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another film car to model..... 28 Days Later? actually, the bus, as well, AND a landie.

ahhh.... now that's what RACING was in the day. fine build, sir.

as a former Audi employee...... build it as they often find themselves..... on a rollback headed to the dealership.

Christian; for a resin build from ten years ago, please stop criticising your work. it makes the rest of us look like low grade morons. my wife looked over my shoulder and said "that IS a model, isn't it?".......

very pretty car, Terry, very pretty.

we lost a little something when they deleted the screw-on chassis capability it seems..... even after all the construction work i did to my promo Falcon, i kept the rear chassis posts on the body for that very reason; a sure and reasonably accurate method of location. wasn't MPC a big promo supplier through the 70's and into the '80's? i have several Aoshima kits, the one that pops into my mind is the BTTF Delorean with folding wheels... built that many years ago for my wife and it still looks fairly accurate and straight as a arrow. how about those missing lug nuts?

killing time waiting for various assemblies to cure/dry/evolve on their own, i busy myself rummaging through the stash boxes looking for parts for the NEXT build... i happen upon a set of JoHan Petty Plymouth chrome steel rims and one has a VERY weak bead... so weak that it broke off while i was examining it... yikes. i'm loathe to use superglue near chrome but this has to be fixed before it's forgotten, so i hitch up my courage and brace my shakey hands and actually manage to put the errant bead (about 5/16ths long) back in place. whooooo... but that's not my puzzlement this evening. also in with those relics were two pairs of deep chrome reverse steel rims from the AMT '51 Bel Air hardtop. nicely detailed, good chrome.... and no lug nut detail. as in, NO LUG NUTS. ummmm... i wonder why they DID that? there's shallow holes where they ought to be; great for making a pair of drag slick mounts as long as you don't intend to have them on the car (unless, of course, you add lug nuts)... additionally... i've been finishing up the '75 MPC Dart Sport recently, only adding what i thought was absolutely essential to bring it somewhere near the turn of the century.... only to discover that MPC rivaled AMT and JoHan in presenting a visually accurate BODY , and fell flat on it's face with interiors and chassis; chassis especially, on annuals. i made the mistake of not verifying wheel centerlines front and rear before gluing everything up.... and the wheels don't line up correctly from side to side. add to that nearly non-existent chassis location points.... well. here, it's more a matter of "i wonder why they DIDN'T do that?" , i.e., add even rudimentary locating points.... not to say that i don't LIKE the kit; it's nostalgic and went together just like i remember them.

i'm a little confused.... "instruction sheets"? do you mean those handy folded papers that you use to keep glue and paint off the furniture? hahahaha! actually after thirty plus years i'm following a set of instructions quite carefully as i build the Moebius Hudson......... i remember with no little disgust the apalling era when they all decided to go to "pictograms" and eliminate ALL text in the instructions instead of follow the multi-lingual requirements of big brudda.

no telling what he saw nor what people (fail) to see when they use their own eyes.... craigslisp is full of people who can't seem to process what they see into the keys they push on the keyboard.

what scale is that? i'm thinking 1/72, myself..... and i wouldn't fret about paint. in action, as long as it stuck, it stayed.

that is an awesome redo.... very nice work.

i've tried several times to complete a Silhouette.... which is why i have several sets of nice wire wheels on some of my builds.

if i tried to rationalize what i've spent on this hobby ALONE over the past 35 years or so.... i'd be committed to an institution for the mentally unstable. add to that what i've spent on ACTUAL automobiles.... they'd lose the key to the room. i only buy multiple kits IF they're on serious discount or if i find some at a show. of late, the cost of a kit isn't nearly so aggravating as the cost of PAINT..... and the fact that it doesn't seem to go as far as it used to.

i remember seeing relatives come down the long driveway to GreatGrandDad's house and being able to tell who it was by the car they were driving: Richard had a white Cutlass, around a 68 or 69; William had a Valiant as well as Lawrence; George had a Dart and before that a Polara;then a Satellite; GrandDad had a black 4dr Falcon Futura and then a Ford Custom 4dr, lastly a 79 Nova.... My Grandmother had a powder blue 64 Ford and then a Beetle, lastly a forest green Valiant sedan........... i've found photos in albums where other cars were prominent, such as a 39 or 40 Merc convertible Uncle George had; a '59 Ford Custom sedan GrandDad had; several others as well.... my own parents soldiered along with a Falcon/Comet mongrel my Dad built, then a 65 Mustang fastback, then a Pinto sedan and my mother's last car, a 79 TR7. i suppose i'm a very "visual" person; i relate to what i've seen in reference to things more than what i heard. well; i used to paint pictures a long time ago...... how visual is that?

