Chasing the Trophies | Stories From Model Car Contests

[@oldguyBMX]

U are never too old for a Mini Bike!

[@keithbillett6678]

A Standing Ovation to All the Talented Modeler's at every build level. That brings their Vision and Kit-Craft to Frouishion in public displays of achievement. Where ever they may find and seek to show what they have built. Still inspiring to watch this segment. Thank you all. Kudose to the previous comments as well. I too enjoy building plastic model kits starting in the late 1960's & early 70's. When confident at some point with building models. I had my first public entry with a few model car types at the Martin county fair. One of which won me first place amongst a good showing. I would have liked to of known about the contests held in Minneapolis MN or else where at that time. But for not. Oh! the possibilities in hind sight. I had relatives in the hobby, but they passed away before my interest blossomed to have them mentor me. My Dad did get to learn from them and in turn passed on the combined skills that he taught me. How to build models and improve my craft, skills, and ability. Thanks Dad. My great grampa Walt Billett and grampa Richard Billett, ran a wholesale hobby business as well as a retail hobby shop in Minneapolis MN. Billett's Hobby and Craft, may be some of you have heard of it, or even purchased a kit and/or supplies in it's day. If so Thanks for your patronage. Keith Billett

[@ModelCarMuse]

Thanks for sharing this story, Keith. I'm sure there are modelers out there that remember Billett's Hobby! There are clubs to join (or start!), IPMS events, and still shows around. In fact, the NNL North show in Bloomington, MN is scheduled for May 22, unless there has been a recent update. Search "NNL North Model Car Show 2022" online.

[@TheLukaCeeChannel]

What a fantastic video, Doug. The guys that were such a big part of the most wonderful history of our hobby.

[@ModelCarMuse]

Thanks! I so appreciate all of them sharing their experiences.

[@roysorenson4378]

Cool! I have a cameo appearance in this one! Thanks!

[@ModelCarMuse]

Well done, my friend, you put a smile on everyone's face!

[@michaelcooke2559]

Great video. It was nice to see some amazing modelers, and listen to share some of the history of model car contests. Thanks for sharing.

[@ModelCarMuse]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@RoadRunnergarage8570]

A lot of creativity and imagination here!!

[@modelermark172]

That part at 0:13 really got me to sit up and take notice. We've all "chopped the top" of a model car at one point or another. But this is the very first time I'd ever heard of or seen a model builder actually RAISE the top of a model car, and it looks super cool! This model is a true Survivor!

[@rickhanmore3103]

Thank you!

[@thescalemodelcarguychannel8681]

Doug excellent video and I enjoyed every minute of it brother!

[@ModelCarMuse]

Thanks!

[@skipragsdale3565]

WoW Doug, your KZbin stories and coverage just keeps getting better! Then all the names, Wayne Saunders, Rick Hanmore, Roy Sorensen, Rich Morgan, Chuck Helppie, Andy Martin, Tim Boyd, John Papp and Doug Whyte, I remember reading those names through the years in Car Model, Model Car & Science, Scale Auto Enthusiast, Car Modeler, Model Cars... The stories were great!

[@Merylstreep1949]

I want this guys basement!!! Like the hobby shop of my 70s youth!

[@ModelCarMuse]

For more of Rick's amazing basement, check out our video, "Legendary Model Car Builder Shows Us His Collection" kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqCTf3aZid9rqdE

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Really enjoyed Doug!! 🙂👍

[@ModelCarMuse]

Thanks!

[@michaelhintzmikesminiature1812]

Awesome Video!!! Loved hearing all this history!!! Thanks for sharing

[@ModelCarMuse]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

Like many I thought I was the only boy who built models. When SAE came along I saw where Ifit in. I realized I was pretty darned good. Thanks Doug for this channel and all the hard work you put into it. All these guys are builders I look up too (you included). Perhaps Muse can do a subscribers builds segment in the future. Id love to send a few pics from my dusty shelves.

[@ModelCarMuse]

Would love to see them. Working on a way to do just that. Thanks!

[@hoppy5631]

Truly a labour of love Doug. I remember reading Car Model Magazine as a kid in the 70's and recognize some of these names and contests. Looking forward to your next production. They inspire an old, returned modeller!

[@ModelCarMuse]

Glad you've returned! Model on!

[@toyboxchopshop6651]

Love this Channel 💖! Great content always. So inspiring! Thanks for sharing!🚐🚙🚛🚕

[@gradycain6399]

Some amazing history there. I started modeling as a kid in the 70's and have been saving several unopened kits from the 80's and 90's to build "someday when I get older." After watching this, that "someday" is going to be today. Very inspiring video - thanks for sharing that...

[@bkmodelcars]

Major creative minds it's pretty amazing what we were building back there

[@RoadRunnergarage8570]

That 49 Merc is absolutely incredible!!

