This issue is all about "inspiration." The dictionary describes it like this: "the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative." After checking out all the amazing model cars in this issue, you'll be heading for the workbench with a lot of creative ideas! Our "Box Stock Suburban" might not look like the box art, but it's only what came in the box, honest.

TEN YEAR Anniversary issue! This issue is packed! Build ups in this issue; Chrysler 300, the new Jeep Wagoneer, '29 Ford Roadster--adding details, John Teresi's Coors Corvette F/C, and Roy's Pro Street '55 Chevy! Feature cars include; Michael Bale's wild crew cab, Speed's RPU, Dan Himmel's slingshot dragster, and Mark Laird's amazing turbine Indy car! Plus a look at ten years of MCB...

In this issue; our Pro Street '55 Chevy gets a new interior, Roy does a re-do on a '50 Olds, we check out Tamiya's new Mustang GT4 kit, more cool stuff off the web, 1/8th Scale Donovan 417 motor (part two), and we detail out the Foose '67 Charger! TWELVE PAGES of READER'S MODELS!! We spot light some of coolest models around, all done by our readers!

We build some super cars! A Lamborghini race car, we finish the Golden Paganini, a supercharged Camaro, and Roy builds a Pro Street Daytona that is going viral on the internet! Our cover car is a cool garage find Mustang by Rick Gonzalez! Part one on a dual turbocharged Pro Touring '55 Chevy that is going to knock your socks off! In Workbench Tools we play with Silly Putty and a cool chassis jig! Events coverage is a Pomona model car contest from the year 2000! Welcome to our Covid19 special edition!

This issue is packed! Part two on the Pagani shows how to detail the chassis, motor, and interior. Coverage on NNL West. We build a cool diorama with a blown flat head roadster in it. We have some really cool feature cars including a mid-engine '59 El Camino custom and a '69 Camaro Harrier jet car! How-tos include building a 1/8th scale blown Donovan 417, and tips on paint polish. Auto art by:Mark Gredzinski.

Toledo NNL 40th Anniversary Celebration, building a box stock, candy red '55 Chevy, Ken Leslie's amazing 1/12th scale Mustang, SPECIAL Reader's workbenches, building super cars: BMW i8 and a Pagani Huayra, and we finish the very detailed "Foose Too" pick-up! The following modelers have pictures of their workbenches in this issue: Steve Hinson John M. Papp Andy Dennison Jim Drew Bob Morey Angelo Spagnol Ron Snyder Tommy May Steve Ve Tom Geiger Scott Kenny Robert Fisher Pico Elgin Michael K. Norvell Shawn Hartzell Stan Pinnick

We are now 48 Pages! And published four times a year, In this new, bigger issue we have 14 PAGES of GSL coverage! The very best GSL coverage you'll ever see! Then there's 6 pages go NNL East coverage, we take a look at Mark D. Jones award winning collection of Caterham sports cars. We build four Ford GTs!! One Tamiya street version, the Revell 2017 Le Mans race car, and then two GT40s from over fifty years ago. Our editor discuss' Builder's Block and the the last Toledo NNL. Special race car version of "Cool stuff I found on the web"

In this issue: John Teresi's award winning replica of Gary Corn's 1939 Plymouth Air Radial Truck! Special tool section on bending metals (and plastic)! TEN PAGES of NNL West coverage! We build a TALBOT-LAGO Grand Prix car! Our Foose pick-up truck project gets a fancy leather interior, we show you some of the coolest stuff we found for sale on the web, plus share some cool web tips!

1st Annual "Reader's Gallery" issue! Over 20 pages of some of the coolest models on the planet! Special how-to on the proper way to plumb brakes! More cool products off the web, plus more web tips!

Big variety in this issue. MCB builds it's first diesel truck! Clay Kemp builds a IMCA Modified, we use Tamiya paints on a box stock '61 Impala build, add more details to our Foose pick up, and SIX pages of NNL East pictures! Will, SEVEN if you count the back cover!

The highlight of this issue has to be DAVID THIBODEAU’S MARTINI MUSTANG REPLICA! David shows us how he created this fantastic replica. I finally finish the Gilmore Tanker project. The box stock build for this issue is Revell's T-Bolt. There's a special edition of Web Tips where we focus on some workbench tools. We show you some cool things we found on the web. Then there's FIVE pages of NNL West coverage. Don't miss this special number 30 edition of MCB!!

John Teresi amazes us with his latest creation; a replica of his Dads V8 drag bike! Kurt Wilson brings us some contest coverage. We build the new Foose Pickup by Revell, and complete our Porsche 918. For extra fun we visit real car museums, but check out the scale models on display. Fun issue!

