Modelbuilder Mark Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 Great results and a great save as well! Nice!
Tom99 Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 (edited) Here is a 65 Pontiac Grand Prix as the glue bomb I started with, and finished. Edited January 13, 2020 by Tom99
drifterdon Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 Great job on all the rescues guys. Really inspiring work. Makes me want to do one myself but I still need to master my own builds before I rescue someone else's. LOL
Snake45 Posted January 16, 2020 Posted January 16, 2020 Another toy show rescue I was pretty pleased with. Typical MPC DOH Charger, before and after. Same paint, just polished and touched up a little.
Lunajammer Posted January 16, 2020 Posted January 16, 2020 Johan '70 Toronado. The glue was unbelievably bombed, but no paint. At the time (early 90's) the '70 Caddy Eldorado was still available so it donated the chassis, engine, rims and a modified seat.
Scott8950 Posted January 16, 2020 Posted January 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Can-Con said: absolutely amazing!!
ewetwo Posted January 16, 2020 Posted January 16, 2020 37 minutes ago, Scott8950 said: absolutely amazing!! I agree. All of these are amazing. I wish I was as talented.
Oldcarfan27 Posted January 19, 2020 Posted January 19, 2020 On 1/16/2020 at 9:07 AM, Lunajammer said: This one reminds me of an exact Olds bomb that my friend had acquired from a kit show way back in the 90s. I was jealous he found it first. By the time I bought his collection a few years later, he had sadly tried unsuccessfully to take it apart - all to no avail. To this day, I only have a few of the decrepit pieces he had kept and the memories of the one that got away. ?
Rdkingjay Posted January 19, 2020 Posted January 19, 2020 I found this one in a Hobby shop, after the owner of the shop bought a collection. It is the Johan 1960 Plymouth Police Wagon. From the mid 50's to the late 60's, Mass. State Troopers patrolled the Mass Pike in Chrysler wagons, that doubled as ambulances, similar to my Plymouth version here. New bumpers, glass, wheels and tires, to name a few from Modelhaus. A widened and lengthened chassis from the Lindburg A330, which also donated its running gear, engine and tranny. The before and after pics are about 2 years apart, but I tried to stage the "after" pics in the same manner as the "before" ones.
Tom Geiger Posted January 19, 2020 Posted January 19, 2020 Jay, your 60 Plymouth wagon is outstanding! What did you use for the chassis and engine bay?
Lunajammer Posted January 21, 2020 Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) On 1/19/2020 at 11:43 AM, Rdkingjay said: Great work on this Jay. A lot of hard work and time paid off. I especially like the interior, but all of it turned out wonderful. On 1/19/2020 at 12:38 AM, Oldcarfan27 said: This one reminds me of an exact Olds bomb that my friend had acquired from a kit show way back in the 90s. Yes, I acquired this one back in the 90's too at the end of a show. It was in a box of glue bombs the vendor was literally throwing away. As a saver, I couldn't bear to see plastic go to the dumpster. I didn't start taking pics of the Toronado until after I'd cleaned up a lot of the glue splotches across the body, so it was worse than the pics show. Edited January 21, 2020 by Lunajammer
89AKurt Posted January 21, 2020 Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) I misspoke earlier, this project was not a glue bomb, the body had been brush painted yellow, and the engine was missing. I had a 427 left over from a project last century, learned it makes a huge difference when kit-bashing a 1/24 scale engine with a 1/25 scale car! Edited January 21, 2020 by 89AKurt add engine pic
89AKurt Posted January 21, 2020 Posted January 21, 2020 On 1/16/2020 at 10:06 AM, Can-Con said: [...] Amazing save, that's the spirit of this thread! I would have totally overlooked that model.
Tom Geiger Posted January 21, 2020 Posted January 21, 2020 How 'bout this one? Someone gave me this busted old '63 Valiant body. That's all I had! Mated it with the chassis from a junker AMT 71 Duster, and a roof from a '64 Valiant I am building into a convertible to match one I used to own. And a ton of work and sweat later we have this!
Lunajammer Posted January 23, 2020 Posted January 23, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 12:00 PM, Tom Geiger said: Way to go Tom! Talk about creating something out of nothing.
59 Impala Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 Here is a Mako Shark that I built many moons ago and finally decided to rebuild it.
MrObsessive Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 Kurt, that looks reeeaaly good! Love the paint fade on the lower body!
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