My stash just grew again (2016)

PR19_Kit · January 25, 2016, 02:22:52 AM

Quote from: zenrat on January 24, 2016, 11:59:05 PM
Quote from: joncarrfarrelly on January 24, 2016, 01:35:31 PM
Jimmy Flintstone 1/25 Goldenrod LSR car.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenrod_(car)

Goldenrod. For when one Hemi just isn't enough...
This would look good next to a Revell Challenger One.

I don't think any of the majors ever moulded Goldenrod, did they? It's a pity, it would have been awesome model, and an equally awesome sized box too!

NARSES2 · January 25, 2016, 06:19:44 AM

Never seen or indeed heard of Goldenrod before. Looks absolutely gorgeous. Now need to read up about it

PR19_Kit · January 25, 2016, 08:58:10 AM

IIRC Goldenrod held the piston engined world car speed record for over 40 years!

I saw it in the Ford Museum in Detroit just before I retired, one AWESOME machine.

PR19_Kit · January 25, 2016, 09:01:12 AM

For the first time in over a year I bought another kit!

It's the Airfix Swift FR5 and what a beauty it is too. Mind you, it could do with longer wings.............

jcf · January 25, 2016, 05:23:45 PM

1/24 Profil24 Irving-Napier Golden Arrow, (1) 930hp Napier Lion W12, 231.56 mph, March 29, 1929.
1/25 Jimmy Flinstone Goldenrod, (4) Chrysler Hemi, total 2,400hp, 409.277 mph, November 12, 1965.

1/24 Monogram Chaparral for comparison.

Gondor · January 25, 2016, 05:37:57 PM

Are you sure about the date for the Golden Arrow as 1979 looks to be a little bit out

Gondor

jcf · January 25, 2016, 05:45:13 PM

Quote from: Gondor on January 25, 2016, 05:37:57 PM
Are you sure about the date for the Golden Arrow as 1979 looks to be a little bit out

Gondor

Just a typo.

zenrat · January 25, 2016, 06:38:27 PM

Without wheels & sponsons (pontoons?) the Golden Arrow looks like it's from an anime.

Dizzyfugu · January 26, 2016, 02:28:53 AM

The other way around, I'd say. Many of the Vanship designs from Last Exile were inspired by LSR vehicles from the Thirties, like the Stutz Blackhawk or the Thunderbolt. Awesome creations.

Gondor · January 26, 2016, 03:09:59 AM

Quote from: joncarrfarrelly on January 25, 2016, 05:45:13 PM
Quote from: Gondor on January 25, 2016, 05:37:57 PM
Are you sure about the date for the Golden Arrow as 1979 looks to be a little bit out

Gondor

Just a typo.

That's what I thought. The computer getting dyslexic and not telling the difference between a 7 and a 2

Gondor

NARSES2 · January 26, 2016, 07:13:34 AM

Another Dragon 1/200 XB-49 "cheap" from the old Alders store. This one will be the still ultra secret Vengence S.R.4

Rheged · January 26, 2016, 08:58:16 AM

Not so much stash growth as stash storage growth. Down to IKEA Bristol yesterday to get cheap shelving units for the garage......now erected, they should help to declutter the house let Rheged minor and I see just what we have got. Lots of space, so if the imperial treasury permits, there may even be stash growth to fill the spaces.....unless Madame gets there first with her stuff.

ericr · January 26, 2016, 12:35:19 PM

I couldn't resist :
while looking for another kit, I stumbled upon a seller whoa also had Hasegawa's Alf with a catapult :
I already have that catapult from the Alf and painted it blue,
and another one coming with Hasegawa's jake, painted red,
so now I just had to have one more to paint it yellow ...

Resistance is futile.

jcf · January 26, 2016, 03:33:26 PM

Quote from: Dizzyfugu on January 26, 2016, 02:28:53 AM
The other way around, I'd say. Many of the Vanship designs from Last Exile were inspired by LSR vehicles from the Thirties, like the Stutz Blackhawk or the Thunderbolt. Awesome creations.

Yep, and I have the Chris Etzell (re-released by American Racing Miniatures) 1/25 Miller-Lockhart V-16 powered (two Miller 91cu-in
straight 8 on a common crancase) 'Stutz-Blackhawk' (which really had nothing to do with Stutz cars aside from sponsorship $$ and a
rear end.) It's tiny in comparison to the Golden Arrow.

I have some old solid model drawings of Eyston's Thunderbolt in it's early 'big mouth' and tall tail-fin form, but I wish
someone would do a 1/24 or 1/25 model of it in its record configuration, streamlined ice tank up front and no tail fin. Ditto
the Cobb 'Railston Special, though I'll probably have to bite the bullet and scratchbuild it, I do have a good set of drawings
for that shiny ali flying saucer.

PR19_Kit · January 26, 2016, 04:10:53 PM

The Cobb Railton Mobil Special is one awesome car, I saw it many years ago, but stupidly can't remember here. Considering how big the engines are, TWO Napier Lion W12s, the thing is incredibly low to the ground. Doing 400 mph in that had to have been amazing!

The Thunderbolt by comparison seemed to be a huge car, Eyston seems to be dwarfed by the size of the car in the photos. Sadly it seems the car was destroyed by a fire when it was in NZ sometime during WWII.