In this special “As seen on the web” issue of MCB, we’ll take a look at some of those great products that have everyone talking about on the web! We will attend “ValleyCon” at the Petersen Museum, but we’ll also visit the Blackhawk Auto Museum and meet Master Modeler Marshall Buck. Tale of Two Porsches continues as finish the 914 and start on the 918. Plus more scratch building tips!

We have three really great build’s in this issue! Norman Sterner shows us how he scratchbuilt his amazing, big scale, Supermodified! Three modelers join forces to build a replica of Bill Burnham’s famous, “Old Blue” ’29 roadster. Then John Teresi returns with a step by step on building a replica of a friend’s ’30 Gasser coupe. Plus, coverage of the Goodguys West Coast Nationals Model Car Contest, and a look at next issue’s project!

Revell's Hurst/Olds is a great kit, we give you a step by step build to check it out. Want to try your hand on rust or weathering? We give you some great tips. We test TESTORS new airbrush kit. Show you how to apply C1 Models metalizer dust! We build a Revell chopper. Plus some neat feature cars, web tips, and more...

Our special story is a close up look of John Teresi's award winning Harley Drag Bike that just won "People's Choice" at NNL West. Rodney builds a cool '32 Ford Roadster. 

We finish the Datsun 240Z in the second part on building twin Datsuns. 

Roy builds the Polarlights '65 GTO and is surprised that it is a snap kit! Special centerfold is the "Pontuna" custom Pontiac by "Doc" MidKiff. 

Workbench column continues with a new tool, and we have some more "Web Tips"!

We have two very nice feature cars in this issue, Stan Pinnick\'s replica of the \"Golden Indian\" Pontiac, and Dave Mehelich\'s \'34 Ford is replicated by Michelmore Rod & Kustom. We build the new Foose Corvette by Revell, and try to finish two BRE Datsuns in time for NNL West. Other how-tos include aging wood and building a twin turbocharged big block! Rodney builds a Lambo, and there\'s a few picks from NNL West.

We BUILD the new '29 Ford roadster, we add brake detail using the new Hobby Link brake brake detail set, Roger "Brass Master" Lee is back building a F/C chassis and giving us more detail tips, We spot light John Teresi's latest creation, Rodney builds a Hudson convertible, we sit up our 3D printer, more Web Tips, and the final chapter on "Venom", a must have issue!

Special GSL25 extended coverage! 8 pages of some of the nation's best model cars! We premiere Revell's '29 Roadster and '57 Ford wagon kit! Rodney Williams builds a Mercedes classic. The Lynx Project is uncovered.Venom part four: Interior. Centerfold is Mike Hensley's wild 1960 "Truckster"!!

This is our first big Greater Salt Lake City International Model Car Championship issue! Let’s hope we get to do it again in another two years! Our coverage is more about attending the event, then it is about the cars that were there. There’s other model magazines for that, we don’t do traditional events coverage. But I think you’re going to love this coverage. We build the GSL25 giveaway Corvette, smooth out 3D parts (or at least try to), build a custom interior on a budget, “Venom” Part 3, Ferrari Prestige (two really cool Ferraris), Our feature car is Shane Harrolds amazing ‘41 Ford truck, and a unique piece of modeling history brought back to life; Olaf Wahl’s ‘46 Ford convertible.

This issue is packed: How to's include: Working with cold solder by Russell Cook, Gilmore Gas Truck gets hatch details, How to add parachute details, "Venom" Part 2, Big Buck Build project gets injector details, detailing a snap kit of a 2015 Mustang, Mold Casting Part 2, & more Web Tips! Feature cars include: Sean Langer's incredible Hudson Wagon, Tom Purcell's decal painted drag "T" Bird, John Cancino's Pro Street Viper, Stan Pinnick's 1/43rd scale Cobra, and Mike Morgan's beautifully detailed and fully LIGHTED 1/12th scale Camaro!

In this issue we show you how to use Archer's Transfers to add weld beads and louvers to your next mold, how to make a simple one piece mold with Alumilite's Super Casting Kit, TDR 3D printed Pro Mod chassis, Dr. Cranky's book reviewed, our Pro Mod 1'16th scale project gets driver cockpit details, Charles Cochran's "Venon" Part 1, and a ton of feature cars!

