Modelmartin

Did someone say weird? did someone say backwards? The Edsel was shortened and uses a Fujimi 911 Speedster tonneau combined with Revell Porsche 928 window louvers behind them. That is the Edsel dash in the cockpit. Since it was an Edsel Corsair I used a 1/32 Corsair radial engine mounted midships. This was a resin copy of an old Studebaker promo. It is also shortened but also chopped. It uses a Heller Renault F1 chassis and a Pontiac Fiero interior and wheels. The headlights are upside down 37 Ford. The rear tires are AMT pro/street. This one won a Klingon Kruiser award at GSLIMCC in the 90s. Both of these were real fun to do. I was contemplating doing a third backwards car from a Tucker but never got around to it. Best to let this particular weirdness die a natural death. How about them apples?

Kind of tough to try to sell something without a pic, too. The shipping price is $15.00 It must have been a typo before. Check out his other auctions! The Knight Rider pedal car is awesome(not)with a BIN of $400.00 The dude's taste is exquisite(not).

Kind of tough to do! Mini Exotics closed up a couple of years ago. It was a pretty grungy kit, anyway. Steve has done a h^ll of a job to get it to the shape it's in now!

I think everyone is really casual about leaving feedback. I find only about 20-30% of buyers leave feedback. Most do not give a Cr&p about giving feedback. I give feedback as soon as I receive something and when I ship something. I just sold about 50 items in the last week , left feedback for every buyer and I bet I only get less than 20 feedbacks! It used to be worse but now Ebay does count multiple wins from one bidder. I have had quite a few people I bought from leave feedback as soon as I pay for it. I think people who are actually running a business through Ebay do a lot better job on feedback. Their livelihood depends on it. I buy a fiar number of bicycle parts and the feedback is usually pretty quickly given. Maybe it is just model car guys??!!

Same as with styrene kits, basically. Resin will resist lacquer thinner for a bit while styrene won't. I wouldn't soak it in thinner, though. Hot paint strippers will eat resin just like they do styrene. Easy-off yellow can is waht I like. Some like Castrol Super Clean and Simple Green cleaners.

Ebay is great even with all the increases in fees and attempts to keep people from communicating with each other through Ebay. They wipe out e-mail addresses if you try to send it to a seller. You only get it for the buyer after the auction is done. I still get around it though. I will not ever bother getting a table at any swap meet again to sell off kits ( I will to market my Aardvark Models line but that is different). The table usually costs a chunk and the expense of traveling and the bother of setting up, packing it up when done and trying to sell to a very, very limited number of people walking buy your table. To me it is a bad joke compared to Ebay where I can do it all in my Pajamas and reach a world-wide market who is willing to pay fair prices. I have found great stuff cheap and got great prices for stuff I almost tossed. When I sell, I start my prices low to get people going. They feel invested in it and don't want to lose it if they are outbid. I only put higher prices on when I don't want something I really like to go too cheap. It all averages out in the end. Sometimes you get less than you want, sometimes people go crazy bidding it up. People love buying a "lot" of kits. Stuff I can not get a bid for separately will go for almost retail when I put it together with 2 or 3 other kits. It's funny when I do a search for Bugattis and find Monogram T35s going from $9.95 to $99.95. often right next to each other in the listings. I saw an IMC Little Red wagon kit listed for $205. It was there for three years!!!! I find that most crazy prices are the result of lack of knowledge. Monogram Classics go for $10.00 to $25.00 routinely. Then you get someone who thinks it is real treasure and tries to get up to $100. for them. I have seen a few listed for $129.00! The listings that are there forever are from people who have Ebay stores. The listings cost little but they have to pay a monthly fee to have the store. It was $25. a month. It is worth it if you have an actual income producing business.

Mickey Thompson put together a compressed air intake setup for his Mustang funny car about '71 or so. It had 4 scuba tanks filled to about 2000 psi. It was regulated down and used as the air supply for the motor. He estimated a huge amount of HP for the time. It was pretty awesome. I don't believe he ever raced it. There was a feature article on it in Car Craft.

That sounds like a perpetual motion machine, Chuck. :lol:

I have had almost no problems with USPS. UPS has been less than satisfactory and the French Postal service has been breaking or misplacing everything I send over there!!

I love the creativity and spirit of your models, Ira. I loved your stuff in Car Model way back when. I still want to build a half, beetle, half Anglia!!

I was fascinated by the engine architecture. A V-12 with twin cams and overhead valves and separate cylinders. It seems like a WW1 era fighter plane engine. Obviously it is a great peice of worksmanship but not my cup of tea.

I alwaays loved that car and you did a great job of it! The only thing that could be improved would be to vac-form some windscreens to get them thin enough. Regardless, it's a beautiful build and I like it.

In the late 70s -early '80s I parted out more than a couple of Revell Funnycars and Dragsters! Great engines and disc brakes in those. I also parted out a few L'il Gassers and Yellers for those GIGONDO slicks! Lately I have been parting out Fujimi 911 Porsches and Monogram, Jo-Han, Heller and Italieri Classic cars!! My tastse have changed abit but I still love the drag stuff!

I just happened to run across my Revell '75-'76 catalog and lo and behold there are the Signature Series 1/16th kits. You can harvest the full size scans from my Fotki sight. Enjoy!

Nicely built, Mark. I had not remembered how less than accurate those kits were. They sat so high and then had those generic frames in them. looks like fun, though!

I think I tried that once when I was about 9 years old! It was less than satisfying!

No Need to get all fancy although that is very nice work you doing there. I just use a flat piece of whatever ( plywood, plexi, etc) and glue chunks of evergreen plastic to it to hold the engine, wheels, body, etc. where I want them and then I can build up the connective tissue - frame, suspension, brackets, mounting points, etc. It really helps achieve "The Look".

Hmmmmm. A Lincoln V-12 powered Model T. Veddddy interesting! Cool model, Curt!

They design them with a very, very slow steering ratio. It is probably 10 turns lock to lock - if the front wheels even moved that far! The movement of the wheel you saw on the video would only be a tiny adjustment of direction.

Too sedate for me.

Practice! Practice! Practice! Read model magazines, attend events, hang out with model builders, and strive to be better. Good results will follow.

Wow! A cab-over T! How will you get the power to the wheels?

Not since I was 8 years old! I did smash an airbrush once, though. Didn't feel better, though.

And My Coupelet and My Fuel Altered version which I sold at least 3 of!!! Too weird for most people. It is out of production, now. So are the Street rod versions of the 1915 cars. I still have the stock Coupelet and 1920 Center door in production.