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

[ModWrench]

Ordered two kits from A-1 Raceworks 3D Resin Prints. A vintage Dirt Modified and a Super modified. Impressed with the great print quality and excellent detail on the chassis and suspension parts. Received within the quoted 3 week delivery time once ordered and payed for. I'll touch up a few areas with some light sanding and shoot some primer and see how everything looks. Check out their website at: www.A1Raceworks.com

[OldNYJim]

Those both look awesome!  Thanks for the heads-up on those!

[slusher]

10 hours ago, dave branson said:

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

Great deal, you made off like a bandit!

[slusher]

11 hours ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

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: 

Nicee model wife!

[oldcarfan]

On 5/16/2025 at 7:23 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

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.

 

 

 

 

I had the same thing happen a while back. I bought two early 90s Tamiya Toyota Celicas from a seller that were supposed to be perfect still in the shrink wrap. When they arrived they'd been open and the boxes had crushed the roofs down. It was obvious the seller already knew, but I let it pass. I can probably fix them, and maybe I will someday, but for now, they sit on the shelf.

[Brenton]

Grabbed this up a few days ago at Hobby Lobby. Hopefully can start it soon!

Edited May 18 by Brenton

[NOBLNG]

The Mobius kit I traded for the race version at the club meeting today. The other two…what can I say…I’m a sucker for glue bombs.🤪 The Cougar ll is missing one wheel and tire, but I also grabbed some rims at the meet that should work. I don’t think the decals belong to it?? The Datsun is missing the driveshaft and the driver’s side mirror. Both I can easily fabricate should I ever get around to it.🥴

Edited May 22 by NOBLNG

[Mark]

That is the correct decal sheet for that Cougar II.  The silver panel on the sheet is intended for use on the roof, as shown in the box art illustration.

[OldNYJim]

Local swap meet this morning - found a couple of kits that were on my to-buy list:

A bunch of 50s-era hot rod mag (for a quarter each!!):

And, not really model related, but a 30” stop sign that my wife promptly confirmed shouldn’t be displayed in the lounge or bedroom like I originally intended 😂

The old mags are cool I think - one covers a late-50s model contest:

[NOBLNG]

16 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

The Mobius kit I traded for the race version at the club meeting today. The other two…what can I say…I’m a sucker for glue bombs.🤪 The Cougar ll is missing one wheel and tire, but I also grabbed some rims at the meet that should work. I don’t think the decals belong to it?? The Datsun is missing the driveshaft and the driver’s side mirror. Both I can easily fabricate should I ever get around to it.🥴

 

 

Well I pried the rear panel off and low and behold…there is a fourth wheel and tire.🙂

 

Edited May 19 by NOBLNG

[Rob Hall]

5 minutes ago, NOBLNG said:

Well I pried the rear panel off and low and behold…there is a fourth wheel and tire.🙂

 

I think that is the spare?  IIRC, that kit came with 5 wheels and tires. 

[catpack68]

My haul from the SCMA Upstate Model Show on Saturday.The Revell Cutalss is basically a parts kit.The Aplha Model Ferrari was from a fellow modeler.

Edited May 19 by catpack68

[TarheelRick]

Stopped by Hobby Lobby on my way to the VA this afternoon. No 40% this week, but I walked by the Clearance aisle and found several bottles of different style paints on clearance and a Demon model kit. 

Before I paid for the kit I asked the clerk to allow me to look inside. The body and chassis were on top of the instruction sheet, they both looked good, and I figured I had anything else that may be damaged in my parts box. Got the kit home, took out the body, chassis, and instruction sheet. The rest of the kit is there, but every piece, every piece was removed from the sprue. Did not find anything warped. Has anyone had any issues with their kits?

 

 

Not sure about these paints, not familiar with them but I liked these colors, wondering about 'transparent black', similar to Tamiya smoke? Anyway, they were only $3.49, so thought I would give them a try.

Edited May 20 by TarheelRick

[TarheelRick]

The paints are water-based and pre-thinned/

[A modeler named mike]

From ebay. I was offered a price reduction which made it impossible to pass up. Some glue clean up is needed and It has a few missing pieces that are replaceable. It was missing one rear tire and rim, which I have in my parts box, in fact I have all 4 rims for it that are mint. I already ordered new copies of the original decals that came with these kits from STS.. 

