I found one along with a silver streak and wanted to build it BUT where do you start? I could putting it on the shelf for preservation. How did they get the Metal Look? For those younger this is a 100% WOOD kit which you must sand and build.
I remeber these when I first saw an MRM in the “OLD DAYS” Price on the box was $3.95 now it is 10 times that.
The Silver Streak looks like I will be fun to build.
Only way I can think of to get wood to look like metal is sanding sealer, and sand, repeat with finer and finer grades of sandpaper. Eventually it will be smooth and glossy. I have a model rocket from back int he day I went nuts on the fins. I bet I could hand it to you and you’d swear it was the pre-formed plastic fins and not wood.
–Randy
Randy, would you build it or save it?
Go for it, George! Expand your comfort zone and your skills. It’ll be the “moving” center piece of your layout. [:)]
Tom
Build it. It is a beautifrul kit, though difficult. You will love the process and certainly the result. Takes plenty of time. It will refuse to be hurried. When I tackle something like this I always have a couple of easier projects going that I can take a break with.
Thank you, I will and post pictures. Of the car or the empties! LOL
I’m a runner, not a collector, so I’d probably build it. Or sell it - my father in law makes good money selling his old unbuild still in the box Walthers kits - most of the new Walthers RTR cars are built up versions of the same cars previously only offered int he old Walthers wood and metal kits. The detailing is better, and figuring in cost of paint and detail materials, and trucks, the RTR cars are CHEAPER than assembling the old kits, and result in a better lookign and running car. So as he aquires the replacements for the kits, he puts the kits on eBay and gets good money for them, more in most cases than the RTR car cost. My guess is many of them will never get built.
–Randy
The ones really worth building are the ones that represent wood, they go up in value when built as the ones that represent metal don’t sell for as much built. I restore old wood kits and have built them but prefer to restore as you start with a finished product more or less ( they don’t look to pretty when I buy them ).