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 stoping by and looking. Hope you liked my albums - feel free to comment
Susanne

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

Bob...
We met at the GNRS last weekend Just wanted to pass along my Fotki site on to you...http://public.fotki.com/jth109/2009grandnationalro/
John aka FuelishSpectator

Hello Bob!!
Love looking at others work. that is where the inspiration are, but also where You learn what is actually Your self. Tho beeing 42, I learn so much about my self these days, that I really strugle to understand that there could be this many options!
Have a Happy New Year!

thanks for ur stopping by nice photos i like them~~

Thank's for the comments,and getting me on this site.This is going to be a lot of fun.More pictures of the coupe should be on soon.Talk to you soon.Kevin

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