Models of various cars I’ve made over the years
Kit: MPC Country Charger 1969 Dodge Charger 1/25 Scale Quentin Tarantino’s tribute to 1970s car films “Death Proof” featured this Charger in the second half of the film. I did this as a class project in 2020 but really any excuse to make a model is a good one! The car is used by Stuntman …
Kit: AMT 1970 Dodge Challenger Street Machine 1/25 Scale I’m not sure where I got this kit from but this is a sweet car. I did a full suspension job on the front end. And the rear.. well, it’s kinda suspension-y. Ok not really. Nice clean interior as typical from 1960s/70s cars. Some of the …
Kit: Monogram 1969 Dodge Charger 1/24 Scale The last scenes of “Mystery Men” had two old Dodge Chargers made up like police cars. That inspired me to make something in that vein as well. I’ve got no shortage of Dodge Charger kits and police car bits so I figured why not? This was just a …
Kit: 1970 Ford Galaxie Police Car 1/25 Scale If anyone remembers the pop/dance group The KLF (AKA The Timelords) and their music videos then this might be a familiar sight. I finally got to make this model in 2019 but it’s been on my mind since the early 1990s. This is an image from their …
Kit: Die-Cast Maisto 1998 Jeep Wrangler 1/27 Scale I picked up a half dozen of these 1/27 scale Jeep Wranglers around 2015 with the intent to make several of them. 1/27 was an odd choice but I suspect it has something to do with the size of the box. I had to grind off the …
Kit: Tamiya Nissan 300ZX Turbo 1/24 Scale This car still looks incredible to me. I remember seeing one for the first time at a car show in 1990 and it just was like something from another world. I did this kit around 2015 or so, an the quality of my work definitely shows compared to …
Kit: ERTL Back to the Future II Time Machine 1/24 Scale This model has a long history. From the first picture you would just have no idea how much went into it, so let’s begin! I am an absolute DeLorean nut. I’ve obsessed with them since I was 7. I own a real one as …
Kit: ERTL Ecto-1a 1959 Miller-Meteor Ambulance 1/24 Scale I got this catalog in the mail one time that had like a bazillion models from movies in it. This was at the dawn of the Internet really getting popular so mailings were still pretty common. And I didn’t have a car yet. I ordered this kit …
Kit: ERTL Snapfast Camaro Z/28 1/25 Scale This project screams “High School” to me. There was a guy a few years older than my friends and I named Chris Birkett. He was a really cool guy to basically everyone. If my calculations are correct he’d be in his late 40s now. Still an awesome guy …
Kit: ERTL Robo-1 Ford Taurus SHO 1/24 Scale I got into a model-making kick in 1996-7 and during that time I got this great catalog full of discontinued kits. The real movie cars were not SHO (Super High Output) models, but in a pinch it works. It squeaks like mad when it rolls, but otherwise …