Edited May 20 by A modeler named mike

[Rob Hall]

Not anything new, but I unboxed a few boxes of my old kits last night..these are mostly kits I bought between 1995 and 2008. Some of these I haven't seen in 20 years.  A mix of unbuilts, restorable used kits, well built oldies.  Still have another 20 or so boxes to go through.

 

[WillyBilly]

I had to do it. The 1/16 scale 55 was on sale, and who can resist Herbie. It will go with my Herbie Baja Bug. The Herbie is molded in color to match the real Herbie.

[FoMoCo66]

3 hours ago, Rob Hall said:

Not anything new, but I unboxed a few boxes of my old kits last night..these are mostly kits I bought between 1995 and 2008. Some of these I haven't seen in 20 years.  A mix of unbuilts, restorable used kits, well built oldies.  Still have another 20 or so boxes to go through.

 

Wow just wow!

[catpack68]

14 hours ago, Rob Hall said:

Not anything new, but I unboxed a few boxes of my old kits last night..these are mostly kits I bought between 1995 and 2008. Some of these I haven't seen in 20 years.  A mix of unbuilts, restorable used kits, well built oldies.  Still have another 20 or so boxes to go through.

 

WOW! What a collection! I would be in heaven😍

[oldcarfan]

An unplanned trip to Austin let me stop by HobbyTown and Kings Hobby. HT has the VW Van in stock at a good price. I'm glad Revell is reissuing this kit in the flattop version. I have one of the OG UN versions that I'd been thinking of building up and now I can keep it new in the box. This kit surprised me in that it's molded in a smokey tan color. The color kind of reminds me of a kit I got from my grandparents' house. They were heavy smokers and the kit had been in an open box for years.

[slusher]

On 5/20/2025 at 2:08 PM, Rob Hall said:

Not anything new, but I unboxed a few boxes of my old kits last night..these are mostly kits I bought between 1995 and 2008. Some of these I haven't seen in 20 years.  A mix of unbuilts, restorable used kits, well built oldies.  Still have another 20 or so boxes to go through.

 

Rob, you made me drool over those great kits!

[TonyK]

I could end up spending a lot of $$$ at the A-1 Raceworks site.

[ModWrench]

I hear ya TonyK! I am fighting the temptation to order a dirt midget and a current dirt modified. He has a lot of cool choices to pick from.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1/24 2005ish Revell Ferrari Superamerica, 1/24 Italeri Lancia Stratos HF, and 1/25 Union/IMC Lola T-70 spyder.

        

For starters, I didn't really want the Superamerica, but to get the deal I had to take all three.

I've always thought the late model SA looked more like a $60,000 "personal luxury car" or a Ferrari-ish body kit for a Camaro or 300ZX than a $300,000 exotic. So it'll be a donor for something else...either a Ferrari-powered hot-rod or a full rebody that looks more Ferrari to me.

I already had a couple each Italeri and Hasegawa Stratos kits, but none had a good decal sheet for the particular rally version I want to do with one of the Hasegawas. This one was fairly inexpensive, so I'll feel a little better about hacking it into something even more outrageous...with an LS sitting sideways, possibly AWD.

I also have a couple of the Lolas in original IMC and Union repop boxings, and it's a pretty decent looking model with a few de-kluge mods and a stance adjustment. I LOVE early Can Am cars. But to the best of my knowledge, there's no static coupe version available in 1/24-1/25, so this one is slated to get a rebody based on a clear slot-car shell. I did rather a lot of work on a real T-70 (Chevy powered) coupe eons ago.

This particular kit was also kinda "reasonably" priced, so it won't much bother me stretching the tub a little to accommodate the somewhat larger 1/24 bodywork.

    

 

Edited May 22 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

And one more...1/24 Heller Jag e-type cabriolet.

So far I think these Heller kits are the best proportioned of all the E-types out there in 1/24. Also IIRC, Revell (the recent release) molded the cam covers into the head, which makes it unnecessarily difficult to do them in the polished alloy finish that's a huge part of the visual appeal of the early Jag XK engines.

I have two Heller coupes as well (one missing suspension parts) but this one is sealed in the original shrink wrap...which I'm about to open because it looks like another one that's had something heavy sitting on the box for some time...

Yippee. No crush, no warp, complete and sealed inside.

Edited May 22 by Ace-Garageguy