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Thank you for the suggestion Charlie. This is actually a pretty cool idea. And his birthday is in less than a month. He amazes me with some of the things he makes. He has kind of a 3D line of thought, where he sees things in his head and how they are constructed before he makes them. He made an entire skateboarding park with bunch of ramps and somewhat complicated 3D shapes out of old boxes and masking tape. At first I was mad because he waisted my tape and did not ask to have it, but then I took a closer look at what he made and I was stunt. He makes crazy Hot rods out of legos too. And I am with you on the parent-kid class. And if it was up to me I would not even require documentation. You take a good look at how the kid behaves at the show and you can see right away what the deal is. In some cases I wouldn't even care if the kid did only 5% of the work, as long as I see that that little trophy makes the kid really happy and it inspires and motivates him. I always looked at shows and trophies, not as much as what they are giving, but rather what they are taking away. By giving the trophy (undeservingly) to one of "the club members" (and this happens absolutely everywhere) you are not giving him anything. But you are taking the spark away from someone. You are robbing them from motivation and inspiration to continue with the hobby and to expand their abilities. Having said this, I am absolutely against participation trophies, which IMO do nothing for the participants, but lower their standards. Life is a tough school, but that's a lesson that needs to be learned early in life. Or so I was taught. Anyway…..let's not turn this political. The idea of this thread was to share my excitement from building a model with my kid and flex my pride a little. A pleasant side effect is that this is having a very positive effect on him.

Fantastic paint!…….and reflections…LOL

OMG! I just showed this to my kid and he went BANANAS. Very cool.

This is so awesome. I usually prefer the shiny stuff, but this build really wins me over. Great subject and execution.

Very "DISCO", but I like it. It is definitely different and in a good way. I think the wheels are perfect for it. Who makes the body?

Thank you guys. I want to tell you what an amazing effect this forum is having on him. He is over the moon having "his own page". After school I make him read the comments and he is just glowing reading about people liking his work. It is highly motivational to him. Today we had a BMF lesson. Started with the small straight lines on the sides of the big windows, then the long straight ones and then the curved bottoms at the end. He picked it up pretty quick. He of course made a couple of mistakes, I yelled at him, he cried and then I almost cried for making him cry. We are both learning from this joint project. So we redid some of the lines and all is well now. I showed him how to measure and cut the pieces. It was pretty amazing to him pulling them from the sheet. He got a kick out of using his Q-tips and smoothing the wrinkles. It is great seeing the amazement on his face discovering how things work. It is hard teaching him about angles of the blade and to move smoothly…..them I pull myself back and tell myself that he is just an 8 year old kid and I can't expect this from him. This is what his work looks like. I had to retouch a little bit here and there, but not bad at all, me thinks. He is very proud of his handy work. Now about the show circuit and the Junior class…..it has always been a pep peeve with me. I used to be very active on the show scene back at the end of the '90s in the Chicago area. There was this guy that was a regular at the shows in the area. Don't remember his name, but he had a black Oldsmobile Cutlas (the last one/modern) and two kids, a boy and a girl. He used to enter models in the junior class under his kids. Like mentioned above, they were all photoetched, flawless paint, fully wired and plumbed………And the saddest part was that his kids didn't even care about the models or the shows. Yet this "great modeler" was soooo proud of the wall of trophies he had. He was always the first to question the authorship of other people's builds. Everybody knew and yet nobody ever did anything. I never really got over that PC attitude and the whole ordeal left such a bad taste in my mouth that I quit building plastic kits for over 10 years. I would never do something like that with my kid. In my opinion, I wouldn't be doing my kid any favors if I did. This is why this is a joint project. He needs to see something cool becoming out of his own labor, but he does not have the experience. This is where I come in. He has literally done more than 50% of the work on the model. I just help him with showing him exactly how to do different things and with the little details and finishes. You know what they say….Devil is in the details.

Hi this is Ryan. Thank you everyone. I love building models and spending time with my dad. I will love to build more models. I want to build a Ed big daddy car with two engines.

really, truly amazing!

I knew I was going to get some BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH about letting him spray without a mask…LOL. Well, I have few masks and would definitely protect him. This was such a small job, that we decided to run without it. Not much surface on this model to be covered. He keeps looking at models that will be pain to build. Lil Coffin, Mysterion, Beatnik Bandit……He loves the show rods, but some of them are hard for anyone, let alone for a novice. The closest hobby shop is almost a two hour drive from home and yesterday I went all the way there just to get him gold BMF. He was really excited about it, so we'll tackle it tonight. edit: wow!, just noticed that my post got censored and got c-r-a-p replaced with blah-blah. No disrespect was meant to anyone.

