Art & Inspiration Model Car Sunday for Oct. 28th

Since I'm up early this morning I thought I'd start it off this week.

I built this '32 as a place to display the really nice Olds engine that comes in Revell's new '50 Olds kit. I thought it was just too nice an engine to hide under a hood!

 

Nice looking little coupe, that Oldsmobile Rocket is just stunning for a kit item!!

Doc.

 

We were invited to do a model car display at Jalopyrama yesterday. Frankly, all the models are mine or Norm Vebers - non of our other club members showed up.

 

Fantastic models! Congrats!

 

these pics make sundays rock !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I was never talented enough to get my models to look that good. Great job guys.
Later,
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Sorry bout that other tread. I looked but guess I didnt look that good.

I'll look better next week.

Great pics guys.

 

Great goin' guys!!!... It's starting to get cold outside and I think it's time for me to get going on them "in door" projects...

 

I plan on using the supercharged olds from the AMT Willys kit for my Revell 5-window deuce build...
Yours turned out fantastic!!!...

 

And how Doc!! It's all new tooling...

 

Love that blue '62 bubble top!!!...
I have that same AMT kit including the droptop version.. Both are 409 powered...

 

I always look forward to this thread.

Thanks

 

Lyle
A table full of yours and Norms stuff is a SHOW in itself!!

Larry

 

Now that's really cool stuff!

 

here is one I just finished that I started last season.

 

Nice!.. What did you use for paint???....
I have about half a dozen of these and plan on scratchbuilding a "straight" axle for one to get that nose up in the air....

 

'50 Olds with 50 Ford convertible top turned into Carson top.




@ Lyle...the silver top and black Chevy is one of my favorites, of your builds.

James

 

sunken grill and rounded hood corners,extended hood peak....work in progress

 

2002p51 that olds is bad ***!
harley rider, I've been wanting to build a willys and that ones awesome!

I managed to mostly resurect the engine from the ****oose kit with minimal breakage but the hoses are quite dry rotted so I'll be looking to replace those at some point but it will likely be shelved for a little while because I'm gonna bild an OT ride for an X-mas gift, and I've got a couple others in the planing stages!

 

Drew, I thought you were through building . Lyle , great job, missed seeing ya at Norfolk yesterday. Joker an I would have loved to have had ya .

Meanwhile , amist a hurricane , the Tidewater Automotive Society had it's 20th annual show :

This Oldsmobile was converted from the MPC Beverly Hill Billys kit :

My 12 year old's entries :

More of Jokers fine craftsmanship :

A very nostalgic A M T 57 Ford build :

Richmond Area Modeler's club display :

I could't stop the builder to get his name , fine work though :

I finially got this diorama finished ! It's a model of a REAL building that used to be in Idaho:



scrubba

 

60 Impala AWB. Been sitting awhile..........




57 Ford stocker, (Fireball Roberts) what if car.




Dukes took a wrong turn..........






Finished this lately. 41 Ford clip on a 48 with 58 Impala head lights and 59 Caddy tail lights.




Started this one too..... 50 Olds with chopped resin roof..

 

Thats some unreal work on the 60 58 and dukes charger great stuff

 

On the Dodge Charger , that's some of the most REALISTIC s****ing work I have ever seen . You need to show some tutorial shots on one of the model building boards .

scrubba

 

sorry guys, but model planes are for me!



by the way, does anybody ever mess with die cast cars? like metal pre built ones? this is a beetle roller iv'e been working on:

 

Here's a 64 Dodge i've been messing with. I made the fenderwell headers. And have moved the rearend forward in it. I have yet to figure out what color to paint it?

 

start flipping through those old impact color charts, whatever color you paint it, make it bright!

 

Those headers look good. When I built this Belvedere, I went with a "weekend project" look. I might have chosen a bright blue had I wanted a show car finish, though.

 

That looks really good, great idea!

 

Thanks!

Nah, I've just been real busy with 1:1 scale race photography and such.

 

Thanks Drew..I almost added the dual headlite buckets from the 50 Ford too.
The opening on the '50 Olds is just asking for them,
frenched , tunneled or even hooded like the 55 Chevy....hahaha