MoparWoman Jamie

I went back sense I remembered I had a convertible boot in the kit box, and sense the roof it's mounted to the car and the car can be displayed with or with out the top on, I thought why not fix the boot from the kit and weather it and then it can set in place for when the roof of the car isn't on the model. Also if you go to emodelcars and by chance look under vintage for anything . I'll post photos of the model with the convertible boot in place later on here, my camera battery is on the charger right now. LOL

I was wondering, and I'm not sure if this is agenst the rules on here or not as I been trying to figure that one out for the last few days. But would there be any interest in any General Lee items for 1:25 models? like roll bars, push bars, cb's, dixie horns, ect ect. I have some on another site that is for General Lee fans and there is model builders there also and one of them posted a link about this site alittle while back (that's how I re found it, my other pc crashed after I first registered and I lost all the links I had saved) and seeing on there is alot of builders here into rigs and all kind of model building. I thought I would ask if there was interest is all. To see stuff you would have to come over to the other place because I know there is a no selling rule on this site.. but I didn't read anything about not going to another site though.

I been looking for a site also to sell some built models on as I have one right now listed on another site (not eBay either), it's a 1:25 1959 Impala Convertible but I check out emodels site and to me it seems pretty dead. I went through the site last night thinking about putting my model on there and after looking for bids on things to see how active the site was and couldn't find a single auction with a bid on. I registered on there afew months back but haven't really posted anything on emodels due to it kinda seems to be dead

If you need hinges and don't know how to make some or can find any. I make them for people, well I loose to sell them on eBay until the PayPal Hold Policy was efforced on people that was using eBay. I'm not no longer on there but on forums now though trying to help out.

Guys, Harry hit me with this, and as I point out something, what if your don't want to post your full name? I am on afew other clubs and none of them have this rule at all. this is the first place I have ever seen it at. What about privacy? isn't only your first name good enough around here? It's kinda like PayPal and eBay wanting more and more. The first time I join up, it said "first name" so I put that. Now I get a PM from Harry wanting my "whole name" in my signature well. I don't mind having my first name in there at all, and like I mention to Harry in the pm, people can always pm me. We do have lurkers out there and screw balls also I might ad ..

Well, welcome to the club, I'm Jim, I'm kinda new myself but registered last year though on here and just started to post recently (about a month go or alittle over) for the first time kinda. Your hubby was right, there are alot of nice people on here and with info on building things and knows alot of tricks and tips. I myself know alot of them to .

The shell on the chassis for engine mock up and space measuring. I hope you all enjoy these.

The working A-arm that really works! More photos coming...

Okay, I started a thread over on a club I'm on with this build over 6 months ago.. well I thought maybe some of you all that are Dukeys might like to see the build also over here. But for the start of the build you can find it here though http://www.cglfc.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24901 as there is to many photos to carry over to here. LOL But to fill you in on this project, I'm building it as a replica of the real Lee3 from on the tv series Dukes of Hazzard. The real car was only 9 years old when it was on the Dukes back in the fall of 1978. (Now before I get the issue about the doors LOL. the story line was the doors was welded shut, BUT in real life the doors was not, in fact there is photos) Also Lee3 was the most photographed car for the promo shots back then, it was the car that had Bo and Luke leaning agenst the car and Daisy on the roof, it was also the same one on the back of the vhs cover with the door open with Bo and Luke behind the door. Now so you all know what I'm talking about below, I had a flour bath a month back LOL, I was washing the model car shell off in the kitchen, when a bag of flour I had up in my cabinet fell out of the cabinet and landed right next to me on the counter top and when it hit the side broke open and thrown flour all over the counter top, me, and the model that I had in my hand LOL, the motor was on the sink yet just about 3 from where the flour bag landed. yep the motor took a direct hit to like the shell that was right next to me on the sink top setting as I was turning around when the bag of flour fell out of the cabinet and made the mess. I'm still cleaning parts that has flour on yet.. that stuff can make a mess in a sec. I'm also working on weathering the chassis alittle more in certain spots. The engine was hit with flour also so I been using a dry kids brush to brush it clean and also do weathering on it alittle yet. Yea, I know, I still have to weather the tranny yet for one place. More photos coming..

Beautiful looking model man! Thanks also for the comment about my build.

