House of 13 Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 New kid? Not so much a kid maybe, I just stubbornly refuse to accept the fact, that I turned 50 last month....! Greetings fellow earthlings, just signed away my life to join this waterhole, to help get the juices flowing even more in a bit of a situation where the mojo teases and haunts you! As it is, I've mostly tooled around with the 1/72, 1/48, 1/32, 1/35, 1/24 and 1/350 scales and things that goes boom....and I thought that I'd try to be more civilised and dip my toes in the cars etc., etc., pond.... At the moment, I'm playing around with a White Freightliner, a '49 Ford, '51 Chevy and a '57 Chevy, plus I'm waiting for the arrival of three '37 Fords, two Stacey David '32 Rat Roadsters (which I didn't expect to win on the bay) and engine parts....oh, almost forgot, three chopped top '36 Ford bodies is in the mail as well! Also looking to get parts to detail these power eggs, which should be fun....never done that before! Eeerrrrmmmmm....I'm also a bit of rail railfan (huge is closer to the truth), being somewhat obsessed, fanatic with the Milwaukee Road, but that's a completely different story! Love my Mopars, but I do enjoy the other makes as well, all the way up to about -70/71, after that everything went pear shaped, love old school hot rods, kustoms, Nascar....as the saying goes, there's no school like old school! That's enough ramblings for a day, or night, as its 01:56 am here in the UK.... Wait....before I leave, where can I get my dirty mittens on a 1/25 Chrysler 413 Long Cross Ram engine? All the best, Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramfins59 Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Welcome to our plastic playground Jan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of 13 Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 Many thanks Richard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Welcome aboard Jan! As far as your engine, you might want to keep a lookout for eBay (US). If you check this out here, there's some past auctions that did have the very thing you're looking for. They do turn up from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of 13 Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 Thank you very much Bill, appreciated! Have a few ideas which includes one of these beauties.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of 13 Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 What I'm fiddling with at the moment....the Freightliner is out of the pic, top right corner, she'll be a Consolidated Freighways girl when finished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 32 minutes ago, House of 13 said: Thank you very much Bill, appreciated! Have a few ideas which includes one of these beauties.... You're welcome Jan! That happens to be one of my favorite early '60's Mopar engines. I was looking for a pic I have of a Ross Gibson's engine kit. I thought I took a pic of it but I guess I didn't. I want to do a future project of this '61 Chrysler I've got with that engine in it. I'd LOVE to have it look like this one........... Some bodywork would be needed. The front end IMO is a tad short (checked with my architect's dividers) and of course there's emblem and interior changes that need done. BTW, nice set of projects you've got going on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of 13 Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 Cool stuff Bill....and thanks again! Yeah, I do try to keep that wee mojo flame burning, in one way or another....buying more kits/parts being one way! Just bought the '57 Ford 312 Supercharged engine parts on Ebay, thought that I'd try to fit in a '56 Ford Customline 2 Door Sedan, make an old traffic lights warrior of her, that is....if I can still get a resin body! One of the '37 Fords that I'm waiting on, is the Classic Cruiser Sedan....plans for that one: a fenderless rat rod of some sort! Looking at the Chrysler 300 here, one of my very best friends back in Sweden, he owns two '57 Chryslers, one four door New Yorker and a 300C in that almost coffee brown colour, one of 18 I think and with only three left if I remember correctly.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of 13 Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 My buddy's 300C....it's not his garage here, even though he wishes that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 1 OOOOH! That is nice! I have that kit too (two actually......one for another project), but the glass on that kit leaves much to be desired IMO. That's a pet peeve of mine------distorted glass which this kit has to my view. I'll build it someday and that is a nice color for that '57. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of 13 Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 Nice one! Probably end up getting one myself as well at some point.... Fully understandable that, nobody likes distorted glass....one of my pet peeves, those molded in exhausts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldiablo78 Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Welcome n have fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of 13 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 Thank you very much Jean-Pierre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Welcome to the madness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of 13 Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 Many thanks Larry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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