Greg Wann

HUH?

Move along, Skip, Nothing to see here, move along.

Hey David, I sent you a PM.

Great job, Mike. I know you are having fun. I started the hood mold over on our forum. I liked that it did not have the usual rough areas that would normally represent under hood insulation. I gave the hood a polish treatment and will see for fun what the hood looks like in clear. If you happen to get one it is just me experimenting. It is a great way to get material used up before it sets too long and just goes bad. I have found that when science determines a expiration date on resin products they are on the dot. So, I have tossed out good money. I think my failure rate might be higher if I lived in a high humidity area. I'm pretty sure I would have a de humidifier in my room.

I actually found a pick of Dads F20. I think Dad said one time that it has a rare factory installed road gear.. I think it's intention was to get to the house and get to the bathroom faster. My Dad talked about using a plow horse when he was a boy. The horse they had knew the sound of the dinner bell. It would take off to the house. A tractor would not notice.

This is a funny question. I used to have a little sign at work that said " If A holes could fly, this place would be an airport. And of course it had a picture of little A holes with wings flying to and fro. I think some boss saw it and did not think it was motivational so he got rid of it.

The oil leaks will be a snap to clean up! Just pick it up and use a BRAWNY towel

Where did that darn Zbart stuff go?

I can't drink iced tea either? DANG!! Water is getting boring. My wife is on me now too. I appreciate all the well wishes. Getting old does suck. The Eleanor photo etch set: My grille has one bar that is ever so slightly bent. I have actually attempted with fair success to resin cast PE parts. I have cut PE parts off their sprue, drop them in front of me and they are a struggle to find. I bought a set for a still unfinished Buick GS convertible build. Those little fender badges are so cool and accurate that you can actually paint the red paint in the letters and numbers and polish them out. They really make the GSX build POP! It is just too bad they keep releasing this kit with the same inaccurate front fenders. They are not squared off but sharply rounded. Like the picture of this fine specimen. Now, this is what I call a Hot Wheels car! If this Gold GS was my Flip Nose version I would be one happy camper!

You are a good builder, Johnathon. Don't compare your abilities with other club members. Don't allow certain people to ruffle your feathers so to speak. You do get a model completely built. I still like the line from our member Raoul C. who once said "Many of us are model builders, but few are model finishers." Now go back to your model bench and enjoy it and life. I have been on meds from being in the hospital that I have never had to take before. I think they are turning me into some kind of teary eyed little girl. LOL My answer is: Oh My God, If only I could scratch build that special little fiddly part that I have stuck in my head for that special build. I have nick named it in my head "bumper bling" I have been for a few years mulling over my Buick GS/GSX Flip nose build creation. I had cut up several kits to create some cool separate parts. Buick offered the GSX package a N-25 custom bumper which is in itself pretty cool. The bumper has square cut outs with square tips that extend slightly through those holes. I don't even think this was available in 1970. Anyway, I got to thinking it would be kind of cool to have a couple of dragon bodies attached to the back bumper. They would need to be mirror imaged of course. Their tails would meet in the middle and their bodies would stretch to a smaller opening in the bumper where their heads would be turned and their mouths opened up with the exhaust pipe just somehow out of site. If the engine smoked, it would be cool. And if you could get fire to come out of the exhaust....WOW! I suppose it sounds a bit childish. My first car was a 72 GS that my older brother had special ordered. It was a 455 car. He had put the good Ol Cherry Bomb glass packs on it. By the time I got it from him they were burned out. I could get the car up to ninety at night and let my foot of the gas so I could see flashes of light in my rear view mirror. It had the turbo 400 on the floor and a 3:08 gear. If anyone in Indiana knows a Robert Helms. I believe he is the last known owner of this Strato Mist Blue color car after the Gene Dixon family near Covington Indiana. Maybe bumper bling will start a whole new model trend. If it is something you can do, do it. My idea could start with a cool pair of comision made dangely type ear rings. I would just need to make molds of them for casting. I am also thinking that just behind the front wheels of the Flip nose where the top and bottom sections would meet I could put exhaust dumps there where two more dragons could be attached. Wouldn't it be cool to fire that up? Fire breathing dragons on a car! maybe I just need more drugs? Maybe I could put ruby's in their eyes and make them light up with grain of wheat bulbs? Break lights?

WOW! Very nice! If only had the vision to be able to scratch build a master part.

The 72 was a stunning build for me. I really would have liked to make a mold. Of course once you have created the master it may not survive being removed from the master mold. I made a mold of the 70 Johan Cutlass and upon it's removal the front end broke off at the wheel wells. I was not happy. I made the latest Fox body mold and the back bumper came off. Mike did a fabulous job with the top of the body. I think this wagon is a great subject. I would like a 68/69 Buick Sport wagon too. Buicks 70's Centurion models were very stylish cars as well.

