62rebel

I can't help that they were open before their "grand opening". the store seemed like four acres of Chinese flea market when I went there. so big it had a "season" in each corner; Christmas over here, Easter next door, Fourth of July catty-corner and Thanksgiving crowded up on Halloween. the models were easy to find; all the way at the back and on one aisle.

you better clean that lot up before code enforcement cites you.

I saw this at the local HobbyTown today; took a minute to realize it was in 1/35 scale. it must be fabulously detailed, because they wanted 49 bucks for it. MAYBE if it was bi-scale, but not in Armor scale. disappointing, too, because i'd like a stock 500 Mickey Mouse for my foreign row.

once. just before they had their local "grand opening". never been back.

I can tell it's a hotrod because the nameplate is right there on the dash. source kit? a box of busted up snaptites would be a good starting point. cut and glue, cut and glue.

hippie? hmm. Willie is many things, maybe a hippie to some, but an artist foremost.

whenever you're tempted to say " I did the best I could", stop, and ask yourself if you're telling the truth. whenever I think i'm done with something I wonder what my mother would think of it. then I get back to work! (when I was studying Art, she was my honest critic. if SHE said "stop; that's good the way it is", then I STOPPED.)

what? there's a line between building a scale model and creating one from scratch and even more so, there's a point past which it no longer fits "model" criteria and becomes "work of art".... now; i'm not defending this one item at all. I'm just saying that, in such a large scale (Wingrove works in 1/15th, I think), and making it even resemble at ALL the car intended, is a major amount of work. who can set the price on a one-off scratchbuilt creation except the seller and the buyer? there's a lot of motion picture models out there that are little more than "folk art" from the thirties and forties that don't look as convincing. Wingrove and his wife are professional engineers, as well.... maybe there's a little something TO that in comparison.

having trouble assembling a kit? buy it already put together.

I would say that the FIRST American sports car is a tie between a Mercer and a Stutz. then again, the '53 Corvette was probably the best Chevrolet could manage with a twenty year old engine design, coupled to a power-robbing automatic transmission.

yep; there weren't any "extra" parts when we built them at that age. some of the work done looks pretty imaginative on that one.

whatever YOU'RE driving. my car looks fine.

the mini-suv you have there looks like a Matra Rancho. reasonably successful "soft-roader" in the UK and Europe.

Harry, your work always grabs my interest, and your subjects are always outstanding. I may put styrene aside for wood, myself.

these responses are just several more reasons that i firmly hope she whips the socks off the rest of them come race day. i just can't believe some of the irrational stuff people come up with.

anybody building a Model A Ford should be able to find millions of reference photos in Google Images alone... there's also the Model A Club that has a plethora of detailed photos and reference guides for colors, how the color combinations were put together, and what the interior looked like. all of Revell's Model A Fords shared basic engineering and the wheels/tires from any one kit will work on another. AMT's '29 roadster and MPC's '29 Pickup/woodie CAN be kitbashed with Revell parts but there are kit-engineering differences in the way both companies approached problems. Revell's chromed multi-piece front suspension can be a PITA to assemble but it is WELL worth the effort in the result. my only gripe with Revell is that they NEVER gave the builder an optional V8 for the A.... by 1962, when this kit was issued, not many banger 4's were still IN Model A's! of course, deciding which of many different V8's to include probably proved more than they wanted to handle!

that Packard is a James Bond enthusiast must.... for the hearse conversion i take it? those are some definitely different cars and i'd gladly buy one or more of each.... the big Mercedes certainly.

i don't want to start a riot about fotobuckits etc and so on, but as difficult as it is to post pics here, why copy an entire post to refer to a section of another? btw, cool looking build so far. i've got one in process as well, i might scare up a cammer for it too.

i am very impressed with the concept and your execution of it... that is a splendid what-if car. even trying to find things i might have done differently, i find NONE..... bravo, sir!

new is bad! different is bad! starting to feel like i'm on the island of dr moreau......

if i'm not hallucinating, memory-wise, one of our Eastern European members did a Turkish Dolmus taxi (based on a Chevy Impala) that had a buttload of operational stuff.... can't exactly recall if opening doors were in that mix. the main difficulty would be retaining enough (or building enough IN) strength in the B pillar to keep the doors aligned. traditional model car door hinges would be almost out of the question; fabricating them out of brass would be the best way to create the proper motion necessary. the best body to work with would be one that has a full floor-to-roof B pillar. if two doors can be opened and hinged, four can.

i have one of these in "almost-finished" condition and it's a great kit. i plan on snagging at least one more to hang on to.

impressive!

artistic license will work best.

looks as if they shifted the engine rearward quite a bit in the frame for the Cougar... i'll have to hunt one of these down now. i was quite dissatisfied with the IMC MustangII concept car kit and that's kept me from doing the Cougar...