Ace-Garageguy

Yup.

Another rough little bugger that's had a hard life. Somebody who apparently didn't quite have the skills started filling the rear door shut lines to make this a 2-door. Happily for the little car, they quit before doing irreparable harm. After I re-scribe them, she's going to join my cadre of AF/X-cars-that-never-were and oddball gassers.

How cool would it be to see Revell tool up a set of Ardun heads to go on their V8-60 from the Midget kit, and stick them in a box with all the bits to build this?

Sir...I understand completely, and I for one am well aware of what it takes to get from where you are now to plastic parts in a box. I applaud everything Moebius has released over the last few years, and wish you and your company much success for many years to come. When these two new ones hit the shelves, several of each will go home with me.

A woman I've been seeing lately is young enough to be my grand-daughter. Does that count?

That gap between the turret top and the body seems to be healing nicely...though I'd respectfully suggest you check some photos of the real things to see how that line resolves across the back, and under the quarter windows. In your photo, it appears there's a double crease under the quarter glass that isn't on the real cars. Getting this seam exactly right is very often what makes a model of a '36 Ford extra special.

The proportions he's chopped that A body down to are similar to a Bantam roadster too. Hmmmmmm....

Slightly off topic here, but I've about resigned myself to the necessity of making good molds and duplicating some of the parts that are hard to come by. I've bought quite literally hundreds of kits, and in many cases many multiples of the same kit, just to get particular parts. I think it's time to start manufacturing my own, rather than continuing to load up the shelves with kits I'll probably never use just to get an axle here or a set of wheels there or an engine somewhere else. Revell's and AMT's parts-packs went a long way to fill some of the available-separately component gaps, but AMT's line hasn't changed much since the 1960s (though I'm very happy to have theirs in production again) and Revell doesn't even bother anymore.

Are you wanting to build something stock, or a gasser, or pro-touring, or what?

If you click the link under the photo at the top of the thread, it's all there. There don't appear to be functional doors on either side, and the oddly truncated line down low is just from doing a somewhat Q&D shortening job on the body. "Cycle" fenders were routinely made by using the rings from spare tire covers, and I'd tend to place the babe in the very late '50s or early '60s...which works, as the article states the photos date from 1960. He's running recapped slicks on the rear, too.

You have my vote...especially since there's such a shortage of wagon ANYTHING in styrene.

Just seriously hard to believe THAT got past ANYONE. It's the absolute FIRST thing that jumped out at me, and it simply defies any rational explanation. While I really like the old GM-brochure style of illustration, an artist working in those days would have been shot for presenting a drawing that made the car look like it just came out of a third-rate body shop.

I looked at other photos of this, and the little car has remarkably good proportions considering how much engine room is necessary ahead of the firewall. And it's truly front-mid-engined. Probably handled kinda OK. It looks like the builder took handling into consideration, judging from the apparent same-size tires all around, rather than the hot-rod de rigueur big-n-littles. Interesting thing about the Caddy V16...this one, dating from the 1930s, was an overhead-valve design with the first production use of hydraulic lifters. Caddy's next V16 design was a flathead...definitely a step backwards technologically.

Very clean. Fine fine FINE looking model.

Beautiful model.

Very clean, paint looks great. Definitely a job to be proud of.

X2. That said, it's very wise of Moebius to do hi-def 3D models prior to cutting tools. EVERY dimension and line issue can be COMPLETELY resolved prior to committing the big tooling bucks. It is the old adage of "measure twice (or as many times as it takes to get it right), cut once" taken to its logical conclusion using modern technology. And THAT said, I like both the choices. The little Novas are very popular in the real world in a variety of flavors from straight stock to full-blown nostalgia gassers. I've wanted to do a Nova gasser for some time myself, but the availability of foundation material hasn't been the best. That particular body style Ford truck is coming on strong in reality too. There are several in my area, mostly running the slightly ratty faux "shop truck" look. As I already have the old unibody version, the separate bed versions and the step-side in particular will be most welcome. But please...get these things looking right. It's far easier for a modeler to correct slight fit and flash issues (if there has to be a trade-off made for some reason) than it is to correct poorly or inaccurately rendered proportions and lines.

Thank you. That's the only model of one I've seen in other than HO scale. Being 1/48, it should be easy enough for me to double the dimensions and scratch something reasonably accurate. Thank you too Luc. It was seeing your completed Wespe resin kit of the CCKW that sparked my interest in trying to find more 1/24 US military vehicles. I have a particular soft spot for the gun-trucks used in Vietnam.

That seems a reasonable price. Thanks.

At least 2 feral cats live on my property, and I feed them just enough to keep them around. Several species of hawks frequent the neighborhood. I occasionally see a small one zipping through the branches in pursuit of a songbird, and sometimes I'll see one of the big ones sitting in a tree, studying something on the ground. I've seen one take a rabbit. There's at least one large owl that makes the rounds at night (a great horned owl judging by its call). There are also several tame neighborhood cats. One of the feral cats looks VERY pregnant, so maybe in a year or so, there will be enough predators. And...there's SOME kind of animal that's not above scavenging. Any dead rats I put outside in the cat-bowl at night are invariably gone in the AM...as many as 4 at a time. I can't imagine the cats eating that much rat in one night. I know there's at least one possum and probably at least one raccoon...but they're not exactly predators, though they will eat dead things. What with the crows that always seem to clean up dead squirrels and other road-kill, plus the aforementioned wildlife, I don't want to use poison on the rats. Those ultrasonic repellents seem to be useless too. I guess it's just keep setting the traps. And maybe it's time to put some cameras around to see just exactly who is eating what.

Nah. It's gonna be a "nostalgia" retool of a Palmer kit. Ought to satisfy all those who have "fun" playing with "toys" just fine. The "scale modelers" among us can just scratch-build something worth having.

RATS II. Had a stench in the kitchen I couldn't find a source for. Eventually tracked it to a trap I'd set behind the stove a couple of years back and forgot. It didn't catch anything, apparently, until about a week and a half ago. This makes 14 so far just during the fall season. Last time I had an upturn in furry invaders, an old building down the street had been torn down to make way for a new gas-station. The displaced critters moved up the street a block to MY wooded property, and then into the house when the weather turned cool. I have no idea what's driving this high a population this season, but the good news is that I heard a great horned owl outside last night. Here's hoping he'll stick around long enough to eat a few.

I build models pretty much as if they were real. Things like realistic ride height, enough room inside front wheel housings to steer, correct suspension design for the most part, correct clearances between moving and non-moving parts...that kind of stuff...I get pretty close to right because after almost 50 years of building real stuff that can't break down, that's just the way I approach models. There's a limit to how close you can approach absolute scale fidelity in smaller scales like 1/24-1/25, but for the most part, you could measure my models and scale them up...and they'd be pretty damm close. Engineers and designers often use scale models to test ideas and component arrangements, and that wouldn't work, or have any value as a design-evaluation tool, if the concept of "scale and functionally correct" wasn't followed pretty closely.