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Model Gift Build: Finally, the Final Xmas build!

Finally, the final (late) Christmas car gift build, for 2023, is done!  And it is a fine example of why, back-in-the-day, some kit builders did not like AMT.

Video-1, a little late, but finally!:

Video-2, stories of Subaru hell!:

Video-3, it’s a Brat!:

Video-4, Subaru hell never ends!:

Video-5, updates? What updates, where’s the spare?:

Video-6, a rushed job:

Video-7, finagle-y:

Video-8, if play with it you break it, you bought it:

Video-9, recommendations?:

Model Gift Build: LATE #4 IS DONE, BAD REVELL, BAD!

Model Gift Build: Late #4 is done, bad Revell, bad!

One more late Christmas model car gift build to go!  Now that the recipient has acknowledged receipt of the gift, I can complain about it:

Video-1, “Famous last words”:

Video-2, problems with their design:

Video-3, list of complaints:

Video-4, more problems:

Video-5, screw job:

Video-6, falling together, or falling apart:

Model Gift Build: FINALLY, #3!

Model Gift Build: Finally, #3!

Just two more late Christmas model car gift builds to go!

Video part-1, Great State of New York? Get a rope:

Part-2, snap-together is really a glue-together:

Part-3, looks pretty good:

Part-4, I got other plans:

Model Gift Build: LATE XMAS #3 UPDATE

Model Gift Build: Late Xmas #3 update

Update on the third late Xmas gift build.

Blaming my personal blend of coffee beans for procrastinating what should have been a fast/easy build:

Monogram messin’ with me, glue together versus snap-together:

Where I say “exactly the same” replace with ‘close enough (for government work) to be considered the same’:

Remember that Canadian comedian asking you “want some more pancakes?”:

Model Gift Build: LATE XMAS BUILD #2?

Model Gift Build: Late Xmas Build #2?

Second Christmas Car Gift build done, three late builds to go.

By the way, this car kit was originally produced in the United States during the Cold War.  In 1994, it was revised and production moved to China.

Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

Part-1, Boise State University clown car? :

Part-2, upside down decals? :

Part-3, cool tires:

Part-4, surprise, surprise! :

Model Gift Build: XMAS GIFT BUILD #1 FINALLY DONE?

BLAME CHINA?

Model Gift Build: 1978 versus 2023, Made in China out to get us?

I discover the modern Chinese made Monogram 1955 Ford F-100 is not the same as the original made-in-the-U.S.A. (in 1978) Monogram Ford F-100!

Part-1, made in China:

Part-2, trip down memory lane:

 

Model Gift Build: SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

Model Gift Build update; see you next year!

This year’s Yuletide runs from 21st December 2023 to 1st January 2024.

Two down and four to go, oh well.

Part-1:

Part-2:

Model Gift Build update: BOUGHT MYSELF A NEW KIT, 1ST TIME SINCE 2019!

Model Gift Build update, bought myself a new kit, 1st time since 2019!

While trying to build too many gifts at once, I took a break and bought another model kit!

Part-1, “you better get in there!”:

Part-2, my son sends money, “holy crap!”:

Part-3, “I like bar-b-que.”:

Part -4, the unboxing begins:

Part-5, “oh, they’re wimpy ones!”:

Part-6, “feeling ripped-off…”:

Part-7, decals:

Model Gift Build update: FAIL?

Model Gift Build update, fail?

Will any get built in time for Xmas?

Part-1, old Airfix bomber problems:

Part-2, what else is going to go wrong:

Model Gift Build update: WHY MODEL BUILDERS NEED TO BUY THEIR OWN HOUSE!