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Build
a Revolving Paint Caddy
Need a
way to store all those small bottles of paint and save storage
space at the same time? We'll show you one solution.
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Photographing
for Realism, Part One
So you've
spent hours and hours shaping and sanding, getting the perfect paint
job, doing the final painstaking assembly...and finally, it's finished!
Now you want to show off your efforts to others. So you grab your
camera and shoot away, but somehow the results just aren't what
you're looking for...
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Back
to the Futura
The
fifties were the golden age of Detroit’s “dream cars”
and at the top of the list was Ford Motor Company’s Lincoln
Futura. Billed as a $250,000 rolling laboratory, the Futura not
only looked like the fifties version of the future, but also was
a fully functioning engineering marvel that foreshadowed a number
of features that would later find their way into production. In
this article we take a look at building Revell's vintage classic
kit.
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Old
Magazine Articles
Back in the late 60s
and early 70s I had several articles published in Car Model Magazine.
The methods were a bit crude back then as compared to how we do
things today, but it's fun to go back and enjoy a bit of nostalgia.
I also had one in Car Modeler in 1997.
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Early 'Vette Triple Play
AMT
first released the '53 Corvette kit in the mid 70s. It was quickly followed
up by the '55 version. From time to time i get the urge to set up an assembly
line, especially when I have more than one similar kit. Such was the case
when I decided to tackle this project. It helpful to take this approach
when the kits are so similar; for one thing, once you figure out an assembly
on one, the others follow easily.
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'36 Ford Roundup
Well, it
all started out simple enough. A while back I had picked up a couple
of versions of the AMT 1936 Ford. One was a fairly recent edition
of the stock 5 window coupe, and the other was a bit older version
(molded in a really awful yellow plastic) that had the option of
building either as the 3 window coupe or the roadster. Both kits
had been sitting in my "stash" closet for a while, and
I was looking for a project that was a little different, so I decided
that it was time to get both kits assembled. But it didn't stop there.
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Project '57
1957 was a banner year for Detroit. Longer, lower and wider were the words of the day and Ford Motor Company offered a lineup that lived up to those words. Between the major model manufacturers and aftermarket companies, it's possible to assemble a collection representing virtually everything in Ford's lineup for 1957.
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Deuces Wild!
This is a project that will eventually result in the restoration of a number of 1932 Fords I originally built back in the early 60s. I'll also be including a couple of all-new builds, and several resin bodied conversions.
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