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did you win the auction or are you just reporting on the item?

if i were building a model of it, i'd probably not put so many holes in it. granted, they're probably in the hood for good functional reasoning.... Fairlanes of that year are not really heavy cars, so dropping the front bumper and a-arm suspension more than likely gives the 327 good weight transfer. it does reek of attitude.... props for that!

take six pounds of holes out of the back bumper and put two hundred pounds of deckplate in the floor........ does it have a desmogged SBC as well?

Aurora made one with opening doors as well; VERY rare kit and VERY fiddly. i have a couple of unfinished ones in the stash. the history of Studebaker makes for a pretty good read. some of the fastest production cars of the time came from Studebaker.

some of the locating pins seemed to require almost "snap-fit" force to position them... then again, i'm almost to the point of building by braille any more. need a magnifying glass to look at the box art.....

hmmmm... where does the controller plug into a Lego? hahahahahahaha... they never need rebooting, either.... well; you can boot 'em across the floor after you step on 'em! i have a set of some kind of castle blocks i found at the flea market long ago... they almost scale out at cinderblock size in 1/25-1/24th.

perfect '70's stance and wheels.... almost as if Chevy sold them that way!

see, fellas, what you can do with an old simple AMT kit and some perseverence, skill, and reference material? i'm digging every aspect of this build, and NOW i want a Lindberg GeeBee as well.....

i had Erector Sets and my cousins had something called "Super City" IIRC, that were white plastic beams, windows, etc that built into "modern era" representations of steel framed structures. if i'm right, they also had grey plastic streets and sidewalks to complete the effect. i also had Lincoln Logs, when ALL of it was wood. one cousin had a real engineering mind and had a table saw which he used to cut MILES of scale lumber out of 2x4's.... that was in our model railroad period. but Lego was out of my parent's price range when i was a kid....

primed and painted the '55 Chrysler and gave it plenty of cure time, three weeks or so... rubbed out some dust and flecks and sprayed another coat... well; fudge biscuits are neither fudge nor are they biscuits. into the Purple Pond for a nice cool swim and let's try again, shall we.... which precipitated a change in build direction; i had been building it as replica stock but felt that my intended black paint job needed a deep crimson interior instead of beige... so, it'll be replica NEARLY stock. i have run into some quibbles in the assembly process; the engine assembly isn't QUITE as straightforward and painless as the AMT '57 Chrysler engine. it still came out looking great, but there were moments... and locating pins that i cut off to make things stay put. i'm not going to cry about it, as this is a relatively new area for Moebius and i'll give them benefit of the doubt.

killer! even NEW the Revell plastic was hard and brittle on many kits of that era. glad to see patience win out!

seventies flares are right on, but i'm thinking that the blacked out chrome and darkened taillights are more '80's... it looks killer, though. i can almost hear Montrose on the eight track.......

it's a shame GM (and everyone else for that matter) had access to such a varied pool of talent and instead put out thinly-disguised "box" cars for thirty years. a "box" for the engine, a "box" for the passengers, etc.... and only once in a while do something outrageous like a Solstice.... the Fisher models always showed exuberant passion for form.

hardest thing to do next to actual family members is losing a pet. had a pet raccoon for twelve years myself, that would put up a terrible fuss if i was late coming home from work so she could get her scratchie time.

swell group of real beauties. great work!

i had no idea spruce trees would melt. good fix, though. using what you have on hand is a good skill to keep sharp.

i stil have a few of those "car show" chrome trees... IMHO they were more value than a plastic tray, although i still have a couple of those as well. it wasn't a bad way to get some more mileage out of those venerable kits.... AMT used "collection" series kits MANY times through the years.. "Cruisin' USA", "Countdown", "Reggie Jackson", just a few that come to mind. what DID come as a welcome surprise was that in some of those "Prestige" kits, AMT added spec sheets and other reference material. some came with small packets of A-B epoxy putty, probably the worst filler in the world for beginners to cut their teeth on, especially if that kit had been on the store shelf for a couple of years! retailers probably complained more about the larger than usual boxes....

threatening not to buy any more JoHan kits sounds really serious. i, for one, am never going to buy 35cent a gallon gasoline again.

FineScale ran an article some years ago on a PKD (Partially Knocked Down) Jeep build, as if it were just being uncrated and re-assembled, dockside somewhere overseas... cargo space being at a premium and dockside labor being fairly plentiful and cheap! it would be cool to see a 1/24 version done in that fashion. Jeep frames were made of several pieces of stamped steel, and were riveted together; a wrecked one with a damaged frame could be repaired quickly using other wrecks. Jeeps left in the Philippines were quickly converted to Jeepneys by lengthening the frames and building personalized custom bodies for them, many in polished stainless steel!

most cities require that outdoor dogs be restrained, George... loose dogs go to the Pound. our Shepherd has a 60ft run and a kennel for shelter, and she's a happy girl. besides, those are supposed to be "yard dogs", i think... not pets, per se. even a loose dog in a fenced yard is not 100% in the law's eye here....

claim it to have full undercoating... the instructions probably called out semigloss black for the chassis, even though the 1:1 was painted overall body color. i got one of these, unfinished, somewhere, with a white-to-red fade from the front back to the doors....

the Navy is reputed to run on coffee and cigarettes. at least, that's what i was told when i went to boot camp. six years later, still hadn't picked up either one.

that's very convincing; excellent build. you manage to do with your detailing what some seem to miss; make it look "real", not just "added on". if i could pick at ANYTHING it would be Revell's thin chrome plating, as it seems that during handling of your engine you've worn away the plating on the oil filler cap on the RH valve cover. it could be the lighting making it look that way, though. i like the way you work!

April 1st was a while back. it comes back right after March next year.

IMHO it would then look like 4,000 other slammed kits. they blur together in my perception.