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After a year's absence, the Kingston Scale Auto Model Car Club is back with our annual Modelrama, but with a twist...we have adopted NNL rules for the contest! Date: Mate 5, 2019, 9:00-3:30 Location: Royal Canadian Legion Branch #560, 734 Montreal Street, Kingston, Ontario (3.2 km South of Highway 401, Exit 619) Theme: Orphans-Makes and Models No Longer Made Hope to see you there! Jan 19 Front - 2019 Kingston Modelrama NNL.doc Jan 19 Rear - 2019 - Kingston Modelrama NNL .doc

I eventually went with a modified version of JC's technique. Since I had shot the rims with a coat of Tamiya Smoke, I didn't want to risk lifting the undercoat with thinned acrylic. I went into my swap meet stash, and found a bottle of Testor's 1149 Flat Black. I gave up using Testor's as a wash years ago, because I was tired of rubbing the chrome off the parts during clean-up, but the undercoat definitely made a difference in the application. Thanks to all the people who provided suggestions for my dilemma.

IIRC, the AMT '69 grille is smaller than the El Camino's grille opening. There was a post in the Kit Reviews section showing the Revell '68 grille into the Elco body; it did not fit exactly, but it was a lot closer. You may want to wait and see if Revell comes out with a '69 Chevelle kit, and try making that grille work.

I haven't measured them in a while, but the Brass series cars seem to be pretty accurate for scale. Apart from the manufacturer, they share little in design traits with the cheaper kits ('37/'52/'57 Chevs and '40/'49 Fords) that keep getting reissued by Lindberg.

I am currently working on a Monogram '70 Buick GSX, and I'm trying to find a way to paint those recessed areas on the rims. I have considered painting the back and removing any slips with thinner, but I have already sprayed the rims with Tamiya Smoke to cut back on the shine. Any suggestions?

They are pretty nice kits for the era. Good details and some bodies that have never been done by other manufacturers.

Most of the kits I built as a kid are long gone, having been played with to death. Of the kits that I had, the ones I really searched for were as follows: Monogram Vega Mini-Van Revell Buttera '26 T Sedan Monogram original series muscle cars Monogram Ferrari 250 GTO/Maserati 3500 Lindberg 1/32 street rods Airfix 1/32 passenger cars One day, I plan to actually get off my rear and get them on to the build table... oh wait, I need to get a spot for a build table!

I seem to recall an actual news story, from many years ago, where a T-shirt vendor made the same mistake in spelling, and ended up with lots of unsalable merchandise bearing the message "I saw the potato!" An excellent job on completing a great looking shelf build. I've always liked the real car, but I sold the kits when I realized the difficulty in making a good looking build from the kit contents.

Looking good so far. Are you planning to change the grille and headlights to reflect the 1:1 changes?

Great looking build, Paul. My family had the notchback version when I was young, and I wouldn't mind having a good version in the collection. I keep hoping Hasegawa will tool it, since they have already built the pick-up version.

The Lotus and Honda are the only ones that Tamiya has done in 1/20. If you want to go a bit farther afield, Ebbro has done some nice F1 kits, and the company does have a link to Tamiya (though I can't remember what it is at the moment). Hope this helps!

Hope you enjoy the build. It is a kit that almost falls together, though the windshield does require a bit of patience to assemble cleanly. Good luck!

I think a lot of the differences between the two kits came down to company philosophies. Aurora tended to be the first one out of the blocks with new kits, so product research was probably limited to magazine test pictures of the 2+2, and a look at whatever Mustang was in the vicinity of the factory. AMT was dealing with Ford for promotional models, so they would have access to design drawings and precise measurements for tooling.

It's a great looking kit, but the entire premise of the plane is scary. Thankfully, the regime surrendered before these contraptions were used in anger. BTW, great article and build on the Grunau Baby in SAMI. Another example of German ingenuity at work!

You would need to grab a set of rear fenders from an AMT '41 Woody (Sportsmans used the SD fenders, wagon should be close), and use sheet and strip plastic for the rest. It would make for a great looking build though.

Great looking build! I have one of these that I have been puttering away on for the past few years, and need to get it back on the workbench. If the latest set of decals gives you issues, you may want to check out the ones made by Indycals. Their products can be found on www.indycals.net.

I saw one of those kits for sale yesterday at the Fulton, NY show. It was the first one I had ever seen for sale, and it was reasonably priced ($250). I just couldn't justify buying it, even though I could have told myself that it was an 'investment'.

This is a great kit, with lots of detail. A reissue will solve the main problem with the original kit; the decals yellowed before they left the factory!!! I sold mine last year, and occasionally kick myself for getting rid of it.

Those Matchbox planes are great builds; different subject matter, and decent fit. These are the kits I recommend to my students when they want to build a kit without a lot of painting, or trying out a biplane build for the first time.

I have most of my grail kits, but one day I hope to pick up a '59 Mercury and a '63 Imperial ragtop.

Fascinating article to read. I find it interesting that the '49 Ford on the cover is already displaying a bit of warpage on the body.

Next year's contest should have a better date, Howard. We generally try and book for the first two Saturdays after Labour Day, but other events booked at the site shoved us farther into September than we would have liked.

Excellent pictures, Dan. I didn't have much of a chance to look at the display tables, so it's nice to see what I missed.

As some of you on the board may have heard, a tornado touched down in the Ottawa area on Friday, September 21st. It caused serious damage in some sections of the Ottawa and Gatineau regions, fortunately without loss of life. One of the major areas of infrastructure affected was the transformer station at Merivale. Right now, it has been out for almost 20 hours, and some areas of the city may be out for at least another day. This transformer station left almost 300,000 people without power, and also left our venue in the dark. We waited for the power to come back on, but it didn't happen. As the venue would not allow the show to proceed without power (dark, with no fire control or toilet facilities), we were forced to postpone the show. The new date is next Saturday, September 29th, at the same location. While we realize this date puts us in conflict with the Group 25 show in Toronto, our choice of dates was limited by other events (since our contest is held in a church Sunday is not an option!). We would like to thank all the people who travelled to our contest, and hope that we will see you next Saturday.