[@timkustom]

Excellent Video! My first experience of seeing "adult" models other than the ones my father built was in the Hot Rod Show World publications. My first was the 1980 version with the Charlie's Angels Van on the cover. Those models amazed me as a child and I'm even more amazed that I've seen many of those models featured in that issue in person and became friends with those builders as an adult.

[@ModelCarMuse]

A few years later your models would have been in those publications, Tim!

[@idiotluggage]

Really great story. I was never into models as a kid, always more glue on my fingers than on the model. Now I build models for tabletop gaming and love to see what others have done. Thank you for sharing this.

[@dannieturner9719]

I have watched every one of your videos at least 4 times, and this one 8 or 9 times thank you

[@devingillis9661]

THE DETAILS on those cars and the imagination of building/creating something WAY OUTSIDE the box. Is just amazing!! My dream build, that I accomplished in 3 months, a GENERAL LEE, is very detailed. And now seeing the builds you feature, wants me to put more details into it. I wish, modeling was a thing here in Michigan again, and the hobby shops were still around. It's a dying art I wish would thrive back. Hard and strong. ESPECIALLY the shows, to see, talk and network with others.

[@ModelCarMuse]

An online search may help you find clubs and shows near you. Check out Detroit Area Auto Modelers, Motor City NNL, and IPMS has calendar listings of events. Keep building!

[@stephenhenion8304]

This is great stuff... Congratulations to each of these guys!!!

[@gordonenquist36]

Thank you Doug, another fine video.

[@RoadRunnergarage8570]

Very Cool 😎 and diverse collection too!!

[@redbarnmodelworks1115]

Great stuff love the history of the shows, builds , an in most cases kept people on the straight an narrow! Thanks for sharing this! ~Don

[@ModelCarMuse]

Thanks!

[@RoadRunnergarage8570]

That rear engine Pacer is too Cool 😎 for school!!

[@theintake8961]

Your videos hold my attention. Thanks for the video 😎👍

[@ivobuelens]

Prachtig mooi 👌👏👏👏 respect 👍

[@ModelCarMuse]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@frizzosmodels]

Really cool!! great stories. I had met John Papp at Mosquitocon last year what an amazing guy. All the modelers I’ve met so far are amazing. I haven’t entered any cars yet. It’s just so cool to meet famous modelers. The model shows are my Oscar’s World Series and super boul 👊👍🤘

[@raymondblasee1048]

Awesome story here! I was building models all this time and I saw all of you big names in the Auto Rama program booklets in the model contest championships in the 78- 80 period and I fell in love with Tim Boyds 32 Ford ROADSTER and his custom orange 53 Chevy and many others! it was a magical time! Thank you Doug for sharing us this video!

[@rickhanmore3103]

I saw Tim's Roadster and '53 Chevy for the first time at the 40th NNL a few years ago. Seeing those models close up and in person leaves no doubt as to why his work was consistently judged to be among the very best.

[@raymondblasee1048]

@@rickhanmore3103 Rick Hanmore, I had the most fortunate experience to have met Tim Boyd at the Toledo NNL in '91. He was the editor on Modelers corner in Street RODDER magazine at the time and I got to meet up and talk to him when he wanted to photograph one of my street rod models on display for his magazine coverage. I had a great time talking to one of the legends about model cars and reminisce about his 1979 championship days with his 32 Ford ROADSTER and the orange custom 53 Chevy which have always blown me away!

[@jamesthompson8008]

Absolutely outstanding video!! Great to see the interview cuts about not only the models, but how things were for them as kids getting into competitive building. THANK YOU for this!

[@ModelCarMuse]

Glad you enjoyed it. It's our mission to tell the builders' stories.

[@donsgarage684]

Awesome video. I love seeing the old masters of our craft. Thank you so very much for doing these videos. Please, keep them coming. Don

[@HoosierHacker]

These were really interesting stories!

[@RoadRunnergarage8570]

Cool 😎 custom builds!!

[@bigcountryscalemodels3201]

Thank you Doug for this and all your videos. I've always loved the history of Model building, the early contests and the iconic builds.

[@ModelCarMuse]

Very welcome

[@ramblingsadrift6477]

I recall Model Car Science Magazine and Rod &Custom took a brief focus aimed at model cars. I spot some really cool vintage kits in the background.

[@blueoxmodelshop3405]

Very cool video, and some awesome stories!! What beautiful builds!! I can’t wait to attend my first contest on May 22nd this year!!!

[@ModelCarMuse]

Thanks! Have fun at your first contest. And thanks for sharing your modeling journey on your channel!

[@gisforgravy5272]

Awesome video Doug! Glad you shine the spotlight on some amazing talent. And kudos to the production team!

[@ModelCarMuse]

Much appreciated!

[@plasticbuzzardmodelshop9715]

I enjoy these videos. Thanks

[@ModelCarMuse]

Thanks for watching!

