Ace-Garageguy

Ah yes...there's the beauty of forums like this. Either search through the kit review section, or, assuming the search function you choose turns up zilch, ask about a specific model prior to purchase.

Yup.

I've started putting a sticker on each box with the approximate **realistic** value. Many of my kits have been cherry-picked for parts, and the major items missing are also listed as well...though this latter was done for MY OWN use, for when I'm looking for something. Depending on exactly where I am when I shuffle off this mortal coil, and what friend lives closest...well, that person will get the stuff. Most of the people I know well understand how involved I am with models (as well as real cars, parts, tools, books, music, vintage electronics, cameras, etc.) so whoever liquidates my stuff when I'm dead will probably try to get all of it to folks who will also value it. And a couple of my "friends" are whiny babies who have already said they don't want to "have to deal with your junk". That's OK too. I don't have any family, and I really won't much care, as I probably won't be in a position (post life) to do anything about it anyway.

If I remember correctly, the Webers are wrong. I believe they're side-drafts mounted standing up as down-drafts. All they'd do in reality is dump fuel all over the ground. As correct as mounting a Holley upside down. (Yes, I need to double check the kit to verify this statement.) But some folks just don't care. Which is fine. For them. Have a nice day.

Watching the Dunning-Kruger-effected leading the clueless, and nobody who should really know better stepping up to try to help.

Probably everybody can learn something from this guy. He covers all kinds of tools, materials, and techniques. You owe it to yourself to watch at least one of his videos, and if you like it, subscribe. It's free, of course...and one of the rare free things in life that actually has some value.

I'd suggest you try eBay. There are about 250 listings for Hubley kits at the moment, so surely somebody is into them. You get a worldwide market there. If that doesn't work for you, send me a PM with what you're looking for.

I'm pleased 'cause nobody expects me to work Monday (Christmas eve). And I always take the day after Christmas off too (actually, usually the whole week between Xmas and Jan. 03, but I'll need to work some this year).

Delrin bar stock to make some suspension and engine mount bushings. Aluminum bar stock to make some steering rack bushings. HDPE and brass bar stock for other bushings. A big box of 2 1/8" mandrel bends to build a set of headers for a 572 Chebby in a '66 Chevelle. And a 1" X 6" slice of 7/16" mild steel plate to extend a trans mount.

I wouldn't overlook the ancient Revell parts-pack engine. They're still available fairly cheap in the last repop version, and save the expense of buying a complete car kit just to get an engine. Though it has many parts and is considered unnecessarily "fiddly" by a rather high percentage of modelers, with care, it builds up into a very nice representation of a Ford FE engine. Remarkably, Revell's tooling designers were actually (usually) able to use measuring instruments correctly, and divide by 25, 50-odd years ago (though someone did place a magneto (well, really it's a Spalding Flamethrower dual-coil distributor) at the REAR of the manifold on the blown version, which is ridiculous and quite impossible in reality). I'll be doing a side-by-side Q&B buildup of it and the AMT '60 engines shortly, just to see for myself how they compare.

Agreed about the classic design. I see that the "FASTWAY" decals are cleverly designed with a typeface that would allow using only the TWA for a close simulation of the original markings

Here are pix of that engine...

VERY nice conversion. I followed the build thread. Pretty cool. I have an old AMT parts pack with an old-school TV camera. Its design dates to the 1960s, but you're welcome to the camera if you want it.

Very nice. They always remind me of the Dodge trucks in the old Sean Connery movie Hell Drivers.

Picked up another McLaren. I didn't have a high-wing car with the Bruce-and Denny livery decals. Now I do. One of the others is slated to donate its guts to a McLaren M6GT anyway. As the M8 is evolved from the M6, a conversion-backdating of the chassis to reasonable M6 accuracy is feasible. Not real cheap, but the supply is rapidly drying up...and there won't be any more. Also snagged a twofer pack of Batmobiles cheap. One snapper, one glue. One will be rebuilt as a more accurate Lincoln Futura.

Pretty cool Scott. They're all still available in older packaging. Not very expensive if you shop carefully. These two came in today.

The answer is...it depends. Some filament printers can indeed print with multiple colors, even with multiple materials. The goo+UV-printed wire wheels shown above? I honestly don't know what the deal is there. The prototypes I saw in person were black. Everything black. With the process shown in the video that accompanies this thread, I don't really see how multiple colors could be achieved (but I'm very far from being anything like an "expert" on this tech).

While closing in on the final suspension bits on the bench, I remembered I've been called out for using a 4-link front end setup on a car that represents the late 1940s, early 1950s. While it's true this setup didn't find its way on to many street-rods until Pete and Jake's popularized it in the early '70s, it was in wide use on track cars much earlier. Here are two shots I have on the hard drive for verification from the early '50s. I've seen it in a film released in 1949 as well. Joe Sostilio's car photographed in St.Paul in August of 1951: Wally Campbell's car in 1953:

Yeah baby. This one rings all my bells: resurrecting old gluebombs, heavy mods to convert something to something else, scratch-bashing from a variety of sources, correctly representing vintage historically significant race cars...I'm in.

WAIT... Here you go... https://www.ebay.com/itm/R41W-41-WILLYS-CHASSIS-Model-Car-Mountain-1-25-/142763929723?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10#viTabs_0

I've found them in the past while scrolling through "parts". I just tried "Willys frame" and "street rod frame", and nothing came up right now. This vendor often sells chassis from various kits for projects like yours. https://www.ebay.com/usr/n2flying27?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

Whenever one of these comes up cheap, I'm indulging my passion for the spacecraft proposals from the 1950s and '60s, when we thought we'd really be doing something up there by now. A 1/96 scale Glencoe Lunar Lander was the most recent one to arrive. Bodged up box, but complete and intact inside.

It looks like I'll have a strip about 20'X5' initially. Because there's a decent sized free-standing shop, I figure to use the garage attached to the house as a sculpture studio and still have room for a train layout along one wall.

Still in the box.