Category Archives: Kit Bashing

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Joker’s wild neon Gotham City cop car!

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In February 2024, I joined a group build for the 1949 Mercury, also known as the third generation of the Mercury Eight series of vehicles.  Typical; it took me until August to decide which of my stash-kits to build:

A simple snap-together?:

Glass & Lights:

Lights & seats:

Tires:

Paint & Sand:

Headlights:

More sand, sand, paint, paint:

Interior:

Finally finished, October 2024:

Close up:

Joker’s neon cop car:

More neon in plastic: BLACKLIGHT REVELL DEAL’S WHEELS

Neon in the military: Retro Dayglo, and how neon paint helps keep airplanes from falling outta the sky!

Going gangbusters: Lincoln Model L roadster unboxing.

International, Kit Bashing

Cold War Vehicle I-D: ‘Bombing-up’ your F-80 Shooting Star in Korea!

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Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, developed at the end of World War Two.

In June 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (north) invaded the Republic of Korea (south) in an attempt to unite the country (something that had been promised at the end of World War Two).  The recently created United Nations essentially declared war and created the United Nations Command, invading Korea in September 1950.  The United Nations Command still operates in South Korea, today.

Date and location not given, very likely to be Kimpo Air Base, 1950.

The F-80 had up to six Browning M3 .50 caliber (12.7mm x 99mm) machine guns.

General Purpose (GP) bombs.

I edited this silent USAF film (by H. E. Reid) showing the re-arming/re-fueling of F-80s on Kimpo, Korea, 19DEC1950:

Tiny Tim rocket and napalm bomb.

Filling up the ‘tip tank’.

Cold War Vehicle I-D:

Korea, date not known.

How to fuel & arm your USAF F-86 Sabre in Korea

Kit Bashing

Going Gangbusters! Lincoln Model L roadster unboxing.

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Round2 is reissuing the old MPC Gangbusters series of car kits, and I just happen to have an original Model Products Corporation issue from the mid-1960s!

Boxing:

More proof its old:

Unboxing:

Bullet riddled:

Whitewall damage:

I need a drink:

Golden crispy instructions:

More golden-crispy instructions:

Cool kits for only $1:

 

Shenanigans: REVELL-MONOGRAM P-47D THUNDERBOLT

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Shenanigans: Revell-Monogram P-47D Thunderbolt

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Yes, I’ve taken on another birthday build that is way late, as usual!

Shenanigans; warpage:

Shenanigans; built for my father back in 1977:

Shenanigans; built in U.S.A. or China?:

Using old Monogram parts to save the newer crappy Revell-Monogram kit:

Shenanigans; it’s working!:

The final Xmas build of 2023 is revealed, in April 2024!: MODEL GIFT BUILD, FINALLY

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Model Gift Build: Finally, the Final Xmas build!

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Finally, the final (late) Christmas car gift build, for 2023, is done!  And it is a fine example of why, back-in-the-day, some kit builders did not like AMT.

Video-1, a little late, but finally!:

Video-2, stories of Subaru hell!:

Video-3, it’s a Brat!:

Video-4, Subaru hell never ends!:

Video-5, updates? What updates, where’s the spare?:

Video-6, a rushed job:

Video-7, finagle-y:

Video-8, if play with it you break it, you bought it:

Video-9, recommendations?:

Model Gift Build: LATE #4 IS DONE, BAD REVELL, BAD!

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Model Gift Build: Late #4 is done, bad Revell, bad!

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One more late Christmas model car gift build to go!  Now that the recipient has acknowledged receipt of the gift, I can complain about it:

Video-1, “Famous last words”:

Video-2, problems with their design:

Video-3, list of complaints:

Video-4, more problems:

Video-5, screw job:

Video-6, falling together, or falling apart:

Model Gift Build: FINALLY, #3!

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Model Gift Build: Finally, #3!

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Just two more late Christmas model car gift builds to go!

Video part-1, Great State of New York? Get a rope:

Part-2, snap-together is really a glue-together:

Part-3, looks pretty good:

Part-4, I got other plans:

Model Gift Build: LATE XMAS #3 UPDATE

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Model Gift Build: Late Xmas #3 update

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Update on the third late Xmas gift build.

Blaming my personal blend of coffee beans for procrastinating what should have been a fast/easy build:

Monogram messin’ with me, glue together versus snap-together:

Where I say “exactly the same” replace with ‘close enough (for government work) to be considered the same’:

Remember that Canadian comedian asking you “want some more pancakes?”:

Model Gift Build: LATE XMAS BUILD #2?

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Model Gift Build: Late Xmas Build #2?

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Second Christmas Car Gift build done, three late builds to go.

By the way, this car kit was originally produced in the United States during the Cold War.  In 1994, it was revised and production moved to China.

Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

Part-1, Boise State University clown car? :

Part-2, upside down decals? :

Part-3, cool tires:

Part-4, surprise, surprise! :

Model Gift Build: XMAS GIFT BUILD #1 FINALLY DONE?

BLAME CHINA?

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Model Gift Build: Xmas gift build #1 finally done?

One Christmas Car Gift build done, four late builds to go. It’s a portent of things to come….from China?

Video, part-1, what do you get a Jeep fan and a graduate of BSU:

Part-2, you don’t need no drugs to see these psychedelic colors:

Model Gift Build: AIRFIX BIRTHDAY BOMBER