Dave Van

I have a buddy....he and his Dad are Hudson experts. Their 34 Terraplane pick up was featured at the Peterson museum as 'The Art of Pick-up' for most of 2013-14. He talks about how Hudson shared and moved parts around to make different models.....simply amazing!!! The way they made the most of their tooling is mind boggling. He has a 49 Hudson with 600,000 + miles....rebuilt motor, trans and rear.......but still rides and drives like a dream.

Cool spin!

GREAT creativity for sure........thanks for sharing....

Hudson phots a plenty are in the links below. Almost every version Hudson made 1952-54 is covered well....... http://public.fotki.com/DaveVan51/2011-hudson-het-nats-okc/ http://public.fotki.com/DaveVan51/2012-hudson-essex-t/ http://public.fotki.com/DaveVan51/hudson-meet--french/

LOVE the Lego parts!!! I use Lego lamp shades in my O scale trains. About 5 cents each vs $2-3 if you buy 'O scale' lamp shades!!!

Agreed......someone at the distributor level.......but since I am not in the retail end any longer.....who knows.....

My way......... I drag a razor saw across the plastic a few times....wiggle it while I drag. I do it all the time building railroad wooden cars from sheet plastic.

I saw them at Toledo....worth the wait for sure.....

YUMMY!!!.......fresh test shots......my favorite!!

NICE clean work....love the day cab!!!!!!

Very cool work....I have repro'd Yeller, Hot Dogger, Mixer and Cashbox myself....so this is a great project to watch.......and I can keep my mint Gypsy!!

I own a 25 watt table laser. I use CorelSraw as design and input to laser. Cost ranges from $2 a minute plus set up to $10 a minute depends on who and what machine used.

Dare to be different!!!!! I hate cookie cutter rods.......nothing boring there!!!!

Two notes........ My laser cut kit was cut from a high grade styrene plastic and thus was VERY close to a exact copy of the vintage kit. It assembled like any production kit with same techniques. I also did a Cashbox, Yeller and Mixer kits as well...... Two....... Now wait.......I voice my dislike for folks that come into a post and only post negative comments or how stupid something is.......But if I do the same thing I'm the bad guy?!?!?!?!! Seems like to me it's all fair....per your rules....right??? Not buying a kit is fine......getting to a almost personal level about how stupid a kit is.....to the folks that DO live these parts of our childhood.....take it personal. Thanks

I'm with John......like I had to say that as I spent a lot of time engineering that laser kit and money cutting and kitting them. But why all the negative attitude??? That's a HUGE issue today in social Media and one reason I don't participate at any level other than maybe 4-5 forums. I really do not like seeing people be so negative about something that does not affect them.......I really DO wish people had the same passion over things happening in real life today that ARE affecting them and every one around them. But that's hard..... and negativity on FaceSpace or a forum is easy. Oh well.........Slam away haters......

I worked on that Model King version....I did the decal art. Sean S did a build up....a very nice build. He trimmed the window trim on the windshield and scribed new trim. A few other small corrections made a nice model. Maybe he will spot this and post it.

I bought a GREAT item from JCW years ago. I had a 1970 Mustang sportsroof. A idler pulley on the A/C belt went bad. I had a old friction bearing that was sealed. JCW made a pulley assembly with a ball bearing with grease fitting. Made a big difference.......nice part.

Good start!! I like that kit.....simple as it is. I used aftermarket Jagermister (sp?) decals as I love orange cars!!!

Nice work!!! It's the only Monogram big bomber kit I don'y have....need one.

I build both?????

I saw it April at the Mustang 50th at Charlotte Motor Speedway.....much better in person for sure. For all of May-Sept I looked for the exact 2014 Mustang to go with my 66 2+2 and 68 coupe.....but never found it....and bought a Civic coupe!!!

Sorry....I'm easy to confuse!!!!!

Revell's 2007 kits were not 100% correct for that year. The COT or Gen6 car is 100% different. Chassis is very different with enclosed drive shaft, wider than 2007 and different roll cage. Bodies shared nothing at all. Revell's engine was somewhat generic....so a new one of those needed.....maybe tires would have transferred over.....nothing else. Revell had to tool a all new kit or stop making them. The uproar over tiny things on recent kits would be nothing compared to a NASCAR 2014 kit with 2007 chassis.

Nice track.......but I built a routed track back in the day....I had one turn with the lanes squeezed together....that got old fast and I said I'd never do that again on a track........but I never scratch built a track again!!! This high dollar track has them all over.....bet it would get old fast!!

VERY nice work!!!! Always wanted a 1/1 version.......