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Gimme a Brake Lately I’ve received requests for detailing techniques. Sadly, the available detailing products for trucks are sorely limited. There are a few photo-etched brass parts and resin bits, yet fewer turnedaluminum parts. Most available resin products are conversion kits. A couple outfits in the former Czech Republic produce detailing sets like you might find for armor kits, but the sets are only available in European markets. The processes to detail a truck model are complex enough to fill a book and some steps require specialized tools, equipment and skills. However, there are simple, efficient, and cost-friendly solutions available. Let’s start with applying some “whoa” to our rigs. My grandfather started in chain-drive Mack trucks and told me stories about the mechanical brakes with the massive brake levers straight…

Inever built this model as a kid, so I picked up this recently rereleased kit as a fun project. My plan was to build it out of the box, but not necessarily exactly as the instructions and box art depict it. The kit is molded crisply, with some expected sink marks and minor flash. It is so clean that it looks like it was purchased in 1970. The only noticeable concern is the flash on the chrome parts, which I plan to replace anyway with a different finish. This is the entire kit out of the box. As you can see, there aren’t a lot of parts. The first thing I did was scribe the door lines a bit deeper with the back side of a hobby knife. I wanted…

Ever since I can remember, I loved cars and car racing. I guess it was just my great luck to be born into a family whose members all had similar loves. From restoration to mud-bog trucks and even ice racing, my entire family is into cars and trucks, and always has been. Early on, I was gifted model cars for my birthday and so forth. I found that they were a great way to live out my fantasies as a car guy. Even if I was a rich man, I could never own all of the cars that I wanted in my life. But I can make models of them; I get to see my creations in the real world in scale. The model-car hobby also serves as a moment…

Italeri Land Rover Series III 109 “Guardia Civil” ITALERI FIRST RELEASED the 109-inch wheelbase Land Rover Series III in 2012, but as a military ambulance. This release features new parts to create a civilian version, but there are unused parts here too from the original kit. Like its predecessor, this is a curbside kit with no engine. The 13-step instructions are in the form of a fold-out booklet with exploded views of the parts featuring parts numbers and color suggestions. Plus there are decals for a Spanish “Guardia Civil,” Italian, and British vehicles. The decals include license plates and other markings. Assembly starts with the one-piece frame rails and underbody. Springs, front shocks, frame cross-members, and exhaust are separate. While the transfer case with driveshafts is one piece and the…

Revell’s 1940 Ford Standard Five Window Coupe is a highly detailed and relatively stress-free building experience. It offers plenty of opportunities for adding detail, and yields a model you will be proud to display on your shelf or at a club meet. The Five Window Coupe has been produced in vintage showroom-stock and street-rod versions; both have been reissued in the relatively recent past. For a change of pace from all of your Model A and 1932 Ford model hot rod projects, try building a traditional hot rod-themed 1940 Ford Standard Coupe. The completed model captures the early-1950s to early-1960s vibe so often seen on todays 1:1 traditional hot rod projects. This project is completed with real 1954 Buick Titan Red Metallic paint from MCW Automotive Finishes – a popular…

1969 Yenko Camaro This Camaro was built in 10 weeks for the recent 25th Milwaukee NNL show’s “50 Years of Camaro” theme class, as I have a true love of American muscle and pony cars. I try to make the 12-hour trip to Milwaukee whenever one of their show themes appeals to me. This 1/25 Revell Camaro was actually completed the evening before the trip and I was happy to see my build appreciated ... even though it was built by a Mustang guy!” ABOUT ROD MASKIW I’m from Winnipeg, Manitoba and mostly build factory-stock American cars with the occasional hot rod or custom for a change of pace. I have been a member of the Winnipeg Model Car Club for the last 15 years and love travelling to NNL…

“This is a model of a fictional truck at the Oak Ridge nuclear facility,” says Dave Falk about this Revell 1950 Chevy. He widened the grille and fenders. “I love lowriders!” says Luis Jimen, so he built this Galaxie 1949 Chevy Fleetline. He modified the upper suspension and used aftermarket wheels and tires. The finish is Createx Wicked Colors. “A bucket list build for me,” says Steve Lohr about this Revell Germany 1957 BMW 507. “This is the only way I was going to own one,” he says. The kit’s box art inspired Tom Border to build this AMT/Model King Ford Thunderbird box-stock. The color is Rust-Oleum red with Pledge FloorCare Multi-Surface Finish clear. Mike Fischer’s imagination inspired him to build this Revell 1965 Chevy Impala. He changed the exhaust…

