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

[niteowl7710]

Items grabbed at a local model show Sunday. 

[Tom Geiger]

Lost and Found?

This Renault Dalphene  has been lost over 20 years.. probably 25!  I bought it back in the day at a show with all the panels expertly cut out. I have all those parts, but this body and chassis have been gone forever. I figured it must’ve got tossed out.

Today I open this Willys box and Ta-Da! There it is!

[OldNYJim]

1 hour ago, Tom Geiger said:

Lost and Found?

This Renault Dalphene  has been lost over 20 years.. probably 25!  I bought it back in the day at a show with all the panels expertly cut out. I have all those parts, but this body and chassis have been gone forever. I figured it must’ve got tossed out.

Today I open this Willys box and Ta-Da! There it is!

Like finding cash in an old jacket pocket!

[W-409]

Got two packages today. First one came from eBay, a Jo-Han Pro Street Rambler with SC/Rambler decals of an unknown manufacturer. That's a great decal set as it has the option for both, A and B themes, but it also has all of the SC/Rambler badges etc that Jo-Han decal sheet doesn't have. So my plan is obviously to build one version of each. I have several of these kits already and now I have one more, plus the decals to do it.

Because the kit is actually a '66 Rogue, I wonder if there is a source for a correct '69 American grill anywhere in the aftermarket? Tail lights probably have to be scratchbuilt anyway.

The other package came from Ted's Modeling Marketplace. I ordered two sets of the photoetched Dragster wire wheels because the kit wheels are always junk. These are beautiful. Not cheap, but beautiful, and in my opinion, worth the money. Now I think I could finally start building the Ramchargers Top Fuel Dragster.

In the same package I also ordered a set of front tires and some photoetched brackets for alternators etc.

[Straightliner59]

Those wire dragster fronts are gorgeous.  I bought a pair for my Junior Fuel dragster, to replace the scratchbuilt ones I had made.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1/25 Testors/Bburago diecast and plastic Ferrari 250LM kit.

Bought primarily for bits to contribute to an upcoming 275P full detail build based on the old Monogram slotcar-body-based kit.

Pretty nice kit, really too nice to just gut for parts (even though it has way-wrong wheels and tires), at a great price.

[Mark]

4 hours ago, W-409 said:

Got two packages today. First one came from eBay, a Jo-Han Pro Street Rambler with SC/Rambler decals of an unknown manufacturer. That's a great decal set as it has the option for both, A and B themes, but it also has all of the SC/Rambler badges etc that Jo-Han decal sheet doesn't have. So my plan is obviously to build one version of each. I have several of these kits already and now I have one more, plus the decals to do it.

Because the kit is actually a '66 Rogue, I wonder if there is a source for a correct '69 American grill anywhere in the aftermarket? Tail lights probably have to be scratchbuilt anyway.

The other package came from Ted's Modeling Marketplace. I ordered two sets of the photoetched Dragster wire wheels because the kit wheels are always junk. These are beautiful. Not cheap, but beautiful, and in my opinion, worth the money. Now I think I could finally start building the Ramchargers Top Fuel Dragster.

In the same package I also ordered a set of front tires and some photoetched brackets for alternators etc.

The SC decals look like Fred Cady's.  I've got a couple of his SC sheets, but haven't looked at them in awhile.

The whole kit is '66 American.  Taillights are different, as is much of the interior.  The rear axle ain't right either.  Jo-Han probably had the '66 American kit in the tool shop for rework right after they did the Sox & Martin '71 Barracuda.  The rear of the chassis and rear axle in the two kits look similar.

The engine block and exhaust manifolds are pre-1967 also.  I don't plan to get crazy with the couple of those cars that I'd like to do, but will probably just make the best of what came in the box for the most part.

[oldcarfan]

22 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Lost and Found?

This Renault Dalphene  has been lost over 20 years.. probably 25!  I bought it back in the day at a show with all the panels expertly cut out. I have all those parts, but this body and chassis have been gone forever. I figured it must’ve got tossed out.

Today I open this Willys box and Ta-Da! There it is!

I love small European cars and this is a nice find! Sometimes finding some old lost kit is more fun than buying one on eBay.

[Ace-Garageguy]

23 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

...This Renault Dalphene  has been lost over 20 years.. probably 25!  

Dauphine.

[W-409]

8 hours ago, Straightliner59 said:

Those wire dragster fronts are gorgeous.  I bought a pair for my Junior Fuel dragster, to replace the scratchbuilt ones I had made.

You're right, they are really good. Huge improvement compared to any wire wheels that came with any kit.

4 hours ago, Mark said:

The SC decals look like Fred Cady's.  I've got a couple of his SC sheets, but haven't looked at them in awhile.

The whole kit is '66 American.  Taillights are different, as is much of the interior.  The rear axle ain't right either.  Jo-Han probably had the '66 American kit in the tool shop for rework right after they did the Sox & Martin '71 Barracuda.  The rear of the chassis and rear axle in the two kits look similar.

