mr moto

I've always had a weakness for the '61 Ford. Besides the overall shape I love that little detail where the chrome trim on the top of the fins forms a part of the door handles. BTW, the name Starliner only applied to the coupe. The convertible was called a Sunliner and the hardtop convertibles they made in '57, '58 and '59 were called Skyliners.

Yesterday I received some photoetch items from Replicas & Miniatures of Maryland and they had a Fotocut logo on them. That's a pretty high recommendation!

Okay, I give up! What's a road draft tube? You're doing beautiful work. It makes me want to build one or on the other hand maybe not! I think that kit is the only one that really captures the subtle form of the 1:1. The Aurora (later issued by Monogram) and Revell 1/25 kits both seem to miss it but in totally different ways!

This one's driving me crazy! Overall it just looks like a model but when I study the details they say real. I guess I say it's a model.

If you don't mind doing some extra work, Hendrix Resin (from Resin Realm) makes a '59 Ford four door that you could use for the roof. It might work. You would have to rescribe doorlines and other details like that.

Bring it on! I've seen it and it's kool!

WOW! Now there's a kit that marches to a different drummer!

Incredible stuff! I'd be proud to have built any of them. Every one of them is award winning level work.

Looks like a killer contest quality build to me! Great job so far!

This is really a great thread! I've been in need of a paint booth and considering the Pace "Peacekeeper" but when I found out that, on top of it's already high cost, the shipping alone is $135 - that was too much! Looks like I'll be building my own and after studying this thread, that's probably not such a bad thing. I realized that I already have an old but perfectly good bathroom exhaust fan and an old aquarium light. Besides, the Pace booth is updraft.

Did I stumble into the "REAL OR MODEL" poll by mistake? I'm gonna say real on this one! Can't wait to find out the answer. No, I gonna change my vote. That's too good to be real!

Luv them skeeters! Keep 'em coming! That's great work. I know that tube chassis fab like that is a lot tougher than it might look.

Really great! It totally captures the dirt track look.

That's a great looking build of a really unusual old kit. I love "outside the box" stuff!

Matt, I checked out your Fotki and I really love your work. I've bookmarked it so I can get inspiration on future builds.

Here's a monument to those kits that sit on the shelf and wait to get built. I bought this one in the 60's (1965?) and finally built it about a year ago. It was on a discount table at a local hobby shop. Low mileage, one owner 1960 Chrysler. It's been mildly customized with parts that came in the kit. Paint is Duplicolor Orange Mist and Duplicolor clear with a Krylon Dover White roof.

Bare-Metal Foil sells both at their website! http://www.bare-metal.com/

About 10 years ago, All American Models made a Cord Westchester sedan transkit for the Monogram Cord. They're no longer in business so it won't be easy to find but you can try watching for one on Ebay.

Well, at least I can do work that looks like the "beginning" picture. Beautiful job! Looks truly real.

That's really excellent work! It has that understated look that says "Real...not model."

Beautiful build! I've been wanting to build one of those but I was so disappointed with the look of the wheels in the kit. You absolutely nailed it! Looks like I might have to suck it up and learn your wheel lacing technique!

Great work! That is a drop dead gourgeous model of a drop dead gourgeous car!

I'm sure he's not and he probably never even worked for Lindberg. The Cord, Auburn, and '48 Continental were all tooled up by Pyro in the late 50's and they weren't even very impressive back then. Lindberg's tooling from recent years is terrific but like a lot of companies they have all kinds of strange leftovers in the catalog!

I say it's a model because I've just gotta be different!

I need at least one more. You never even see them on Ebay any more!