'56 Vicky Gas!

Sometime this year....yes it will happen! It took awhile to get nice scans of the box on this one. These old kits are getting tough to come by and nobody wants to touch them afraid of hurting the value....send them to me! I will torture that old plastic and put some glue on it! Thanks to Larry Spitzer for the scans!

Blue Beetle CLONE back out!

I better stop getting so far ahead of myself! I need to get clear on this and see if I can level that horrible paint finish out! This is being built with a Monogram later issue Early Iron kit and some of the original parts I scavenged. The scuba stuff was a gift from a friend on TRaK and was made by Replicas and Miniatures. This shouldn't take too long, so check back for finished pics!

FINALLY! '49 GAS MAN

Thanks to Ron Roberts, I have finally received NICE scans of the box art I needed! I plan to build a replica of the artwork "GAS MAN". I really enjoy bringing the artwork to life as most kids never built them this way or they tried and the work was not very nice PLUS age and abuse of the builds over the years. So it is great pleasure to make them FRESH and best I can without spending countless hours. I didn't realize until today when I got the scans, that there was two kits with the GAS MAN on the side panel. Both images are from two issues of the kit. The 49'ER was kit number 2249-170 (the 170 was actual price) and the other is from the Tijuana Border Patrol kit.

NNL North 2009 Bloomington, MN

My '49 Ford did well!
(copy and paste the link, blogger sucks for posting links!)
http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/1/2/2/2009/11th-annual-nnl-nor/

'60 Merc

Here it is finally done! I restored/rebuilt this car and did some very mild touches. I shaved the scripts and crests/badges, lowered it a bit, changed the wheelbase so it looked better, fixed windsheild frame because it was busted in the middle and the photo can speak for the rest.

Kustom Kaps!

from Custom Cars Oct. 1958

One of those things that...

(Driveway copy from cooltoys)

Just makes you wish you could go back in time! I am looking for the complete article and issue of this magazine. Rod & Custom. I saw photos on the internet a couple-few years back somewhere. The one photo that sticks to mind is he had his whole driveway leading into the garage covered in cars in 1/25-1/25 scale unboxed, and built like on the shelves.