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Post by gloobombking on Jul 28, 2021 19:45:18 GMT -6
Here is some out of the box stuff just cause it was fun. Made me feel like I was 12 years old again!
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jul 29, 2021 7:23:17 GMT -6
Those are some really well done Classics!  Thanks for sharing, GlooBomb! |
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Post by bravo1jon on Jul 30, 2021 3:10:13 GMT -6
Soo cool. Are those the 1/8 scale kits? Very cool.
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Post by JCON on Jul 30, 2021 9:36:23 GMT -6
1/25th scale Jon! I remember building all of them back in the 60's and 70's!!! Fun trip down memory lane!!!  |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Jul 30, 2021 13:42:24 GMT -6
I love these old cars! Way to go man!
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Post by BUCKY on Jul 30, 2021 15:01:17 GMT -6
I like the hot rods, and the shop dio!
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Post by JED on Aug 2, 2021 9:58:01 GMT -6
Great stuff, I'm not sure if that is The Fonz but heeeeeeey 👍
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Post by JCON on Aug 3, 2021 10:23:48 GMT -6
Looks like him to me Jed!!!
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Post by gloobombking on Sept 9, 2021 19:12:08 GMT -6
A few more hot rods. sumpin' ta look at ifs you are bored...........................
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Post by JCON on Sept 10, 2021 17:53:41 GMT -6
Nice, that reminds me I still need to build my Woody Wagon!!!
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Post by JED on Sept 13, 2021 23:16:56 GMT -6
Lovely selection
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Post by Dukemaddog on Sept 15, 2021 15:08:19 GMT -6
Those latest ones look fantastic. I know someone who built the Woody, doing something I wanted to try as well: he cut out the wooden portions of the body and used them as templates to re-make those parts with actual basswood parts. He then stained them and really enhanced the model that way.
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Post by gloobombking on Sept 17, 2021 9:32:34 GMT -6
Hey Madduke, I have seen that woody you speak of somewhere------or at least one built the same way. Any of you guys fool with 1/32 scale? When I was a kid, I got an Eldon 1/32 scale slot layout and noticed 1/32 scale models looked great displayed around and maybe some of the bodies used. Revell offered up some nice 32 scale items but the hobby shelves in my area were full of Airfix and Lindberg 32 scale cars and hot rods and lets not forget Pyro classics. You could usually pick one of these up for 49 cents at the five and dime and if you were a good little kid, the check-out lady would let you slide on the penny tax. When I was a kid, I at one time had a huge pile of 32 scale cars for the layout and as most of us young boys would do they met their fate as targets for our Red Ryder Range Model 200 Shot Air Rifle with a compass in the stock---or maybe the yearly firecracker attack. Well, one of my favorite kits was the Lindberg Kookie Contender.
A 32 scale kit with an engine and options!!! Wow, Lindberg sure knew how to get a kids attention. I'm not sure how many of these I built along with other rods and classics but I loved this little car. I had one in the stash for many years so about 3 years ago I built it again.
I chose to build it with the 3X2 carbs in the street rod version. I have thought about trying to pull this off in 1/25 scale. There are plenty of kit parts out there and it might work. Here are some shots of the finished rod.
 
This little kit first hit the shelf in 1964 and has been available off and on up until just the last few years. I have not purchased one of the latest releases as this one is from the first 1964 release. I am not sure but I think there were at least 8 different releases of this kit. I do not have photos of all the box art and I know a couple of times they were released as a double kit with a different rod. Yes, they are pretty crude but "cute". I still like em even in my geezer years.
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Post by Dukemaddog on Sept 17, 2021 13:42:28 GMT -6
That is so cool. I never saw any of these in my younger days so I never got into them. Amazing I know, but we were a military family that moved a lot and almost all my models I got were from the local base exchanges. I never knew about Hobby Shops until I moved out on my own. None of the base exchanges ever carried those as I recall. Or my memory could be faulty; after all I was more interested in aircraft as my father was in the Air Force.
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Post by JCON on Sept 18, 2021 10:21:19 GMT -6
I built a few 1/32nd back when I was a kid but they are long gone unfortunately!
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Post by JED on Sept 23, 2021 13:46:11 GMT -6
That is so cool. I never saw any of these in my younger days so I never got into them. Amazing I know, but we were a military family that moved a lot and almost all my models I got were from the local base exchanges. I never knew about Hobby Shops until I moved out on my own. None of the base exchanges ever carried those as I recall. Or my memory could be faulty; after all I was more interested in aircraft as my father was in the Air Force. I did a short tour in Cyprus and managed to get a visit to a Canadian camp, in their shop they had a big selection of Tamiya stuff. On a 6 month tour we didn't get much baggage space or room space so I only had my 15mm and 28mm war gaming stuff |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Sept 24, 2021 13:28:13 GMT -6
Yeah, I understand about small baggage space; I had a friend of mine who visited Cyprus when he was a kid. They were there for three months as his father was doing some work over there. They couldn't bring much and he couldn't bring home anything either due to baggage restrictions.
They were supposed to be there a year before coming back to the states, but the Greek/Turkey flare up happened and they were sent home after three months. He told me how the Greek Army had confiscated the family van they'd bought just before they left so that they could move their troops.
What a story; I just wish I could remember more.
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Post by JED on Sept 26, 2021 8:03:33 GMT -6
Yeah, I understand about small baggage space; I had a friend of mine who visited Cyprus when he was a kid. They were there for three months as his father was doing some work over there. They couldn't bring much and he couldn't bring home anything either due to baggage restrictions. They were supposed to be there a year before coming back to the states, but the Greek/Turkey flare up happened and they were sent home after three months. He told me how the Greek Army had confiscated the family van they'd bought just before they left so that they could move their troops. What a story; I just wish I could remember more. Duke, on my tour we had blokes who were there for that uprising, they took us younger blokes on tours showing the locations where they had built sandbag sangers,set up MG posts and Anti-Tank systems. On the roof tops of some locations they were still able to point out where the Turkish forces had lined up ready to assault, pretty interesting. |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Sept 26, 2021 13:27:48 GMT -6
Wow, what a trip! Man I bet that was interesting!
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Post by JED on Sept 26, 2021 22:12:45 GMT -6
Wow, what a trip! Man I bet that was interesting! I'm guessing that thise telling us were in their early 20's in 74, I was 22 ish and looking back that would seem about right,some possibly older |
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Thanks for sharing, GlooBomb!
