tubbs

c'mon, i have fat fingers, it was a typo......... should have listened in English class a little more......

hey Corey, dog dish and steelies are way cool! i, like bonekrusha, was running them on my 69 hemi runner when the big thing was magnum 500's.... but ..... on this particular build, i's find some weld stars (from the glidden kit) i have always been partial to chrome! if your gonna get that thing lower you may have to lose the rear seat.

that will be no problem!!!! i can cook a stake, just can't finish a model!!!

here is my best work in the kitchen....... i can burn water!!!! thank God for my wife. now if your talking grilling........

ok, if we join the fantasy league, do we have to build a model? i have way too many projects going, but if i have to, i will.

hehehehehe....... thats great!!! i feel your pain.... well, not really, we havent been to a superbowl yet!!! GO BROWNS!!!! STEELERS SUCK!!!! by the way, i am in for the fantasy league!!!

well, this is a very good subject and i am going to turn the table on this one for a munite. i have been building kits for over 40 years, do not enter shows so i build for myself and i have yet to build one that i approve of. there is always something wrong and you know right where its at. after i build something, it goes right in the box. i dont have a display anywhere in my house of my builds because i am the hardest critic of my work. when i look at someone elses builds, i think "man thats cool, look at this and this and i wish mine would turn out like that." i display my builds at my model club and it wins model of the month and i say " what iin tarnations are you guys looking at?" i am ok with how my builds turn out, but not like when i am lookinig at someone elses. i guess i may be looking for thet perfect build in which there is no such thing. i have been a member here for a while but i dont post much stuff here, i guess the reason is on the same level as what Rob posted in his "walk then run" post. i actually look for the "you should have dont it this way" or "next time, use this, its much better than what you used". the common "nice build" or "sweet" comments on something that i know isnt the best is comforting but not what i am looking for. corrective critism done right is very good. i think we all post here to get approval from all our piers. we post here to hear "sweet" and "nice build" and it comforts us, but once we hear "you should buff your paint out more" or "you should fill in those gaps with scrap syrene", our feelings get hurt and we start yelling back. its tough to interpret someones post, a lot of people take it wrong also. so (i know, i rambled) to sum it up, i build for myself (heck, i pro street EVERYTHING and its suppose to be dead!!), but i will never satisfy myself. i think we look for that satifaction here even though we are building for ourselves. hope this made sense.......

first off, i get my best ideas away from the bench. my mind just locks as far as creativity when i am building. i get my best ideas at work, when my mind starts drifting..... " hey, i can do this and this and this kit has this in it...". i draw my ideas on paper (yes, i still use pencil and paper), then will research the ideas when i get home.

just run the exhaust out the same side, under the car, but group them in 2 sets of 3. hey, i am the biggest pro streeter fan alive (by the way, pro street is not dead!! just had to say that.) i'd love to see a top feuler style hemi poking out of that thing... problem is i am putting one together also. i was heading in this direction at first (see photo), although i am leaning towards a more streetable max wedge motor

hey Shafer, that is a beautiful rendition of that car. i am a dedicated straight line guy who has an itch to build something different. since i have a bunch of the pro street coronets, i was going to do a fictional 70 coronet nascar. i have a few of the pro modeler 69 daytona which has a bunch of nascar stuff in it. would this be the right stuff? my other choices were a 69 charger 500 or, as you built, a 71 runner. not looking for a dead nuts accurate build, just a close rendition for a shelf model. thanks, Tubbs

does this guy and smallblockdodge resin company have anything in common? parts look simular.....

i am a "the more the cubic inches, the better" type of guy, so i would suggest a max wedge with the injector stacks. just because the hemi was introduced in 64, i know dumb reason........ but ......... that leaning "tower of power" (slang name for the slant 6) just the way you discribed would really get some people talking!!! can you imagine, 1 row of 6 injector stacks out the hood and a fenderwell header out only one wheelwell? now that would be different!

this coming from a mopar guy, but a musclecar nut!!! i always believed that cheverolet named some of thier cars after the actual engine (or package) code..... Z/28 - 302 L/88 - 427 ZL/1 - 427 (aluminum, of course) is that not true?

it's an instant gradification world. nobody has the patience for anything anymore.

hey LURCH426, those are not the ones i am looking for..... BUT ...... i can still use them if you are willing to trade them. i have lots of stuff but murphy says probably nothing you need!! hehe.... just asking... does the LURCH refer to the Addams Family and how about the 426....... mopar fan by chance, i have lots of mopar stuff!!

