Art & Inspiration Sundays model cars 3/17/13.

Post them up.

 

1/87 scale 49 shoebox with a LS1 motir in it.

 

'36 Ford humpback sedan finished this week. Resin body was given to me a long time ago. Maybe The Good Stuff,,,,maybe Mill City Resin,,,,,we don't know. Tamiya Dark Green and Grey/Green. Pegasus wheels, AMT slicks/tires. Chrome wheel spare mounted on back.

 

Great lookin 36........FB banner car.

 

Lyle, I'm not a modeler since I was a kid 40+ years ago but I check this thread every week. I can't say enough about the talent all of you guys show us but damn, that 36 looks like I could get right in and drive off! With a different background/landscape that would definitely fool alot of folks. Fantastic work!

 

Nice job on the '36 Lyle, I have a couple of resin '36's I'm looking forward to digging into. Just finished up on the build-off thrash so nothing else new this week

 

...nice 36 tudor Lyle,...here's a 41 Chev "barn find"...

 

This pickup is sweet.......LOVE IT.

 

Awesome weathering

 

...ha! ...the grey stuff on most of it is dust!

 

Don't know why this thread didn't pop up when I did my search before starting a thread, but I guess I'll put this in here, too! Sorry for the confusion!

Anyway...

One of the kits that's driven several generations of modelers apeshit with its fit, symmetry, and accuracy issues is the AMT '36 Ford roadster, 3-window, and 5-window coupe series. When originally released in 1961 it could be built as a chopped 3-window or, by changing out the cowl door and top section, as a roadster. What AMT conveniently chose to ignore was that the roadsters have significantly shorter doors than the 3W! Nevertheless, if you want a '36 Ford in 1/25th scale, this kit is still the only game in town. And I've always wanted to do a '36 roadster with a chopped top in scale, so ignoring the 20 other projects I've got started, and this week I decided to fix the doors and chop the top on the '36 using bits from a couple junk original issue kits, and yellow and grey parts from a couple later issues. The result looks a little like a crazy quilt at the moment but here it is in mockup stage.

The windshield is chopped three scale inches. The top was chopped by eye by shortening it lengthwise in front of the middle bow while the sail panels were piecut so the rear window could be leaned forward, keeping the stock window height. The side opening was reprofiled to echo the curve of the fenders and rear deck. To keep the flow going along the lower body I made a set of skirts with a curved lower edge that follows the curve of the bottom edge the running board. The lower trailing edge of the rear fender was modified to the same curve.

 

This thread certainly starts off my Sunday morning every week, great talent , great builds, a big thanks for your contributions to the HAMB modeling crowd.

 

What a great way to start off this Sundays Models.

 

Here's my contribution, must be "36 Ford" day.




This is an AMT kit. It is a massive PIA, lots of cutting, trimming & sanding just to get a decent looking stocker.

 

I agree great talent. I also look for this thread every week. Built models back in the day and have a closet full of ones ready to go. Work gets in the way so these make my Sunday

 

heres my contribution just finished last night posted a couple progress pics over the last couple of sundays

this is the reissue 25 T 2n 1 kits from amt that can be built a ton of different ways

its basically box stock with the engine from revells 48 ford and tailight bezels from amts 58 chevy and custom tailights from amts 57 fairlane and handmade exhuast pipes

 

Here's a couple i'm in the middle of now. The Bucket is the same kit that "57ford/60thunderbird" posted up earlier. Cool kit if you ask me! I used a twin blown Hemi out of a Studebaker model though. As for the other one, the body and wheels are from the other kit. where the rest is from a Revell or Monogram T bucket kit. Was going to do something other then a SBC in it, but thought oh well...

 

A few images from the 12th Annual Cedarville Model & Toy Show, held last Sunday, in Cedarville, Illinois....

















More at the link....
http://s28.beta.photobucket.com/user/marty1961/library/Model Shows/Cedarville 2013

 

Here's my 41 Chevy welding truck.The were seen at the early stock car tracks. Enjoy

 

Lookin good guys......Real good stuff........And that bug ^^^^^ holy cows....

 

Tcab, that's a wonderful welding truck! Lots of realistic detail -- thanks for posting pics.

 

Wonderful wonderful wonderful ........................ scrubba

 

Here is my 12 year old's contribution to the Model Car contest at the Portland Roaster Show this year. He is still learning, but learns quick! This is his 2nd build



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Reminds me of this 1 to 1

 

Clayton, you have a 12 year old???

 

mAN YOU GUYS HAVE TALLENT.

 

Well, he is my wife-to-be's....but he will be mine too offically in July

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Thanks for the click able link. I suggested a few weeks ago that the person who starts the new thread, post it on last weeks tread with a click able link. Then whomever requested a notification on last weeks thread will be notified where to find the new tread and a new tread has been started

The bangers operate this way every month and stops duplication and makes the new thread easy to find.

This is just a suggestion and I think it should be tried.

Thanks

 

Why not give it a sticky ????????
Rod