BigPoppa

Just to let you know, I don't have those parts. Super sorry.

He said he would be making a stock roof soon as well, which is what I'm waiting for

cool project!

It's all good, I skipped over the post about making your own and referencing that hobby shop for the clamps. Not hijacked, more like took a wrong turn and had to come back

What's this got to do with anything? King's stocks this or something?

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmoma1437 Good feedback, anyone here buy from him? I'm looking at the truck topper, haven't been able to get my hands on a plastic one, so I may give this one a shot

I just do small parts, but I got all my training from a guy who produces a lot of model ships. We use Smooth-On 300 or 305, I forget which. Most casters I've seen have resin that cures in a light yellow, including R&R, Modehaus, Promo-lite, AAM, Drag City. Not sure which resin they use, but I did have this link saved from a long time ago recommended to me http://vagabondcorp.com/ I really like Smooth-On, but it seems a little flimsy compared to the other stuff I've seen, but I haven't tried anything like bodies yet, and the ships are usually 1 piece mold solid "bricks" since inside details isn't needed. For a few bucks, I could send you a small sample, I have extra.

I thought that he makes mostly curbsides now for the sake of keeping the casting simpler

Before you can ask for a caster, you need to work out the master. Casting is the easy part.

That's cool, one thing I liked about the Pro-street era were these off-the-wall cars done up.

The AMT 94 or so Mustang will fit with some massaging under the Prostreet Lincoln if the fact that it's shorter than a real Lincoln doesn't bother you. A while back there was a custom version featured in Scale Auto or Car Modeler, and they gave me the builder's address and he was kind enough to provide me the information. I was going to do it but I came up on a AAM builtup real cheap.

yes they are, I was looking forever trying to figure out what I could modify to make a good wheel and Art knew right away (as usual) what I needed. What DougH got me is going to look sweet too!

The Ford ones are huge. I'm working with DougH on getting some Artilleries made up to cast in resin. I modified these so the rim is separate for chroming, I forget what diecast they off of, Art Anderson pointed me toward them. DougH hasn't been on LIL for a minute though

I bought a house last fall, it's been set up more since the last pic, 3 bookshelves like the one on the left filled top to bottom with kits, no duplicates

I think it's short by today's standards, looks pretty good though.

I think you should stick with the Lincoln. The 65 vert is reissued a lot and should be affordable, and there is a resin hardtop conversion that pops up on ebay. The 61-69 series just sooooo bada$$ in black, like the one in the Matrix And for the record, while the youtube vid wasn't appropriate for everyone, I believe that picking on you for your musical tastes and that certain types of music are the downfall of the USA is totally crazy. People thought the same thing about Elvis, so c'mon, it's 2008. But that's not a "racial" issue, it's discriminatory, it's prejudiced, it's petty, and it has as much business on this board as an exposed booby. BUT, you're not helping yourself any with past and present comments you make.

Thanks, a few more pics here. I went with a copper theme throughout, which nowadays would be a scrappers dream-copper carb intakes, license plate holder, and exhaust tips. I screwed up painting the wood floor, so I just cut it out. http://public.fotki.com/BigPoppa/kriss_stu...950_ford_truck/ The cab was really thick at the bottom, so I had fit issues with the firewall, the frame, the interior tub-I cut the top off at the paint line and got rid of that problem. Resin is always a little thicker than plastic, so I still had to grind the window edges and pillars to get the glass, dash, and door panels to fit. This is what inspired that build

Here's what I done a couple years ago. Canted headlights with real copper tube grille and bumper Jimmy Flintstone chopped cab that was a mess-I ended up chopping the chopped top and grafting it to the bottom plastic half. Clear plastic windows with black wire trim. I recall the front end being hard to work with when I flipped the axle

Dragcity version is very nice. Wasn't resinrealm.net stocking those too? Takes more than a grille swap, the windshield is different too

Sounds cool. Maybe combine it with a semi full line hobby shop to give visitors looking for models a reason to look at the museum or the visitors looking at the museum a reason to by more stuff

Any pictures of what won?

I believe that there are some proportion problems with the pro-street body, like the wheel wells are too big and I think Art told me he had to lengthen it slightly in the rear. For a custom, try fitting the newer (96 or so) AMT Mustang under it. I should take a comparison pic. I scored this built up cheap in a lot of models on ebay.

I wouldn't call it a copy, I think the 82 front clip was grafted onto a Perry's resin body.

It is a copy of a copy. The 80 Malibu wagon I saw was pretty clean on the outside, but pretty thick, so get your grinder ready. Not sure if the 2 door cadillac is a copy of the copy or if they tore into another limo.

AAM go for big bucks now, but they were $70 when they were in business, and they included full interiors, glass, chrome and chassis, so I think the price is comparable to $45 for a body and bumpers. I've finally handled a Twinn's casting (not of a Cadillac) finally last week and was pretty impressed. Props for having a set price instead of letting it be run up by overzealous bidders.