Dave Van

As a 5 year old I started building plastic models. I built everything......and if I could talk Mom into buying it......I built it. Early kits I recall are Aurora 1/32 cars and sub kits. Cars and trucks are my main focus but I built a T-Rex skeleton the other day so I still like them all. Monogram B-24 I built in 1970;s..........my cat 'shot' it down and is no more

Hank called the process 'Psycho Swirl' in the old MC articles. Pretty simple. The car body can be any color but flat white works best. Fill a bucket with water....hot or cold makes little matter. Bend a wire coat hanger to hold body so you can place it under water...or use whatever works for you. Spray whatever colors on top of the water AFTER the model body is at bottom of bucket. Spray your top colors, make any designs and pull the model up through the floating pant, with damp paper towel blot out trapped water and make paint conform. After FULLY dry clear coat. About it.....Enamels work better as lacquers tend to dry to fast and kinda fragile.

Well...beyond my skills!!!! nice work and thx

And when they have something interesting I wait until the blow them out!

'Sponsor' is not what is going on here......R2 is a licensee pf Coke or Hostess etc kits. R2 PAYS to make these kits and thus the brand needs to be popular and have a collector base. NAPA might not be 'collectible'.....

Is that th engine from the RM kit??? Looks GREAT......I need a 1/16 inline 6 for a project.

I have that kit.....it looks like a LOT of work!!!!

Never seen one in 1/25........Like a all new 65-66 kit in 1/25. One tool could produce a number of kits. Stock 65 and 66 2+2, both years GT 350, GT 350 H, GT 350 R...........I'll supply the 1/1 for reference!

YES!!! I love the look....very cool vehicle!

If they ever did 40% I'd bite!

Even the Chevy Van is interesting. The new tires alone a improvement.

Nice work......my favorite F1 car....

For plastic I'd buy Evergreen or Plastruct.....the stuff sold with the machine is WAY to costly. Any thing Evergreen or Plastruct sells will work.....clear or white. I made over 300 window units for my resin kits I sold years ago on my home made machine. If this was around back then I may have bought one.

Not bad little machine but the 5.5 x 5.5 x 2 area is a bit small.....good for windows but I made one this size for under $10.

Yes....good reason to make one........The flat hood is now harder to find as AMT/JoHan 72 dry up!! A buddy wants one....are you selling??

We drove by that building often when we lived in Whittier and Dad worked of Santa Fe St in LA. When I went back in 1997 after being gone almost 20 years I was happy to see it still there. There was a big show hall across the street that held a lot of car shows. Dad was Valvoline racing director so we went there a lot! Change is the only constant.

OK....the JoHan kit was used to clone the MPC body.....all body parts interchange. This is a mix up of JoHan parts and MPC.....MPC body, hood. JoHan interior and promo chassis. JoHan front grille bumper and rear bumper.

What are the changes from MPC kit hood with molded scoop???

who what where

Hope they fine tune the Daytona some..... The GTO Super Stocker the #77 short track racer???

Correct!!!! If tooling was cheap it would be on the shelves right now!!! It is a favorite of one person with Moebius!

It's been talked about.....

200/6 is what it WAS......... Guy came to my house with a big enough wad of cash that I no longer own a 68 Mustang!!!!! Figures I get a fix for it and sell it!!!!

I can remember right now what 3 kits we did test shors......big Chrysler cars. If I can find the box of bodies I'll post. They had been offered of the years by Sullivan and maybe Spalding.

I can only speak of the tooling I have first hand info. The tooling AM looked at was in poor shape and the molds for part of the tooling, clear, tires were missing. These could be cloned but AM figured the ROI was not there. The tooling Moebius was looking at was owned by a different company. There were 3 kits chosen. They were originally promos. There was missing parts AND the tooling had flat plate chassis, no interiors and missing parts. Test shots were ran but again the ROI was not there as Moebius had planned to tool a detailed promo style chassis and bucket interior. I know of some other tooling out there.....but when Model King Dave looked at it he did not see anything that would make money AFTER the repair and investment. Dave has issued some obscure stuff....but sadly what is out there is no better than boat anchors......