I know a good friend that is like a ledgent in a near by area. He had cars like this setting out in his junkyard field of cars for years. The tops on them look like what the model car roof looked like. I mean they littery set out in the elements for over at least over 2 years. yet they had a bad looking outside and yet good looking interiors in them which is surprising. Some of the cars in his place had the vinyl roofs rip and some was was fallen in and then there was some that was dirty but yet not fallen in at all. It sounds like we both seen good old cluckers and been around them to know how they look and smell and feel LOL. I know just what you mean, it's nice when you find a old car like that in the wood line, it makes you think of how that car was back in the day and what all it went through before ending up there. This model was built to look it had setting and suck into the ground, also built to look like the floor boards wasn't on the ground but afew inches off the ground though, you know that kind mix effect to it. I also understand what you say about the dirt under the carpet, I seen that to at my friends place. He left me one evening walk through the yard just to look at the old cars that he had setting up there at his place (he had his own work garage shop up there also). I remember walk to some of the cars and looking in them to see how they was and how they looked.. you know to get the idea for when building a model. Some of the cars I that was up on blocks I got down and would look under them to see how they looked. I even ask me friend about some of the cars and he told me he had so many he couldn't remember much about each car and all he knew was it was setting there. He would sell parts off them though to people fixing there cars up if they needed a part. He also had all kinds of trucks and afew bus's as well LOL. I always had to wading through the grass to get to some of the vehicles but in the end it was worth it though. My friend still this day still has some of the cars if not alot of them yet too. hey Don't feel bad about rambling like that, I'm glad that one of my builds sparked a good memory for someone about what happen before, not many times a model build will do that

You can see more photos here http://www.cglfc.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26478&p=280374#p280374

I hope this is the right area to post this in.I been working on this sense Monday evening it's a skill 3 kit made by Monogram. Now the hood on this doesn't open as I glued it shut. The was a nice lacquer gloss white, I weathered it to how you see it with using weather powders and chalk pastel and it's all sealed in. The chassis is also weathered. It has floor flat tires. Now the side glass windows on the doors and rear side windows I hand made myself along with the frames. The kit didn't have that stuff in for on the model. All the weathering is sealed in. The roof isn't glued on at all so it does come off so you can see the nice interior that I stuck in this baby , the carpet is not flocking either but a red powder that model builders also use for carpet and it looks much better then flocking does to . The chrome trim you see on the interior is all my kind of BMF and I hand did that all (took some time). I built this model to make it look like it set out in the pines where there was dust at and I wanted it to have the set there for awhile look and effect to it and got rain on over time. Also the rear window I replace the hard one with a hand made version. And as we know setting for a very long time tires goes flat . More photos coming

Get ahold of Timsherry01 on here, he does decal stuff.

Man, your doing a good job there! I have afew projects on the work bench myself right now and afew other projects I'm trying to get work done on for on my model show LOL to update. I really like the work you have been doing on this and the most recent updates with the photos. Keep up the good work man!

Hey Stewart! I been watching your builds over on the other site, I don't post over there anymore to offen or any. But I am somewhat a lurker though over there as I do drop by time to time. I been watching as you been working on these trucks. I must say your doing very very good so far and I hope you hing around here and keep posting photos of the builds as you build them. Keep up the good work bud.

Hi Mike, I been following your lovely build over on the other site. I just don't post there very much or if at all. LOL

If you need a tow bed or are looking, I can maybe help you out.

I been following this build of yours and I must say I really like what you are doing. Keep up the good work man.

Looking good man! also every model builder has to start from some here and work and practis and so on to get better at it. It just doesn't happen over night LOL. I bet the other builders here would also love to see your build in progress on your model. I know I sure do!

Well I'm not to good with these kind of builds.. but if I had to take a guess. I would say the frame in the middle where the engine is shouldn't be like that. The 2nd part would be in the rear area where it looks like it has a leaf spring.

Man, you got some wire bending skills going on there with this build. I down right love it! LOL Keep the photos coming if you would please.

I just choked on my coffee as the first photo loaded up! LOL, dang good build bro, you did one heck of a job on that masterpiece. I love all the details on it. BUt where in the heck did you get that floor jack at though? To me it looks out of scale with the whole car. LOL

Here is a good link for tutorials http://www.briansmodelcars.com/tutorials/index you will have to look through them to see if any one of them would be of use to you.

Ding dang! man, that is very very good! I like it alot and I like how you bended the wire like you did.. good job! I'll be watching this one to you finish it.