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                        Winter time beater "RAMBLER"

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Winter time beater "RAMBLER"
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 2, 2005 7:09 AM
                        We snowmobile in Redfield, on the Tug Hill Plateau in upstate NY . Some of the best snowmobiling in the east! Anyway, most people have winter beaters they run so the salt and sand doesn’t ruin their nice rides. I built this a few years ago after Jo-Han re-issued the Rambler. As soon as I saw it I said "Beater". Scrounged the six banger from the parts bin as with the stuff in the trunk. Note the duct tape on the seats. Thanks for looking and I hope you eNJoy.



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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 2, 2005 8:23 AM
                        Outstanding detail, very realistic. Cool [8D]
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                        mustang10
                        • Member since
                          February 2005
                        Posted by mustang10 on Sunday, October 2, 2005 7:29 PM
                        Very Nice!! My winter car looks very much like that.
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                        Bgrigg
                        • Member since
                          May 2005
                        • From: Left forever
                        Posted by Bgrigg on Sunday, October 2, 2005 8:02 PM
                        What a beater! Love the rust and duct tape!! Thumbs Up [tup]

                        So long folks!

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                        Jim Barton
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                          February 2003
                        Posted by Jim Barton on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 5:51 PM
                        Looks like a Hawaiian car!Smile [:)]

                        Just out of curiosity, how did you do the duct tape?

                        "Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 6, 2005 9:09 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Jim Barton

                        Looks like a Hawaiian car!Smile [:)]

                        Just out of curiosity, how did you do the duct tape?


                        Duct tape was made from masking tape painted silver and cut into thin strips.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 9, 2005 1:35 PM
                        that looks soo cool!! love the weathering!!
                        thanks for makin my school mascot so "rustic" our team name is the Ramblers...hehehehe-DJ
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                        Jim Barton
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        Posted by Jim Barton on Friday, November 11, 2005 9:36 PM

                         327_FREAK wrote:
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Jim Barton

                        Looks like a Hawaiian car!Smile [:)]

                        Just out of curiosity, how did you do the duct tape?


                        Duct tape was made from masking tape painted silver and cut into thin strips.

                         

                        Pretty similar, then, to my method of making duct tape--I use Bare-Metal Foil and paint it a 50-50 mixture of flat medium gray and silver chrome (both Testor's Model Master enamels).

                        "Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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                        Martsmodels
                        • Member since
                          May 2003
                        • From: Shrewsbury, UK
                        Posted by Martsmodels on Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:08 AM
                        Nice is probably not the right word!!!   A great model though - very clever!
                        Martin http://www.freewebs.com/martsmodels/
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                        howdidyoudothat
                        • Member since
                          September 2003
                        Posted by howdidyoudothat on Sunday, November 13, 2005 11:09 AM

                        Great build. I'll bet a lot of work went into getting that beater look. Those were great cars way back..

                         Thanks for showing it here, Bill.

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                        MartianGundamModeler
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Tennessee
                        Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:45 AM

                        EXCELLENT!! How do you do the rust and the weathering. i do military so I  normally use a wash. How was yours done?

                        "Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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                        ua0124
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                          January 2004
                        • From: Arizona
                        Posted by ua0124 on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:41 PM
                         MartianGundamModeler wrote:

                        EXCELLENT!! How do you do the rust and the weathering. i do military so I  normally use a wash. How was yours done?



                        Sign - Ditto [#ditto]  You dd a superb job on the weathering, very realistic.
                        Ernie If I can not do something about a problem, it's not my problem; it is a fact of life...
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                        MartianGundamModeler
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Tennessee
                        Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:18 AM
                        Also where did you get the wheels/tires?
                        "Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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                        MBT70
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                          March 2004
                        • From: Pacific Northwest
                        Posted by MBT70 on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:46 PM
                        An excellent rendition of the "Kenosha Cadillac" in it's natural state.  You Wisconsin guys ought to recognize it.
                        Life is tough. Then you die.
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