Show us you model cars

[John]

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... Show us your model cars that either you put together or your children have put together. Please include photos of the cars and boxes which always are pretty neat.

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http://https://www.yenko.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=91&pictureid=648

http://https://www.yenko.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=91&pictureid=649

http://https://www.yenko.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=91&pictureid=650

[big gear head]

I've got about 200 of them in my attic, but no pictures.

[John]

https://www.yenko.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=91&pictureid=652

https://www.yenko.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=91&pictureid=648

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[70 copo]

One of my favorites an original Revell Deals Wheels Z-28

[L_e_e]

Sadly, mine became victims of M-80's...

[chevyman0429]

Iv got a hundred or so still in there original boxes and this little cabinet full of car related stuff!

[427TJ]

Built this original Monogram '66 Chevelle kit last summer just for fun. Added new wheels and tires and removed the side pipes. I remember when the kit came out in 1977, I just about flipped. Fun to build it again after all these years. For some reason I cannot post a larger photo.

[427TJ]

Built this JoHan 429 Comet in 1980 as a senior in high school. Still looks good! GT500 stripes were from the AMT '68 GT500.

[427TJ]

AMT '66 427 Fairlane. Did this one 20 years ago.

[427TJ]

AMT AWB '65 Nova with injected Rat.

[cook_dw]

I always enjoyed building models growing up. I got to where I’d just buy them and keep them sealed. Well the 1st gens anyways.

Here is one a friend of the family built for my father. I can remember him coming over and taking 100 photos of the car before starting the model build. The next one was one my father built in the late 60’s that I still have and then a Yenko I built when I was 14. The 55 I built a couple years back as a hot rod black. Forgot how small the parts were after taking many years off from building.

[wheelhop]

Okay, I didn't build it but thought it was cool the car are 1/64th scale 69 Hot Wheel Chevelles.

[427TJ]

And for a throwback, here's my car collection in the very early '80s right after I graduated high school in '80. They went into a box a few years later and stayed there until 2015. My buddy has them now and put them back into display condition. They were arranged on the hood of his '67 SS 396 Camaro that he's had since 1979. (LS7, M-22, Centerlines.)

[PeteLeathersac]

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All super cool and I'm w:eek2:wed by some of what's been posted!
40+ years since I got off the glue but man those sure were some fun times.
Broken w/ missing parts but here's one I still have, 2'nd pic is box side panels.
:beers:
~ Pete

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[PeteLeathersac]

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[Lee Stewart]

Built a ton of models during my youth, Then I was introduced to firecrackers. :cool2:

[Mallard]

Built a ton of models during my youth, Then I was introduced to firecrackers. :cool2:

:no:

I had 1/25 scale models back to the early 60's. Sadly, they were destroyed in a flood in my parents basement in 1974. I had already moved out (I was 22 and we moved out of our parents houses in those days) however, my model cars were still there in a nice cabinet my father and I made (which the water destroyed).

[427TJ]

Built a ton of models during my youth, Then I was introduced to firecrackers. :cool2:

Pellet guns and M80s for me! LOL!

[427TJ]

Paintless model cars can be fun. The AMT '62 Impala convertible is an original 1962 kit that I had to build. I did the Revell '57 Ford and Chevy about ten years ago. I added wheels from Monogram '58 T-bird to the Ford and from the Monogram '57 Corvette to the convertible. The blue and white '57 Ford hardtop dates to 1978. I saw one exactly like it, restored perfectly, in the Burger King parking lot where I worked. Went home and built the model. Dusty from being unboxed in parents' basement after 35 years. Still looks good! The JoHan Road Runner was a project I started back in the late '70s and found it when I got all of my stored stuff out of the parent's basement five years ago. Fun to open boxes and see kits I had long forgotten about.

[Lemans69]

I have been building for years!

[Lemans69]

More

[Lemans69]

Even more!

[427TJ]

Even more!

Speechless!

[Lemans69]

Thanks!

[169indy]

Here is my Model made after purchasing the 69 pacer in 1984, shortly after a good friend attended a industry event in the great state of Indiana during May 1986, somehow he found his way into the brickyard and a facility hosted "dinner" where they had a table full of various 8x10 prints of INDY 500 memories, He snagged a Official Pacer photo and fashioned a display for my model that was sitting on a dresser in my home. I came up with the idea to hang the wooden followers below and attach the dash plaques chronicling show attendance.

Like most tons of various models Car, Boat, Plane And Trains met with the various demises of BB Guns, Firecrackers etc....

[mssl72]

Hey Lemans69, nice work!!!

[cook_dw]

Thanks!

Your paint jobs are very nice. I assume these are not done with a rattle can.?. Airbrush or paint gun?

This is the best I have been able to do with a rattle can. '66 Chevelle I started back in '18. Going for a replica of my fathers old L34 '66. Textured ceilling in the laundry room as it makes it look like the paint is wonky. I need to eventually get back after this little project but like most things I run out of daylight. :thumbsdown:

[Lemans69]

Thanks! I used rattle cans for all of the painted models. I would say about 75% of these models were painted by me, the others were molded in color out of the box, which I then clear coated. I learned some tricks over the years like very light multiple coats, not spraying too close, and warming the spray can in some warm water for about 10-15 minutes before spraying. All of the decals and stripes were also cleared over for protection. They are not perfect, but it was fun building them!

