ed!
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LIKE it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Worth it.......
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Long Beach Grand Prix
Dave Van replied to Slimguy's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
My So Cal buddy always finds some unreal deals at the Tamiya booth........lots of goodies.... -
It was intended to be a series. We sold them at our hobby shop back then. But the came out just when the card boom was crashing.........model builders alone were not enough to make it viable. The go pretty cheap of anyone would like them.
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Nice work!! Cool to see it built!
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Nice work!!!
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7 Muscle Cars I Hope Will Be Kitted Soon
Dave Van replied to 69NovaYenko's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
My vote........ 1970 Javelin Tooling could be made so different kits could be run. Stock, drag and SCCA Trans Am !973 Javelin Same deal as above. The two kits would share lots of tooling.....as the real cars did. These kits were on a companies radar....... But I am a bit bias....... -
Pretty common 'sign painter' font back in the day. And I hate to admit I could not recall why I did them........until I found a note to Model King that it was for this car.....but you had to buy two kits as I ran out of room!!!! Thanks for the memory jog!!
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Sizing Images for Decals
Dave Van replied to StevenGuthmiller's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
Use graphics software that has sizing tools........otherwise it's hit and miss until you get the size you want. -
I won a SAE jacket from Gary back at NNL Toledo 11983....RIP Gary...
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The Europa is cool......but 1/20 scale and $50 would make me pass.
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AMTERTL or Revellogram Eclipse?
Dave Van replied to rsxse240's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
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would you sell one???