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

[Quick GMC]

[slusher]

1 hour ago, cobraman said:

Got another Cobra from an ebay purchase. As I was putting it in one of my display cases I discovered I already had this one. I will admit it is getting tough to remember which I have. I will need to check first in the future.

Ray, it may be hard but you should put your Cobra collection in your computer for quick reference ..

[Pat Minarick]

Found this , couldn't pass it up.

[Can-Con]

Got a new knife set at the local shop. Just what I've been needing.

[ChrisBcritter]

Band-aids: Battle ribbons for the modeler!

[vintagercr]

7 hours ago, Pat Minarick said:

Found this , couldn't pass it up.

Pat, what scale is it?

[thatz4u]

4 hours ago, ChrisBcritter said:

Band-aids: Battle ribbons for the modeler!

BAND-AIDS? we don' need no stinkin' band-aids!!!!!!

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, thatz4u said:

BAND-AIDS? we don' need no stinkin' band-aids!!!!!!

Not if you have masking tape and superglue right there on your workbench! 

[Pat Minarick]

2 hours ago, vintagercr said:

Pat, what scale is it?

It doesn't say any scale . The side car body is  4-1/2" long and the bikes tires are a little over 2".

[Mike999]

This guy built a 1:1 scale Wallace and Gromit motorcycle\sidecar. 

"Some of the details are guaranteed to raise a smile; for example...low-warning lights for the supply of crackers and cheese."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorbikes/8466940/Real-life-Wallace-and-Gromit-a-cracking-combination.html

[thatz4u]

other kits include the Anti-Pesto Van, & Gromit in an airplane

[Modlbldr]

Came back into my office to find this on my desk! Still sealed inside!

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These are some more of the haul I got from FB the other day.

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The El Camino is unstarted. The other two have been started but are complete.

Later-

[Pat Minarick]

On 4/1/2018 at 10:37 AM, Mike999 said:

This guy built a 1:1 scale Wallace and Gromit motorcycle\sidecar. 

"Some of the details are guaranteed to raise a smile; for example...low-warning lights for the supply of crackers and cheese."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorbikes/8466940/Real-life-Wallace-and-Gromit-a-cracking-combination.html

That's cool.

[mchook]

My wife found this & thought it would work in my garage diorama. She's right (of course) it's the right size & even works. She picked it up at Toys r Us.

[Dann Tier]

On ‎3‎/‎31‎/‎2018 at 11:50 PM, Pat Minarick said:

Found this , couldn't pass it up.

Those are actually REALLY detailed kits!!-we have them all

[highway]

6 hours ago, mchook said:

My wife found this & thought it would work in my garage diorama. She's right (of course) it's the right size & even works. She picked it up at Toys r Us.

Now nothing will get done in that garage!! 

[Scott Colmer]

I found another issue of CARtoons from my youth. I been searching for specific articles I remembered, using covers that look familiar. The issue below had the drawing that I remembered ,also below.

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[Deathgoblin]

Got a well-sorted, not glue bombed Jo-Han 1969 SC/Rambler.  It's complete and needs a little love.  I'm almost tempted to display it as is until I'm ready to rebuild it.  It's even got the decals! 

[Snake45]

6 minutes ago, Deathgoblin said:

Got a well-sorted, not glue bombed Jo-Han 1969 SC/Rambler.  It's complete and needs a little love.  I'm almost tempted to display it as is until I'm ready to rebuild it.  It's even got the decals! 

Oh absolutely! You know me. I would spend a couple hours cleaning it, touching up the paint if necessary, Silver Sharpie-ing the trim, and painting the black on those Magnum 500 wheels (and I assume the grill could use it, too). It would look great on the shelf until the day I decided to strip it to naked plastic and do it up right--and that day might never come. 

Last year I bought a couple of "project" Scrambers/Americans I'm hoping to get two complete models of some sort out of, probably a gasser and a custom. I WISH either one of them looked as good as this! 

[cobraman]

Got this lot of 5 Cobra’s . Have them all but I could not resist the price 

[Dann Tier]

Got this kit from a good friend!!, wanted to pay him for it, but he said, "don't worry about it, bud". He even paid the shipping!!....what a crazy, good friend!!.....Thanks again, Bill!!!!

[Twokidsnosleep]

Oh she is a biggie too...a good friend indeed.

[Rob Hall]

Got some resin parts today that I'd ordered last May that had been lost in the mail and I'd given up on ever receiving.  

[Robberbaron]

Guess it was big Pontiac week for me.  My LHS finally got in the stock Moebius '61 Catalinas, so I got one of those (been looking forward to that one since they announced it).

Then stopped at Hobby Lobby the other day and got the AMT '62 Catalina "Polyglass Gasser II".  I already have a couple of the original issue stock kits, so I really didn't NEED one of those, but Round 2 gilded the lily well enough to get me to buy it for the custom parts/wheels/tires.

I need to start finding a new way of hiding all these kits from my wife...

[Richard Bartrop]

On 4/3/2018 at 7:49 PM, Scott Colmer said:

I found another issue of CARtoons from my youth. I been searching for specific articles I remembered, using covers that look familiar. The issue below had the drawing that I remembered ,also below.

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CARtoons and Hot Rod Cartoons figured prominently in my youth as well.  They're where I learned how to render chrome and shiny paint.

CARtoons made a comeback recently, though I'm not sure it's as good as the original https://www.cartoonsmag.com/