Aaronw

There is a photo in a book I have and in the background there is a police car with quad headlights. It looks to me like a '58 or 59 Impala, but the photo caption says the photo was taken in '54. Were there any '54 or earlier domestic sedans with quad headlights? I think the caption is wrong and I now have a build for the new Revell '58 kit.

Most pressure cast resin is put under 20-40psi, the most I've heard anyone use is 100psi, compare that to styrene injection molding where I understand its more like 2000 psi (or was it 20,000 psi, can't remeber how many zeroes). Also consider that the injection molds are designed by an engineer while most resin molds are designed by some guy who has learned by trial and error where to put pour holes and air vents. I think most of the short shots you see when you do see them in styrene kits is caused by not enough styrene being injected for some reason rather than an air bubble. Between the pressure and better design tolerances air bubbles don't really have a chance with injection molds. Even without using pressure there are tricks you can use to eliminate most bubbles, pour the resin so it becomes a very thin stream, this pops most of the bubbles in the resin. Also designing the mold so any air has a way out helps a lot. Professional casters should not have issues with air bubbles and from what I've seen they don't. Its the small on the side casters that usually are the ones with lots of holes but as Harrypri said many times your only option is Joe Pinhole, and hey thats why Bondo exists.

1-1 full size as opposed to a 1-25, 1-32 etc model. He's asking if you have any interesting real cars.

I'm not sure exactly what shade of yellow you want but Krylon has several varieties from school bus or Cat yellow to some very bright in your face yellow yellows. I find Krylon covers well, and a good white or grey primer coat underneath really helps bring out the yellow. I've had good luck with Duplicolor too. I used their school bus yellow over a grey primer on black plastic, two coats and it came out great.

Thanks for the survey, were the questions provided by MRC or selected by you? I agree with you, with as little attention as the truck market gets, the medium duty trucks really get overlooked. Like you said Ford C and Louisville. No IH S1600-1700, FL60-70, GM Top Kick, Ford F600-800 etc. The trucks you see almost everyday. What I would love to see and think it could have broad enough appeal to sell pretty well for a truck would be a modern class 6 or 7 single axle eliptical tanker, (FL, IH, GM, Sterling?). A 3 or more in 1 kit, fire department water tender, construction site water truck, and a small commercial bulk liquids truck (perhaps a heating oil delivery truck). The truck would not have to change much between these three. Just some decal options and some optional parts for each. Probably emergency lighting, spray bars, dump valve and draft hose hose for the tender, some of the emergency lighting, and spray bars for the water truck, and DOT placards for the fuel truck.

This may not be the place for it but I was wondering how you seperate the main image from the background in Photoshop. One of the things I like to build is US Forest Service vehicles and I'd love to be able to place some of my models in front of 1-1 Forest Service lookout towers and fire stations. Thanks If you go by Mitchum on some other forums I've seen some of your other work, very nice. You have a fun way of displaying your work and thats why I think most of us do this in the first place.

Good to know, I was thinking it was more of a general commercial vehicle section. Since I had to go look it up myself... Light duty Class 1 - 6000 lbs or less (up to 1/2 ton truck) Class 2 - 6001 to 10,000lbs (3/4 ton truck) Medium Duty Class 3 - 10,001 to 14,000lbs (1 ton & dually trucks) Class 4 - 14,001 to 16,000lbs (Ford F450, Chevy 3500HD) Class 5 - 16,001 to 19,500lbs (Ford F550, Chevy 4500) Class 6 - 19,500 to 26,000lbs (Ford F650, Chevy 5500) Heavy Duty Class 7 - 26,001 to 33,000lbs Class 8 33,001lbs +

I'm pretty sure Resin Realm has a Monterey, don't recall the year or top style. http://www.resinrealm.net/

It seems like most of the trucks posted are big rigs but I don't think pickups are excluded. I'd post one here unless someone says differently.

Thanks, I'd appreciate that. I'll probably be retired before I ever get it started but it would be nice to have the option. I remember when I was a kid I though the Gilligs were way cooler, but now I know they were just plastic boxes, those fishbowls were a real bus.

