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Those who know me are aware that I collect early custom survivors. In fact several of you have aided and abetted me in the pursuit! Dave Darby has a survivor board on Facebook called “Scale Survivors”. I pulled these photos out to share there so I figured I’d give you guys a peek too. The below two cars are as found, no restoration or mods needed. Just as the original builder created them in the 1962 era. They came from different sources, years apart, so they are not from the same builder. I consider these the folk art of our youth! Oh, if these babies could talk! An original AMT Styleline kit from 1962. It uses the kit’s front and rear treatments. What’s unusual is how well they were molded in by original builder. Monkey was one of several mascots AMT included in kits. Wires were found in several different kits. The thing that makes this car unique is the Kaiser peak on the rear window. Expertly done and still manages to use the kit glass. Builder didn’t do much in the interior other than using the kit supplied interior pattern stickers which have stayed in place better than most. Kit contains the reel to reel tape player and those awful plastic seat belts we all love to hate. The Revell 1962 Lancer done in a unique manner. Custom grille and the dual hood scoops! I believe this is the custom roof from the 1957 Thunderbird kit. It creates a prehistoric Barracuda look, as if Chrysler created that car one generation early! It really works here! Side view paint scheme does make car look longer. What’s spooky to me is how much like my old 1:1 1965 Barracuda this resembles! I had the Mopar 340 dual hood scoops on mine! Hope you guys enjoyed these. A lot of folks don’t get the survivor thing, especially early on when I started collecting these over 20 years ago. There were times I would pull one out of a junk box at a show and the dealer would say something like, “too far gone to restore to stock! Music to my ears!

Hi everyone! So, I've been very out of the loop in the modelling world. But now that I finally have a dedicated model desk again, which is quite an upgrade from any of my prior desks... It's time to get back at it. So, my first car (my real one) was sadly sent to the graveyard in the sky. In scrap I was given £22 - just enough for a model kit. I wanted something that I could have forever in memory of it. So, I went to the LHS and picked up Tamiya's Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI kit. Now, I'm no stranger to this kit as some who remember me may know... But I've decided this time to do a different build on it. I'm going to replicate the Mine's Evo, which some of you may know from Gran Turismo. Pics in the next post.

The last finished..

Hi, this is my rebuild of a Lancer Evo VI

Hey guys! This is my first post in under glass even though i've been looking this site almost a year ago. The number of things I leaned is incredible! So Here it is,The Fujimi Lancer Evolution 5 1998. Build OOB,with white rims and flat black wing. The color is Tamiya's brilliant orange. Pictures were taken from my friends Iphone,but i swear ill get some better ones for the upcoming builds Hope The pictures will show up,if so,enjoy