mr moto

I saw the Glencoe kit on Ebay just the other day - it might still be available. The box said the LeSabre was 1/72 and the Indy car was 1/60 scale. The Glencoe re-issue must be a pretty obscure kit all on its own!

Maybe the driver likes to inhale carbon monoxide?

Great minds...etc., etc.

That would look great as a gasser!

The twin supercharged engine is often referred to as the R-5 since it's rumored that a version of it was going to be put into (limited) production and it would be the next in the numbered series of R engines. Of course, it never even got close to production and only one was ever completed so it never officially became an R-5.

Things to know about the Avanti engine and the instructions in every release that I've seen - here's a couple pictures of the real thing: Notice that you can't see the distributor because of the polished guard that also covers the spark plug wires. That was standard on the Avanti along with the polished valve covers, etc. The odd thing is that the guard has always been included in the kit but they've never shown you the right way to use it - now they don't even show it. The actual distributor should only be used if you don't use the guard. It's an either/or thing. Bonus: your engine is detailed without having to install spark plug wires! The finished engine should look something like this: BTW, Round2 if you're listening, this is totally unforgivable since Round2 is home-based in South Bend, IN which is the city where the Avanti (and other Studebakers) were built. Probably half the people walking down the street could tell them that it's wrong. I'll be in South Bend at the beginning of August for the Studebaker Drivers Club International Meet when SB will be flooded with Avantis and other Studes. I'm sure anybody would love to open their hood so Round2 could take a look! The twin Paxton option represents the engine from Due Cento which was Andy Granitelli's Bonneville record car. This what that one should look like:

Gator's really good! Many of the best restaurants in the Baton Rouge area serve fried gator as an appetizer and Frank's Restaurant and Smokehouse makes their own gator sausage in case you want some with your eggs in the morning. But I think the best is a Cajun dish known as alligator sauce piquant - kind of like a spicy stew served over rice. That's fit to eat!

Wow! So that's what a 1:1 glue bomb looks like!

That's probably Revell that you're thinking of. I don't recall anything metalflake coming from Johan but, of course, the old memory ain't what it used to be!

What I notice is that both of these cars (and MANY Model A hot rods) have Deuce radiator shells. Most people wouldn't know the difference between an A and a Deuce if it has the Deuce shell on it.

Fabulous attention to detail and realism - two different things. Your build has that something extra that makes it seem real.

That looks RIGHT!! Great realism. It just looks perfect!

That's why I have a guage on my tank. If it's anywhere near being low I just refill it. The same way you keep from running out of gas in your car. Guages aren't expensive and the low cost air tanks from Sears come with a guage already installed at less than $30 for a 5 gallon tank. I fill mine up with a Black & Decker portable tire inflater (about $25) that has no problem getting it up to 100+ psi.

Monogram 1934 Duesenberg built mostly box stock. The only additions are spark plug wires, exhaust tips, interior door handles and license plates plus some BMF. Duplicolor paint. These kits turn out good especially for 1960's tooling.

I think GM was using Alclad in 1959.

A number of the older Ford tractors were Harry Ferguson designs.

The problem is more likely due to the lighting where you're shooting than the camera. If you photograph under a light rated at a color temperature of 6500K or as close to that as you can find the colors should look much more natural. (Hint: I bought an 18" 6500K rated flourescent bulb to use in a small under-shelf light at an aquarium store, Home Depot sells them in 48" length.) Also, if you're viewing your photos on a computer monitor most of them can really skew the color.

I second that! Even a list would be very interesting.

Goood point! There really aren't any full detail kits of Unibody Mopars of that era. Hint, hint.....Moebius, are you listening? 300G?

The "USA Oldies" series had a lot of problems and shouldn't be confused with the real Johans from a decade or more earlier. By the time of the "USA Oldies" (Seville ownership) some of the tooling was already lost, destroyed, worn out or ????? and the kits were sort of made up of what was available. The '62 Plymouth convertible includes a '63 Plymouth dashboard and the '62 Plymouth hardtop has a Dodge Polara dash, i.e., the correct '62 dash was gone by that time. The "Oldies" version of the '62 Chrysler 300H has the wrong interior, etc. The original issues had the correct parts. The '63 Plymouth re-issue has the most amazing flash that I've ever seen - to the extent that there are "ghosts" of parts that aren't actually included in the kit in the flash. The originals back in the day were clean and crisp. As was said by others, Johan died a slow, painful death and as a long time fan of Johan it was sad to watch! In their day they were among the best.

That's true. The Avanti has the car show accessories instead of the pen holder. I don't know which others since the Avanti is the only one I've built.

Did I miss something? By my calculator, $89 for 8 oz is over $11 per ounce.

I totally agree! That looks like too much fun!

Snipers are not sitting there waiting until the last ten seconds. They're using something like this: https://www.bidrobot.com/ My strategy is use Bidrobot, bid exactly what I'd like to pay, and then don't look at it again unless Ebay tells me I won. You have to pay to join Bidrobot but it's very reasonable. The way it works is that you pay for a membership that lasts so many days OR until you win items totalling a certain amount whichever comes last. If you don't bid too much (like me) it can be a lifetime membership. I've used it for years and never had to renew.

WOW! That's a really classic look. Great job.