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Post by buzzconroy on Apr 17, 2007 16:01:58 GMT -6
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Post by buzzconroy on Apr 17, 2007 16:02:39 GMT -6
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Post by buzzconroy on Apr 17, 2007 16:05:12 GMT -6
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Post by fredmellini on Apr 17, 2007 17:13:55 GMT -6
Wow!! alot of work went into that rebuild and it shows!!!............Looks beautiful, nice work!!!!........................................Fredi
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Post by rwildeone on Apr 17, 2007 17:31:53 GMT -6
I haven't seen that one before. Kinda' kool!
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Post by kettlekettle on Apr 17, 2007 18:04:11 GMT -6
Nice save and restore.... you will fit right in here.... Im sure we'd all like to see more of your work
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Post by Honest Charlie on Apr 17, 2007 18:07:13 GMT -6
Nice save on a rare model. Very clean looking rebuild.
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Post by RatRod on Apr 17, 2007 18:07:21 GMT -6
I enjoy a good restoration myself, and I really enjoy seeing others bring back to life a great & rare kit!! Fantastic job Buzz!!
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Post by zeppy on Apr 17, 2007 18:18:19 GMT -6
that's a great save of a really rare model and very nice detial great job
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Post by buzzconroy on Apr 17, 2007 18:21:26 GMT -6
Thanks guys for the great compliments much appreciated, here are original restored original monster rods, I am currently work on 1964 wolfmans wagon.Aurora made 6 monster rods . Buzz  |
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Post by halfasskustom on Apr 17, 2007 19:49:53 GMT -6
???Sooo that's what a [glow=red,2,300]RATROD[/glow] is allway's wanted to know.  |
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Post by scurvy on Apr 17, 2007 20:11:49 GMT -6
???Sooo that's what a [glow=red,2,300]RATROD[/glow] is allway's wanted to know. Dude! That's not a rat... it's freakin' GOJIRA! (Godzilla) |
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Post by gwangiboy on Apr 17, 2007 20:55:12 GMT -6
Holy cow ... TWO Big Frankies???!!??  I've got an original Aurora Wolfman Wagon to rebuild some day (thrift store find, who obviously didn't know what they had) ... the rest I've got the Polar Lights releases. Super neat build of the Go Kart (and fantastic rescue as well)!! |
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Post by buzzconroy on Apr 17, 2007 21:17:19 GMT -6
Thanks Again all for the great compliments,Gwangi I bought the 2 big frankies off ebay, but took 6 years to make them complete, I am retired now, so I have lots of time devoted to this awesome hobby, I also love showrods, here is my current project, got this kit from italy, canadian wagon., very rare, buzz  |
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Post by chromecop on Apr 18, 2007 8:52:53 GMT -6
Very nice build!!!!
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Post by Bert on Apr 18, 2007 8:56:11 GMT -6
Holy Cow Buzz! I have never seen that kit before. Awsome paint work. The other builds look great too!
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Post by ShowRodFreak Don V. on Apr 18, 2007 10:15:44 GMT -6
Looks kool
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Post by buzzconroy on Apr 18, 2007 10:24:22 GMT -6
Thanks again guys for the great compliments, much appreciated.
buzz
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Post by ramone on Apr 18, 2007 12:36:32 GMT -6
AWESOME build, Buzz!!!!! Nice collection to.
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Post by chief on Apr 18, 2007 12:58:53 GMT -6
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Post by ShowRodFreak Don V. on Apr 18, 2007 16:55:37 GMT -6
Welcome ........looking good Buzz
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2007 19:02:16 GMT -6
That's a nice one, I read somewhere that GOdzilla is the only one PL couldn't repop! As a fellow Aurora collector, my hats off to you. Well done and a heck of a nice save.
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Post by buzzconroy on Apr 18, 2007 19:57:54 GMT -6
Thanks Dave they did repop it, thats a repop in the background, they did alot of changes on it, and the plastic is very cheap, not nice to work or paint with.They go for 45.00 on ebay.
buzz
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Post by gwangiboy on Apr 18, 2007 21:10:50 GMT -6
That's a nice one, I read somewhere that GOdzilla is the only one PL couldn't repop! As a fellow Aurora collector, my hats off to you. Well done and a heck of a nice save. Almost as soon as the Polar Lights kit hit the shelves, they were told to take it off. PL retouched the artwork on the box by painting out the dorsal fins, but the kit itself still had them -- no one was fooled by that for too long. Originally I had read that Toho, the Japanese movie company that makes Godzilla, told PL to pull it, but a short while I read an interview (believe on a monster movie site) who said it was Sony Pictures that made PL pull the kit, saying it wasn't "respectable" or not serious enough, and they had final say over that even tho apparently Toho may not have had a problem with it. That makes a little more sense than Toho saying "no way", considering all the different goofy toys that have been released in Japan (the Super-Deformed Godzilla, plush Godzilla in rock band, Godzilla on skate board, etc) that they've OK'd. Polar Lights was doing a lot of reverse engineering on their stuff ... I think its great to be able to build the old Aurora stuff, but they used different types of plastic on some of their kits so you can't use regular model cement ... and they've had fit problems of their own as well (and instructions that somehow missed a step or two, or a part or two). Still, I really miss that company ... modelers may gripe about what RC2 did (or did not) do for AMT, but RC2 really gave PL the shaft and let them die out of total neglect. One of the LHS here still has plenty of PL kits on the shelves ... not sure about the GoKart tho. Possibly. I'm glad I picked mine up when I did. I stop by there occasionally to pick up other stuff before that time comes when they're all gone and then suddenly they're getting big prices on eBay. |
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Post by Tim Nolan on Apr 19, 2007 14:58:38 GMT -6
Ooooooooooooooooooh man!!! The BIG FRANKIE!!!!! I'd give my left nut for one of those!! LOL. Thats one on my Grail List! I had really hoped Polar Lights would repop tht dude when Tom Lowe was a the helm, but thats just a blur now.....sigh... I've bid on just parts that went thru the roof, so I finally gave up! Nice work on all of your kits! I missed the reissue Godzilla GoKart from PL. I understand they got pulled quick over a dispute with Godzilla/Japan. I snatched up the rest of them tho!  |
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Post by barten on Apr 19, 2007 15:55:29 GMT -6
As usual. . . your builds are pefect. . and what a cool kit! ! ! ! GREAT SAVE!
Thanks for the other images too. . . I love seeing your collection and cases! ! ! ! you're the MAN!
GB
Barten
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Post by buzzconroy on Apr 19, 2007 16:52:17 GMT -6
Thanks again guys for the great comments, the go cart and thronester are so hard to find even on ebay.
Buzz
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Post by badnews on May 5, 2007 21:06:30 GMT -6
You've got mad skills...
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2007 11:18:18 GMT -6
I'm not sure I understand. The second pic show a bunch of parts in the foreground and the completed kit in the background. Are the pics of the finished product the restored kit, or just a second one?
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Post by buzzconroy on May 17, 2007 17:24:49 GMT -6
I'm not sure I understand. The second pic show a bunch of parts in the foreground and the completed kit in the background. Are the pics of the finished product the restored kit, or just a second one? Hi, the one in background is a polarlights, I was comparing differences to the original. Buzz |
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VERY DETAILED and VERY NICE ;D ;D ;D ;D Keep them coming if they look like that AWESOME WORK!!!!! 
