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Post by redbaron on Aug 22, 2012 16:53:05 GMT -6
did you make that realistic backdrop
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Post by redbaron on Aug 22, 2012 15:37:43 GMT -6
does anyone have a picture of the cartoon concept of the mega cycle that is in the "newt article" in the selected article section?
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Post by redbaron on Aug 22, 2012 15:01:16 GMT -6
I remember when I first saw it inMagical Mystery Tour and how "trippy" we all thought it looked. Seeing it again it kind of looks like Grandma's bad china - Janice Joplin's psycodelic Porsch was much better done. that Porsche was groovy with all its artwork wrapping around the car
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Post by redbaron on Aug 20, 2012 19:12:30 GMT -6
that reminds me of Wolfie's stuff
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Post by redbaron on Aug 20, 2012 19:10:29 GMT -6
at one time all I built was large scale items, when I got back to small scale stuff it looked much smaller than it is due to the fact that I had been working with such large scale kits
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Post by redbaron on Aug 16, 2012 8:36:29 GMT -6
I noticed the lindberg kits are a little bigger, but they have less details.
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Post by redbaron on Aug 14, 2012 11:58:10 GMT -6
I'm obsessed with any ed newton stuff I can get. Or john Bogosain stuff, but I completed my collection of his models.
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Post by redbaron on Aug 14, 2012 11:49:01 GMT -6
Dang!! Your BETTER stocked than my LHS!!!! I drool over only two tho.... Which two He does have some really great kits on the shelf, I can't stop staring at that big rat fink and the gypsy wagon, I also see that he has amazing artwork on the wall
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Post by redbaron on Aug 12, 2012 16:51:05 GMT -6
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Post by redbaron on Aug 12, 2012 14:14:06 GMT -6
Don't we all have at least one car thet we look back on and say, man do I wish I wish I had kept it, or the famous she broke up with me right after she made me sell it.
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Post by redbaron on Aug 11, 2012 13:23:53 GMT -6
Yesterday i found myself waching an old episode of looney toons and began thinking about how plymouth made the superbird themed around the roadunner, but there was nothing themed around the Wile E Coyote. Then I began thinking, hay didn't chrysler made two aero cars, the plymouth superbird and the less famous however more interesting dodge daytona. Then I realized the well known fact that both of these cars were almost impossible to obtain, then I began doing some research about the world of clone cars, it turns out that you could kits that will attach to a 69 charger quite easily. Now I began thinking about a themed dodge charger themed around Wile E Coyote. So whaat does everyone think about a daytona clone named after the coyote?
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Post by redbaron on Aug 11, 2012 12:20:44 GMT -6
what was it?
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Post by redbaron on Aug 10, 2012 18:30:14 GMT -6
Cool mabe if someone wins it than they could post it
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Post by redbaron on Aug 9, 2012 7:09:28 GMT -6
Monster truck
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Post by redbaron on Aug 8, 2012 13:22:19 GMT -6
I am no longer using eBay, their seller protection is atrocious. I have had to deal to often with buyers who are trying to scam me. I just got scammed out of over one hundred dollars on a pressed steel toy truck, even though I had proof the item was delivered. I am done dealing with eBay and the crap they give sellers.
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Post by redbaron on Jul 28, 2012 17:47:53 GMT -6
I am working on a recent kit and was wondering if anyone had a picture of an assembled pyro hot rod kit chassis, any one of these kits would work the serpent, bull horn t, or the stage ghost, or any other of the kits with the same chassis
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Post by redbaron on Jul 20, 2012 12:47:46 GMT -6
If you want an origional they have become less hard to find lately in fact there are a few on ebay right now just look under tom daniel, dog carcher in the models and kits catagory, or show rod/ show cars
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Post by redbaron on Jul 16, 2012 14:49:26 GMT -6
It depends on how much I want it and how long I've waited
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Post by redbaron on Jul 13, 2012 19:52:43 GMT -6
very interesting take on a obscure kit
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Post by redbaron on Jul 3, 2012 15:40:19 GMT -6
Cool kit, it is one of those kits that I've never owned, but now I regret not owning it.
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Post by redbaron on Jul 2, 2012 17:08:59 GMT -6
Great build it looks good
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Post by redbaron on Jun 28, 2012 8:18:01 GMT -6
Cool ride your's is the best I've seen in a while
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Post by redbaron on Jun 25, 2012 16:37:23 GMT -6
You are correct eldon was the only one that made that kit
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Post by redbaron on Jun 18, 2012 12:54:07 GMT -6
I have bought from this seller a few times and he has always had good stuff, however in the beginning I had problems and wondered why it was so hard to win a bid from him, when he first started all his stuff would go for prices that were way more than they were worth, I just chalked it up as people bidding just to be part of the frenzy, now I never have a problem geting stuff from him and his shipping is on time if not a few days early
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Post by redbaron on Jun 12, 2012 13:24:34 GMT -6
Some more progress on the flameout thea I was working on during the contest, I drilled out the gas tank and wired it, I also added the lights
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Post by redbaron on Jun 9, 2012 15:26:09 GMT -6
Your model looks great, it is a very interesting theme
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Post by redbaron on Jun 9, 2012 15:23:24 GMT -6
What kit do you regret selling the most?
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Post by redbaron on May 29, 2012 16:03:44 GMT -6
Tis is another flameout to go with the one I got from wolfie.
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Post by redbaron on May 29, 2012 4:03:14 GMT -6
How did he do the barrel in the pic above, it looks really good
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Post by redbaron on May 28, 2012 17:05:33 GMT -6
This kit was a odd car that I found on Dave's site after getting into show rods, I was going through the list and found this kit to be unique and fun and of a interesting theme. The only problem was that the kit turns out is very rare and valuable, so after some time of looking I moved on to other show rods, but never forgetting about the gypsy wagon. After a few years and a few auctions, I thought that I would never find my grail. But I continued to look in eBay, one day I was looking for a big drag and came across an auction for a flameout, already having owned a few of these, I didn't really care for the kit, but normally when it comes to sellers if they are selling one kit than they are selling more. So I took a break from my search to look into this seller's stuff, when I clicked on the button to look at the models, the first kit that was listed was a li'l gypsy wagon with a buy it now that was a hundred dollars less than a kit that I had bid on earlier that year. Later that week the kit arrived and I immedietly saw problems with the kit's design. the main problem was the body, when located to the spot it was supposed to be on, didn't fit and the frame had been warped over the years. So I sat down and began to work on this peice of seventies gold, after having mocked up the kit and making some needed changes to the headers, I started the even more problematic task of PAINT . after a few attempts to use weathering pastels and washes, I stripped the body and brought out the airbrush. I started by painting it with about seven light coats of thinned lime green mixed with a touch of yellow, I used about twenty coats of a thinned varnish on the wood. after all this I found some left over weathering pastel and lightly rubbed it on the roof, for the body I used a black chalk that I lightly rubbed on to get a weathered look. After all this I had to go down to Florida for a week, I made a bad decision of packing the freshly weathered body in its box with the intent of working on it when I got down there. But something went wrong. after unpacking the kit I found that the whole rear end of the body had begun to chip and crack . there was nothing I could do but put it back in the box and wait till I got back home to fix the problems. when I got home instead of fully stripping the rear end again, I embraced the chips and started to make the whole body look as thought it had been sitting out for years on end. After much repainting and weathering I was able to complete the car and put it on my shelf.
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