mr moto

Great build as always! Did the white tires come in the kit? They don't really look like an old Aurora kit item.

One that I've been wanting is the AMT (actually tooled up by MPC) 1965 Dodge Coronet. Unlike the Polar Lights kit of that car, the body actually looks like the real thing.

That is a great looking rig. I just love it!

I tried searching the forum for info on the possible Palmer heritage of Lindberg's '40 Ford and found lots of references to it originating with Palmer but not necessarily anything concrete. Try doing a forum search for something like "lindberg palmer" and you'll see that it's been stated a lot even if it's not definitive. Here's one that I found: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10020&hl=%2Blindberg+%2Bpalmer+%2B40#entry73444

Very cool and original idea and a great looking build, too!

Great build and a familiar story. A friend of mine got a '58 Buick 3 in 1 and after he showed me what was in the box I thought my eyes would never go back in my head! Pretty soon I had a '59 Ford and then a '59 Lincoln and then ... well, here I am!

You win!!!

That's fantastic work! You have great scratch-building skills. I wish that model companies would make more kits of all kinds of construction, farm and utility vehicles. They're some of the most interesting subjects and I'll probably never have the nerve to jump into a major scratch-building project like this one. Great stuff!

Very cool idea! That looks great.

One of the reasons that Lindberg kits can be hit or miss is that a lot of their tooling came from an assortment of defunct companies. I understand that the Lindberg '40 Ford was originally tooled up by Palmer, If that's true, it has to be the best thing that Palmer ever did no matter how many issues it has!

That's a beautiful build and one of my favorite cars. I've always been a fan of the '60-61 Chryslers. Tailfins? No problem for me!! Do you cast those clear steering wheels yourself? I always use old Mopar steering wheels from Modelhaus when building customs but they're not tranparent like the originals.

You beat me to it!

That is really excellent work! Impressively real weathering.

That's truly fine work! It could pass for real in some of the photos.

The "uphostelry" is homemade decals. The pattern is courtesy of a Google Images search but the 45's are a lot harder to get!

I wish it was a kit!

I stumbled across this website: http://www.auroraplasticscorp.com/index.html It looks like this was supposed to launch in 2012 but didn't. I never heard anything about it and I doubt that they ever actually got any products on the market or there would have been some buzz in the hobby. Still, it's fascinating and makes me wonder if all those molds still exist or what. Also, could there still be any life in it? Does anybody have any background info on this?

That's great work! I also love to see the old glue bombs given the beauty treatment they always deserved. I've done a couple myself but it might be time to do some more!

Here's '59 Lincoln that I did several years ago. The paint on the "after" is not as good as it looks in the picture but I don't tell that to everybody.

I know about prying those record players out of old Johans. This is my revenge! The white pearl is Duplicolor Ivory Glacier Pearl decanted from a touch-up bottle. The black is a pearl Duplicolor but from a spray can. I forget the exact name - maybe it's just called Black Pearl.

Phenomenal work!!! I'd love to see an "On the Workbench" type thread on this one. Is there any chance of finding out more about how it was built?

How about 1960 Plymouth?

All I have to say is that whether it's 100% correct or not, this is way better than the old way where the mfr. doesn't show the model builders anything until it hits the shelf - take it or leave it! It seems like a very brave move on the part of Moebius to expose their product to this level of scrutiny.

Where and when?

I think it was pretty much all of the early Trophy Series Ford kits. Like the '32, '36, '40, and the '34 pickup and probably the '25 T and some others. I'll have to go thru some of the kits that I have and compare. I'm thinking the way it worked is that if the stock engine was the basic Ford four or flathead V8 they all had the same engine mount points so their "modern" OHV replacement engines also fit those same mounting points.