Winter time model building thread.

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Here's a few of the vintage kits that I have yet to build. These are just the Johan kits I also have a few AMT vintage kits to build as well, just so hard to find enough time to do them

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The Cop Out kit is one I remember from my youth. Back when I built a model just to build one, instead of spending the time relaxing and concentrating on something like I do these days. Man, I used to ruin a lot of model kits back then. Nothing painted, nothing detailed, just slapped together. My pre-teen years.
 
dge467 said:
Looks good ramenth!!! I've got a 1/16 scale one I'll build one of these days.
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dodgefreak73 said:
Looks very nice, and very good detail.... Love the General Lee
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Thanks, guys. Figured with the General I'd go a flat-black look on the undercarriage to give it an undercoated look. Why would you build a car to run on all those dirt and clay roads if you didn't do something to protect the bottom? :D

Got the headers and air cleaner from another kit.
 
Yeah, I remember just slapping them together, playing with them, and then wrecking them.
 
ramenth said:
The Cop Out kit is one I remember from my youth. Back when I built a model just to build one, instead of spending the time relaxing and concentrating on something like I do these days. Man, I used to ruin a lot of model kits back then. Nothing painted, nothing detailed, just slapped together. My pre-teen years.
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That sounds like my older brothers builds Robert. When we would visit(he lived at grandmas, long story) His shelf was full of white models. :toothy10: There was a Kenworth cab over with the trailer, Vega wagon funny car, boot hill express, and a full dress Harley are some I remember.

I do remember he had a couble planes that were painted. Bomber and a fighter.


I have benn working on my Revellution Demon funny car. Holly cow this has lots of flash on the parts. Now I am starting to really dig funny car builds.=P~
 
homecloned said:
dge467, You have the sickness! :cheers:
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Too many glue and paint fumes!!! I bought most of these in the late 80's early 90's when they were still cheaper than AMT, Revell, Monogram. That and you could find them at regular flea markets or from friends who got out of building models.
 
dge467 said:
Too many glue and paint fumes!!! I bought most of these in the late 80's early 90's when they were still cheaper than AMT, Revell, Monogram. That and you could find them at regular flea markets or from friends who got out of building models.
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Very good call. I wish I had my first collection of kits. The first wife foiled that plan.:angry7: Mary thinks i'm crazy too but kind of digs them.

I do have the JoHan S & M Cuda, 2 of the SC/Ramblers, and a 70 442.
 
Nice stash, there, Jeff.

Now you see, except for a couple of the Johan kits (the '60 station wagon cop car) I missed out. I never had a model hobby shop near me, except for like 6 months, when there was one open in Watkins, over ten years ago. All the retail stores carried the "names:" MPC, Revell, Monogram, etc. so I wasn't introduced to Johan until the hobby shop came in.

I have a Road Runner kit downstairs which needs to be rebuilt that I got a lot of supplies for from the hobby store. The radiator hoses, the plug wires, the redline tires before the companies included the redlines as decals. He went out of business and we haven't had one since. The train shops could careless about scale autos.
 
homecloned said:
Very good call. I wish I had my first collection of kits. The first wife foiled that plan.:angry7: Mary thinks i'm crazy too but kind of digs them.

I do have the JoHan S & M Cuda, 2 of the SC/Ramblers, and a 70 442.
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My wife thinks I'm a little crazy too, but when she see's them built up she has better appreciation for the hobby.
 
ramenth said:
Nice stash, there, Jeff.

Now you see, except for a couple of the Johan kits (the '60 station wagon cop car) I missed out. I never had a model hobby shop near me, except for like 6 months, when there was one open in Watkins, over ten years ago. All the retail stores carried the "names:" MPC, Revell, Monogram, etc. so I wasn't introduced to Johan until the hobby shop came in.

I have a Road Runner kit downstairs which needs to be rebuilt that I got a lot of supplies for from the hobby store. The radiator hoses, the plug wires, the redline tires before the companies included the redlines as decals. He went out of business and we haven't had one since. The train shops could careless about scale autos.
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I hear you. We lost two hobby shops around here a few years ago. They were both in business for years. It was great, you could go in there and they would know you by name and you could hang out with the other regulars on Saturdays. Both shops would buy out peoples old model collections and resell them at fair , if not real affordable prices. There is still a couple of hobby shops near here, but they are not the same.
 
dge467 said:
I hear you. We lost two hobby shops around here a few years ago. They were both in business for years. It was great, you could go in there and they would know you by name and you could hang out with the other regulars on Saturdays. Both shops would buy out peoples old model collections and resell them at fair , if not real affordable prices. There is still a couple of hobby shops near here, but they are not the same.
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Good hobby shops are like good comic shops (don't get me going on comics!). Small business guys who relate to their regulars. Even if you don't spend that particular day, they know you'll be back to spend another time and don't mind you hanging out, picking up pointers, sharing tips, even talking about the latest projects. Kind of like the old fashioned barber (I've still got one, by the way, shop full of old guys with no hair, coming in to get coffee and just shoot the bull).