Really cool. Love the deep blue color and especially the pinstriped flames on the side. Are they decals? Looks like one hell of a build so far.

Awesome paint. I think it suits the the model perfectly.

The pic of the body mocked up on the chassis, is that before or after the yellow pearl was added? Dave, I'll let Ryan read the comments after he gets home from school, so he can answer your questions. About the paint, the picture of the body mocked up on the chassis is just the base starfire paint that Ryan sprayed. On the second to last picture, where he's painting the curtains, the body already has the yellow pearl. Today when he comes home from school, I am introducing him to BMF.

Wooow,,nothing "street" in that frame IMO. Looking great.

I'm sorry, but I just can't get over the reflection in the roof on the second picture from top of page. LOL Seriously, great build so far. nice paint

I went to my buddy who owns a paint shop and asked him for some paint for the model. We looked at pictures on the net and then he came up with some paint that is basically just a base coat called starfire. I gave my kid an introduction to all the parts of an airbrush and then explained to him how everything works. Then loaded it up and let him have at it. I had to guide his hand a couple of times to show him how to make smooth passes, but he did pretty great actually. This is the body mocked up Later when dry, he applied semi gloss black to the curtains and gold to the trim. I had to touch it up here or there, but over all he handled it like a champ. Oh…and by the way, I was not that happy with the color, so I took just the second part of giallo tristrati (a Ferrari tri-coat pearl) and sprayed it over the starfire base. It gave it a goldish tint, as it is basically a clear yellow pearl. I think the color is dead on now.

Thank you guys. Actually I did make the springs for the shocks. I bought a bag of little neckless clasps that are meant to be used on rubber string or something. So they look like springs and they are just the right size. I'll take pictures and post them.

This is really cool. Honestly, I didn't even know this kit existed. I love mini trucks and would love to see what comes of it.

Thanks a lot guys. It is really appreciated to see the encouragement. He is at school right now, but I'll show him the thread when he comes back. I hope it pumps him up and motivates him to keep going. As for glue bombs at this age - this is where I come in in this project. Not as much doing stuff, but showing him how to do them the right way himself.

I had a chopped one that I was building into a Volksrod, but it got destroyed. Looking good so far.

Wow! This redefines scratchbuilding.

Thank you. It sucks, but we are dealing with it. There is still legal fighting going on. But models are my escape from reality and it actually helps me deal with the BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH life serves me.

I mentioned in the other thread that I had some unfortunate events to deal with , which put me out of my building for over a year. All of it was followed by some sort of builder's block. My kid, Ryan, helped me overcome it, by asking to build a model with me. His choice was the Boothill Express. This reignited the spark about this build, which survived the chaos in my house. Well, almost, as the chassis was broken in two. So I fixed the chassis and reinforced it. Then I picked an engine for it. It is the sbf from the Speedwagon with MCG resin heads and filter. They are really cool Edelbrock pieces with photoetched plates for the top of the heads and filter. For whatever reason the "Edelbrock" writings are upside down. So I filled them and I will figure out what to do with it. Then sprayed everything with black primer to show me the million holes I need to fill. Tamiya basic putty for the first round….

ohhh, snapppp! I think I have been dormant long enough…Let me see…I'll try to recap in few words. Had a fire in my house and like it wasn't enough, it resulted in a glycol flood. Fights with the HOA, court with insurance, a-hole contractors……Slowly rebuilt the house. All this resulted in all models , materials, tools etc., being either destroyed, damaged or lost. And by lost I mean put in a box ina hurry somewhere without any logic. So, now over a year later, I am trying to find bits and pieces here and there and jump start my building. Thankfully I have almost all the pieces for this build. Or at least I think so. Anyway, I started with fixing the shape of the coupe as I wasn't perfectly happy with it.

Thank you. Ryan (on the pictures) loves it. Tried last year to build a F14 Tomcat with him, but that never came to fruition. But he LOVES Hot Rods. About the Boothill Express….The one in Peterson is a replica. It was build not too long after the original and it was dubbed "the outdoor car", while the original was "the indoor car". The original one is in a private collection after it sold for $125 000 some years ago. The "outdoor car" was created for demonstrations and they even drag raced it. The idea was that the original was way too fragile and to preserve the real 1850 wooden hearse that the original was built using. The one in Petersen is actually fiberglass. This creates confusion when researching the car, because people think that it changed over the years and it didn't. Just different pictures from the same era showing two different cars. There are quite few detail differences between them. Thank God the model actually replicates the original "indoor car".

Not a fan of the color, but this is amazing work indeed. I like the great engineering effort put into this project and the execution seems flawless so far.