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REVELL's NEW '29 ROADSTER KIT and '57 FORD WAGON KITS! MIKE REVELL’S NEW ‘29 ROADSTER KIT and ‘57 FORD WAGON KITS! MIKE HENSLEY’S TRUCKSTER PICK UP! RODNEY WILLIAMS BUILDS A DIFFERENT KIND OF MERC! VENOM: INTERIOR! Model Car Builder 1 PRINTED COPIES $10.00 Each PLUS POSTAGE (that takes forever) DIGITAL COPIES $4.99 Each and NO POSTAGE! Plus you can start reading it today! BUY---DOWNLOAD---START READING NOW---NO WAITING!! Join our 3,500 followers! “Like Us” today! To fnd out more, and to order back issues, just visit our web site at: ModelCarBuilderMag.com YOUR AD HERE? Why not put your company’s product in front of thousands of Model Car Builder followers? We are the fastest growing model car magazine in the nation and for a limited time we have LOW intro- ductory ad rates! Contact us today and we’ll put an ad rate card in the mail the same day, or e-mail us and we’ll send you a PDF of the card. Don’t miss out, do it today! 2 Model Car Builder CONTENTS Vol 2 / Issue No.9 Editor’s Fall 2015 Publisher/Editor Workbench Roy R. Sorenson Marketing Manager PAGE 4 Lynne Sorenson Revell’s ‘29 Order Additional Copies at: www.Magcloud.com Roadster Model Car Builder is published bi-monthly by PAGE 6 HC Publications, PO Box 20144., Castro Valley, CA 94546. E-mail: [email protected] Revell’s ‘57 CONTRIBUTIONS Unsolicited contributions must be accompanied by a return envelope with appropriate Wagon postage. MCB cannot be held responsible for unsolicited contributions while in the mail or in our care. Please e-mail the publisher at the above address before sending any PAGE 8 materials. Sorry, but we do not have the money to pay for contributions at this time. We reserve the right to refuse any contribution. Lynx Project COPYRIGHTS Contents of this magazine are copyrighted. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine PAGE 16 may be reproduced or otherwise utilized without written permission of the publisher. Certain items, logos, names, and images, etc. may be covered under trademark or The Truckster copyrights of others, and may be used here for identifcation, review, or educational purposes only. SUBSCRIPTIONS MCB is a bi-monthly magazine available through Amazon.com, MagZter.com and Mag- PAGE 18 Cloud.com. (Magzter.com is the only one ofering digital subscriptions at this time). GSL25 RETAILERS Model Car Builder magazine is now available through Baker & Taylor, Ingram and PART TWO NACSCORP for retail sales. Please contact them about selling MCB on your magazine rack. Tank you. PAGE 22 VENOM: INTERIOR PAGE 30 Mercedes NEXT ISSUE! ( h o n e s t , 540K I promise!) PAGE 34 Model Car Builder 3 Just as I was wrapping up this issue I Car Builder magazine). fnally received the Revell ‘29 Roadster in Next up is Mike Hensley’s “Truckster” the mail. Needless to say, we didn’t have pick up. Normally I’m surfng the web for time to do a ‘build up’ article for this issue, unique feature cars. But this time I decided but you can look for it in the next issue. to put up a notice on the Model Car Build- In the meantime Rob, the “MadModeler” er Facebook page that I was looking for a Glucksman shared his box art cars with feature car. Several great cars were posted us! Tanks Rob! We all love the way you but Mike’s truck was the most unique entry. “patina’d” the one car! Nice touch. As a Mike combined aluminum, resin, and plas- tease for next issue I’ve posted a shot of the tic to build a one of a kind truck. completed motor here (far right)/ Part four on Charles Cochran’s “Venom” How many have you heard of the “Lynx gives you some more in-site into just how Project”? Tat’s what I thought, not too much work Charles put into his creation! many of you. But there was this interest- Hopefully his scratchbuilding ideas will in- ing display at GSL25 with all these cool spire you to step out of your comfort zone scratchbuilt cars. To tell you the truth I and try some scratchbuilding of your own. never found the time to go back to the dis- Our nationally acclaimed model airplane play and fnd out what it was all about. guy is back, this time Rodney is building a But last issue I ran a couple of pics of the classic Mereceds Benz. I think it provides table and I wanted to know more about it? an interesting contrast to Charles Cochran’s