Can you guess what's missing here?

[LUKE'57]

Can you guess what's missing here?

While I was going through some stuff when I got home last night I found a diecast kit I had bought some time ago when Wallyworld was phasing out the models. Usually the only time I buy diecast is to use for "lot lice"to use as background for my photo shoots because I don't have to build them and they are extremely durable.

But, the subject matter ('56 T-bird) and the price (regularly $14.94 marked down to $4.00) helped me to make an exception and take a chance that the roughed up box didn't disguise lost parts.

I started cutting parts off the sprues while I was waiting on some pictures to download (dial up is a pain) and built this little Thanksgiving 'bird in between my surfing in about an hour. Seeing as how it's the first thing I've built in over a year, and it turned out pretty good, maybe I can get revved up to build some "real" models over the winter.

Not what I would have picked on the color (Tuxedo Black would have been my first choice) but with tampoed emblems I was pretty much stuck with this. Maybe it'll grow on me but I don't think so.

Oh yeah, what's missing? This is the first model I've built in about twenty years or more that doesn't have numbers on the doors or sponsors on the quarter panels. Maybe that's why that color looks strange to me. LOL

[Eshaver]

Jerry , I remember the Thunderbirds , they were part of the television show , I forget the name where the Catholic school girl is growing up in the early sixties . Yes it was pretty much a truthful representation of life then in surburbia . Ed Shaver

[Joe Handley]

I was going to guess mirrors, didn't even think about the lack of race car parts on it

[roadhawg]

I've been admiring Jerry's work for 5 years now....as soon as I clicked on the thread and saw the picture, I knew EXACTLY what was missing!!!

Looks great for a non-race car!

[LUKE'57]

  roadhawg said:

I've been admiring Jerry's work for 5 years now....as soon as I clicked on the thread and saw the picture, I knew EXACTLY what was missing!!!

Looks great for a non-race car!

Thanks Tommy but am I gettin' that predictible? LOL

Edited November 28, 2009 by LUKE'57