The model car thread! :-)

[HOTRODPAINT]

I see we have some talented builders here. Show us your "toys" and tell us your modeling story!

I built like a maniac starting at 10 years old, until I got my first car at 15. I decided then I was too old to build any more.

In my early fifties I saw what a hotrodding buddy was building with his son, and remembered how much fun it was! Once again I built like a maniac... until I realized I needed to focus more on my 1:1 painting business... and quit for a while. I'm not getting rid of my huge model stash yet, though! {:-)

Here are a few of my efforts:


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[40FordDeluxe]

Very nice detail work!

[Dave Severson]

I too built models when I was a kid. Got out of them for many years, then did some model building again about 20 years ago. Hands are so crippled up now, just can't get them to work right on the small detail stuff anymore...... Maybe I'll try a larger scale!!!!!!

[rspears]

Like Hotrodpaint I built with a vengeance starting around 10 or so, and even got into scratch building a bit. Lived in a little town of around 1200 people, and every nickel I got went to the local hobby shop. After a while the guy who owned the shop asked if he could display some of my work, so I carried all of my best cars down and he put them in his display case. About three weeks later I awoke to the aroma of smoke, rode down town and found that the hobby shop was burned to the ground, and learned later in the day that the shop owner had not been seen, and that his car had disappeared, too. Rumor was that the fire wasn't accidental, but regardless my modeling bug burned up with that building. Built a few Cobra's about 20 years ago including one in a 1:16 scale, but it never stuck as a new hobby. I actually have a '32 Ford Sedan Revel kit that one of the boys bought me for last year's birthday, and have thought of cutting it apart to model a phantom woody idea that's been bouncing around in my head, but so far it just sits there....

[jerry clayton]

somewhere around here is a kit that I started back in early 70s---found it hard to do in 1/16 so I did them in 1/1 after that---------

[stovens]

Definately have built some recently too. Over November I built a Corsair(love doing the planes of ww2)
I'm also contiplating a small wooden ship model with a planked hull. Somewhere in the old part of the house is a partially model kit of the USS Constitution made by an italian company called C. Mamoli.

I found the model missing plans and some of the bigger peices of wood, at a thrift store about 20 years ago. I wrote the company and they sent me a set of full scale plans, so at some point I will tackle building that. It's a beautiful kit with little miniture block and tackles, an insane amount of rigging, and comes with mahogony planks for doing the hull and the decks. They don't seem to make this particular kit anymore, but it listed at just under 500.00 dollars back then for the kit. I bought it for 12 bucks, mostly intact! Just need to build my skill level up quite a bit, and have a dedicated space to work on it! I figure it's a retirement project!
Here is a pic of the corsair:

[HOTRODPAINT]

The Corsair was a fave of mine too!

Here are a few more car models...

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[stovens]

Wow th edetail is over the top, very nice work!

[jerry clayton]

Hot Rod Paint---I was at Nic(backwarkK)ey this afternoon!!!!!!!!!!
He is coming to PHeonix for the auction around the Jan 10-20----If you are going to be in the area????????????(I might come too?

[astroracer]

I was "big" into the little stuff for a long time. I started a model car parts company back in '92 and ran it until '03/'04 when I had to shut it down due to lack of time.
If any of you dealt with Machined Aluminum Specialties, that was me.
This is one I built back in '89/'90. Won a few contests with this one...

Mark

[stovens]

Mark, that's some nice stuff you sold

[J. Robinson]

My grandmother owned a little neighborhood "variety store" when I was a kid. I started building many of the smaller simpler model airplane kits and a few cars when I was about 6 years old. There weren't many car kits available then (at least not in Granny's store), but in 1958 (I was 10), when AMT came out with the "3 in 1 Customizing Kits" I found my calling - CARS, CARS, and MORE CARS!! When they released the '32 Ford roadster and the '40 Ford coupe I really hit my stride. I built models incessantly all through grade school, high school, and college and the first couple of years I was married. Then my son was born and life got in the way... I had also switched to building real hotrods and didn't have time for "toys" any more. When my son got old enough to show some interest, I started building models again with him and passed along some of my skills and methods. When he started driving a real car the models went by the wayside again. Finally, when I retired 2 years ago I dragged out my few survivng old models, all my old parts stash, and my old modeling tools and I'm back at it again.

Last summer I set up an inexpensive little "student desk" ($40 at Walmart) in the corner of the family room as my "model car workbench", so I can sit here in the evenings and build models while watching TV. My interests recently have leaned toward old-time stock cars and Indy cars of the 1950's. One thing I've noticed, though: it takes me a lot longer to build a model now than when I was a kid...

[HOTRODPAINT]

I was "big" into the little stuff for a long time. I started a model car parts company back in '92 and ran it until '03/'04 when I had to shut it down due to lack of time.
If any of you dealt with Machined Aluminum Specialties, that was me.
This is one I built back in '89/'90. Won a few contests with this one...

Mark

I think I may have used a blower pulley set. Did you make those?

[HOTRODPAINT]

My grandmother owned a little neighborhood "variety store" when I was a kid. I started building many of the smaller simpler model airplane kits and a few cars when I was about 6 years old. There weren't many car kits available then (at least not in Granny's store), but in 1958 (I was 10), when AMT came out with the "3 in 1 Customizing Kits" I found my calling - CARS, CARS, and MORE CARS

One thing I've noticed, though: it takes me a lot longer to build a model now than when I was a kid...

My switch to car models was when a friend pointed out that you didn't have to build them per the instructions... and THAT was cool!!!

I know what you mean about the time to build. I am much more "anal" about detail now... and I have to do some major scratchbuilding on each one. It is just too boring for me to mix parts like I used to. Many of these have bodies that I scratchbuilt, or heavily modified... then had Altered States Models cast them in resin. The result was that the last few projects took at least a year each! {:-)

[HOTRODPAINT]

I was "big" into the little stuff for a long time. I started a model car parts company back in '92 and ran it until '03/'04 when I had to shut it down due to lack of time.
If any of you dealt with Machined Aluminum Specialties, that was me.
This is one I built back in '89/'90. Won a few contests with this one...



Mark

Mark, I've seen this one before somewhere. Veeerry nice!!!