Nitro Neil

I built 6 between during last winter's buildling season. I don't count the building year from January to December since I only build in the winter. My build season usually starts in late September and ends just around the time of the NNL East, which is in April, so it lasts about 8 months altogether. I really only get to build about an hour a day on average. There are usually some projects that take more than a month and then I throw some out-of-the-box quickies in there.

Thanks for making my wife laugh Terry. Although she would have tried to save it by taking it outside....

Wow, this is wicked pissa!

Wicked Pissa!

Wicked Pissa!

OK, here's one where the parts look good, but they look ugly as a unit. Looks like a Frankenstein's monster to me.

NIce, I have one of these bodies that I am making into a gasser. Good to see what this looks like build up.

Me likey. Love them longroofs.

Bill, I have some stiff wire made of old metal axles in the tires sticking into angled holes in the base. I can remove the wires and display it sitting on the ground too. The springs are pinned to the chassis and the axle is pinned to the springs to give it some strength. The tires are filled with A+B epoxy putty.

Thanks Bernard, ditto to you. I always click on the threads when you have a new build, I know I'm in for a nice surprise.

Thanks Tom and Niko, Tom - Actually I consider this more of a "representation" than a "replica". I find that building "replicas" takes some of the fun out model building for me. I like to keep a little artistic freedom in my model buildling. I am more of a "representor" than a "replicator" If you look up the word "model" in the dictionary, it says that it is a "representation" of something in miniature, while Wikipedia say that "a replica is an exact reproduction". Niko - I forgot I posted those. Thanks.

Tim, So as to not hijack the thread, I posted pics of the Determination car here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=82104&st=0&p=1056868 And I have more photos here at my Fotki site: http://public.fotki.com/NitroNeil/model-cars-1/harts-model-a/ Thanks for the interest.

By a special request from Tim Boyd (how can I say no to him?), here are some pix of a model I built back in 2010 of the Determination Model A that ran in the Detroit area back in the early 1970's. I based the model on a photo I found on the internet. I used the body from old Monogram 1930 Ford Model A, and chopped the top a scale 4 inches. The chassis was scratchbuilt using Evergreen plastic and parts from the AMT 1933 Willys kit. The engine the Chevy Mark IV Large Block, aka "Big Block" from the AMT 1967 Chevrolet Impala kit with resin injector intake and scratchbuilt headers. The finished model isn't perfect. It doesn't have a radiator, so it's technically not a legal gasser like the car in the picture, and I never put the shocks or trailing arms on the rear suspension. I filled the rear tires with A+B plumbers putty and drilled holes into them and the base at an angle so I can display it with the wheels up.

Copyright law recognizes the concept of "fair-use" If you are making a copy of something for your own use, or for educational purposes, the law sees that as a "fair use". If you are making any money or if the copies undermine the copyright owners ability to make money then you are breaking the law. You also have to be the rightful owner of the original to make a copy of it. You can't legally make a copy of someone else's original. If the owner, or their heirs, are no longer producing the item, then you can safely make a copy for yourself, and maybe a few for your friends as gifts. How all that sits with your conscience is up to you.

Either way, I enjoy building models of these cars.

Thanks Bill, that picture spoke to me the first time I saw it.

Love that A-Bone

Yeah, I like that it doesn't look like a squashed jelly bean. Kinda cool.

That's one of the reasons why I moved out of Massachusetts and to the woods of New Hampshire 17 years ago. It's not East Dakota, but it's on the way.

Ah, that explains Greg's interest in the Green Hornet kit on eBay...

Cool, do I get to keep the engine?

A 4-71 blower on an Olds engine. Did I get it right?

Wicked Pissa!

There is an episode of Leave It To Beaver where Wally buys an old car that doesn't run for cheap money. Beaver asks him how he is going to fix it and get it running when he doesn't know anything about cars. Wally's answer is that he is 16 years old, and once you turn 16 you automatically know everything there is to know about cars. There are a lot of Wallys out there.

How many model kits do you own? 236 How many builds did you complete last year? 6 Calculate build percentage: = 2.5% But I buy about 4-6 models for every one that I finish, so that percentage is heading down fast.