The glue sniffers will understand!
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My brother has really been into the Spanish Civil war warplanes. He couldn't get what he wanted in model form 30 years ago so he drew up plans and had them built. He has sold them out of his garage since then, they pay a little over his costs. His finest was 3 years ago when he found a museum in Italy that had the last known example of one in it. He called the museum and they said "We are closed to the public Monday's. If you can come over you can spend the day coping and having a private tour. Just acknowledge us when the kit comes out". He had a great time doing so.
I made some models once but compared to my brother am a neophyte.
I made some models once but compared to my brother am a neophyte.
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It looks like a VeeWee "Vanatruck" of some sort.
CWLONGSHOT
Well-Known Member
I see a VW "bus" myself. Some VW model product.
glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
I still build 1/24th scale models now. I'm even working on an 1/8th scale '32 Ford Highboy.
Buuuuuttt, I have never sniffed the glue . . . on purpose.
Buuuuuttt, I have never sniffed the glue . . . on purpose.
Appears to be VW 80's truck. As a kid Revell didn't have opening hoods or anything but the body. Underside was one piece with the appearance of parts. I did a 32 Ford roadster from scratch, N track for frame, pen springs, copper tube for running gear but nothing for motor. monogram was the other maker IIRC, mostly planes. Mom scrapped them when I left home, along with some cams and pistons.
JonB
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My childhood neighbor and his brother (and best friend at the time), would make franken-car models from leftovers and such from his Dad's projects, he was an engineer and had quite the model hobby. I recall "helping" once or twice on a franken-car model. They moved away when I was in 6th grade, so we were quite young and while I recall those franken-cars were real cool looking, I imagine if I were to see them now, they'd be hideous.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.
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There is/was a pickup truck version of the Eurovan that had compartment doors on the sides for storage.
Rally
NC Minnesota
Looks like a VW van to me with the shape of the doors and grille.
I built a few car and truck models when I was a kid, mostly Xmas presents. Problem was I had little brothers that thought you could play with them after they were done! Never cared much for the "indoor" hobbies as a kid, always ended up outside near some body of water. Started casting sinkers and jigs or hunting crawlers for the bait shops.
Great beginnings!I started my casting career, making bank sinkers using a white gas blow torch. I was in my pre-teens.......... I'll be 70, next week.I still have the Do-it molds.
My brother and I started by casting sinkers, in our single-digits, using a 2x4 with holes drilled into it with a regular twist-drill and a loop of wire dropped through a smaller through-hole at the bottom of the larger hole. This cast cylindrical sinkers with a cone-shaped top. You might have called it a bottom-pour mould.
From there, we started sneaking bullet moulds and ended up with ammo cans full of sinkers and bullets - many more than we could have ever used. It kept us out of grandpa's hair when he had to focus on something, so he let us just keep casting. Just a couple years ago, my brother found a 30 cal ammo can full of our old ingots and a huge mess of ugly bullets from back then. Mixed 50/50 with more recent (90s) wheel weights, I cast up a bunch of bullets to split between us. Whatever was in that old alloy cast like a dream.
Still, you've got almost a ten-year head start on me.
How'd we ever get this old playing with such a dangerous substance as lead??
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
How'd we ever get this old playing with such a dangerous substance as lead??
Quite possibly, we weren't Stuck on Stupid.
Yep and nobody ever warned us not eat laundry detergent yet here we are.