Wow Ron, I am glad to see you are on track again. I know all about shelving projects when they are going downhill in progress. I really like A bodies. A few years ago I was a member of The Gran Sport Club Of America. In one of the periodicals was a feature article about a guy who was running a 68 or 69 all steel Sportwagon and it was making 8 second passes in a quarter mile. That is some mighty fast groceries.

WOW! That is a pretty nice piece.

That is definitley style. She's a beauty. Nice job, you did good.

The title was the only reason I looked!! I was hoping some drunk girl might have been confused that this is a site for model scale vehicles and not human female bodies! I may be old, but I am not dead. I too am happy that she finished it. I really encourage you and her to share this hobby together. You did a great job, Deb. Thank you for posting.

I typically find Nova subjects boring for simple lack of body style. You really got this this rockin. It's cool! The engine work is very impresive to me. I guess I am just a sucker for hood scoops! I am very partial to what Buick did with the Sylark GS/GSX versions over the years. When I was a kid growing up there were for some reason a lot of Novas with nice chrome Cragar wheels and one side of the car bashed in. LOL Sorrowfully, I did know a kid who died in one after wrapping it around a tree.

Very nicely done. 68 and 69 are still my favorite years for Vettes.

I am again WOWED by something I would not normally stop through the posts to see if it were not for shear boredom and being 3 AM. This is truly a beautiful build by someone who has not built for awhile. I am 55 and packed my old original built models around for many, many years. I really loved building models when I was a young boy. In 2005 I sold them all on Ebay and I regret doing so. I have collected them mostly all back and then some. Eveyday I would drive buy a store called THE HOBBY LOBBY. Not the big box store name but a name that was a long lasting family started store here in Arizona. After having sold my models I stopped and found a business card fot the Cactus Car Model Club and ended up joining. I soon found myself absolutely fascinated with resin casting. I just could not stop thinking about how cool it would be to do it. I had remembered seeing resin items as a young man when I lived near Webers Hobby shop in Lafayette, Indiana. Webers was only a name to me at that time and a great place to get kits when they were a meer three bucks. One day I went there I think in 1975 and it had become The Model Maker. I was really kind of surprised of the name change but was glad it was still a hobby shop. Inside in glass cases were models so nicely built and detailed I was in absolute AWE! Keys in ignitions and pinstriped dashes and wiring harnesses and plumbing all so accurately detailed. I was a know nothing farm kid and I was just beside myself. I knew I would not be able to achieve this level of detail that I had never thought to add to a model on my own. I found myself somewhat devastated and quit building models. I was not even aware of who Art Anderson was until moving here to Arizona and joining the two valley model clubs. The guys would mention ALL AMERICAN MODELS and Lafayette Indinana in the same sentence. And I said, "Hey, I am from that area!" They would ask questions but I was a kid then and lived 30 miles away on a small farm. I really knew nothing about Art or the hobby shop. I do remember that the store moved to a Teal road location. Thank's for the memories, Art. Anyway, Jason, If you can do this you really might like resin casting. It does have a learning curve and I forget that It might be a huge advantage that I live in a low humidity area too. Where was I going with all this post? I have no idea. I just started hunting and pecking to form words. I really like seing the color detail on the exhaust pipes.

Hi Roy, If you want the parts you can send me a PM and I will add you to our list. I see you are in Indiana. If you could please run to your nearest PIZZA KING PIZZA and eat a pizza for me. I would really Appreciate it! I sure do miss that stuff here in Arizona. I found one place close but it still misses the mark! The Stromboli is a good sandwich too.

I am a Buick fan. That is a really awesome car. I have thought about buying a Franklin Mint 1951 !/24 scale Lesabre Diecast and taking it apart to cast it. They usually go for a good bit of money too. I am horrible at making master parts. But if you want it cast it...you can count me in. The roof might be tough to do.

Hi Kerry, This project is under the direction of Mike Schnur. He might have a reply. A convertible would be nice to see. I really don't know what Mike might have up his sleeve. I think he is considering some other body styles. I just returned from the hosptal yeterday from a 6 day stay. for the momemt I'm setting around a bit woozy from the lay up. I'm 55 and sort of did a crash and burn. Now I have to take my health a bit more serious with all these great new drugs they want me to take. Taking a look at some alternative medicines I would like to check out acupuncture. My insurance does not cover much of it though. It might be really cheap in the long run. They said my kidneys have stones and I can feel them and my kidneys were in bad shape. High blood pressure and a lower back in bad shape as well as stomach problems too. I am pretty much a mess. I am going to miss good cold choclate milk and doughnuts. My wife is going to be watching me like a Hawk. I will be off work for a few days. That will give me a little catch up timeon some projects too but I need to adjust to new meds for now. It is great to hear you are almost done with Eleanor. I just got a reply from someone I sent one to that was extremely happy with what he got. Raoul Coulombe does have a mold that makes a convertible conversion of this. I have one and it is very nice. I helped him make the mold. Greg

WOW!

That is really cool. I suggested to Revell to make the Disney CARS movie into snap kits to get kids hooked on the hobby.

WOW! Those are really awesome tires!