Darin Bastedo

I've opened a New York style all you can eat resturant. 20 minutes after you start eating my cousin Vito comes up to your table and say's "Yo, That's all you can eat."

My Brother's ex-wife is so fat.... ...her dress size is a 1-800 number. ...She affects the tide. ... when she walks into a bar the band skips. ... she went to the beach and was upset that she forgot her surf barge. ... she was lying on the beach and greenpeace tried to push her back in the water. ...she went out to try on cars. ...I had to take two busses and a train to get on her good side. ...you have to know algebra to detemine her dress size. ...when she goes on a cruise she gets the group rate. ...when she went into labor her gravy broke. ...she's bi-polar and there is ice on both of them. ...I told her i liked her shoes, and she said "you do? what do they look like?" ...you can use a seismograph to read her lips.

Q. What does Buffet stand for? A. Bunch of Ugly Fat Freaks Eating Together

That article also claims that My 2008 Jeep Patriot is based on the same platform. I just had suspension work done on it, while there is a lot of interchangable parts with the avenger / Sebring there is none with the lancer. it shares no suspension, engine or drive train parts. that would lead me to believe that while the engineers may have started with that platform, the end product is very different. Thus your thesis that if you love the lancer, you should love the sebring hold no water. Even if the basic platform was the same, the different engine and different suspension tuning can make a huge difference in the impression one has of the car. Just drive an Audi TT, and a Volkswagen New Beetle and you will see the differences two cars built on the same platform can have.

I already have that issue of the rodders journal, you wouldn't happen to have the May 1967 Rod & Custom That featured the original car would you?

During a conversation with Steve Zimmerman I realised I never told anywone how I converted the Revell 57 Belair to a Nomad. I actually have several tri-5 chevy project that are in the works as part of my Frugal kitbashing efforts. I call it frugal kitbashing because from 7 kits i will make 6 models. these projects include... 1. The Sam Hollingsworth 57 Nomad 2. 1957 Chevy Convertible 3. 1956 Convertible Custom 4. 1955 Nomad 5. 1955 2 door post coupe 6. 1957 black widow street machine The Revell 55,56,and 57 chevies all share the same basic tooling, as did the real cars, making swaping out features from one kit to the other very easy , where the AMT 57 chevy and the amt 55 chevy were completey different tools and required a lot of adjustment to make the roof of one fit the other for intance. Back when kits were $5 we didn't think twice about just hacking away what we didn't need from one body and using the rest of the kit for parts, but now in the age of 20-25 dollar kits we need to be more frugal. I marked each body with the same cut lines and cut them as if I was cutting out a door, removing as little material as nessesary to release the part. Note that I added the tab from the bottom of the trunk area from the 57 belair kit, to the tailgate area of the nomad part. This allows the Nomad Body to sit correctly on the 57 Chevy frame and ensures that all your parts will line up. The upper body line on the nomad is flat on the top as opposed to the dip in the other bodies. You will vae to swap this over too. After carefully cutting each area free they will simply glue right back in the place on the other body. Not only does this allow you to do existing versions but you can do ones that were never made, like a Black widow Nomad with base trim and interior, a black widow convertible, etc. Use your imagination and most of all have fun.

I have a close friend at Chrysler who has been on team viper from the very beginning, and is working on the current car. He has told me more than this, and even showed me a photo of the initial concept, but what I'm sharing here he said is ok to let people know... 1. The earlier cancelation of the Viper was due to the fact that the old replacement was deveoped jointly with AMG/Mercedes as a sister to the AMG SLS mercedes. Having lost access to that platform Team viper had no replacement in the works. The 2012 SLS Roadster will be realesed instead. 2. The new 2012 Viper will not be based on the Alfa 8C Competizione chassis, though it will borrow hard ware from it, and other cars in the family. The viper will have it's own unique platform. This is what caused the on again off again involving the budget. There is a strong likely hood this car will at best break even, but in terms of customer image and the halo effect, the project will pay for itself. 3. No body will complain that the 2012 viper will look "like a corvette" anymore. where the ist gen car was rough and rugged, and the gen 2 was not aggressive enough, the gen 3 viper is bringing back the voluptiousness of the gen 1 car in a tighter lighter package, and much more flowing lines. The comparison to the Alfa 8C Competizione is spot on in general as far as the basic shape and balance of proportion, but is very different in size and detail. no-one will ever confuse one for the other. 4 The powerplant will likely remain a V-10 but may be smaller in displacement, but make up for it with variable valve timing and direct ingection. They also haven't ruled out a future Diesel variant down the road. 5. There will still be both coupe and roadster variants but ecpect the roaster to look more like a Cobra than it ever has before due to the rear fender shapes. 6. expect pricing to remain very close to the current car. 7. There with be a Hyper-powereful model also that is aiming to make the Corvette ZRI look slow. expect that in 2014. Well that is all folks.