[427TJ]

Rattle can. Silver base then candy metalflake green. Warm the can under hot tap water, warm day outside, lay it down with long strokes. Been doing this for 40+ years.

[427TJ]

Thanks! I used rattle cans for all of the painted models. I would say about 75% of the models were painted by me, the others were molded in color out of the box, which I then clear coated. I learned some tricks over the years like very light multiple coats, not spraying too close, and warming the spray can in some warm water for about 10-15 minutes before spraying. All of the decals and stripes were also cleared over for protection. They are not perfect, but it was fun building them!

This.

[Lemans69]

Nice work cook_dw and 427TJ!

I always used a clean cardboard box/cover that I gently placed over the freshly painted body to minimize dust in the paint as it dried. Worked pretty good! Some builders are at another level and have amazing paint results- wet sanding, buffing, etc.

[Lynn]

I posted this a few years ago, but didn't disclose that it was a model at first. Had a few guys going for just a bit. Consensus was that I was an A$$ for posting.

I still have it.
https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=129431&highlight=split+window+motor+locked

[SMS]

I posted this a few years ago, but didn't disclose that it was a model at first. Had a few guys going for just a bit. Consensus was that I was an A$$ for posting.

I still have it.
https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=129431&highlight=split+window+motor+locked

That’s a great model, and prank!

[John]

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… Did you sell it to Charlie ?:tongue:

:headbang:

[Jonesy]

I had this one as a kid. Also had the Richard Petty model. One day I took the instamatic camera and the two cars outside and simulated a crash/fire with the two cars. :D

I still do have the pics somewhere to prove it :biggthumpup:

[Lynn]

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… Did you sell it to Charlie ?:tongue:

:headbang:

He didn't ask to buy it. He asked if he could HAVE it; so... no.

[Lynn]

I had this one as a kid. Also had the Richard Petty model. One day I took the instamatic camera and the two cars outside and simulated a crash/fire with the two cars. :D

I still do have the pics somewhere to prove it :biggthumpup:

Jonesy: I would like to see the pics.

[Dave Rifkin]

I have a model of the Don Garlit's rear engine dragster that I never got around to building. Good for the model because like all my other builds I probably would have blown it up with fire crackers.

[427TJ]

I had this one as a kid. Also had the Richard Petty model. One day I took the instamatic camera and the two cars outside and simulated a crash/fire with the two cars. :D

I still do have the pics somewhere to prove it :biggthumpup:

I built almost all of those MPC stock car kits back in the mid '70s starting with the 21 Mercury Purolator Cyclone. They had the same frames and cages, I think.

[427TJ]

Here's one from about 1972-73 when I was ten-eleven. I was a Shelby GT350 nut and the only Mustang fastback I could get my hands on was the old Aurora 32nd scale kit. I used wheels and decals from the IMC Torino Cobra kit and side scoops from an incomplete AMT '68 GT500 grafted on with household spackling paste! I mixed the blue and did my best to tape the lines with regular masking tape. Can't remember where I got the hood scoop. It had been in storage (with all of my old builds) for over 30 years until 2015.

[L72Biscayne]

I've had these for almost 30 years. The model paints are from 1971 when I started to build them at 11 years old. Notice the miss print 429. To bad the miss print isn't worth what a miss printed coin would be. Waiting for retirement to build them. If it ever comes. LOL.

[Burd]

Here’s a Drawer Find, nice patina I have the parts. I think it’s the orig date coded glass, engine is wrong color, master isn’t black/cad. Hate painted boosters, oh, wrong thread. Lol

[SMS]

My 68 Z28 built in a hotel room on a business trip.

[169indy]

SMS Thumb's UP Dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim

[markinnaples]

My 68 Z28 built in a hotel room on a business trip.

That looks like a perfect start to build a model that looks just like my Camaro.

[SMS]

Forgot to post the box...

[markinnaples]

Forgot to post the box...

I have that exact one sitting in my closet for my son and I to build. I want my wife ot pain it just like my car as it's could almost be exactly like my car.

[427TJ]

Forgot to post the box...

That kit came out in about 1980-81 and, at that time, was the only first-gen kit that was worth a damn. I built it in red with white stripes and used redlines from an AMT 1968 Cougar kit. I still have it but it needs to be restored.

[cook_dw]

Wasn't it originally molded in orangish red?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSUhmyLhu6PrChERXmK-KLtSPG8KnkLL_trmQw2MOw9awJoJiha&usqp=CAU

[427TJ]

Wasn't it originally molded in orangish red?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSUhmyLhu6PrChERXmK-KLtSPG8KnkLL_trmQw2MOw9awJoJiha&usqp=CAU

Yep! That's it. Back when AMT and Matchbox were in cahoots.

[SMS]

I've started on this 69 now. I might try to replicate my brother's 69 race car.

[mssl72]

I've had this for a number of years. I was planning on building it up at some point in time. There's a few different ways to build it with the parts in the kit. Unfortunately not a Z version.

https://i.ibb.co/Y0GSy6z/IMAG5980.jpg (https://ibb.co/y4JCYDw)

https://i.ibb.co/4VN165Y/IMAG5979.jpg (https://ibb.co/71ykw6R)

Even the bottom has info!

https://i.ibb.co/wSFRtfd/IMAG5981.jpg (https://ibb.co/LxX8K30)

[SMS]

Finished the blue one.