Bob you have some interesting stuff in your model section I'll have to come back and spend some more time looking.

Bob, Love your tractor section!! If you happen to run across some 1/8th scale tires and wheels for a "M" series,about 1954, (6 inch rear D and 3 inch D for the fronts, Ive been doing a scratchbuild J D w/ 392 Hemi in it as an early "puller like we did back on the farm... Thanks!!

know anyone that casts a belly tank lakester in resin??

Nice photos of Mickey's last project. Unbelievable craftsmanship. Was all that scratch built?

nice photos! I wish I had known about the show so I could see all the great models
there.

Bob, if I can make it to LLC NNL next year we can definately have a bench race haha! - Bob Black

Thanks Bob for looking,I'am glad you enjoy the photos.There are a lot of great car shows here in Minnesota.I'll eventually post more photos of my current model projects and completed ones as well.Take care,have a great day.

Thanks for the commits! The 1/32 scale 55's are great! I'm posting pics of mine tonight. I dug it up from all of my junk, it needs to be redone. I built a 56 chevy custom 1/25 scale and I thought it would be cool to build a small version with the 1/32 55 chevy with quad headlights and extended rear fins.

Hey Bob,
What a GREAT set of photo albums. Nicely set up and arranged! I have really enjoyed looking at your site and will continue. Thanks for sharing.
Jeff

Thanks for a new photo of the Ford Nucleon ! I was thrilled to see it at the Ford Museum in Dearborn MI . Love that car ! I designed a car based on it in 1963 and won a contest with that. visit www.modelcarscience.com to see it

Thanks again,
bob

Nice start,can't wait. Who is the figure in the big hat?

Bob-

Have you looked at this guys page? Totally over the top. Incrdeible dioramas. http://public.fotki.com/vsuarez666/voodoo-customs-chop-shop/models-1/the-devils-cadillac/

Bob-
Now that I look closely at the pic you referenced, the front axle on that car is from the Monogram '50 Austin Drag Coupe (recently re-issued). And yes, that axle has a rather severe drop to it!

Bob-
Thanks for your kind words on my builds. For the front axle, I usually use the dropped i-beam from the Revell Model A kits (many variations of this venerable kit have been released over the years). There are several other usable axles as well, the Revell '37 (sedan and convertible) have a slightly dropped i-beam axle).
I cut off the spring and mount the wishbones at the spring attach point. To make a suicide set up (axle in front of the spring) I make the transverse leaf spring attach point on the wishbone. See the pictures in the Model A sedan folder on my page (although this was the stock Model A spring). Also view the pix in the Bach's Body Shop Special '32 sedan folder). I make my wishbones out of Evergreen brand plastic rectangles cut at a diagonal, then they are shaved and sanded down to smooth off the edges. I make the axle attach points out of evergreen as well. The look like this in side view: [ with the axle in the center section. I drill out the top and bottom tabs on the wishbone attach area as well as the axle and use a cut common pin to attach the axle to the 'bone. I hope this helps, hit me back if you have more questions.

Hi Bob, thanks for the nice comments about the wagon. It's injected molded plastic that has a coat of PolyScale RR Tie Brown on it throughout. I then used strong washes of raw and burnt umber on just the 'metal' parts. The wood was very lightly dry brushed with some very light gray and a "coffee with cream" tan followed by some powdered chalks in the darker brown colors. Hope this helps, there's really no science to it just a lot of experimentation.
Chester