E D I T O R ’ S I contacted Mark Gustavson and asked him Venom article. if he could send me some information on On a personal note; I’ve had a jam packed WORKBENCH the project? summer! Lynne and I have been wrack- Mark’s email soon arrived and I was ing up the travel miles. At the beginning So one of the rules I set down when I fascinated by his description of the project. of summer we won a trip to Disneyland started Model Car Builder was that there I thought this deserves more then just a and spent a couple of days enjoying the would be no “events coverage”. I wanted it couple of quick pics in our events coverage. park, then drove into Burbank to visit to be strictly a “how to” magazine. But this Using Mark’s email I put together a two Hollywood Hot Rods and a couple of other spring I got to attend shops. GSL25, and as you Ten we can see from our last spent a few issue’s coverage, it was days in a fantastic event. But I Monterey guess some people just for Historics didn’t realize how BIG Week, taking of a model car event in the vintage this was! So I’m going car racing to break my own rules at Laguna and bring you guys Seca and the even more coverage of Concours this great event. I know d’Elegance at I know, but hey, it’s Pebble Beach. my magazine I can do Tree days whatever I want! later we few Seriously though, I did to Sweden to decide to put several spend a cou- project car how-tos ple of weeks on the back burner in exploring order to clear space for Sweden and GSL coverage. Tere enjoying were a ton of amazing Stockholm. cars on the tables, but But now since I didn’t plan on the summer doing coverage I only is over and shot table top photos (so my pics might not page feature (see pages 16 & 17). Take the I have some BIG projects at home. I’m be the greatest, but I think you’ll agree that time to read it and check out the photos, fnally going to get to build a large model the cars are!). But I did try to make sure I think you’ll be just as memorized by the car workbench with enough room for the you got builder’s names and a little info on project as I was. I can’t wait to see some 3D printer and computer on one end, and each of the models. I hope you enjoy this of the projects completed and featured at a soldering station on the other end. Stay unique coverage of a fantastic event. future GSL events (or in the pages of Model tuned, should be interesting! 4 Model Car Builder Model Car Builder 5 REVELL’s New ‘29 Roadster Kit The frst thing you’re going to do when you open your kit is to grab a pen, go straight to to page 8 of the instruction sheet, and for step 1 at the top of the page, cross out part #13, and mark in part #62. Trow part 13 into your spare parts box!! To make a long story short, the same foor- board (part #62) is shared across both of the roadster versions. Part #13 has a diferent tab/slot layout where it fts the side panels, it also has diferent seat location tabs. It is for a future (coupe?) version of the tool that uses a diferent body and interior, just like the in- strument panel on the same parts tree. With that said you can now dig in and enjoy building a great kit! Or you might want to wait until we do the complete build up in our next issue. Yes, we will be building both ver- sions for you to check out. 6 Model Car Builder Interesting note: Six license plates are pro- vided, including one honoring Revell’s late Engineering Dept. Vice President Roger Har- ney. Mr. Harney was a genuine Hot Rodder at heart and had a lot to do with Revell bringing us this fantastic kit! To remember Roger, my frst build up of his kit will wear a “Harney” plate with great pride. One of the interesting things about the inte- rior parts is that the door panels also include the inner fender wells. So you have to paint the outside of the interior panel body color, and the inside of the interior panel in the upholster color. It’s also interesting to see how diferent many pieces are in the channel version over the highboy version; steering linkage, tail pipes, etc. So be careful when you’re taking the parts of the trees. Decide which version your going to build, and only cut those parts from the trees. Special thanks to Robert Glucksman for sharing his photos of the box art cars he built for Revell.
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