W-409

I saw this yesterday on a parking lot when I was parking my Pickup in there as well. You don't see many of these around here, but it sure looks good so I had to take out my phone and snap a picture:

I got 100%, too. Only ones I had to guess were a couple of Mopars and I wasn't sure on those two Mopar hood ornaments either. This time my guesses on those two were correct though and other questions were fairly easy. Looks like I got 100% on that tail fin test too. It was actually quite easy, even if I had to do some serious thinking on a couple of Mopars. I got them figured out though and actually I didn't have to guess any of those.

Good post, Rob. Those are all very good points and I haven't even thought about some of them even if I've been in many contests and I've won surprisingly many times, too. Especially placing the models was a new thing to me, I just usually put them to whatever place they fit in. I don't like to put them to front row as then someone might hit them by an accident, but otherwise I haven't paid much attention to that thing. But I have to say that even if I often participate in contests, I don't stress about winning or losing. I either win or lose, it makes no difference to me. Or I mean that it feels great when you win, but losing doesn't matter me at all. I enjoy seeing other people's builds in person and often I get good tips, tricks or ideas from other modelers or from their models. And of course meeting friends is another important thing just as well as looking through the Swap Meet area... Plus that I never enter the same model in the same contest twice. I don't get it why some people do it, and that's why I don't.

Thanks for the information! 30 Bucks doesn't sound too bad, so hopefully I can find one. Unfortunately buying it from eBay is often not a good idea, as the shipping costs are sometimes way too high compared to what it really costs to ship a model kit to Finland or sometimes sellers don't want to ship them here at all...

Brad: Thanks! It's great that there are guys who like to follow my projects. I sure hope I can find all parts, too, because right now I really feel like I want to work on this and get some more work done. It's funny how sometimes you can't find correct parts even if you had many parts boxes with lots of parts. That's what happens to me too often, but hopefully not this time. Joe: Thank You! Yes it's true that it's impossible to stop building models completely. That's just what happened with my dad who hadn't been building models for a couple of decades until I got started when I saw one of his old builds. Since then he has been slicing plastic constantly too, even though he is a super slow builder. It's sad that 1:1 cars take so much time from these smaller scale cars, but it is very nice to work on both. Plus, with 1:1 cars it's possible to enjoy the ride once they're done. Fredrik: Thanks for the tip! I will have to check how those Vega's tires look on this body. I actually have one of those Vegas sitting on my stash so it should be an easy check. However, I believe that the scale difference between 1:24 and 1:25 is so small that it doesn't matter. At least I have always mixed both scale parts together in my builds. And not having the Good Year logo doesn't really matter, I think most of these cars had somekind of regular front tires without fancy white letters or anything. But that's a very good tip, I'm gonna check it out very soon...Thanks! I did some minor work today on this. Hopefully I can continue the rear axle business tomorrow so I could post an update. Stay tuned.

This is definitely a very cool '55. Excellent overall look, it has that Old School vibe in it as others have said. Your detailing is very sharp too, especially I like that opened grille. Very good work.

Is the box art the same on both of these versions ('66 and '68)? I'm asking because I've been drooling over one of these kits for a while and when I see one with reasonable price tag, I gotta pick it up. But I want to have a '66 body too. The project looks very interesting. I can't wait to see it when you get started.

This might be an easy one...? Well, Jack and Jill went uptown Jill come back with the others, jumpin' around Say ooh, he-he-hey, he-he-hey Rock woodpecker, let's rock

I just got my daily driver back on the road. I bought this '92 Chevy S10 in July and after a bit of rebuilding it's ready for winter. Someone had lowered it when I bought it and it had 16" wheels with low profile tires on it. I raised the ride height back to stock (Even though it looks like front springs are cut a bit shorter, but otherwise it's back to stock height) and changed wheels and tires too. I added some under-body coating to chassis and welded a couple of rust spots on front fender and tailgate. It had a wide black stripe running over it so I painted hood, top and tailgate white again to get rid of that stripe. I also added a new exhaust, since one of the former owners had built a new exhaust that was very loud and since this car has a 151 Cid Four Banger under the hood, no-one wants to hear that engine with that loud exhaust! Now I can concentrate on doing some minor upgrades on my '60 Impala during the winter.

