Tom Geiger

Wheelbase needed 5 scale inches. Remember that this was my first attempt at slice and dice some 30 years ago. Here it is corrected. Working with two chassis, I cut each chassis and added the 5” by cutting the front clip longer. Tough work since I didn’t notice the issue until I had all the suspension glued in place. Fortunately the front pieces were able to be wrestled free. I have parts in the spare kit if I had to assemble a new suspension set. I was as careful as I could be to make sure my cuts were straight and at the proper spots. It should blend in fairly well. One long standing issue solved, on to the next one!

The birth canal

I keep a good stock of Evergreen on hand. A good starter set would be their 9002 Odds & Ends pack, which gives you small pieces of a lot of different sheet, strip and round. Another good buy is the 9008 Sheet Assortments of .01, .02 and .03 one sheet of each to gauge what thickness would work for your needs.

Water in canal

And a canal

Per Alan’s comments... when I have a gap or void, I will whittle down some scrap plastic to fill the gap and douse it good with thick (gap filling) CA. Once dry, sand that down and it’s all plastic. At that point if you need some finishing, that’s when you employ the putty. I like Bondo one part glazing putty. A tube at Walmart is less than $5.

Meanwhile in Egypt..

Why? It’s still the project.. entire chassis, engine and interior are all 30 years old. I don’t see the difference between cutting the existing body in half to fix it or introducing some new parts? Edit: I think I just solved my wheelbase dilemma.. I will lengthen it using front half of the other kit’s chassis. That will either solve the issue or destroy both chassis!

Never heard of them but that welding rig looks super!

Who’s on first?

Whatever those are

That is a pretty cool Saab diecast. I once owned a Saab 95 wagon, I checked to see if they had one.. nope!

Very nice! We have TROG (The Race of Gentlemen) here in Wildwood, New Jersey USA. My friend and I went to see it in 2019, there was no event in 2020. I thought you'd like to see the album of my photos: https://public.fotki.com/modelcitizen/11_car_reference_library/car-shows-and-cruis/trog-the-race-of-ge/

And mouse heads

Looks great for what you started with! You are better off with replaced wheels and tires. I remember the tires being old wonky two part ones

Ha! Sometimes ya gotta laugh! Somewhere in my foggy memory I thought I might have another Mercedes Gullwing kit in my basement storage area. I went to look and sure enough there was a box! Still I didn’t feel good about taking the exhaust manifold from a new kit, but guess what? I open it up and it’s a poorly started parts kit! Yea! I can take whatever I need without guilt! Now the evil conundrum... the body I modified 30 years ago has some flaws. Wheelbase slightly off, and one side of body is 2 scale inches different in length. And now I have extra Mercedes and Studebaker bodies! What to do?

With green olives ?

Yes those are all Liberty Classics 1/24 or 1/25 scale. Very detailed and nicely finished. Difficult to find without tampo logos on them. A perfect example of diecast in our scale that we will never see as a plastic kit! So I buy them.

With melted peeps

I saw Elvis and Big Foot driving a Tucker convertible! ?

I love the colors on your wagon! Here’s a few more to complete the set..

I love BMF. I find it relaxing. There is no one step in model building where you see this dramatic an improvement for the effort. To reduce the glare and see the blade better, paint it flat black.

This is a replica of a real Shaggin Wagon from 1978, built from memory. That summer I delivered pizza with the owner of this van. We brush painted it between deliveries. I posted pictures on my town’s Facebook group and people instantly identified it.

I actually built the green roadster pickup as an illustration of the one I’d like to own. Maybe my retire ride. The yellow woody roadster pickup is my “When I win the lottery” car. It actually wouldn’t be hard to build. They do make woody wood kits, just order what you need!

Thanks Misha! Very slow progress here! When you pick up a project you abandoned maybe 25 years ago, you absolutely forget the assembly process you had planned! I might as well have started with someone else’s old project! I glued together the fiddly suspension pieces, adding some lengths of straight pin where needed. Got them onto the chassis plate, which is a belly pan. First time up on wheels! There are rookie mistakes here that would be tough to fix, this was started some 30 years ago. It was the first time I sliced and diced, so there are some proportion issues. I was finishing up the engine and realized I don’t have the exhaust manifold.. will need to improvise unless someone miraculously has one!