oldcarfan

I went back to the hobby shop today to get a can of the pearl blue and got distracted by the stack of Aoshima kits and got some of those and forgot the paint.

Nice color, is it on grey primer?

In the US around 2007 or so we got a faux transporter. It was a rebadged Chrysler minivan sold as the Volkswagen Routan. I worked for a non-profit organization at the time and the boss was an old hippie so he wanted one for us to use. The local VW dealer gave us a good deal on a new one. It rode nice and seemed quieter than my neighbor's Dodge version. I'd almost like to find one, but I imagine finding body parts for it would be a bear as not a lot were sold. VW hoped to sell 45,000 a year and only sold 57,000 during the whole run.

I pretty much build only curbside anymore. To me life is too short and I have to many kits to get to. If a kit includes an engine I'll probably paint it so it doesn't look out of place, but I usually don't open the hood anymore once the build is finished.

I just saw one of these in a hobby shop this morning. I may have to go back for it!

I had a 90s Revell kit with a similar problem and wiped the tires with acetone and then put BMF on the wheel rims. On the other hand, I bought an unopened ESCI whose tires had dried and cracked. On that one I chose the least damaged one, puttied the cracks, made a mold and got enough copies to finish the kit.

I guess since Twisted Metal is current, they hope to catch a lot of the young collectors along with regular model builders. I watched the first couple of episodes of the show since I like Anthony Mackie. The show is pretty good and the cast is great, but I just couldn't get that into it. I will buy a kit to see if it can be done as stock.

On the way to Salt Lake City from central Texas. Today we went from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction Colorado, over the Rocky Mountains which my wife hated. She's not a fan of heights. What I saw today was that about every other car on the road was a Toyota 4Runner usually with a roof top box and tons of travel stickers.

Obviously I know little about the process, but would it be possible to scan a warped promo, correct it digitally and print it out?

I'm not a big fan of a lot of Ferraris, but I've loved the Daytona since reading my dad's old Car & Driver with the Cannonball winner in it, and then later seeing Gumball on cable. What's behind you isn't important!

Between Revell/Monogram and AMT it's the kits not the maker. Their releases over the decades vary wildly in quality. Hoewever for sentimental reasons, I prefer MPC's 70s and 80s annual kits and Monogram's 80s new issues. I pretty much have all the kits of either brand I'll ever need, so now if I buy new kits it tends to be a Japanese kit or some oddity that catches my eye.

I've been wondering the same thing. I'm in the process of building a control box to slow down a single speed Dremel, but if there's anything better?

I think I'm sensing a trend!

That's going to be so cool!

I'd buy the 65 Fairlane for sure and the 69 Pontiac for the canoe alone!

Made a trip to Fort Worth today so of course I had to stop at a Wild Bill's Hobbytown. They always have some surprising old kits. I went for some Tamiya clear, but they were out so I couldn't leave without buying something that would be rude. Here's the three things I couldn't pass up. A Tamiya Honda Fit Cabriolet, a Nissan coupe, and a Ford Courier. The truck isn't rare, and is the stepside, but I really only need the cab and frame. I have one of the Fit already but it was missing some parts so it never got built.

Saw a Ford truck in my favorite color today at WalMart. It was unmarked but must have been a fleet truck. I've always wanted a truck like this!

Thanks, I always like the odd stuff!

This is a simple tip, but some might find it helpful. Recently I lost all three of my good X-Acto knives. Knowing they would show up eventually I grabbed a couple of cheap Hobby Lobby knives. Sure enough the good knives showed up within a week. That was long enough to realize I don't like these cheap knives. Every time I went to use one the blade fell out. The collet backs off and let the blade slip out no matter how much I tightened it. In a moment of clarity I decided to try some plumber's Teflon tape. A couple twists around the threads and it seems to hold. While I had them apart, I decided to make them easier to see on the work bench. Some white primer and some left over Tamiya fluorescent yellow and they're done.

I'll be tagging along on my wife's business trip so this week has been mostly getting the house ready for the sitter. I've had some time in the afternoons, but my attention span seems to be on vacation so this is more a what did I accomplish this week thing. On Monday I made a little progress on the Mercedes Rally Van but then I saw a rare Ford Courier U-Haul truck online and got sidetracked. I poked through the stash and couldn't find my Courier but I found another Datsun 620. I cut up a plastic sign for the box and got it assembled and primed in just a few hours. Here's the result so far. Oh and I spent some time making a decal sheet on Word for it yesterday. I put them on today and I'll clear coat it when I get back. Here's hoping I come back from the trip with a clearer head and maybe a couple side trips to hobby shops.

You're right about that! At the time I was prejudiced against Lindberg because I had been given a bunch of their old kits to play around with. My uncle had bought them back in the day and then lost interest when he discovered girls. Anyway, some of those kits were almost at Palmer levels of crummy to a beginner with few skills.

That's too bad, I had an Eclipse that was good, but maybe it was the Revell kit. I wonder what AMT's thought process was for these kits. You'd think it wouldn't much harder to get the proportions and details right. At the time I was building Revell's Civics, Acura's and Ford Focuses so I never paid much attention to the AMT offerings.

I must have missed that, thanks.

Revell seems to have the molds for this kit, except maybe the Odyssey. Here's hoping find that part too and drag it out for a reissue.

Nice design work!