my (adult) son came by today and we had a long chat, during which i was messing about with some of my current builds including my Falcon promo rebuild, and he remarked that i seemed to have a model of every 1:1 car he could remember us having over the years........ not only that, i told him, but i try to build one of every notable car a family member might have owned, such as my Uncle George's Dart and his Satellite. i have my F150, my Starliner, my baby blue '66 Galaxie, and several other representations in my fleet.... it's a sickness, i know.

subjective versus objective... very difficult category to fill in, without qualifiers; such as, say, best kit for quick assembly, best for beginners; best to paint, etc etc..... ferinstance; let's ask which are best for outwardly projecting an accurate representation of the car without addition of paint or detail parts... well; here's where 90% of those often maligned AMT and MPC annuals get kudos, as well as JoHan; they often have the most accurate OUTWARD appearance of any kit... sometimes better than later released "full detail" kits. how about easy assembly and foolproof instructions? Monogram's showrods and Tom Daniels creations rate pretty high for being kid friendly starting points.... and here again some of those dissassembled promos get some due. if it's downright accuracy of detail and LOTS of it... historically, we've had to go Tamiya or Fujimi for most of that until lately. of course, i don't build race cars, nascar, or even drag cars for the most part; stock and custom are my venues. i have to agree that the Tamiya Austin Cooper is a downright joy to build and i wish ALL my cars were available as Tamiya kits.

some say.... that Bill Geary has a shrinking machine in his basement... some say... that midnight deliveries of rare and beautiful automobiles are made to his house.... some say.... that Bill Geary taught Chuck Norris how to build a model. whatever the truth is.... only Bill Geary knows!

everything we sold in our "boutique" cost us in the long run..... usually because we sold it to the sales floor at cost. it got so bad we wrote off our "accessory" sales as floor plan for the last several years...... and, unfortunately, VW never embraced the 1/24- 1/25 scale plastic promo. lots of wiking 1:87 and maisto, burago, etc.... nothing to satisfy plastic fanatics. i was amazed at the accuracy of the new bright 1/6th New Beetle back in 1998.... and R/C at that!

thank Mobieus for heavy trim moldings! and 3m for blue painter's tape.

FAB-1, by a "nose".... btw.... how many movie and TV connected car and truck kits have there been? i had, for a brief time, a T.H.E. Cat Sting Ray roadster..... i ALMOST sanded the logo off the rear panel to put a license plate there. Herbie would undoubtedly emerge victorious against ALL opponents... 36 air-cooled horsepower and no gadgetry at all!

i'm going to do something i ain't done fer a long time.... i'm gonna follow the box art and try to duplicate the color scheme they used...... AND imma gonna try to put the chrome on it beforehand and suchlike. well; that's my plan, anyway... blocking out the interior panels and seats with tape is fairly easy.... but the sheer amount of and complexity of the chrome/stainless trim on the body has me flummoxed. i WAS going to foil the trim and THEN mask off the sections, but believe that this will create a larger issue trying to keep the foil from coming loose or being sanded or polished through, requiring that the whole thing be redone...... starting to believe that doing the two-tone first and then doing the trim is the best way... advice? (don't feel like ruining a model that cost almost 32 bucks.... just saying)

cool model; brings back memories of my friend David's older brother Clay building Revell bikes.... hard and fast rule: "don't freaking TOUCH Clay's models, man..."

sam, you ought to consider yourself lucky getting off that good. i remember seeing these cars in Virginia rusting so bad the windshields fell into the passenger compartment. and when that body "work" was probably done, that was a hundred dollar car at best..... not like today! i favored the small back window versions over the later ones..... big blind spot, but "what is behind me, does not matter!"

Dominick, i'm reminded of the many times my youngest uncle (one year older than me) and i would build together... whenever we went to visit i dragged along my current project and a bag of spare parts to trade. that was.... thirty-five, forty years ago?

do a set of both! put them on with white glue and see which ones look right to you. if you use the bubble skirts, try to flatten the bulge along the bottom edge a bit; i think Revell accentuated it a tad too much.