Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2007 12:42:01 GMT -6
I recently went through some old photos at my mom's house and found this one and only photo of models from my childhood. Sorry for the quality, it was made with one of those cheapo, no focus 110 cameras that were common back in the '60s.
The photo was dated January 1970. You can also date it by the pics of the Chevelle and "Pure Heaven" altered on the wall. My bedroom was plastered with similar pics cut from magazines. I was definitely a Chevy man if you didn't notice! The shelf was made by me in my 7th grade woodshop class!
The bug is the AMT bug with the shortened body. It had a scratchbuilt funny car type chassis with the beautiful injected V-6 from the AMT Opel GT kit. The paint was candy orange with panels in silver with cherry colored fogging. The name of the car hand painted on the side (which can't be seen) was "Texas Joe". Yeah, not very imaginative!
The '54 Chevy was one of my extremely rare, more or less, out of the box builds. Even then I was cutting stuff up and building models from scrap box cast offs. I never really went for out of the box models. It was painted with alternating layers of Pactra and testor candy purple over silver base.
Kind of wierd looking back.... eh?
Mike
