Ace-Garageguy

Very pretty. The more of this body design I see, the more I like it.

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Exceptionally nice work on a kit that gets a bad rap. Your photos show how good one of them can look, and how well proportioned the body is.

Down at my house, I used to leave the tree up until April sometimes. (not my house, not my tree)

"None" is how much enthusiasm I have this morning, but it'll come on line shortly.

My tastes have changed a little over the years, including having developed a real liking for old wagons. I still have a '74 Malibu wagon in storage that I bought because it was so cheap ($100), and ended up going through mechanically before driving it all over the country way back in '95. One I really wish I'd saved was a '66 Ford Country Squire with a 428 and front disc brakes. Just like this, but on stock rims. Man, I'd love to have that big ol' gashog today. Of course, at the time I had neither the knowledge nor the desire to restore the "wood" (the vinyl was faded and peeling, and the fiberglass trim parts were turning to dust), hated anything fake, and was a sports-car snob to boot. Looking back, it would really be a cool old trailer puller now...and it was fast for a battleship.

Agreed. Only use I have for these types is for what's-in-the-box. There seems to be no shortage of slap-it-together content, but hey...3rd rate mediocrity abounds on the interwebs. EDIT: Speaking of which, I just looked at one, and I simply don't get things like huge blobs of gloo to hold on hubcaps and chrome trim. Really? I built like that when I was 8.

Place your bets, ladies.

I didn't go too crazy with car models this Christmas, 'cause i went crazy with train stuff instead. Still, these showed up under the tree: I had nice restorable builtups of the '59 Imperial and F-100, but just felt like getting new kits. I hadn't realized the Ford pickup was a "new tool" (assumed it was just another repop), so that made me happy when I opened it, but left me disappointed by the blobular chassis. The Blazer is a parts donor to convert a nice 4-dr promo I got earlier into a full-detail model. The '32 Imperial was purchased specifically to use as a starting point for building a '33 Plymouth coupe powered by a gen-one Chrysler Hemi, like a real one I built some years back. Between the old 1/24 Monogram '34 Ford and the Imperial, I should be able to scratchbash something pretty close. EDIT: The '33-34 Plymouth is a slightly larger car than the same year Ford. We had a '34 Ford in the shop the same time as the '33 Plymouth, and I was able to compare them visually and collect body measurements from both of them...hence the reason for starting with the larger 1/25 Imperial and the 1/24 Monogram '34 Ford bodies.

Some interest was expressed in learning how these machines were built. I just got this book, which goes into some detail, including a last chapter on Big Muskie.

"Fixed" is what I'd like to be able to say about a nagging personal issue, but it ain't gonna be any time soon.

Methinks thou dost have an interesting idea there.

Can can dancers were considered to be pretty racy a long time ago in a galaxy far far away from the interwebs.

Hit one out of the park every now and then if you can.

Merry Christmas