I built one as a kid. I always liked Tom Daniel kits,” says Mike Fischer about building this Monogram T’rantula. The finish is House of Kolor Candy Green over a gold base, with urethane clear. WANT TO SUBMIT A PHOTO? It’s easy! Visit our contributor submission Web site at www.contribute.kalmbach.com and follow the step-by-step guide. Be sure to provide all the necessary information and details about your model! Mike Thacker added the sportsroof from a ’65 AWB Ford Falcon to an AMT Craftsman series ‘63 Mercury Comet convertible. The wheels came from Steve Zimmerman. Its sleek four-part finish was accomplished using Tamiya metallic orange, clear orange, clear pearl, and finally clear. QUESTIONS? Send your Finish Line questions to Scale Auto, Finish Line 21027 Crossroads Circle, Box 1612, Waukesha WI 53187-1612…

Create Leong’s beautiful Hawaiian Roland Leong moved to Southern California from the island of Oahu in his younger years and immediately started building his own dragster. After a terrifying crash, Leong decided to create, not race, and burst onto the pro drag racing scene in 1965 with his famous ocean-blue, rail dragster with “Hawaiian” spelled out on its sides in a bamboo font. With Don Prudhomme as the “hot shoe,” they won the NHRA Winter Nationals in sunny Pomona, Calif. and later the U.S. Nationals. This bundle of victories was a first in drag racing history. Then, to prove it wasn’t just luck, they repeated the performance the next season. This time with Mike Snively piloting the Hawaiian. With Leong’s attention to detail mixed with a lot of polished and…

English F1 racer John Surtees won the 1967 Italian Grand Prix at Monza driving a Honda RA300 — a true beauty with an impressive open-wheel-yet-streamlined look and a bold red-on-white paint scheme proudly emblazoned with the hinomaru (Japanese national insignia) on the nose. A rear-mounted, uncowled engine and exposed “waterfall” exhaust detail gave the appearance of brute strength. Looking for a model of this impressive machine, I found kits in several scales from various manufacturers. But I was intrigued by the Model Factory Hiro 1/20 scale multimedia kit (No. K320): more than 300 parts in resin, rubber, turned aluminum, and white metal, along with screws, nuts, tiny coil springs, a transparent amber fuel line, metal rod, heat-shrink tubing, self-adhesive seat belt material, brass mesh with a twopart metal die to…

Revell took an interesting and unexpected path by making its first modern McLaren the 570S, which is a sharp-looking entrylevel model to compete with higher-end Porsche 911s. Entry-level is neither inexpensive nor poverty-spec with the 570S, and I dig the car’s lines, and was happy when Revell announced the 570S kit in 2016. Revell Germany took a new approach to this kit (as well as the recent Mercedes AMG GT) by engineering it as a slightly simplified full-detail kit vs. some of their previous exotics. There’s a lower parts count – mostly through simplified chassis design and perhaps some simplification of the engine – though the engine itself is reasonably complete. Where wheel housings used to be separate, they’re now part of the main chassis. The parts that are most…

By the mid 1960’s, model car builders were enjoying newly-tooled 1/25 scale full-detail kits of some of the best 1/1 scale race cars. This included several kits of open-cockpit, sports cars, the direct predecessors in the lineage that led to the Can-Am racers of the late 1960s and early 1970s. These kits included Chaparrals from Aurora and IMC, and the kit featured here is IMC’s Mecom Lola T-70. IMC launched a series of full-detail 1/25 scale kits beginning in 1964. From the start, Indy 500 and Ford GT variants formed part of the product lineup, along with historic Fords and then-current Ford Concept Vehicles (see Classic Kits, Scale Auto, December 2015). The aforementioned Lola and Chaparral kits came later. The T-70 was created by Eric Broadley, who was also involved…