I have the rodders journal with it in it, and I also have the Rod & Custom that featured it. I have a copy of the May 1967 Rod and custom that has the original in it. I was just hoping that some of the old timers here might have some shots of their own.

Hey Custom Car guys...any body here have good engine comaprtment pics of the original car (not the clone.) I'. looking to see what was chromes and what was painted.

I think the reason for the tarp is that if you look closely you can see clues that this camaro is the new Z28 model that hasn't debuted yet.

That's ok, to me it's close enough to the bax art for my liking. This isn't exactly going to be a contest winner, just something I've wanted to do since I was a kid.

My 1957 Nomad build got me thinking of this one too. The box art on the AMT Old Pro Nova was very inspiring... As cool as the drag car was I always wanted to build the sock version... Unfortunately the wire axle and the muli-piece front end made the end result not quite as pretty as the picture. Again it's Revell to the rescue! The correct wheels for this build can be found in the El Camino bass busters set Do you guys have any builds you want to do, that were either too difficult when you were young, or a newer kit has made it easier?

According to US Copyright law all photos automaticly become copyrighted at the moment it is created. The photographer may if he choses to allow that photo to be used by whomever he choses, so technically all photos are copyrighted. Where the law gets murky is not what costitutes infringement, but what constitutes actionable infringement. Someone could publish your photo all they want, but if you can't prove harm, there is little or nothing you can do about it. Example 1. A professional artist takes pictures of an item of interest with the intent and ability to sell that to a newspaper or magazine. But before he can sell it someone steals his work and publishes it for free. The value of his work drops to zero, and the infringement becomes actionable. Example 2. You're at you family reunion and you accidently take a picture of your left shoe while trying to carry your plate of egg salad sandwiches and your camara at the same time. The guy at the one hour photo makes an extra copy for himself because he thinks its funny, and gives it to his girl friend (who now thinks he's kinda wierd). It's still infringement, but because the picture essentially had no value, it's not actionable. Of course this all becomes a moot point once you post you pictures on the internet, because it is so easy to download any photo you want with out the artists consent or knowledge. I could if I was so inclined could download a photo, claim it was mine, sell the copyright to someone else under an assumed name, who could the turn around and sell copies of it for a profit. If you drag him into court, he can show due diligence by having attemted to secure proper copyright, and leave you with no recourse. To make things worse there is no way to protect your photos online except to make them all but unrecognizable. You could water mark them but anyone with a fair knowledge of photo shop can undo that. If you right click protect it, there are programs that can disable that. If you imbed it in a flash display you can use a screen capture program to get them. Bottom line, if you put artwork or photos on the internet, you should just assume somebody will steal them.

When I was a young lad with my freshly earned chore money burning a hole in my pocket I wandered into Carl's Drug store in Liverpool NY and spied a most beautiful sight. A Revell 1957 chevy kit, with what had to be the most stunning 57 Chavy Nomad ever built on the box art. The car, Sam Hollingsworth's Nomad, Caught my eye. In my young and foolish mind, I pictured a miniature of that car on the self in my bedroom. The kit had it all, opening doors, hood, tailgate, steerable wheels, fuel injected engine, Man! This car was going to be a masterpiece! As anyone who has built this kit knows, I was as likely to build a masterpiece from that kit as I was to have Mr. Hollingsworth drive up to my door, and toss me the keys and the title to the real car. Decades have passed since that initial dissappointment But the desire to build a replica of that car has never faded. Unfortunately there has never been a good 1/25 scale model of a 57 Chevy Nomad. The Monogram kit was as ill proportioned as the Revell kit was difficult to build, and AMT never saw fit to kit one. Fast Foward to 2010 and lo and behold Revell, the source of my initial disappointment released a 1957 belair kit. When Revell first annouced that they were releasing a 57 chevy many cried out "Who needs another 57 Chevy" Why couldn't we get a kit of a 1976 Chevoldsmobuick, something we don't already have. But for me I saw this as a great opportunity. I knew it would be based off the same tooling as their 55 and 56 chevy kits, which includes a 1956 Nomad. I concluded that it would be a simple cut and swap to create a 1957 Nomad using the roof and other parts from the 56 and adapting them to the 57. Pictured below is some shots of a clone of the original as the originl was lost in a towing accident. Below is the start of my replica... I fond a really nice set of Riviera wires in the the stragest of places, In the Corvette America 4 door Corvette kit from monogram. the hardest part will be the paint job but with careful masking I think I can do it.

