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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2018 13:40:13 GMT -6
Picked this up on eBay yesterday. Wasn't necessarily in the market for one, but made a low ball "Best Offer" and the seller took it. I can think of a couple ways to build this one. Gasser comes to mind first thing. Does anybody know anything about this kit? I don't think I had seen a Basic Builder '57 Nomad before spying this one on eBay yesterday.
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Post by 41chevy on Apr 3, 2018 21:04:25 GMT -6
If it's the 1/24 scale kit it's was originally the Monogram Highway Scenes kit. Basic but decent. Builds up ok but it is 1/24 The Revell 1/25 57 Nomad with flames and on the beach or as "Skips Fiesta" is the good kit from the mid 1960s, opening doors and tailgate, drag parts and such.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2018 21:38:05 GMT -6
It's a 1/24 kit. I'm probably going to lean towards building it as an injected SBC gasser or street freak. But by the time I get around to building it, who knows?
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Post by 70sprostockfan on Apr 4, 2018 7:40:32 GMT -6
Is it just me or did the roof on that monogram kit seem to be just a little bit off!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 14:34:35 GMT -6
Bad news. The Nomad kit was delivered today. I was pretty interested in seeing the parts & pieces and browsing through the instructions, so opened it immediately. Imagine the shock when I saw a conglomeration of parts & pieces from the Nomad kit and about 4 or 5 other kits. There was no body, no instructions, no glass, a total of 10 tires, 2 piece of crap straight axles, etc, etc. About half of what few actual Nomad parts that were in there had been colored with a black permanent marker. I know it was a permanent marker because they were kind enough to leave the dried up marker in the box.
I guess when you play on eBay you have to expect this. I've already contacted the seller asking what they intend to do about it. I'm really hoping I hear back from the seller really soon. Time will tell.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 17:28:13 GMT -6
Good news. The seller has already refunded the complete price and I have received the money. I don't even have to return the kit. There is nothing in there worth a hoot, but I'll stick up on the shelf with a card taped to the outside listing what IS in there. I might need the seats or something some day.
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Post by 70sprostockfan on Apr 5, 2018 19:00:45 GMT -6
And thus begins the ominous parts box. We're gonna have you doing scratch built altereds yet!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 19:29:37 GMT -6
You know, I was just waiting for somebody to bring up "the parts box". That's something I've said all along that I didn't want to get that started and was going to do everything I could to prevent it.
There goes another of my ideas,,,, right out the window! LOL!
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Post by gloozalot on Apr 5, 2018 21:38:10 GMT -6
Ya gots me confused Steve. How in the world could a guy have a stash of kits, build kits and NOT have a parts box? If you ever start building kits like you buy em, you gonna have parts tangled up in yer nose hair. Get ya some storage bins ready cause you gonna have more tires, wheels, engines, small bits and pieces and other stuff piled up to yer ears. If I had a nickel for every extra part I have, well……………….I'd have a pretty big pile of nickels. All I can tells ya is don't throw nothing away. Even the runners the parts come on come in handy at times.
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Post by david on Apr 5, 2018 22:14:24 GMT -6
What gloozalot said. . . times two! In total weight, I probably have as much in "parts-junk" as I do in unopened kits, maybe more! What I can't find in my pile, I'll modify something from it to work; what I can't modify, I just make it. That's another great thing about parts piles. If you try something and goof it up, it was just junk anyway. However, if you try something and it works, it was gold all along!!
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Post by 70sprostockfan on Apr 6, 2018 7:24:56 GMT -6
At least you're just getting started building a parts box so you can keep it organized from the beginning. I just spent literally 20+ years in between projects organizing all my parts that have collected up since the 60's. We won't even talk about the period that I went thru when ebay was first getting started and you could still buy what I called junk yard lots on there super cheap. But for the 1st time in my life I can find a part in a reasonably short length of time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 13:36:48 GMT -6
To be perfectly honest guys, I was really thinking about keeping all the parts leftover from a build in the original kit box. Then there would never be a question as to what a part was, or where it came from. I was going to tape an index card to the end of every box listing the good parts still in the box. The fact is that I'm getting close to the point where I'm going to have to just stop buying anyway, so I won't have a problem with too many kit boxes. I'm about 99.9% positive I already have way more kits than I'll ever finish in my lifetime. Future purchase will now be limited to kits I really want, but are usually a little too pricey for me and then also those, "nearly too good to be true" deals.
So you guys tell me. Is my idea of keeping parts a mistake?
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Post by david on Apr 6, 2018 13:47:33 GMT -6
I think that it boils down to whatever works best for you. I tend to use cheap clear plastic tubs with snap on lids and I have motor stuff in one, chassis things in another, bodies, wheel and tires, and things like that in their respective tubs. Within those tubs I will keep certain things together inside small zip-lock bags. If I am looking for motors I can see in the bags or read a little ditty that I wrote on a piece of masking tape stuck to the bag as to what it all came out of. Of course you still end up with some "strays" but they just lay around in the tub "freestyle". My method works for me so just come up with something that works for you!
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Post by 70sprostockfan on Apr 6, 2018 16:54:25 GMT -6
As David stated whatever works for you is best. If you have room for all the kit boxes then that would definitely work. It just seems that that would take up a lot of space since a lot of the boxes would only have a couple of parts in them. I used to use a system using cabinets with the little plastic drawers until I got so much stuff that the cabinets were taking up too much space. I now use a system that is very close to the one that David described except that I built custom sized boxes when I built my new model room to fit my storage shelves and bought a label maker just to mark what was in each box. I also separated sub categories of parts into marked zip lock bags just as he did. And I love this set up although you may not need that yet. Try it the way you like it. I'm sure it will morph over the years into a system that works for you, that's the way it usually works.
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