What did you get today? (Model Car Related Items)

[Robberbaron]

On 4/21/2022 at 9:02 PM, dave branson said:

I got this interesting kit to day.

 

 

Interesting, never saw one of those.

At first glance that looked like a shorty 2nd gen Corvair...

[PatW]

On 4/18/2022 at 9:38 PM, martinfan5 said:

Lookin' very good!

[PatW]

On 4/12/2022 at 11:43 AM, Matt Bacon said:

Which contains all this lot:

best,

M.

WOW!

[Modlbldr]

Got my order of bits and a drill from Micro-Mark today. The last sets of drill bits I got off-line were from China and couldn't drill their way out of a wet paper sack! I know these work since I still have a few from 30 years ago.

Later-

[Spottedlaurel]

Birthday money now well and truly spent:

The Terrano has lots of alternative/extra parts - for the sake of a different grille there's a complete sprue containg a load of duplicate stuff, including a front bumper that is very close to what I need on a current WIP.

I have an older version of the Tamiya Fairlady (280ZX) which was bought part-built and needs some disassembly, didn't realise until last week that it had been reisssued. The bodyshell is now in white, not black like the original. Still has the top half of an engine under the bonnet but the little battery-powered motor has gone!

This issue of the BJ44 Land Cruiser will come in handy with its alternative tops. I have a military truck version with no top, so I can use one of them on that and create a couple of different civilian models. I usually see one or two each year when visiting France.

[W Humble]

Glue bomb '62 BelAir bubbletop for ten bucks at the 1\1 swap meet in Woodland CA.  Ugly blue rattle can paint which I'm stripping.  OC it had the legendary 409.

The instruction blurb (who did AMT pay to write those things, anyhow?) was wrong on the orign of the "W" motor: it was not a converted or adapted truck motor at all, but simply a new larger-capacity block that Chevy designed for both cars and truck applications simultaneously.  I know, I repeated the old urban legend about the truck origns myself in the 'sixties -- mainly as a slam at an engine I didn't appreciated, vs. the small block that I drove -- but it simply isn't true.  I'm sorry that the author of that paragraph repeated the mistake twice.  Or to put it another way, the SBC was a truck motor that also got introduced in cars simultaneously, I suppose.  The design team at Chevy wrote a well documented paper for the SAE Journal (the bible for auto engineers, in which they dare not tell lies to one another!) in '57, and the facts are pretty clear on the topic!  Research is research, and I did this in 1978 when the principals could still be interviewed 'real time'.

Also, the AMT hack said in the blurb for the '57 Ford Fairlane that it was introduced with a cow-belly frame (good desing; belled out toward the rockers) versus what Chevy premiered with the X-frame then, and everyone knows that the '57 retained the ladder-style frame of the '55, the controversial X not being debuted until 1958.  Both errors stated in print; and the printed word becomes a document that endures -- sadly in these cases!  There: I got that off my chest!

BTW: I have far too many scale "W"s in my stash, but using some strip styrene, filler, and parts-box BBC valve covers, I've made a number of credible Porcupine/Mk. lV/Rat/BBC representations, which have far more applications than the old 'W" for me.  Long live the SBC!

[89AKurt]

10 hours ago, bluestringer said:

Here it is. As you can see the kit is molded in red, which I do not like. 

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Thank you.  Yea, same promo style chassis.  Well, in olden times red bled through paint, so hope they fixed that.

I must be stupid, sold 13 models at the Desert Scale swap today, and blew 4/5 of the proceeds on only 3 kits.  Add the paint and p-e weld lines.

[W Humble]

Sheesh: I left out a word in my comment on the AMT instruction blurb mistake on the '57 Ford kit!  It should have read 'the '57 CHEVY retained the ladder-style frame'; sounds like I meant the '57 Ford!  

Despite all of GM's stats regarding the increased stiffness of their X-style frame (introduced on the '57 Caddie) it didn't seem to racers to be superior.  However, the GM models using it, primarily Chevy and Pontiac, had a respectable percentage of wins on the speedways in that period -- this, despite the General's non-support of racing its products.  The '61 Pontiac was a dominator, but it had gone to a perimeter frame by then, dumping the X- entirely, which I suppose could be called a variation on the ladder frame.  Anyhoo; the blurb was wrong; don't use it fora footnote when writing car stuff meant to be taken seriously?!

[Straightliner59]

On 4/23/2022 at 3:26 PM, Modlbldr said:

Got my order of bits and a drill from Micro-Mark today. The last sets of drill bits I got off-line were from China and couldn't drill their way out of a wet paper sack! I know these work since I still have a few from 30 years ago.

