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

[Carmak]

Been looking decades to find one of these. Found it locally and not on E-bay or Facebook.

It's lightly started (engine and chassis). No tire burn or broken parts.

[Jon Haigwood]

Mail Call: Another step down the large scale Rabbit Hole

[slusher]

Enjoy your birthday with plastic friend !

[Ulf]

On 12/10/2022 at 4:00 AM, ea0863 said:

Number 5 of my purchases from perusing Hot Rod Magazine started with a little ad in November 1959 about a kit car called the Kellison. Having seen this car at SEMA 2021, I knew I would have to build one in scale. 

The only problem is I can't find any models of this car. The closest I came was a seller on ebay who makes 1/24 scale slot car bodies of the Kellison in vacuum-formed PETG. I picked up two and will try my hand at mounting one to a Shelby Cobra kit I have kicking around.

Check out this link for photos of the 1:1 car:

 

Did you ? I found a magazine on the shelf and thought like you.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 15 by Ulf

[deuces wild]

15 hours ago, Jon Haigwood said:

Mail Call: Another step down the large scale Rabbit Hole

Great kit!... I have one also....🙂👍

[ea0863]

6 hours ago, Ulf said:

Did you ? I found a magazine on the shelf and thought like you.

 

 

 

 

This article is great Ulf, thank you for sharing! I have not built this model yet, and the photos will be quite useful.

[webestang]

3 Bucks, thrift shop. 

[kelson]

This mornings delivery from Sunward hobbies.🤠

This arrived from Ebay,i don't really need another 72'Roadrunner,but was a good deal offered so i bit!.

[A modeler named mike]

On 5/10/2025 at 11:45 PM, kelson said:

This arrived yesterday,got this for parts as a other kit i got last year had a melted body/interior and this kit is incomplete.🤠

Back in the day when the van craze was hopping and I was a youngster and I couldn't get enough vans. Here's a blast from my past. Mind you, I was young. All spray cans and some rub on lettering. 🫣

[#1 model citizen]

Looks like you used some different paint techniques that I’m still hesitant to try.  Very interesting!

[A modeler named mike]

36 minutes ago, #1 model citizen said:

Looks like you used some different paint techniques that I’m still hesitant to try.  Very interesting!

When you're young and have no shame, you get results anyway ya can. Mom's paper dooley's and lace ribbon worked wonders. 

[A modeler named mike]

This weeks acquisitions by mail. I'm trying to fill my show rod voids. NEXT!

[Old Buckaroo]

1 hour ago, A modeler named mike said:

When you're young and have no shame, you get results anyway ya can. Mom's paper dooley's and lace ribbon worked wonders. 

Those are the best kind of builds when you have dreams and imagination!

I never built a Van model but read and studied the "Van Magazines" to learn about body work and painting during my teen years.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1/24 Testors (Fujimi) Ferrari Dino 246 GT. I had high hopes for this one, but when it came in, I immediately saw the roof was partially crushed and the body is warped from something pressing down on the box for a long time (absolutely could not have happened in shipping), and the windshield was broken into two pieces. Very disappointing.

No biggie on the windshield as I can make a better one easily enough, but the roof and warp add an order of magnitude of difficulty to building it...if I even CAN save it.

Waiting to hear back from the seller to see whether he'll make it right.

Half the reason I bought it was to have a 246 (already have the 206 Pininfarina Competizione), and half was to get the transverse-mounted Dino engine to pull molds from, to put resin engines in several Lancia Scorpions.

Ah well. Life.

 

 

 

 

[Tabbysdaddy]

My wife went to Daytona Beach to drop our daughter off at Rockville and found a place that sells models. Not so much a hobby shop but a place at the flea market that has both old and new. She surprised me with one she knew I wanted. 

[RSchnell]

2 hours ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

My wife went to Daytona Beach to drop our daughter off at Rockville and found a place that sells models. Not so much a hobby shop but a place at the flea market that has both old and new. She surprised me with one she knew I wanted. 

That dude sets up at all the model swaps too. I've gotten some really good deals from him. 

[gasman]

Went to Michael’s for the first time in a few months today. Was happy they finally got some kits in, then I saw the prices and left immediately 

[Can-Con]

23 minutes ago, gasman said:

Went to Michael’s for the first time in a few months today. Was happy they finally got some kits in, then I saw the prices and left immediately 

Just go to their website and take a pic of the 40% off any item coupon with your phone and show them the pic at the checkout. I do it whenever I buy a model there. 

Or just go to the website on your phone while in the store, works just fine also.

Works out to about 30 bucks.

[64SS350]

Set up at the Sharon,PA show......the deals were abundant today..

ramp truck..15

Mercury pu..15

Maverick..10

Black Beauty..5

All built ups..5 ea 

Plus some BMF and Moebius pu..33

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Plugging a few more holes on the exotics shelf.

Never had a whole lot of interest in the flared and bewinged Countach, but I always liked the clean first production version.

Read the reviews, then bought both the 1/24 Aoshima and Fujimi Enthusiast versions of the Lamborghini Countach LP400.

At first glance, I slightly prefer the Aoshima kit.

Interestingly, and contrary to the reviews, BOTH kit bodies appear to be very well-proportioned and are almost identical in form and line. 

There are things I like and dislike about both kits, so maybe what gets built as a stocker will be a best-of mashup, and the remaining parts will go to build some insane hot-rod.

 

[Deathgoblin]

New tool Revell Jaguar E-Type from Ollie's. I love Ollie's.

[TarheelRick]

Attended the SCMA show in Simpsonville, just barely sold enough to cover my table fee. However, came home with some 3d slicks, front tires, and wheels (2 sets), decals, wheels and tires to build a '55 Chevy Hobby stock, an almost complete (bagged) Speedwagon, and a '63 Cobra kit. Bought the Cobra so I can copy the chassis for a sports car I have in mind. Also won a raffle Dragon A1Mi tank, it is in my for-sale box.

[gasman]

6 hours ago, Can-Con said:

Just go to their website and take a pic of the 40% off any item coupon with your phone and show them the pic at the checkout. I do it whenever I buy a model there. 

Or just go to the website on your phone while in the store, works just fine also.

Works out to about 30 bucks.

Or I could just go to my local hobby shop where it’s about $28, 

[Tabbysdaddy]

I did not realize Rockville was a multiple day event, and that my wife would be taking our daughter there again today. She asked for a list, so I told her a few. She brought me these: 

[dave branson]

I went to the Mosscon model show n Springfield, Mo. Here is what I got was 50.00 for all 3