Wow! that is sweet I didn't even know about that one. I might have to have Kenny send me another one thanks for the prayers we need them.

I should also thank Marc Nellis, since design wise i stole his "look"... Thanks for the inspiration Marc!

the funny thing is in recent history I haven't finished a model in less than three weeks, so I was worried that I wouldn't have it done by Thursday Anyone who knows me knows I build slow, sometimes to the point where you only see progress with high speed photography. I have to say about Kenny at Bandit resins, is his stuff goes together really nice, and his stuff is top notch. if this didn't build so easy, it wouldn't have been done as soon.

This is the fastest I've built a model since I was a teenager, and I had a lot of fun! This is a Build up of the Bandit Resins Ford Falcon Sport Coupe. I built it as birthday present for my fiance. She alway's loved the Ford falcon her Dad used to drive. I painted it in her favorate paint scheme. It sits on Pegasus 19 & 23 inch Tork-Thrusts, paint to resemble natuaral finish spokes. I wanted it to have a nice rake to it, so I redrilled the axle holes in the chassis. The chassis and all the trim came in the AMT 1961 Ranchero kit. The chassis needed to be trimmed in the back, but no other changes were needed to build the trans kit. You will notice a teddy bear in the back seat. that is because everytime she has to go in for surgery or start a new round of chemo I always give her a new bear. She unfortunately has aquite a collection now. the back ground of the display replicates the alley in back of the drug store her mother worked in for twenty years. The interior has photo-reduced guages in a photo-etched panel, the steering wheel is a Detail Master piece while the steering column is from The Model Car Garage. I used one of the column drops to make a cup holder, and put her favorite drink, A Cranberry Limade from sonic, in it. Note it even has the correct red straw. She loves to listen to music while driving so I gave her some CDs to listen to. She also needs some shades to drive with on sunny days. The front tag's meaning is obvious... The rear Tag is a tribute to her late father Melvin Nelson. Thanks for looking, This is the most fun I had building in a long time. Never once did i worry about what the judges would see, or worry abot getting the detailing just right, I simply built it for fun, and for the love of a good woman.

The Falcon is finished! this may be a new record for me! I haven't done a complete model in a weekend since I was a teenager. Look for the finished car in the "Under Glass" section

I worked on the Display for the Falcon this morning. Since her father owned the Falcon I wanted something to tie in her Mom too so the back drop for her display case is the alley in back of the drug store that her mom worked in while she was growing up. I also took some out door shots to show better the true color of the paint. It still doesn't do the color justice but it is closer.

Ok I'm really moving along on this. I wanted to nail down the stance. My sweetie is also addicted to Cranberry Limeades from Sonic Drive-in so I made one to go in the car. I scaned in a cup, reduced it and wrapped the label around some plastic rod. I even replicated the correct red straw.

My Fiancee is in Maryland getting treated for cancer and her birthday is next week. She always liked her dad's old Ford falcon, and everytime we are out and she see's one she always points them out. So for her birtday I've decided to do one up for her. (don't worry she never visits this site) I commited what is almost a mortal sin in modeling here. They say you should never use an untried product, or technique on an important project, but this is my first nail Polish paint job, and my first time using duplicolor primer (can't find my tried and true Plasticote primer anymore) plus I'm using the nail polish over a primer I didn't know would work with it. Thankfully it worked just fine. The bottom color is teal pearl, and the top is metalflake clear over white primer.

You make a point that we don't pick apart someones finished model like this, but then agains we aren't being being asked to buy the finished model either. When i mastered the body below it was torn to shreds by the "know-it alls", but in the end it sold very well for the caster. In the end the sales will tell you how good the model is.

I cam e across a sketch of this in an old Rodders journal and just had to throw one together. It uses the cowl, and dors from the Revell 32 Ford 3 window coupe, and a sectioned rear clip, and roof from the Revell Thom Taylor 1934 Ford Cabriolet. What do you guys think?

The wheels in the parts pack are the exact same wheels as the ones on this cobra. they should work nicely.