64Comet404

Great looking build of that kit. I have had one in the stash for a while to build a copy of my company demo ('01 ZX3 auto in Twilight Blue), but have put it on the sale pile after finding a 1:18 diecast at a thrift shop.

I used to have this kit, and always wanted to convert it back to the actual aircraft's last configuration prior to being returned to Britain for restoration. It had been flying in British Columbia as a bush plane for Pacific Western Airlines, powered by a pair of P&W radials. Whiskey Jack used to have the decals, but they're probably long OOP.

I picked up my copy last Saturday, and thought it was a good read. It's not enough to make me re-evaluate my views on the closure of Scale Auto, or have any desire to want to subscribe to FSM. The money wasted in mailing me renewal notices could have gone into providing some automotive related content in their current publication (soon to be merged into Model Railroader, I'm certain).

I found a '67 T-Bird radio at a sale decades ago, and used to keep it on my desk when I worked at a Ford dealer. I should bring it out of storage and see if it still works (removed the battery before storing!)

You can't really go wrong with any of your choices. The MPC '63 is a great looking kit, but so are the Monogram '65 and '67 kits. The '63 has the greatest parts count, while the 1/8 scale is almost like building a regular 1/24 Monogram kit, apart from the size.

Not as much time as I would like, unfortunately. I was getting in a few hours a week up until a month ago, but since then I have been extremely busy with teaching and grading. I need to get back to building for a couple of hours a week, just to get something finished.

I learned to drive in an '84 Toyota SR5 Supercab. Dad taught me how to drive a stick, but I was pretty clumsy back then. There was one time we were parked on a bit of an incline, and Dad told me to give it more gas and turn the wheel. It did make it up...then kept turning and crashed into the back bumper of the neighbour's new Chrysler 600 (rubbing compound fixed the other car). My driver's ed car was an '87-88 Pontiac Sunbird 4 door. Brake pedal in the passenger's side footwell, never felt comfortable driving it. Failed my first test with too many demerits. Interestingly, the driver's ed school had old promos that were used to demonstrate manouvers on the blackboard...a JoHan '70 Roadrunner and a couple of early MPC Dusters! I tried to convince them to let me trade for newer promos, but they wouldn't go for it! Finally got my licence in my Dad's brand new 1988 F150 XLT, regular cab with an 8' box. You can parallel park that, you can parallel park anything!

That '83 ragtop is a difficult kit to locate nowadays. I have one that I bought with a built interior and engine; the New Monkees kit came in handy for replacements that I don't have to prime and seal in order to paint in light colours!

Between the tweezers-style and the Tamiya side cutters, all my needs are covered. I have a pair of Tamiya cutters I bought 25 years ago (for $40!) and they still work great. I recently bought another pair, and they still cost $40! One of the few things which hasn't been affected by inflation.

Keep the swirly plastic, Adam. It's the main concept that differentiates this car from any other Mustang. Why the 'brains' behind the show would want a faux-marble effect on a car is another matter...

Really good looking build, wish Tamiya would do more vintage pieces.

It's a Fujimi mold. I think most of the modern (for the time) Road and Track series were sourced from Fujimi.

Picked up these pieces at the LHS today.

I would say that the wood on the Hupmobile was probably polished. This was still an era in which these cars were considered 'luxury' items, rather than mass-produced transportation, and painted wood would not convey the fact you had spent some serious money on your new-fangled horseless carriage.

When I was younger, there was a distributor who was a bit more...liberal, shall we say, on what constituted damage to a returned kit. They would place a bilingual sticker on the sides of the box, re-shrink the product, and send it back out to the shops. You would open up boxes and find everything from assembled engines right up to fully assembled and painted glue bombs. I always opened these kits before I left the mall.

The V6 engines can be found in certain old Revell ASA series kits. All the Fords had the V6 engine included, but the only ASA Chevy with the six was the # 52 Camaro. The 17 and 84 cars came with a V8.

I can get to within 30 miles of my 'local' Ollie's, but unless someone wants to float kits across the St. Lawrence, I'm completely out of luck...?

Gorgeous build. As a rider of an R-series bike, I always love seeing builds of boxer-engined Beemers.

About 30 years ago, a friend and I went into a clear-out shop where they had a bunch of Pochers they were selling for under $100 apiece. I didn't buy any that day, but I think my friend went back later to buy some to sell at shows.

The "King T" also had a long string of changes over the years, though the changes have tended to be ...more aesthetically pleasing, shall we say, than what happened to the Wild Dream. Changed to the Carl Casper Paddy Wagon (much different than Monogram's), then the Fire Truck, then the Outcast, then back-dated to the Fire Truck. The Outcast was the least attractive, but it still wasn't that bad for the era.

I have had some of Palmer's anatomical models over the years. They do look much more accurate than the car kits ever did.

Good eye for the era of chassis. The MPC B-body chassis started life with the 1965 Coronet kit, and has been moved from kit to kit ever since. It may the most produced kit chassis in modelling history, based on the number of popular kits it has been found in.

Wasn't the Monte Carlo promo produced by AMT? I can't remember seeing a stock MPC Monte, but anything is possible in modelling.

The later Cougar models from Revell dropped the supercharged V6 and provided a 5.0 EFI engine. The 3.8 was a good engine, providing the head gaskets stayed intact. I bought a '90 LS from the wholesale lot at work, and one of my salesmen bought a similar '91 at the same time. I paid $200 more for the '90, because the '90 came with Michelin tires, and had been maintained by our service department. A week and a half after the purchase, the salesman's '91 ate a head gasket and needed engine repair. I drove mine without any mechanical issues for two and a half years, and only sold it when rust became an issue.

Having owned both the kits and the real cars, you have done a great job in capturing the 'look' of a '64 Comet. Great job!