Balsa wood shoebox, anyone?

[CB]

Cool little ? project from an old 'Model Craft Handbook' (1952)

published by 'Science and Mechanics'. Picked it up in a pile of old

Popular Science mags at flea market awhile back. Just blows my

mind that it's pretty much all balsa wood! -- even the front bumper!

"This electrically powered replica of the popular low-priced Ford

uses ordinary flashlight cells for juice"

(what am I laughin' for? I'll probly wind up makin' one )

[Guest Gramps-xrds]

You should build it. It'll keep you out of trouble for a while.

A long while

Edited August 11, 2009 by Gramps-xrds

[george 53]

DO IT!!! John, this'd be RIGHT up your alley! Than ya'll cun jes freak it out like ya likes ta do!!!!

[Foxer]

That IS pretty incredible! Even has an engine.. and looks as good as AMT's version!

[CB]

Well George, I do gots plans fer a wooden build, but aint gonna be no shoebox.

Already gots some big drawings of a 1947 Olds convert what I planz on buildem up

soons I figures out my 'soons I's'

This here shoebox give me couple ideas for the Olds build, and

oncet I gets started on it,

I's gonna be makin' a lot of dust,

fer a really lomg time!!!

Good one Gramps! Ya got me good!

[CB]

That IS pretty incredible! Even has an engine.. and looks as good as AMT's version!

How's bout that starter switch Mike? Gotta watch it don't sideswipes no wall on the drivers side

or it'll turn itself off!

Still, way cool how they prety much scratched every thing on it

[samdiego]

Check my avatar, I started with the same kit

[84vanagon]

Check my avatar, I started with the same kit

!

[elan]

You had to be a pretty good woodworker to be a modeler in those days. I imagine paint was alot cheaper in those days too. All you needed was a pint of wall paint and you could do 50 cars. No need for a spray booth, just a roller

Edited August 12, 2009 by elan

[62rebel]

that's the way my Dad built 'em... sheet of plans and some balsa wood. i got a picture of a model T touring car he built when he was ten or eleven (1950!) and he said he had to steam-bend the fenders to get them curved right. he showed me a Hawk kit once that was little more than some unplated white metal parts and a half carved block of balsa...