[@FranksModelWorks]

I can finally place some faces (and voices) to the names of the modelers I’ve admired since childhood! Another great video!

[@davevan8864]

GREAT historical documentation!!!!! Hot Rod Magazine attempted to restart a national / International model car contest in 1990 at Indy. It was very well done and seemed a success but ended after the 1991 contest. I was lucky enough to win a 2nd in 1990 and that kinda ended my contest building. I built for myself after that. THANKS

[@ModelCarMuse]

Thanks, Keep building!

[@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage]

Cool stuff! That museum at the beginning looks great. So many vintage model kit boxes on the wall.

[@ModelCarMuse]

Rick gave us a tour in our video, "Legendary Model Car Builder Shows Us His Collection" kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqCTf3aZid9rqdE

[@calvincooley1074]

I have that program from the Carl Caspers Custom Car Show! Rad

[@kennethbossio2489]

Excellent video

[@ACCollection]

Great video!

[@LeftCoastModelCarBuilds]

Very cool!!

[@modelmartin]

As a kid I wanted to win a contest with my models. I am 65 now and still want to! I won the senior class in 1973 at the St. Paul MN MPC contest and still have the model! Years later I met a fellow builder, Steve Cote, when he joined our model club - RPM - Racing Plastic models. Steve won the adult class at the very same contest in 1973. We reunited our models at a club meeting!

[@ModelCarMuse]

Awesome story, Andy!

[@daintiestquarters3411]

I love this. Are there any contests or shows in Chicago? Never heard of them.

[@ModelCarMuse]

The MPC shows talked about in this video no longer exist but many model clubs hold contest shows. A search online or inquiring at hobby shops can help find clubs in your area.

[@RoadRunnergarage8570]

Also that 53 Chevy!!

[@plastiksurgeon9129]

EXCELLENT vid Doug! I’d say ALL of those models I saw would hold their own in any show today! They mentioned the GSL….I sure hope to get to what’s going to be the last one next year. There’s a couple cars I’d like to bring along. 👍🏾

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Yep, I agree!!!!!!!!

[@ModelCarMuse]

The next GSL will be a great show!

[@1Also]

9:36 The Mug!

[@tombrewsaugh1399]

I built model cars from about the age of 10 until I was 30 and started a family. Unfortunately I only have a few of those cars my little sister destroyed most of them " helping" clean my room. Now I am 70 and getting set up to get back into it. At 16 I won the only contest I ever entered with a 57 Chevy gasser .

[@ModelCarMuse]

What a great time to be getting back into the hobby. Have fun!

[@bradmuehlenbein]

“I got older” 🤣🤣

[@daintiestquarters3411]

Nice models. So different from diecast and resine. How long do these models last? Do they collapse after some years?

[@ModelCarMuse]

Overall they hold up pretty well as long as they are taken treated gently.

[@youknoweverything7643]

And also the clear lexan slot car bodies is a great way to build a flawless looking shiny paint job and don't even gotta use any clear coat cuse you paint inside the lexan and it will always be very glossy like a mirror and you won't see any orange peel ever I have a few models that are lexan vacuum formed bodies and look amazing then a regular hard body. I just don't understand why building this little model cars is so addictive but it is alot of work and time sitting at a work bench carefully sanding and building every little part to perfection just to put it in a case after 4-12 plus months of constant work everyday few hours a day lol. And I did something like that with a old Pepsi can and some left over parts out of my parts box it's not to hard and make funny looking little gassers I call the three I built coke can gassers and gonna make a mini diorama with like 4 or 6 of them looking like they are the starting line and burnout box and staging at the local 1970s drag strip that some guy laid some concrete strip with a few gaurd rails and a home made drag light on his property to host gasser and grudge match racing flook it up it's so cool the real life 70s home made drag strips guys built on their properties they look sketchy super narrow and sketchy

[@youknoweverything7643]

Can you please do a video a full build step by step on a lot we can follow with exactly on building a show ready model so we can go get same kit and do exactly what you do in videos so we can learn and say hey I built that beautiful show quality winning model car that will lead to more new ppl in the hobby building custom models and scratch building and buying specialty parts for a show car builds and would make model car shows alot bigger to

[@crazypainter56]

Show some of tom woodruffs bubble top model cars from the MPC contests

[@ModelCarMuse]

On our wish list!

[@crazypainter56]

@@ModelCarMuse I also have know Rick Hanmore for years -he's a great person -thanks for the video's------------------------------------charlie

[@JibaroCZ4A]

🤘🏼👽🤘🏼

[@greggabel7238]

An AMC pick-up truck conversion

[@Builtbyronny]

👍

[@youknoweverything7643]

That first car you showed the drag car with the stripes that you airbrushed backwards cuse it lexan that's a beautiful car. And all that work for that mail in 4th place car that melted from the lights is sad man all that hard work melted due to carless photographer for magazine