Hello, My name is Chuck( crowd: HI CHUCK!) and I have a problem. I'm a closet Car-modeller.
I've been wondering if there are any more of us out there. If so, what are your favorite car kits? Mine would have to be the Revell-Monogram C-5 Corvette kit and the Tamiya Porsche 962 Rothman's. Both are excellent out of the box!
Just wondering
Chuck

Chuck,
It's been a while since I built a car kit. A longggg while. But I still have a few in storage unbuilt I think. My favorite kits are either sports cars or muscle cars. I like Revell. Maybe someday I will build a Tamiya car kit for fun.

If you haven't run across them before I would check out PCModeler.com (http://www.pcmodeler.com) and F1M.com (http://www.f1m.com) for more car building enthusiasts.

Jim

Yes, I started to build cars again just recently. It started when I received a T-bird NASCAR as a gift and I also built some snap cars with my kids. I then picked up a PT Cruiser since I saw it was a well engineered kit (see articles) and made an Army staff car out of it. Several other car kits I've acquired in the past few years are a 1996 Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero (Arii), 1980 VW Rabbit (AMT), 2000 Focus WRC (Hasegawa), all are variants of actual cars I own/owned. Car kits I bought because the price was too low to pass up: Revell-Monogram Caprice Alternomad, AMT Ford Edsel Pacer, AMT Dodge Viper R/T, R-M Grand Prix stock car, Tamiya Toyota Carina Autopista, Fujimi Infinity Q45, as well as the movie Batmobiles and a Joker Goon Car/Gotham City police cruiser and a Robo Cop Taurus.

Hey Chuck,
I do build a car every so often. I like to build the old body style Mustangs. I have a '66 Mustang Fastback here that was the last car I built and turned out pretty decent. I want to do one of Tamiya's new VW Beetle, and paint it up like a ladybug.

I build autos also! Currenty I'm half-woring on a Prosche 959 by Tamiya. By that I mean I'm woring on about one piece every two weeks....
I've also got a Ferrari F50 that will not be completed.. I chose to spray paint the body in the garage the same day my mom chose to clean the garage. I never did find the left side air intake. I have built Tamiya's Porsche Boxter. Great model, but I didn't know what I was doing with the spary can and the whole finish is really bumpy. Echhh

YodaMan
Go Red Wings!!!

I still build the occasional muscle car, I'm actually working on an AMT '67 Mustang GT Fastback right now. Like Penny I'm a big fan of the early Mustangs, and have built several over the years. I only wish they made a model of the '72 so I could build the one I had in High School/College.

-Paul

I too build model cars from time to time. Mostly Tamiya Formula 1 cars, since I follow it closely and attend F1 and CART races. Just got my reservations last week for the US Grand Prix in Indy in september. I also built a VW Beetle for my 12 yr old daughter, four more years and she'll want the real thing.

I also build the occasional muscle car. Mostly Camaros and Mustangs. Right now I'm in the middle of Minicraft's 1/16 '31 Ford pickup.

Forgot this earlier...


HI CHUCK!
A car I'd like to build that there will never be a model of is a 1990 GEO Prizm.
:::::::everone reading this will flinch away from screen and mutter, ' huh? '::::::::
Yeah, a Prizm. :-) Hey, it's the car I drive! It's got 130,000 miles, no radio, severely impared acceleration when the AC is on, most of the paint is chipped off the hubcaps, little bit of rust, and the cloth on the ceiling of the interior is falling off. I mean, talk about a cool model!......


YodaMan
Go Red Wings!!!

I've got a small stack of cars that I build for a change of pace.

Matt

Oh yeah. . .HI CHUCK!

Yodaman, that sounds like a great weathering project!! My old 'Stang would be great for practicing rust techniques as well - but the real challenge would be replicating the odd front end 'twist' that resulted from a late night encounter with a patch of gravel on a curving country road.

-Paul

I have built quite a few cars. If it's a MOPAR, I buy it! My favorites....Dodge Viper, Plymouth Prowler w/ trailer. I've even built a firetruck and a bulldozer! When I was in my teens, I built many big rigs. My fav there was the Peterbuilt Wrecker. I guess I should confess that I have built plastic ships( USS Constitution being the coolest) , many military aircraft ( too many to count), and 2 wooden ship models. I've even built some large scale aircraft ( RC warbirds) ( see my P47 and P39 at http://cumberlandaircraftmodelsociety.rcclubs.com/photo4.html

Don

Hi folks,
I like to scratchbuild utility equipment in 1/25th scale. About a year ago, I dropped off a scissor-lift at the rental company for my boss on my way home. While signing for the deposit I grabbed a few pamphlets. To shorten the story, two weeks later I had a scratchbuilt working two-man scissor-lift. And then there's the parts box four-cyl. engine which inspired the trailer type welder. Also a table-saw, industrial air-compressor, pick-up truck utility bed w/ crane.
Just recently I came across about forty photo's I'd taken about fifteen years ago of a local ambulance conversion facility. So now I'm distracted even more from my "serious" modelling. Eh, What are ya gunna do?
Chuck