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Post by hotrodzilla on Dec 3, 2017 1:54:07 GMT -6
Huh, these are cool! I like the Beer Wagon in particular! And is that a Popcorn Wagon too? There's sometimes some cool Lego pieces that you can use for builds too - the characters sometimes have little things to hold that look roughly in scale, at least for a Showrod build anyway. Pro tip: Legos are good for making custom sized boxes for resin casting I'm not really keen on the whole Lego thing these days apart from doing what they it does best and that is getting kids to be creative using their hands. Lego films? Will we one day see a Lego version of American Graffiti or even the Good the Bad and the Ugly and think it's great? Not me anyway. Admittedly I would help my kids build these as a project, especially if I had a kit already and they were just a little to young to handle the modelling knife and tube of glue. Unfortunately mine are all now having kids of there own but then maybe when they are older But HEY! I like the idea about creating mould casings, I never thought of that. Brilliant
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Post by hotrodzilla on Nov 28, 2017 16:19:15 GMT -6
A couple of old Car Model magazines covers caught my eye, both are from 1967 and I just wondered if the Great man may have seen these. The bus has a 4 engine set up with a scratch built body., the June issue has a cut out to make an Ho slot racer of the bus. May be interesting to hear other members views on these two.
I have not seen this magazine before but picked up a load with some Model Car Science.
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Post by hotrodzilla on Nov 27, 2017 13:42:59 GMT -6
Not quite the same theme but sometime back I had a couple of Li'l Coffin kits. Rather than the usual maroon or near purple, I had one moulded in orange and another in blue plastic. These were the Mattel(70's?) issues with the 'Haunted House' box art.
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Post by hotrodzilla on Aug 5, 2017 14:15:47 GMT -6
A great model, I think I built it as a kid. can anyone tell me, did it actually run? You can beat a Hemi powered toilet ๐ฉ
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Post by hotrodzilla on Mar 28, 2017 8:36:24 GMT -6
If you are interested in building a Druid Princess or at least something like it, Pyro/Life like (for all their faults haha) made an English Coronation coach that has a reasonable proportion cabin that looks similar. Kit bash a few other show rods for the rest of the parts and there ya go. I think Rod & Custom did a 4 page feature in the day, can't find my copy or else I could post it up.
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Post by hotrodzilla on Mar 28, 2017 2:14:45 GMT -6
Congrats John on two good looking builds!! Your conversion looks as good as the Polar Lights version that I'm working on! BTW, I've also got a half finished conversion that I really need to finish. Thanks, never seen a close up of a Polar Lights version. Only seen them on eBay and some fantasy sci-fi comic stores at way above standard retail so never bought one though if one comes up cheap with the figures I may, but it will have to be cheap The 1/32 is roughly the right shape but still not good enough but was all that was available in the 60s. I started mine around 1996-7, took me ages to finish it as I wanted to let all the putty set rock solid and not shrink and show marks when painted. I always wondered why Barris would not licence this kit till interest was mainly with the specialist builders like us, he would have sold millions of them back in the 1960s. As to your unfinished conversion, GO for it, the satisfaction of completing all those modifications will be worth it. When I built mine I went by memories, a few pics in old car magazines and a Corgi Toy die cast belonging to my son. Never had a computer then with endless photo's and building tips.
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Post by hotrodzilla on Mar 15, 2017 10:46:50 GMT -6
Welcome aboard. It's always neat to hear of all the airplane and military builders the Rommel's Rod converted over. A lot of builders found that kit to be the one that sparked them into branching out into cars and show rods. Ya gotta admit, to a young kid, that box art and description was pretty intoxicating. Way more fun than a stock plane. Maybe it was the cool skeletons that swayed me. The Rommel's Rod kit sat next to the Li'l Coffin on the shop shelf way back around 1972, somehow I was drawn to Rommel and got the Coffin as a Christmas present the next year. I don't think I built another stock military kit for another 25 years, and that was an Airfix B17 I built with my son.
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Post by hotrodzilla on Mar 10, 2017 10:33:46 GMT -6
Thanks all who have had a look . I posted a couple of pics in the Gallery section. Here are a few more of the finished model.
