With his passing earlier this month, George Toteff, model car pioneer, has left an enduring legacy on the model car-building hobby. Who was George Toteff? Where to start? He created the AMT 3-in-1 model kit. He devised tooling so that model car bodies could be molded in a single piece – no more fussy multipiece […]
Since November, UK resident and slot car enthusiast Emigre has been working on one heck of a project: Re-creating the chase scene from Bullitt in stop-motion with slot cars. Simple? Hardly. He’s also building from scratch almost the entire late 1960s San Francisco background scenery in 1/32 scale. He anticipates releasing the entire chase scene […]
A few months ago, we got a glimpse of a sensationally well-detailed 1/25th-scale replica of a day-cab Freightliner assembled, with a ton of scratchbuilt parts, by Kurt McLucas of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Back then, Kurt told us he intended to finish the job of turning it into a southwestern Pennsylvania coal hauler by hand-creating a dump […]