The glue sniffers will understand!
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Joshua
Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
By the eighties when I was a kid the model glue had changed. I remember my Grandma got mad at my Mom because she bought me model glue. I guess she had caught my Uncle getting high on the stuff before he went to Viet Nam.
Back in the sixties this stuff was petty potent!
Petrol & Powder
Well-Known Member
That's funny.
smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
Sure looks like a van to me; Chevy maybe?
I don't see my favorite flavor there - Testor's!
Yeah, it was potent and it WORKED! Worked holding model car parts together. I don't know about the other uses. I just had this idea that the way it smelled, it would melt yoiur brain, so I was never brave enough to "sniff" it on purpose. There used to be a WALL of model car boxes in Arlens's and Kressge Department stores in the town where we did our shopping. Mom knew where to find my brother and me if we wandered off.
RBHarter
West Central AR
Just gelled acetone .
I had 15-20 1:48 scale model war birds hung on my ceiling T6 , F4U , P51 , P47 , Ju 88 , Fw 190 , Me 109 & 260 , B25 , B26 , B17G never could keep the wing tips stuck together on that one .... There were several more lesser known Germans also I had a "Kate" too , never did get a Zero .
I had 15-20 1:48 scale model war birds hung on my ceiling T6 , F4U , P51 , P47 , Ju 88 , Fw 190 , Me 109 & 260 , B25 , B26 , B17G never could keep the wing tips stuck together on that one .... There were several more lesser known Germans also I had a "Kate" too , never did get a Zero .
JonB
Halcyon member
I have put together a couple models in my youth, but must not have made much impression on me?
I am embarrassed to say, I had to look at the OP photo for a few minutes to figure out what's going on, evening looking at the photo in post #2 for a bit, didn't help. Once I did figured it out, I did enjoy the "Art" of it.
I am embarrassed to say, I had to look at the OP photo for a few minutes to figure out what's going on, evening looking at the photo in post #2 for a bit, didn't help. Once I did figured it out, I did enjoy the "Art" of it.
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I love models AND straight sixes!
THAT is the coolest model engine I've ever seen. Mine were always "pristine" like they hadn't been used at all, but I love the realism.
Is that a Chevy six? I'm not that familiar with GMs, but Ford, AMC and Chrysler/Dodge/AMC are more familiar to me.
I do know where there's a freshly rebuilt (45 years ago) "stove-bolt six" short block still wrapped in plastic and a matching rebuilt head and Edelbrock aluminum intake sitting somewhere near. Dad never did get that one into a truck and I don't have the time or enthusiasm for it anymore.
HAH! And I HAD one of those! A REAL one. It was a '64, step-side with a 223 CI straight six - last year for them, I think.
I guess the push-rod cover should have given I away but the motor mount bosses on the block were throwing me. I had a 300 CI in a '76 though t hat had that cover on it.
Your model looks like a '65(?) My dad cut ford off after '64. He was no fan of the Twin I-Beam, but we did have a short-bed '65 for a while with a 360 CI and "three on the tree" in it that was a terror.
OK, sorry for the drift....
As realistic as your model looks, it STILL looks better than the one I drove when dating my wife. It was only a 14 year-old vehicle at that time and the bed rusted out and fell almost off going down a state route one day. The sides let go at the back and they both fell down and dragged on the highway, but across the front of the bed held, so I drug the bed home like that.
OK, I'll shut up now.
VERY cool model, WACO.
I guess the push-rod cover should have given I away but the motor mount bosses on the block were throwing me. I had a 300 CI in a '76 though t hat had that cover on it.
Your model looks like a '65(?) My dad cut ford off after '64. He was no fan of the Twin I-Beam, but we did have a short-bed '65 for a while with a 360 CI and "three on the tree" in it that was a terror.
OK, sorry for the drift....
As realistic as your model looks, it STILL looks better than the one I drove when dating my wife. It was only a 14 year-old vehicle at that time and the bed rusted out and fell almost off going down a state route one day. The sides let go at the back and they both fell down and dragged on the highway, but across the front of the bed held, so I drug the bed home like that.
OK, I'll shut up now.
VERY cool model, WACO.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Years ago, I put together a Revell model of my 1972 Chevelle Super Sport. Painted it the exact same color, Mulsane Blue and added the side moldings. Only thing that Revell got wrong was the five spoke Rally steel wheels. Not even close to the chrome reverse they used. 
Yep, I used Testor's glue.
I use to put that model on the package tray at the GM car shows, I attended.
Yep, I used Testor's glue. I use to put that model on the package tray at the GM car shows, I attended.
Nice ride!
Nothing in the "junk yard?"
My brother and I both got Kenworth Conventional Cab semis with trailers one year for Christmas and used one of those big boxes as our "junk yard" containing all the extras from various models. I bet t hose cost Santa a bundle! We had a major advantage over other kids in that the 'ol man donated a HUGE box of leftovers from his mod'lin' days. There were some really cool old parts in there that we used to customize boxed AMT kits and even built a couple whole franken-roadsters out of that box. Frames were made from the "trees" the parts from other models came from and we "welded" them up using my wood-burner. I wonder how many brain cells we killed breathing burning plastic!
Full disclosure - those franken-roadsters were embarrassingly hideous to look at, but we had fun making them.
Neither of us have ever owned the real version of any model we built though. That's cool you have BOTH versions of your ride, correct wheels or not. VERY cool.