Modelbuilder Mark

Happy Anniversary!

Cool ride! Would be very fun

Congratulations! I hope this bodes well for both you and the publication!

i dig it! coo l ride!

Nice option om the wire wheels. They do it justice.

Classic good looks

Very cool, captures the feel very well.

Nice! My first car was a Cutlass, it was a black on yellow as well. I think that really makes that car stand out.

Great looking car. I work for Toyota Motor Credit, the us Finance arm of Toyota, and that would be a huge hit around here. Feel free to pm me more pics any time, I would enjoy checking them out. That paint looks great, do you have a protection or film on that?

Looking really good. Are you going to ceramic coat the paint?

We ordered a step ladder from Amazon when we moved into our new house last year, same thing, they labeled the ladder, and sent it.

Well now Danno, you still have the chance to also pick up the last Contest Annual. ? They are still planning on publishing that, and Oct. issue. I had had forgotten they were involved with this Mag, I do like it as well.

Fully understand, however I might suggest the following purely as possibilities. Most program changes for our company, especially web changes, are not typically done on the fly. There is the process of deciding then agreeing what the web/document should contain, then there is typically a date chosen for "go live" transition of the edits etc. Not saying that it cannot be done on the fly, just not something that is typically done that way in the business world. They may have a weekly cadence for example. Or, they could just indeed not give a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, but I would suspect that while they are willing to give refunds they would rather just have people still like them, and convert to FSM. Hard to do that if you continue to upset your customers.

I agree that a jump drive might have broader appeal and sold better, and I also agree with what someone earlier said that the disc will not last forever. What I try to do in these situations is back the disc up to my hard-drive, possible on more than one drive/location. Despite having already bought probably 85% of SAE issues between subscriptions and individual issues, I still bought the DVD, primarily because it is a searchable data base, if I recall an old article or topic. What I do not like about Zinio for my SAE digital copies (I got both, paper and digital), is that despite there being a "download" button, there is really no download. I cannot keep that copy on my PC/table for offline reading. This is what I wish could be rectified. I paid for that issue, so I should be able to download the entire issue to my own personal drive. Especially like others have said, that they could take it down without notice. Also, there are other model car magazines, albeit with much smaller publication, such as Model Car Builder published by Roy Sorenson. There have bee 40 or so issues, and the digital copy costs around $5, the print a little more, but again, they are only printed on demand. As for this site, there is no promise of a tomorrow here either. MCM provides this as a free service, for which I am grateful, but I do not feel Greg owes us this forum. While I do miss and wish that there would be more print having paid for a lifetime subscription, I am not going to stress about it. There are too many other/bigger/scarier issues that we are facing in the world today. RIP SAE

If this has been answered already, my apologies. I called them, and they said the website and forum will remain even the store will remain open until they sell out the stock of items they have already produced.

Welcome! There is a lot of great information to be found here, and a lot of good people willing to help.

Seems I somehow missed this first time around, so glad it popped back up. Curious to see if this project was ever finished. I did a 64 conversion using a Starliner as donor for the chassis/ motor. I took the 64 "tub" interior and cut it up to be more realistic separate pieces. Here is a link to Fotki showing in process pics as well. https://public.fotki.com/machman/models/builds-2014/64-ford-galaxy/

sharp!

I built this sometime back in the 70s, and if my memory serve me correctly, this is the first kit that cut a door open on, as I believe the kit included hinges for the rear door, but it was molded shut. Yours looks really nice.

Outstanding!

That is amazing looking, very sharp. Very realistic.

Great finish! You should be pleased with that one.

MAN Steven I am digging this modification. which indeed adds a great level of realism. The only thing I would personally worry about, is if you took it to a show or competition, and someone decided to try and "close" the hood. In those situations, I would likely still display with either hood on, or next to it to prevent someone from accidentally damaging it, or turning it over and knocking the hood to the floor etc.

Gorgeous!

I have built the Hesagawa kit, and the "generic" interior" and dash with decal set up was because most of the interior was shared over several kits, including a Cadillac, Impala and Bonneville under what I believe was call "American 66" series. It is indeed believed that the bodies were copied, but not the rest. In the series they only had a couple chassis as well, against shared like the interior bits. Oh, and I am not a fan of the wheels. I believe there is a complete thread on all this somewhere here in the forum. If you are wanting to build a competition model then you cannot do that with this chassis/interior really, but they do make for great looking shelf models.