Aaronw

I like to eat Doritos or Cheetoes immediately before handling models.

Its a bit of a mess, but I don't think I'll get any lectures from you people. My stash and work space are on the upstairs landing, kind of a 1/2 room, 1/2 hallway. The cupboards and drawers have model related stuff, there are about 15 more kits stashed against the wall under my work table.

This came up awhile back, I don't believe it matters how you pay. As I recall it was mentioned that you can accept puca shells if that is the currency you desire. Just taking a quick look I see some of the items accept paypal, or money order.

Very nice, I saw a similar 1-1 cabover wrecker in Lone Pine, CA a couple years back and thought it would be a neat project. There was also a 50's Ford N cab over wrecker still in service at another repair shop nearby.

For those of you wondering how to make weapons, go get yourself some plastic & brass tubing in various sizes and shapes, also some ball bearings, BBs, pellets, fishing weights etc. If you spend a little time with the stuff the weapons will develop. I built a 4x4 armed & armored Porsche 911 about 20 years ago using this stuff for the weapons with no idea what I was doing. It had a couple of rockets in the bumper, a gatling on the hood and a mine dropper in the back. Wish I knew what happened to that build, it was fun and I'd like to have it. Machine guns / light cannon barrels can easily be made by telescoping tubing of various sizes into each other. Several pieces of small diameter brass tubing spaced around a piece of solid tubing, with the end encased in a larger diameter piece of tubing makes a quick good looking gatling gun. Rocket launchers are easily done using tubing and a BB, ball bearing or pellet. Just glue one of these inside the appropriate sized tubing and you have a round or pointy nosed rocket slightly visible inside the launch tube. Put several together to make a multi tube rocket launcher. Various shapes and sizes of tubing make good dropped weapon launchers, rectangular tubing makes a nice chute to a mine layer, several pieces of small round tubing can be used for the nozzles of an oil sprayer, maybe smash the tips a bit for more of a spray effect. Larger round tubing makes a good exhaust port for a smoke screen. Solid round tubing and some sheet styrene can be used to make grenade dischargers similar to the smoke grenade launchers on a tank. Of course none of this even addresses poking, slashing or bashing weapons, and the various nasty bits these cars seem to sprout. If you get some of the items I mentioned and just fiddle with it, you will find weapons will just start to come to you.

If that is from KFS I've heard from other that ordering is very easy. STS used to carry KFS stuff but the exchange rates are not very good right now so they stopped. I have not ordered directly from KFS but the quality of their stuff is very good. They have a set of photo etch chain binders that not only look great, they actually work as tiny chain binders.

Spalding Trading and Shipping has them in resin for semi trucks, you might try KFS too. http://www.stsmodeltrucks.com/ http://www.kitformservices.com/

I had mine removed last year, 2 in Jan, 2 in Oct. While it was not fun, it actually was nowhere near as bad as I expected. I took the vicodin the day they came out but only used tylenol after that for 2 or 3 days. I'm really glad I had it done, only wish I had done it years before.

The AMT '84 GMC / Fallguy pickup would probably be your best option, fairly easy to find and it includes a ton of 4x4 bits too, off road lights, grill guard, CB radio etc.

I mostly built one (still in my not quite finished pile), not a bad kit. It's on the simple side but still easy to modify. I did mine with a pickup style cab. I was working on this several years ago, but it has a decent size V-8 in it already so I think you could get a Chevy smallblock or similar in there if you wanted to.

Thanks, looks interesting. Did you edit your original post to include the scale or was I really that blind last night?

What scale is the flathead? I've never really been into building a model of a motor but that might be kind of fun.

I've had an idea for a zombie hunters truck floating around my head for a couple months. Things like that tend to happen when I watch Night of the Living Dead (both versions), Dawn of the Dead (both versions), Land of the dead, 28 days later, 28 months later, Shawn of the dead and then read the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z within a short period.

I've used Magic Sculp, its fairly easy to use and is hard when it sets up. http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=110&

I can help you with the decals, send me a PM with your address. It's not too hard to do a license plate, there is a site that has a tool for doing license plates from aroud the world but I don't seem to have the link anymore. Your other option would be to use the old style license plate. I'm not sure how NY works but in California you can transfer personal plates from one vehicle to another. With a long time personal plate you can end up with older style plates on a new car.

I like a stick too, but its getting harder to find cars with a manual transmission. A nice compromise I found was the autostick in Subarus. No clutch but you can tell it when to shift or set it in auto mode and let it do all the work. Not sure how wide this option is besides exotic cars and Subarus. Of course it still has the down side that you can't roll start it if you have a dead battery.

Have a look around AITM, he doesn't have any of the trucks suggested as possibilities but he does have a Mack L which would be the right time period and looks similar. He also has a Diamond T 950 but I'm not sure of the year, looks to be from the 60's so probably too new. http://www.aitruckmodels.com/

If well done I think you would get enough buisness to keep you busy. You might have a look at this website to get more details http://www.professionalcar.org/

If they are actually correct to a specific pro-car builder of the time, instead of a generic ambulance or hearse then these could be really popular. I'd like to see a 4 door version of the Chevy too.

I know this Lindberg release will spare my Revell Beall tanker from the saw. I'll use that for a big tanker and get a couple of these for truck mounted tanks. Yay Lindberg.

Lots of pics of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in here. Interior and exterior pics. http://www.geocities.com/cnf_e32/index.htm

Well it was actually 5 kits but with the same theme. Someday I'd like to get these together with an appropriate photoshopped background.

Well ebay is trying to get away from what made the site a success. They want to get away from the garage sale atmosphere and become just another online shop, not a wise choice in my opinion.

Never used a sniper program and never intentionally sniped anything (I have found at item at the end of the auction a few times and won but thats not really the same, just luck). I agree with those who just bid what they will pay. What difference does it make if I bid $100 with 6 days left and win at $95 or keep upping my bid to win by paying $95 at the last minute. I pay $95 either way and if someone pays more than $100 they win either way as well.

The good news is yes there is one, the bad news is I don't remember who makes it.