Let's See Some Glue Bombs!

[ranma]

63 Oldsmobile Starfire in Yellow before and painted blue after

Edited April 23, 2016 by ranma

[Snake45]

Opel GT, bought at a flea market for $4 about a year ago. I have an extra hood from an unbuilt kit so can do SOMETHING with it.

Original AMT annual '67 Vette panel wagon. After I got the top off, the body was much too nice to chop out the trunk for a true panel, so I'll probably end up putting the top on a common '63 body and restoring the '67 roadster body as stock.

 

Edited April 23, 2016 by Snake45

[Foxer]

Recycling is alive and well at Model Cars Forum!

And, in GOOD hands!

[ranma]

pretty well the way I bought it. Just a minor rebuild, and BMF applied

[Snake45]

Here's a glue bomb of my own making. The sad remains of an AMT "Sand T," the only rod I ever actually built/finished as a teenager. I gathered up all the pieces and added a few more and "restored" it more or less a couple years ago.

 

 

Edited April 23, 2016 by Snake45

[pack rat]

Found some more.  Thanks to John at Round2 for including the convertible boot in the recent Corvair reissue.  Pics are showing up out of order but I think you can distinguish between the "befores" and "afters".

Edited April 23, 2016 by pack rat

[StevenGuthmiller]

Love this thread.  I wish I had more "before" pics of some of mine 

Those are sweet Mike!!

Especially the '59 Olds!

Now you have me salivating to get going on mine.

Not a glue bomb, but a very nice unpainted built kit.

 

Steve

[Snake45]

Pack Rat, that '66 Corvair brings back memories. I too brush-painted mine back in the day, in a Pactra turquoise IIRC. And sometimes displayed it with the Fitch Sprint top set on it. I don't think I have anything left of that wonderful old model but the instruction sheet.

 

 

[pack rat]

Those are sweet Mike!!

Especially the '59 Olds!

Now you have me salivating to get going on mine.

Not a glue bomb, but a very nice unpainted built kit.

 

Steve

Looking at the pics of my 59 has me salivating to build/restore a '60.......too bad I haven't scored one yet. 

[Snake45]

Got this rare but inaccurate AMT '68 Corvette body in an eBay "junkyard" deal. It came with the interior tub but nothing else. The paint stripped off right nice. I've managed to score a cut-down windshield for it, and have figured out how to make or finagle everything else I need to turn it into a Corvair-powered "kit car."

 

 

 

[Snake45]

Another eBay junkyard score. Somebody had actually glued glitter of some kind into the paint! It all stripped off fine, and underneath was an original annual AMT '63 coupe with the roof cut off. I'll figure out SOMETHING cool to do with it, I assure you!

 

 

[pack rat]

Got this rare but inaccurate AMT '68 Corvette body in an eBay "junkyard" deal. It came with the interior tub but nothing else. The paint stripped off right nice. I've managed to score a cut-down windshield for it, and have figured out how to make or finagle everything else I need to turn it into a Corvair-powered "kit car."

 

 

 

Now THAT'S a nutty idea.  I like it.  How about a Manx chassis?

[StevenGuthmiller]

Looking at the pics of my 59 has me salivating to build/restore a '60.......too bad I haven't scored one yet. 

You just missed it Mike!

I just traded this '60 Olds kit to another member a few weeks ago.

I had another that I already built.

Sorry, no before pics of mine, but it was a glue bomb when I got it.

 

Steve

 

[Mr Stock]

This is turning into one of my favourite threads so far !

Ive just done a deal on a couple more gluebombs from the states so it will be a couple of weeks before I get them, one is an AMT 64 Buick Riviera and the other is an MPC 67 Olds Toronado, Ive been after a Toronado for years, this one has the custom front and rear tretaments so Ill be needing a few parts.

[Skip]

Some pretty amazing examples of "Glue Bombing" even more amazing are some of the restorations you guys have done with them.  Thanks for sharing them.

[pack rat]

You just missed it Mike!

I just traded this '60 Olds kit to another member a few weeks ago.

I had another that I already built.

Sorry, no before pics of mine, but it was a glue bomb when I got it.

 

Steve

 

Oooh that's nice....I gotta get me one.     

[pack rat]

And now for something completely different....

[Sport Suburban]

I have many to restore and love to rebuild them so here are a few of my mine.

AMT 60 Edsel convertible. This is pic is right off of ebay.

This is a 61 Lincoln Continental annual.

This is a 62 Lincoln Continental Annual.

This is an AMT 62 Thunderbird Annual.

Edited April 23, 2016 by Sport Suburban

[Sport Suburban]

AMT 67 Thunderbird Annual

MPC 71 Cuda annual.

AMT 59 Edsel Convertible Annual.

AMT mix 1960 Thunderbird with 59 bumpers.

Edited April 23, 2016 by Sport Suburban

[Sport Suburban]

AMT 67 Barracuda annual.

MPC 68 Charger RT annual.

68 Impala SS.

MPC 72 Camaro SS annual.

Edited April 23, 2016 by Sport Suburban

[Snake45]

Another glue bomb of my own making. All that's left of the Mako Shark I built as a kid. The plan is just to clean it up and stick it on a simple generic chassis of some kind as a relic of my youth. I've collected enough other MS parts to do a nice restoration/rebuild on another one.

Edited April 23, 2016 by Snake45

[FordRodnKustom]

[gtx6970]

You just missed it Mike!

I just traded this '60 Olds kit to another member a few weeks ago.

I had another that I already built.

Sorry, no before pics of mine, but it was a glue bomb when I got it.

 

Steve

 

And I thank you. its sitting safely ,,,but patiently ,  in the stash

Its on my short list ,,,might even be this fall

[D. Battista]

Nice thread...!         Pretty cool stuff and some excellent saves....

often wondered how these models get in this condition....???    wow   !!!!!

[TooOld]

Here's one I finished a few months ago .

Before :

After :