Later-

I recently purchased a couple of tubes--a dozen each of two sizes--of Gyros bits for about ten bucks per, on Ebay. Theirs are good bits, and that's about half the price of the hobby shop.

[Zen]

#213 showed up today!

[Straightliner59]

1 hour ago, Zen said:

#213 showed up today!

Same, here!

[martinfan5]

What I bought at DSC this past weekend,  getting some of the kits I built when in my childhood/teen years

[martinfan5]

On 4/23/2022 at 10:23 PM, 89AKurt said:

Thank you.  Yea, same promo style chassis.  Well, in olden times red bled through paint, so hope they fixed that.

I must be stupid, sold 13 models at the Desert Scale swap today, and blew 4/5 of the proceeds on only 3 kits.  Add the paint and p-e weld lines.

Haha I was vending right behind you Kurt!,

[Ace-Garageguy]

Ancient Monogram Mercedes 300 SLR in a crushed box, cheap. Kinda a roll-o'-the-dice, as it was sealed, but it's fine inside.

                                         

Second one of these now, first one slated to be a reasonably accurate model of 722, and the new one to form the basis of a W 196 streamliner, the forerunner to the 300.

                               

Nobody makes a 1/24 196 'liner to the best of my knowledge, save the Franklin Mint version. There appear to be nice 1/18 representations, but most of the models I've seen...and even a full-scale insanely expensive alloy-bodied "re-creation"...come out looking bulbous and fat rather than svelte and aggressive.

It's apparently a difficult shape to get right, as voluptuous race car bodies often are, but anyone familiar with my Revell Challenger 1 backdate will see what it takes.

 

Edited April 25, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[W Humble]

Ace: I sprung for the Challenger I and Ivo's Buick X 4 when they first came out, and... both defeated me.  Still have a few parts, though.  I build a little better now! Still, some of those old Revell kits -- like the original '56 F100?!

I'm doing a 'period' LSR car with two Cad V-16's now, and a 'Hillbilly Showboat' with four Ford Y-blocks, dual slicks, etc.  Wick

[Paul Payne]

I got- my fingers dirty! Been weathering the Power Wagon with pastels! Much easier than laying on a shiny perfect paint job.......................and fun!

[sfhess]

I picked up a few things at the Desert Scale Classic on Saturday.

AMT 75-76 T-top Camaro and 69 Cougar Street Machine from Andy Kallen's collection

Revell Germany VW Corrado from Kurt Womack (Thanks!!)

Mickey Thompson 1/16 Grand Am Funny Car

Some 95 Chevy Silverados.  Donors for a couple of projects

VW 23-window bus in a bag

Porsche 914 and AMT 58 Impala raffle prizes.

3rd place Factory Stock plaque.  What a nice surprise!

 

 

[89AKurt]

3 hours ago, martinfan5 said:

Haha I was vending right behind you Kurt!,

I shoulda been less anti-social. ?

1 hour ago, sfhess said:

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Revell Germany VW Corrado from Kurt Womack (Thanks!!)

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3rd place Factory Stock plaque.  What a nice surprise!

Welcome!  Congrats on the award. ?

[Cool Hand]

Some products from Texas 3D Customs, very impressed with the high quality of the prints.

 All 1:24.

Supercharged Chev 572

 

Ford Boss 302

 

Ford GT350 5.2L

 

Toyota 2JZ-GTE, single turbo top mount 

 

Nissan RB26 HKS, single turbo top mount, manual gear box, rear wheel drive.

Twin turbo set up was included by mistake, it is not an optional part when ordering the single turbo engine set.

 

Weld Draglites

 

Edited April 26, 2022 by Cool Hand

[slusher]

On 4/23/2022 at 1:56 PM, Captain Spaulding said:

A new hobby shop recently opened about 45 minutes from me, went to check it out figuring they might have a kit I want.

I was happy but don't think my wallet was.

Really nice kits you picked up..

[slusher]

13 hours ago, martinfan5 said:

What I bought at DSC this past weekend,  getting some of the kits I built when in my childhood/teen years

so nice building those kits again..

[Mike C.]

Finally got my 2nd order from Fireball. Lots of off road tires,wheels and goodies. The vintage accessory lights come with the KC daylighter happy faces (but not enough). Anybody make more? Got the Chevy truck door handles to correct those tiny ones on the Monograms. Luvin' these Western Hurricane wheels. They were the "it" wheel years ago.

 

 

Edited April 26, 2022 by Mike C.

[Mike C.]

More.

[#1 model citizen]

2 hours ago, Mike C. said:

More.

Those are some nice looking wheels!

[Mike C.]

I wish I could say the same for my pics. Joseph makes really nice stuff. I'm a big fan of his tires. Those Super swampers are really nice and the Mudkings are also.