We have a ton of cool stories that will inspire you and get you fired up to build this winter! In the last issue we gave you a glimpse of Amalgam’s unbelievable scale replica’s in our centerfold. In this issue we take a closer look at what it takes to turn out these big buck creations. You might be able to afford the $5,000.00 kit, but wouldn’t be cool if you could?
Next up is a feature on an amazing VW Camper that you have to see to believe. It ranges high on the “originality” scale!
Then an old friend of mine Rodney Williams step up and asked if he could contribute some articles to Model Car Builder? Rodney is a nationally acclaimed airplane model builder who builds museum quality replicas that wins awards wherever he goes. He puts that same attention to detail in his model cars. I look forward to seeing more from Rodney.
I had lined up another four page how-to article for the final pages of the magazine, but the writer pulled it at the last minute. So BIG SURPRISE: EVENTS COVERAGE! That’s right, for the first time, and hopefully the last, we have events coverage from the local Goodguys car show. I don’t like to do events coverage because we’re a “how-to” magazine, but since this issue seems to have a life of its own I decided to fill the last minute pages with some of the more interesting models at the Goodguys Autumn Nationals.
Build ups include Revell’s new 1967 Camaro SS, and the re-issue of Monogram’s Cherry Bomb. Plus more Web Tips!

In this issue Steve Morgan with a 14 page (!) how-to article where Steve shares all his building tips for the Henry "J" Led Sled on our cover! Hinging doors, building engine bay covers, custom headers, and more! Peter Matheil's 1/43rd scale STP Special is our feature car--you won't believe the detail on this tiny car. Stan Pinnick tells us how he built the "3 STAR Texaco" gas station diorama. Project updates: Big Buck Build, Ferrari 512, Gilmore Gas Truck, and more! Our special centerfold will leave you speechless! You don't want to miss the this issue of MCB!

We take a look at MENG\'s new kit of the Ford F350 Super Duty Crew Cab, and offer some building tips. A big line up of some really cool feature cars. How To\'s include making a gas pedal from brass, making and applying your own decals, Fittings, and a weekend with a stripper!

Not really a contest coverage issue, but a scrapbook of how-tos and feature cars that didn\'t fit in the pages of Model Car Builder magazine. Highlights include Steve Hinson in our \"Builder\'s Gallery\", A how-to on sectioning, detailing a Revell 1/16th scale dragster, and my table top coverage of this year\'s model car contest from the Grand National Roadster Show and Pleasanton Goodguys show. Plus several more cool feature cars.

Want to learn how to scratchbuild using brass and solder? Roger Lee shows us how. In a very in-depth article Roger shows us how scratchbuild a ProMod chassis in brass! Steve Hinson\'s Wild Coupe, Revell\'s \'49 Mercury Woody is built, and we share tips on how to paint it! We also show you Revell\'s \'50 Oldsmobile Custom, and how to do the panel paint job on it! Plus more WEB TIPS!

In this issue we have some very interesting feature cars from the web, from Roy\'s files, and from John Teresi! Plus we have some interesting web tips, a how-to on working with resin, and much more...

IN THIS ISSUE: How-To Polish Paint, How-To Do Bare-Metal Foil, How-To Add Brake Details, and Detailing a Vintage F/C FEATUR CARS: Rob Smorey’s Pro Mod 55, Mark Townsend’s “Butter Dish?”, Tyrone Power’s Pro Mod 55, Sox & Martin Heritage Cars, Neil Vanzile’s “Mooneyes” Dragster, and a Wedding Cake Car ? more...

Have another interesting issue for you; We start our new Gilmore Gas Tanker project, take a look at what it takes to build a 1/16th scale ProMod (both parts wise and money wise), Chuck Doan shows us how to scratch build a 1/24th scale gas pump, Centerfold is Mike Carroll\'s \'58 Edsel Custom, Part 2 of Phantom Muscle Cars, more Web Tips, and a Pro Street School bus!

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MODEL CAR BUILDER (MCB). I’ve been a model car builder all my life. I started as a kid and I’ve been building ever since. In the late 80s, early 90s I published a model car magazine called “Plastic Fanatic”. I sold the magazine and went back to school to study visual design and computer graphics. Kind of fell out of the hobby for a while, but then my wife and friends encouraged me to start building again, that’s when I decided to start a new magazine. Only this time the magazine is strictly a “how-to” magazine. No kit reviews, no events coverage, no new products section, strictly how-to’s and feature cars. Our in-depth how-to articles show you step-by-step how to detail a model car and our feature cars are done by some of the best modelers in the country. If you’re a serious model car builder, or a beginner looking for tips, then MCB is a “must have” for your work bench.

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