The engine block and exhaust manifolds are pre-1967 also.  I don't plan to get crazy with the couple of those cars that I'd like to do, but will probably just make the best of what came in the box for the most part.

It's true that there are lots of errors on that kit if one wants to represent a '69 American. I'm not planning on fixing everything (because then it will take 20 years to complete it), but I want to fix the biggest errors, meaning, at least the issues with the body and engine.

[slusher]

On 9/30/2024 at 8:43 PM, Tom Geiger said:

Lost and Found?

This Renault Dalphene  has been lost over 20 years.. probably 25!  I bought it back in the day at a show with all the panels expertly cut out. I have all those parts, but this body and chassis have been gone forever. I figured it must’ve got tossed out.

Today I open this Willys box and Ta-Da! There it is!

Man, that’s terrific Tom!

[Claes Ericsson]

21 hours ago, W-409 said:

...........Because the kit is actually a '66 Rogue, I wonder if there is a source for a correct '69 American grill anywhere in the aftermarket? Tail lights probably have to be scratchbuilt anyway...........

 

I might be wrong but I think the vendor "Basement Resin" had one available at Shapeways. Now inaccesible but it might resurface. FWIW

[W-409]

1 hour ago, Claes Ericsson said:

I might be wrong but I think the vendor "Basement Resin" had one available at Shapeways. Now inaccesible but it might resurface. FWIW

You are correct, they had one.

I actually ordered a couple of items from them (engine bay for '69 AMX and some wheels). They were really nice, but they had the 3D printing texture that the printed parts usually do. On those parts it's not a problem, but I'm not certain that the texture could be cleaned up flawlessly on a grill.

[Zen]

SLR and a couple of rebuilder LUV trucks

[A modeler named mike]

Arrived today by mail from ebay. Opened and complete.  

[Bainford]

On 9/29/2024 at 11:20 AM, dave branson said:

I attended the CASM model show in Jacksonville, Arkansas yesterday real good show it was the IPMS Region 6 convention. The club broke all of there early records for attendance and models entered (421). These are my stash adds from the show.  The 3d printed stuff is a VW camper and a teardrop trailer.

 

 

Great haul. I had no idea this kit existed. I would be very interested in your opinion on the quality of the engine/transaxle and the body.

[dave branson]

12 hours ago, Bainford said:

Great haul. I had no idea this kit existed. I would be very interested in your opinion on the quality of the engine/transaxle and the body.

It is the same kit as the Revell of Germany kits, except for molded in clear plastic 

[Technics]

Project materials and a holy grail kit for me in 1:12 scale.

 

[A modeler named mike]

I scored my 2nd One-Armed Bandit kit. I bought the kit knowing it's missing parts and the box was very rough, but it had a good copy of the instruction sheet and decals. The decals are decent but dirty. Not sure how to or if you can even clean them without rendering them useless. I'll probably give STS scale model decals a try for the first time to inquire about having a new set made. Both the instructions and decals were to complete my other kit...

[OldNYJim]

6 hours ago, A modeler named mike said:

I scored my 2nd One-Armed Bandit kit. I bought the kit knowing it's missing parts and the box was very rough, but it had a good copy of the instruction sheet and decals. The decals are decent but dirty. Not sure how to or if you can even clean them without rendering them useless. I'll probably give STS scale model decals a try for the first time to inquire about having a new set made. Both the instructions and decals were to complete my other kit...

Cool score!

[OldNYJim]

Since visiting my first county fair this year, I’ve been buying some weird stuff…

I’m thinking this might be a good basis for a dirt drags build - I saw a few Blazers running in the dirt drags and they weren’t super different, visually, to the pullers…

[Zen]

17 hours ago, A modeler named mike said:

I scored my 2nd One-Armed Bandit kit. I bought the kit knowing it's missing parts and the box was very rough, but it had a good copy of the instruction sheet and decals. The decals are decent but dirty. Not sure how to or if you can even clean them without rendering them useless. I'll probably give STS scale model decals a try for the first time to inquire about having a new set made. Both the instructions and decals were to complete my other kit...

What a crazy kit! Never knew this existed.......

[Mr mopar]

Mail call and hobby shop stop today enjoy!

[Bullybeef]

My first mail order package for this year has arrived. Quality resin pieces from Ed @Dragcitycastings. Stock 32 firewalls for some impending projects and choose uptops for a couple of roadsters that may need them. 

[PatW]

On 10/3/2024 at 5:47 PM, Technics said:

Project materials and a holy grail kit for me in 1:12 scale.

 

Beautiful but no space to show it off. Having built road going kit cars I'll have to build a road going replica! Oh I just thought at 76 I could get in it but not out of it!

Edited October 4, 2024 by PatW