The custom wheels are pretty big, not my style at all, but does include a set of stock size wheels you can use with a stock hub cab or a custom wheel cover. With the excpetion of the motor it can be built as a completly stock truck. If you look at the chrome tree posted, you can see the large custom wheels, then wheel covers are kind of in the center and the small hub caps are on the far side from the wheels.

I've been building one of the earlier releases of the kit and haven't had any fit issues. The way the cab goes onto the body is a little weird but it fits ok. The front fenders and the floor of the pickup bed are all one unit, with a seperate cab. Most pickups I've built the front fenders are connected to the cab.

It's a government car, US Forest Service. I was leaning towards wood but it looks so dark compared to most woodys I've seen photos of that I'm not sure. Did the stain of the wood vary based on the color of the car or are many of the restorations lighter than original?

I was thinking about building this, but I am having a really hard time deciding if it is wood sides with dark green fenders, or painted dark green over all. Just looking for opinions to help me decide which way I should go. Thanks

Are you sure its eating the decal? Sometimes that stuff makes the decals get all bubbly but then hey settle down nice and smooth. Scared the heck out of me the first time I had that happen, but it was fine in the end.

Not quite on your level but if it makes you feel better I just painted a whole sheet of decals chrome, I thought I had the clear decal film, but I was wrong. Must be a bad week for building

I just got a few of these as well, I just went and checked, no stock engine option, at least not the stock heads or intake anyway. Some of the other parts could be floating around, I just took a quick peak so I could have missed the small stuff. I was hoping they would put the stock parts back, but at least they included stock wheels, the instructions only show a large wheel cover and the custom wheels but the hub caps are in there. At least the stock engine parts are pretty simple so the resin aftermarket should be able to take care of that. Getting this and the '41 Chevy in the same year makes '07 a good year for me ( I ordered mine 12/29/07, I guess they really meant it when they said Late December).

All I could find was a 1956 M100 pickup and a 1962 M750 rollback. Not the cabover like I'm looking for but still handy for the badging. Thanks.

I don't know motors that well, I didn't know the V200 V8 was the same as the 3208. I just know from looking though sales info online I found reference to the 3208 being an option in '82, perhaps that was when it started to be listed as a Cat instead of a Ford motor?

Well ok, but its going to be short. You want to see them again? Thats right I finished NOTHING however I will at least have a good head start on 2008. Tim those are some great builds and it looks like your average monthy output is equal to or better than my annual output in a good year. With the attention to detail and customization of your builds I would never have guessed you can crank out so many models. Do you sleep at all?

I really like the old Ford C so I've been doing some work digging up all the info I can. The cab was made by Budd, I knew Mack used the same cab for a few years but have since discovered it was sold as a Mercury in Canada and FWD used the cab too.

These busses are great, I love that GMC, I grew up riding those around when I was a kid. Any chance you kept your notes for the basic dimensions and such? I'd love to do one as an AC Transit bus from the 70's.

I've researched a few of the trucks, this is based on looking at the 1-1 and comparing to the kit. I don't know when the kits actually came out. The Ford C was built from 1957-90 with minor modifications. The kit represents a truck built between 1968-83. The Ford Louisville came out in 1970 and didn't have any major changes until 1996. The Cat 3208 diesel became an option in 1982 but I think the kit came out earler than this so I'm guessing AMT updated the kit at some point after '82. The Louisville got square headlights in '88 so the kit is before that. The Ford Aeromax falls between 88-96.

Thank you, I didn't see you post these. This is exactly what I was looking for, I now have examples of the 5 variations of Fords over the years, the Mercury, the Mack and even FWD which I didn't know about. So unless someone finds something else unusual I think that covers the options for the Budd cab.

Ah, but we could boycott the 1-1 product. Dear corporate lacky, I'm sorry but I will no longer be able to consider your product because I only buy products that I can find in a model kit. If you would like to have a shot at my money I would suggest you contact Revell, AMT, Lindberg, Tamiya, Hasegawa and Aoshima and request that they consider using your products image in their model kits. Thank you Mr Glue Sniffer