I would spend hours at the hobby shop after school. The guys knew me. Kind of a nice feeling to walk into a store and have someone call you by name when you come in. I can get that at the part stores and the body supply store, the hardware store I frequent, but you'll never get it at the big box chains.

Okay, I'll stop now before I pull a John Steinbeck and start waxing poetic on main street businesses.
 
Lets change the mood a little now. Here is a wacky model I built using the old AMT/ Ertl Ghostbuster kit. Turned it into a hearse. The dragon is from an old 1/8 scale chopper kit. There is an skeleton driving it. And it's doing a burn out. Yep, too many paint and glue fumes!!!:toothy10:

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Speaking of supplys, I have bought a lot of parts from a place called "detail master" They have a website with a lot of cool stuff. Thats where I get plug wire, plumbing and cool photo etch metal parts. Another good one is "the model car garage" I havent bought from them, but there website has lots of cool stuff. It would be cool if there were still old time hobby shops around, but this stuff prob isnt high profit.

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replicaracer43 said:
Speaking of supplys, I have bought a lot of parts from a place called "detail master" They have a website with a lot of cool stuff. Thats where I get plug wire, plumbing and cool photo etch metal parts. Another good one is "the model car garage" I havent bought from them, but there website has lots of cool stuff. It would be cool if there were still old time hobby shops around, but this stuff prob isnt high profit.
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Yeah, I've been looking at the Detail Master stuff on various websites. Been planning my Daytona build around a lot of the photo etch supplies.

Speaking of which, since I've never done the photo etch parts before, what glue to you recommend for photo etch?
 
ramenth said:
Yeah, I've been looking at the Detail Master stuff on various websites. Been planning my Daytona build around a lot of the photo etch supplies.

Speaking of which, since I've never done the photo etch parts before, what glue to you recommend for photo etch?
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I have had good luck with plain old white glue like elmers. I use that for my window glass too, it dries compleatly clear. I have been told superglue is good too, but I dont like it much, it seems to be to "hot" for plastic.
 
replicaracer43 said:
I have had good luck with plain old white glue like elmers. I use that for my window glass too, it dries compleatly clear. I have been told superglue is good too, but I dont like it much, it seems to be to "hot" for plastic.
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Yeah, I use white glue for my clear pieces also. A lot cheaper than the Testors "window glue" and I've had good luck with it.
 
replicaracer43, that chassis is awesome!! I've always used super glue carefully for photo etched parts. A good hobby shop will have different types of super glues.
 
dge467 said:
replicaracer43, that chassis is awesome!!
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Thanks! Its a very modified old amt kit of the richard petty dodge dart "kit car" It turned out pretty good, although I keep seeing things about it I should have done better!!!
 
The single kit I'd most like to find now is the MPC Charlie Allen Saddleback Dodge '69 Dart funny car. I built one back in the early '70s when I had my '69 340 Swinger and after having watched him run several times at OCIR.
Currently in the build process of my 'new' 1:1 '69 Dart and would love to build the model again.
I saw one online a few years ago but it the current owner was waaaay too proud of it.
 
replicaracer43 said:
It would be cool if there were still old time hobby shops around...
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Yeah, sure would. I remember as a kid walking about a mile (uphill both ways in 6-foot snowdrifts in SoCal. LOL!!!) to the local hobbyshop, Victory Hobby Shop, on Whittier Blvd. in Montebello, CA. I spent a lot of time in there gazing at all the cool kits I dreamed of building. They carried all the plastic (ships, planes, cars) and also HO trains in the back part of the shop. The neat thing was it was less than a block to the city park in one direction and less than a block in the other direction to the neighborhood ice cream shop (Curries). Good times!
We've got a couple of really good shops close to us here in SoCal. Ultimate Hobbies (www.ultimatehobbies.com) in Orange, CA, caters mostly to the RC crowd but has a very good selection of current plastic and paints. Prestige Hobbies (www.prestige-hobbies.com) in Anaheim, CA, is mostly diecast but has an excellent selection of both current and out-of-production plastic kits. They also have a complete selection of plastic paints. Neither carries much in the way of photo etch detail parts.
Check out the following pics of the diecast 1/6-scale replica of the old Greer-Black-Prudhomme dragster at Prestige Hobbies. Over 28" long. Pics don't do it justice as it's gorgeous.
This is #19 of only 300 that were made. Price tag is $1800. I told the owner I'll be sticking to smaller scales since the $1800 is better spent on the build of my '69 Dart.
Enjoy the pics.

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