oter11 Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 VERY lucky to find a hardtop in any condition, let alone that nice. Only two louver pieces used and no fender skirts! Is the rear bumper intact? I don't see the driver's side taillight. By the way, the Buick's roof/glass were same as the '58 Cadillac - if you found a junk Buick body you could convert the reissue Jo-Han Fleetwood to a Coupe de Ville. rear bumper on the car is damaged,but the previous owner had bought new windows,and new rear/front bumper,so i have what i need to rebuild it
cobraman Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 ON THE HOBBY LOBBY CLEARANCE KITS. THE HOBBY LOBBY BY ME KEEPS THEM ON THE SHELF AND THROWS A YELLOW STICKER ON THEM. THEY DO NOT PUT THEM IN A "CLEARANCE" SECTION OR A SPECIAL PART OF THE STORE. JUST AN FYI sorry for the caps, but I was not going to retype that. The Hobby Lobby by me sometimes just stickers them but they have been known to sometimes put them in the back where the clearance section is and sometimes puts them on shelves in the center aisle of the store. The paint is always out of the paint rack section is in by the air brushes.
vintagedragcrazy Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 picked up a set of the moebius truck wheels and tires at my local hobby shop looked pretty nice so i grabbed them. vince
unclescott58 Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 (edited) Picked up an old favorite model kit at a local hobby store this afternoon. Got AMT's latest release of their old '63 Corvette. I love this car and still like the old kit. It's crude and simple by today's standards. The tooling looks like it's still OK. Not a lot of flash on the kit I picked up today. I still remember the first time I ever saw a '63 Corvette. If it was in the fall of 1962, I was all of four years old at the time. Being that young I was watching Romper Room one morning. The show right after that was some game show. I had no interest in the game show. But they showed this sleek new car on their show. Even at four, I was car crazy. They showed a close up of the front end. There were no headlights! Until they turned them on, and these two pods rolled over exposing them! It knocked my socks off! Up to this point in my life, this was the coolest car I had ever seen. A year or two later my Mother bought me my first model kits, and helped me paint and build them. They were Frankenstein's Fliver, Dracula's Dragster, and a German Me 262 jet (ironic, since my Mother grew up in Norway during the Nazi occupation). The next kit I remember building was with my Dad. It was a '64 or '65, non-split window Vette. Shortly after that I got a Cox gas power (red) '64 or '65 Corvette. So this generation Sting Ray had a major impact on my likes and tastes in cars. The last time I build AMT's '63 Vette was sometime in the 1990's. I decided at that time to build the kit stock, will the non-fuelie 327. Since then Revell came out with their non-fuelie, Powerglide, standard wheel covers, and air conditioned '63 Corvette snap kits. So I have decided its time to build another '63 Vette, but this time with fuel-injection. I'm going to go red with red interior. To me that will always be right color for a split-window coupe. Though silver with a silver interior would be a good second choice. But, red it's going to be this time. By the way, I always preferred the roaster versions of Corvettes over the coupes. My dream Corvette is a '67 big block roadster. Which I have a couple copies of Revell's great kit of. The only year I like the coupe over the roadster, is the first coupe, the 1963 split-window. As impractical as it may be, the '63 split-window ranks number two with me. Right after the '67 roadster. So, I'm delighted to buy another AMT '63. I plan to have fun building another one. Scott Edited July 3, 2014 by unclescott58
niteowl7710 Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 P.S. This Fujimi Evo VII came in today from a friend in California.
Scuderia Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 That Evo looks pretty cool ( at least on the box ) Keep us posted if you start on that soon
unclescott58 Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 (edited) OK, did I make a mistake by putting what I did here earlier today? I thought this posting was "What did you get today?" Not about accidents involving Wal Mart trucks in New Jersey. The continuing conversion in that vein makes me feel like what I posted this afternoon was a total waste of time. And to be lost in the Wal Mart truck discussion. Scott Edited July 4, 2014 by unclescott58
1930fordpickup Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Do not worry Scott . we enjoyed your post. I was wondering about this kit.
unclescott58 Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Thanks Andy. Yea, no changes over previous releases. Basically the the exact same '63 Vette kit from the mid-70's on. Light years away from Revell's '67 Vette. Is that good or bad? Despite what it is, I like it, and it still can look nice with very little work. Scott
Danno Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 OK, did I make a mistake by putting what I did here earlier today? Of course not, Scott. You have to have a thicker skin to post anything on any board or forum. A lot of threads veer off topic or wander around from time to time. That doesn't negate your right to post or diminish the value of your post. And you have nothing to apologize about for your on-topic post!
Agent G Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Sheesh! You've got Showgurlz and now you've got HobbyLobbygurlz, too? Whoa. Do they wear big sequined feather dusters on their heads? Well she's right at 6 feet tall with a ponytail that goes all the way down to her, ahem, um, yeah, just past her waist. It is Las Vegas............................... G
Danno Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Well she's right at 6 feet tall with a ponytail that goes all the way down to her, ahem, um, yeah, just past her waist. It is Las Vegas............................... G Viva!
Harry P. Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Let's keep this topic at least vaguely about "what you got today" and stay away from all the commentary that has nothing to do with the topic. If you want to talk about speeding trucks, post it in the Truck Stop section.
Danno Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 "Speeding trucks" in Truck Stop? Isn't that some kind of odd oxymoron? Whooops! My bad. I GOT A GREAT BIG DOUBLE-SHOT MUG OF HIGH TEST COFFEE THIS MORNING!
Agent G Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 I got three calls before 10am. It's a good thing I had my coffee already........... G
slusher Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 Good score and I have not checked Goodwill for models...
charlie8575 Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 I went to Michael's to get some India ink for some weathering on a model railroad structure and found the AMT "Showroom Replica" 2011 Camaro flip-top on clearance for $8.99, and the Monogram '71 GTX on clearance for $9.99, plus I had a 15% coupon that included sale items. Charlie Larkin
Wonderbread Kustomz Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 My score for the Fourth... The Olds and GTX were on clearance at Hobby Lobby, and got the Datsun at Hobbytown with five bucks off with my card...
Bennyg Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 I'm away at work, but my wife picked up 2 round 2 amt California haulers from the post office for me. Looking forward to seeing them when I get home Tuesday night. Ben
JPS_Lotus Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 Grabbed this the other day.... Loved the 70 1/2 Baldwin Motion Phase III Camaro, and when I saw the sticker on the box in the hobby shop said all of the decals were issued with this kit, I had to grab it. I probably should get around to grabbing an airbrush now since that's the only way I'm going to get the Forest Green Metallic onto the car.
slusher Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 My score for the Fourth... The Olds and GTX were on clearance at Hobby Lobby, and got the Datsun at Hobbytown with five bucks off with my card... image.jpg Looking forward to seeing build these James..
Wonderbread Kustomz Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 Looking forward to seeing build these James.. Thanks Carl... I've got started on that Shelby, I'll start a topic as soon as I get a bit more done to it...
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