well, what is the definition of "stash". there are very few kits i build straight out of the box. for instance, i have at least 20 or so of the pro mod cars, as soon as i get them, the body goes here, all the chassis goes here, decals and engine over here..... so, if you are looking at just boxed kits, maybe 150, if i sort out all my parts...... over 200. to me, thats enough. also, i am not a collector, nor do i turn kits over for profit, i plan on building every one. if i collected........ forget about it! so fellow modelers, on a side bar, how many in your stash do you have no real intensions on building?

like a few of you said, i have way too many started. start one, than another, than another...... i have a problem by going to car shows, looking thru some 8,000+ magazines, and lets not forget the internet. i see something and get an idea and have to start that project, something happens, usually another idea or some sort of problem and i start another one. to put a number on it, i would say at least 60 or more.......

i have asked this question many times. want to do this roof swap on the polar lights 65 dodge. does not look too complicated till you get into it. would be wonderful for a nice tutorial.

going to be a killer ride. sorry 'bout the paint... been there, done that.... plenty of times. you will recover!! what happened tp te hemi? thats ok, 440 powerplant will work just fine!!! keep plugging along

just caught this one, i am not recomending this book to anyone.... read every post and HATED the ending!! thats a shame. hope to see more pro street stuff come out of your stable. and as far as pro street beeing dead.... well, thats a whole other thread.

there lies your problem..... too many REAL ones to do and not enough kit!! so lets pretend ...... you just stumbled across the 63 in a barn, paid $300 for it, now YOU are going to go racing, how would you build it? me personally, i'd tub the bad boy, max wedge with a cross ram and teal paint with matching interior!! there is one of these NSS cars right in our neighborhood, Jim Bailey is the owner/driver. nice car.

sorry, this may be a bit long but..... "My goal is to finish a model! Any fool can start a model but the completion of said model is what separates the men from the boys!" (quote from Modelmartin) boy, how true this statement is! i have at least 80 kits started in some sort of way that i swear i will finish, but i just start another, then throw it on the shelf a month later. is it cause i look thru too may hot rod books and get more ideas, cause i made a mistake on a kit, shoved it back in the box, maybe i am a perfectionist and dont know it? i read thru this post a few times and it is a doozy of a question. it can go in so many directions. is a perfectionist one who wants his kit to be as close to the 1:1 he is referencing or the execution of a clean build? here is what i think (for what it is worth), i am NOT a rivot counter, if my 63 plymouth has 64 door panels (which it actually does), thats ok, but it will not have mold lines, flash or trademark stamps on the chassis. i will not glue things on a kit just cause i have glue, it has to be functional in the 1:1 world. i will not put in scaled 6" round tubing in for a roll cage or glued my rear end (no jokes please..) directly to the chassis to get my pro streeter lower, i have cut the tops of the rear tired to get it lower..... hypocrite...... maybe. i feel that you should always know the mishaps or mistakes on every build and try to eliminate them on the next. you wouldn't last too long at your job if you didnt try to correct your errors. but some people like stagnent, have no drive to improve, are satisfied. others are not, want to improve with every build. neither person is wrong, but will be looked at differently. i HATE to see a build with a gazillion dollars in aftermarket stuff when the guy glues the engine in cock-eyed and does not meet up with the driveshaft. is perfection a perfect 1:1 recreation or a clean build with no mold lines? we all have a different view on this topic, and i will always have dust specs in my paint jobs no mater how many gallons of the purple stuff i go thru. the main thing is be happy with your builds, take critism optimistically and NEVER bash someone elses builds until yours are perfect. helpful hints are good, bashing, well, not so good.

alledegly....... anyways, thanks for all the help and the quick responses guys.

DRAT!!! when i open the link, it brings me to thier home page, i click on "PARTS"; it takes me the parts page, all there is is thier header, the word "PARTS", but there are no parts, no pictures, all the boxes are empy and the whole page is frozen till i click the "back" button. soooooo frustrating! i thought it may be blocked here, but it does the same thing at home. all i can view is 1 page of resin kits. that all that will open.....has to be my connection. DOUBLE DRAT!!

welcome. glad to see another one back in the modeling hobby. not too much into the off roading, but i am a huge mopar fan. nice choice of kits to start with. ...and $20 is just the tip of the iceburg, pal! resin parts, photo etched, paint, tubing, working lights, working suspension..... need i say more fellas!! next thing you know you will be coming home with a lathe!!!