Maindrian Pace

Yes, sort of. Not the LX, I'm planning to build one but haven't decided on a color yet. Maybe Reef Blue or Strawberry. But the next version after this one will be an accurate '93 Cobra, and I'll build one of those in Teal. -MJS

Yes, mainly scale. Also, the Monogram body and hatch area has a few wonky proportions that would have had to be corrected, while the MPC/AMT part was pretty close as it was. -MJS

Thanks everyone for the vote of confidence. Looks like this body may be popular! Steaming right along, latest progress: Some interior bracing, garden variety aluminum flashing. A master needs to be stout for casting, because removing it from the inner mold twists it and un-reinforced joints give up. And I don't like doing things twice. Next: Lots of fussy boring stuff that doesn't make for the most interesting of pictures. -MJS

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"High risk website blocked" That doesn't happen very often, Not diving in there. Makes me question the validity of the article. Why isn't this information anywhere else?

Thanks Jonathan. Hey, didn't you used to be local?

Starting to take shape. This will be the part II Fox offering from The Master Caster. When the body is done, I'll make a hatch area interior extension, a new LX wing, and a new vacuform glass buck. The wing will be a separate piece. -MJS

As a break from the 1:1 car building, I decided that what I really wanted to do today was to saw up some plastic and resin. The grey, windy, rainy day contributed to the decision, it's kind of like Chicago only without the soul-crushing cold. I started by cutting the hatch area off of an MPC '87 Mustang GT. Figuring out where to cut the coupe was interesting, I wanted to save as much of the roof and 1/4 window detail as possible to make less work for myself. Ain't no turning back now! The hatch needs to be widened, so I broke out the hatch stretcher. -MJS

GMP had major money problems, lost their offices in Georgia, and had the Chinese repossess their tooling. Not a happy thing, especially since they were coming out with one great model after another, so we all thought that they were doing well. They went out of business several years ago, and the tooling remained in limbo until Greenlight bought the rights to the name, and apparently, an unknown quantity of the tooling as well. So we will be seeing modified reissues in new colors etc, but it will be interesting to see if/what new cars are introduced.

Fantastic conversion! You have a great eye, the 4 door sedan body is quite different than the coupe, and I don't see a line out of place. -MJS

Beautiful job Roy, great looking Fox Rod. Glad you liked the body. -Mike S.

Needs a twin turbo Ecoboost V8, just because. I like the previous GT better, but I understand the reasons for the restyle. I just hope they tone it down a bit. -MJS

A friend of mine just recently completed the restoration of his '56 A. Parts for these cars are dazzlingly expensive, and you really don't want to know what he paid for that paint job. Restoring any of the cars there would run over 150K each, and if you were lucky, you might only loose 1/3rd of your investment.

Nothing new, had to take time off for the holidays, family stuff, and working on my current 1:1 project; as the winter is AZ outdoor activity time. I get more indoor stuff done during the summer. I'll be back to finish this one up soon. I always finish a project thread. -MJS

I did it too. I got an '84-ish Mustang and a Trans Am. Still have parts of the Mustang. -MJS

Well, it may not be a notch, but I think I have to have one anyway. (big surprise) They have also said that they would release a 1991 FBI pursuit Mustang. We'll have to see what that one looks like. -Mike

And today: -MJS

I bet when he used hand signals, the lights would blink automatically.

What? You mean people age? You mean their looks change? Gee.

In my inbox this morning: I've preordered one.

IIRC, he built it from a Volkswagen Vanagon.

That is really something. Nice 1:1s too, a real Man Cave.

Mr. Hettick's only real competition on ebay. I believe he also did this, which went into the $700-ish range IIRC. This takes a style, like taking plain resin wagons and fabricating all the little details to make them into nice Squire replicas which are hot in the market right now. And you have to have enough patience to build like that for someone other than yourself, which, alas, I don't. I used to, but that's another story. I'm happy for the seller, because nothing about these successes happened overnight.

Amazing build, I agree that the first few pics make it look like a real car. I like how the paint has scale metallic flake, adds to the overall realistic glow.

Maybe Joel will finish that one up.. some.. decade... -MJS