Thanks Gene! Now I got my 1:1 '92 Chevy S10 back together and back on the road, I hope I have some more time to work with these models again. Today I was searching for parts on this one. Because I want to mock up rear suspension to get an idea where spring mounts etc need to be attached, I started by digging out a proper set of Slot Mag wheels to rear slicks. I need to strip that chrome plating off from them and then they'll be painted Magnesium color. Inner wheels / wheel backs (Whatever they are called) are from my parts box too. They don't fit quite perfectly, but I guess I can live with it. But right now there are two problems concerning the wheel & tire combination. First problem is that my rear slicks are very rough and it would be best if I found another pair of them that was in better shape. But as those slicks can be found from old Jo-Han kits only (As far as I know at least), they are not the easiest ones to find. Probably I'll end up trying to restore those that I have, but honestly I'm not sure if I can fix them good enough or not. My other problem is front wheels. As the tires are small 13" Good Years (These Street Altereds had often quite little front tires), it's very hard to find proper steel wheels on that size. Hopefully I can find a set from somewhere though. Another part I found today was a rear axle. It's from Monogram '56 Chevy. I didn't find one that was exactly like I wanted, so I think I will have to modify one using that Chevy axle as a starting point. It needs a bit widening and a new set of leaf springs, and Ladder Bars of course. As it needs widening and new leaf springs, I cut both leaf springs away and now it's ready to be widened with some styrene rod. I hope I can make it, but this is a good axle as if I screw up, I have lots of these in my parts box so I can start over...

Very nice! Also I'm glad to see a '70 Duster rather than '71 that is not as good looking car as this. That stance together with your wheel and tire combo and Primer paint job make it look a bit different and very cool. I like it.

Looking very good so far! I like how that interior is coming together, it looks excellent so far. I'm just wondering why are you using that Monogram kit as the body is not really accurate on that (And even I can see that it's not correct !)? Is there a special reason for using that kit...? But I'm sure it will look good in any case once it's done. Keep it coming.

I had to double check if it was real or model... Excellent work with all of the details. As I rarely detail suspension parts that much, it's great to see how you guys do it. Excellent work, this is one of my favorite projects on here, keep it coming.

That looks excellent! Actually I didn't even know that this kit is out after opening the Truck's Workbench section earlier today. This looks like a true masterpiece, and even without major detailing this looks very good. Looks like I need many of these.

Fantastic looking Mack! As it's that long, I definitely wouldn't want to drive that in a city center. Very nice work with all of those little details. Building the model alone must have been a huge effort, but making that haul has taken a lot of time as well. Overall, a super nice combination.

Excellent job! Especially that weathering is done very nicely, it looks just like a real used car or truck does. Very nice work overall, makes me want to put my hands on my Chevy Titan that's laying around in my stash.

Well done Dodge Demon! It sounds like a lot of work went to the body only. Plus fitting that chassis in there must have required some modifications, too? It's a very good looking Outlaw car, and very sharp detailing in the engine bay and interior finish it off. Excellent work as always from your bench.

Thanks Dan and Johan! I like these Cortinas, too. One of the best looking European cars ever done. Today I was assembling my Chevy S10 together as the paint on its body was dry. After that I took one Gene Vincent's LP Record and put it in my record player (Gene Vincent - Rocky Road Blues) and did a little work with this. I didn't have much time to build though, but I was still able to add some tubings to other side of the frame. Now it looks like this and I believe I'm ready to start mocking up suspension parts to figure out how to continue building the frame...

Well then it should be no problem, I'm in for sure !

That Australia Cannonball would be interesting, but I'm not crazy about the Right Hand Drive thing. I'm afraid it will lower the number of participants if all cars must be RHD. Aussie-race is a good idea, but at least I'm out if car has to be RHD and I'm afraid I'm not the only one who feels this way...

Me either. Though I created my account in 2008 so it's not as old as yours.

That's a good looking paint scheme. Excellent shades of blue, red and white, they fit very well together on the body and chassis. I can't wait to see more updates, keep them coming.

Thanks so much! I was a bit afraid of how well I would do when I got back to the bench. During the time when I wasn't building models, I was building and playing with my 1:1 toys, but as all of the parts there are 25 times bigger, you can't do such a detail work as with these scale models. But luckily it looks like I still can, even though I'm a bit slow on this as there is still lots of other stuff to do (Just yesterday I repainted my daily driver, Chevy S10). But hopefully I can continue the frame work very soon....

Good looking '37 Chevy! This is one of those kits I'd like to build as well, and seeing your excellent build in here makes me want to build this one even more. Excellent work overall. Nice paint job and great color choice. That metal flake finish fits perfectly to this one. I like that wheel and tire combo as well. Very fine work overall.

Thanks guys, then I have no worries when opening a new account. I might upgrade that account some time in the future (Maybe when the one I just opened is full), but not now. Thanks.