Save yourself the frustration and aggravation. Just pick up an AMT kit and build that. The Lindberg clone kit is a turd.
Just got done ripping into my Revell '49 Merc kit... Yeah the body does look a little goofy... Got some nice wheels though....
I feel your pain. When I was a kid every 5 & dime store, hardware store, department store, and drug store sold model cars. There were also a bunch of hobby stores around. Now it seems HL is about the only place you can get them. I do still find some affordable models at swap meets and once in a while at yard sales. With the high model prices along with all the electronic stuff kids are into these days it is no wonder building model cars is more of an adult hobby.
I'm past the point of detailing my brains out and going blind while doing it. I just want to build reasonable facsimiles of older cars. I'm one of those that love and want the flat pan chassis, metal axles and four screws. I can't believe AMT / Round 2 can't see the market for those '50s / '60s Buicks, Pontiacs and Galaxies.
I am right there with you! I am way past that super detailing stuff. I bet if AMT would re-issue just about any 58-64 kits, just like the original, they would sell thousands of them. Old farts like me would be first in line to spend some $ real quick. I just paid $35.00 for a decent built 61 Pontiac HT at a swap meet and it will take me no telling how long to restore it with my bad eyes and thick fingers!
I am too past the point of all that detailing and love those simple AMT kits,I just do not see the need to very detailed suspensions since I never look at them after I build one.
I agree. I recently picked up this built survivor '63 Impala on ebay for less than $27 shipped. Flat pan chassis, metal axles, four screws. The OB even detailed it with thread plug wires and fuel lines. What's not to love ?
Not a car, but you'll most likely like it anyways. "Down For Double" was flown by Lt. Col. Gordon Graham of the 354th FG. Named after a Count Basie song, the plane and pilot racked up 16 confirmed kills. This is an Academy 1/72nd scale kit.
Pinstriper40 has some serious detail going on that 1/72 (!!) P51 Warhorse... My bud Shannon (pinstriper/flame painter of 1955-'62) and I started out with the old Revell 1/32 scale cars in '52. (we were 10) Shannon bashed a '32 Ford "Jalopy" into a cool 5-window that was quite recognizable, we did up some '32 roadsters ("69-cent Hot Rods") in various styles, I did some 'T' roadsters (Hot Rod Magazine subjects from Muroc coverage) I chopped a center-door T into Art Chrisman's '29 Tudor...using the 69 cent hot rod wheels, axles, engine, big-n-little tires... Suddenly, in 1960...AMT came out with "the BIG stuff"! 1/25 scale '32 roadster! '40 Ford Coupe, then '39 sedan! We were building like crazy. Shannon had a REAL 1:1 '34 three window, flathead powered. I had a REAL '32 five window a friend had given up on to go to M.I.T. By that time, my REAL '32 five window high boy was painted/chromed/running. So, our model building was put on hold. Shannon and I were 'into it', he was into R.O.T.C. thru high school, attended O.C.S. and went to Viet Nam, Non Comm. Officer. Killed in action. I think of him when I work on models, never forget.
Looks like a Tuskegee P-51... The guys that flew those were some bad bros..... I met an old pilot once waiting in line the buy plates for my cars... He was sporting an old Tuskegee pilots jacket....
I was a prolific builder up until my Dad passed in January of 2017. I sold off about 400 builtups and unfinished kits, a fair amount of parts, but, not the core of my "stash" of good tires, wheels, and engines, or custom parts. I still have about a dozen kits and a few "holy grail" and "special" kits left. I might get back into it again, I always have. My eyesight isn't what it used to be, and my hands aren't what they used to be, either. I'd be willing to bet that all my bottled paint is dried up by now.
Don't give up on those bottled paints too easy. I have had a few that has 10 cents on the lid that I brought back with a little thinner. It sure gets my blood boiling to go to Hobby Lobby and see the prices they charge for models and paints!!
Oh yeah. I remember the days of fifteen cent bottles, and $2.79 kits. Also 99 cents a gallon for milk and 69 cents a gallon for gas. long time ago now
I get all my kits off of eBay, or swap meets, but they are usually older kits. New kits are more reasonable sometimes on Amazon. I've been buying the old kits because I want to build the same kits I built as a kid. There's really not much new stuff out that is appealing to me.
heres a "model" i saw at the Gilmore museum. model T Ford assembly line. i always thought about building an assembly line, but it would take a lot of kits and or parts.
As BuckeyBuicks said, I have had "old" testors paint given to me and thinner works. I put a bee bee in the bottles too. I've collected most of the (car) kits I had built as a kid (not all built yet) except the Monogram Big T. Got it for Christmas in 1962, built it in grade school, kept it thru high school and college only to be lost to the ages by a moving company. I keep an eye on them on evil bay, but haven't pulled the trigger yet. Sent from my SM-N910V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Hobby Lobby and such usually have a 40% off coupon on-line that one can print out and use it for 1 item as long as it's not on sale. Sent from my SM-G955U using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
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