Dave Van

Thanks sir!!! In fact the reason we traveled the 2 hours to Hobby Lobby was her final Cancer check up. It was perfect so we are blessed for sure. Thanks for thinking of her. BTW: I bought a Revell 80 Camaro and MPC Toyota, $42 plus tax....not bad.

Elanor is a 1973 Yellow Mustang Sportsroof. Flat hood, base model hub caps. The gun metal thing is not Elanor in my book. I get it all the time. 'You made a '66 Elanor'!!! NO NO NO!!!! When I did the ground up resto in my 66 I wanted something other than white or blue. Ford Avalanche Gray was pretty new and I liked it. But I left off ALL scoops, hood, c pillar or side, hoping no one would even think it was Bad Elanor.....yet I still get it. Oh well.

STUNNER!!

Going Friday when wife has DR appt. See if there is anything I NEED!

Nice work!!!!!!! Dad was Valvoline racing director for ten years so I always like a Valvoline car!

I checked my RC2 die cast Superbird and it looks exactly like the one shown. Wonder what the story is on that? Where is the tooling now??

I feel like Atlantis ran some kits that were ready to run and generate some cash fast. I hope there are other good car kits that maybe need parts tooled or repaired. There a many kits that SHOULD be in the deal.....kits that were never sent to China or Poland and would have been in storage in ILL.

I recall seeing those kits on hobby shop shelves.....but at a little higher than car kits.......cars won out.

BINGO! I built that in the 80's!! It was pretty trendy at the time. Still a favorite of mine. Built because the model club I was in claimed all I could build was NASCAR racers. So I did this...... PS....I have the 1/16 kit too........if I ever get around to it!!! Liked it so much I built this..........

I did something like that with a RC2 die cast Superbird. It looks a LOT like the Mint Bird......same tooling or maybe cloned??? Thanks

The 'tender' has a Athearn powered F-7 B unit chassis. The loco is non powered. Like you....what I had on hand!!!! THX

I see it all the time. Go to the Hot Wheels area. The high end collector HW, $6-8 each, but inside the package is a Dollar Tree '3 of $1' cheap DC. The scammer just tapes the bubble back on and WM took it back. These folks will pay someday.....

This die cast model was just released. A 80's era Rabbit SCCA showroom stock race car. So what is the connection??? This car is a model of Joe Klitzsch's race car ran out of the GMP shops in Charlotte NC. My brother in law worked for Joe's tuning biz and I even helped out now and then. When my brother in law decided to go racing we picked the German built Fiesta being Ford guys. This put us in the same class as Joe, SCCA SS/C. Joe was a good driver and had more horsepower and more $$ in the Rabbit. He beat us every race for a year but we kept racing. The next season we had a Spring race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. A home race for both of us. Luck had it rained hard most of the weekend and really hard for our race. The weight and HP did no good in the hard rain, plus we had a new unshaved set of Kleber tires on hand. We WON the race by a good bit, Joe was 2nd. It was our very first win in SCCA and my first as a crew chief. You'd thought we had won the Daytona 500!!!! Thankfully in them olden days the crew was allowed to jump in the car and take a lap if you won. Joe restored the old race car recently and I guess that is why it was picked for a die cast model. If they picked by story I'd hope to see a #33 Fiesta in a scale model!!!!

I build models that fit into different themes. Movie and TV vehicles, 1950's High School cars, Race cars etc. This was built for my 1932 Fords in 1/24 scale theme. I bought the kit back in late 1990's when RM reissued this 50's era simple kit. It was one of the first Monogram scale kits in plastic IIRC. It's crude by todays standard but found it to be a fun build.....minus all the drama I had. First when I started it I lost a cylinder head. So back in the box. Found the head....worked a little and then found other parts missing. (just one of those builds). I did this one and off for years. While trying to clean off the desk my short attention span caused me to pick up the model and apply some vintage Lindberg decals I had found. They worked and looked cool....so started building again. A few parts were still MIA but I think Tim Boyd had remarked once that Lindberg kinda cloned some Monogram parts and they ended up in their kits. Checking Lindberg disk wheel covers were an exact fit AND chrome to boot. The Lindbergh roll bar was used as well as the headers as they were more scale and chrome too. Clear sheet stock for windshield. Tamiya aircraft gray spray paint for the body. Panel line wash on engine, grille and suspension. Happy to get it done and off the list. I think I have one each, or more, of each 1/24 scale 32's built. It's a simple shelf model, built only fair.....BUT DONE!!!!!

Make a cool Hot Rod!!!!!

Very interesting for sure!!!!! Going for that NYC jet rail car look???? Here is a Gotham loco I did in HO inspirred by Batman animated show.

I have had a few kits missing major parts. Whole chrome tree, decals etc. But I have gotten kits with extra parts too. I have a unplated chrome tree for a MPC Wood's Bros Mercury that had a chrome tree too. BONUS......but it does happen.....

The look I got from my cat Red when I told him I needed more model kits...............

Seems it has..........LAst time I looked at the Johnson website it was there but NONE of the retailers listed as carrying had any in stock. Just check...SCJ does not list it any longer. HPIGuy on youtube had a replacement on his channel.

Went to Hobby Lobby Wed and picked up the Revell Monogram 56 Thunderbird reissue. $39.99 on the sticker!!!!!!! That is above MSRP per a number of websites....but at 40% still a price I was willing to pay.

Based off promo????

I SHOULD have one from a kit I turned into a slot car......finding it among 3 buildings full of models......well if I ever do I remebr you need one.

Nice clean work!!! Owning a 1/1 scale Javelin I am bias!!

Thanks for those. Looks like a great event to attend! I think you can guess which were my favs!!!!!