The front nose started out as a custom scoop from AMTs 58 Impala, the grill mesh is expanded aluminium(Aluminum to our US friends), roof light is from a JoHan Chrysler Turbine exhaust with lots of other homemade parts such as Bat Fins, Bat Caps on the wheels, also the decals and the roof bar and pods. You can't see it but there is a radar dish made from the speedometer from a Pyro motorcycle kit(BSA). Wheel wells I made by cutting to rough diameter then wrapping some rough wet n dry around a slightly oversised tyre and wheel, mounted in a motor tool(Dremel?) To get the smooth blended sides with no seams I filled everything, finish sanded and primered ready for the final colour. When it was all painted up, hardened and polished, I cut the bottom out to fit the interior. Before all the small details were fitted I did my best brush painting the red edging. At the time I had no computer so no details available for the correct red/orange shade No engine details and I won a 'Slammer' class in a local custom car show model contest with it. It is obviously not perfect but I am very pleased with it personally. The Futura is just a stock build with filler and foil, paint is polished rattle can acrylic blue as I just like that colour I do hope you enjoy these photo's. Cheers, John.
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Post by hotrodzilla on Mar 10, 2017 9:27:04 GMT -6
About halfway down the OPs pics is an ad showing the Coffin described as 'The Demon'. Anyone know why?
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Post by hotrodzilla on Mar 10, 2017 4:26:37 GMT -6
Apart from my introduction post, I thought I would make this my first post. Just a few images taken 20 years ago when Revell reissued the Futura. Please please be gentle if I have got any protocol wrong here and feel free to tell me off or move the posts. Many thanks.
I had always wanted a Batmobile but also the Futura was always on my most wanted list and Barris had not granted a licence to build so to speak. So this is pre Polar Lights. Handmade Bat decals and brush painted striping, wheel spinners, roof equipment, fins and grill, with a big raid on the parts box for 'stuff'. The paint is rattle can acrylic black. The exhaust outlet by the way is a glue tube lid, one of those with the centre pierce point left in place(Because I thought it looked good ) The pedantic amongst us may notice there is no radar on the hood and the wheels are not correct plus a few other bits. I probably will finish this someday(the radar at least) but when? I just don't get much time to model build these days
Any questions on the build always welcome
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Post by hotrodzilla on Mar 8, 2017 13:08:23 GMT -6
I always liked this model and this is a great build. We first came across it in the UK as an MPC kit in an Airfix box. The real thing has a bit of strange history I believe so I am not sure who built or designed the original, was it Barris built to Dean Jeffries design or what? And does anyone know the base vehicle please? I have heard it was a GTO rag top or even a Wagon with the roof cut off. Anyone know the full story? cheers, J
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Post by hotrodzilla on Mar 1, 2017 3:51:30 GMT -6
Cheers all๐
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Post by hotrodzilla on Feb 25, 2017 2:01:43 GMT -6
Hello everybody, I have just joined your wonderful forum. I cannot find an intro page so started this. if I have missed the intro then please redirect me. Anyway, onto me. Started building models as a 7 year old, usually WWII planes and stuff. The Airfix Flying Fortress built with my dad being my first kit and bought because of the great Roy Cross artwork on the British version. Fast forward a few years and I'm still building various kits of all modes. Then as a young reader of Hot Rod magazine and a visit to the model dept of an unknown store, I came across a model of Tom Daniel's called Rommel's Rod. This was the transition kit to me that took me from WWII tanks and planes to way out cars. My next show rod was the Li'l Coffin, a great kit I have rebuilt a few times and is a great source for kit bashing and am working on a variant now. I liked what I built and rarely went back to the military kits. Only when my son was growing did I help him with some models in his pre-playstation days, he admires my stuff but admits that is my hobby. I discovered the Coffin Corner probably about 2002 and loved it. Never a member, I always had a look around the finished models and have watched it grow from a few features on the real stuff to the big lists of members builds. As probably others on here I am not a fan of every show rod though even those I find ridiculous, particularly the non operational 1:1 vehicles I can appreciate their contribution to the genre Hope I can contribute soon and I shall post some photo's. Thanks for letting me in, JohnnyT
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