CC In Scale: An Assortment Of Models To Start 2025 (And Coming Attractions)

A happy New Year to you all. Welcome to my little pocket of space/time weirdness! Fancy, it’s 2025 already? I feel like I’m still in 1970.

Last year I began with ‘Anomaly Street’ showing the outliers among my models. This year in CC-in-scale I thought I’d begin the year by giving you an idea of what I have planned. A tasting plate, you might say.

Most internet modelling groups have special builds during the course of the year. Some have one every month! I’ll probably be involved in two at least, though probably not the 24 hour one over the Daytona weekend. I’ll just have to look on this year. But for one of those that I do, I’ll take you along so to speak, showing you how I build a model from opening the box to the finished product. I’ve chosen the subject (above), and mapped out a plan of attack. I’ll wait till the model is finished, then write up the story. So far I’m thinking of a stockish build but for a wheel swap. The hood is a separate part, but no engine is provided. Do I hunt down a Toyota six, squeeze in an SBC or SBF, or just glue it shut? Decisions….

At some stage we’ll take a look at the Classics. They’re not a major area of enthusiasm for me, but I should be able to round up enough for a feature. There’s this Duesenberg Torpedo Phaeton on my back bench; I was building it for a group build but health got in the way. I’ll finish it first, then include it.

And I intend equal time for the old non-classics. I’ll have to check what I’ve already shown. Some appeared in my Woodward story, but there are many more that I’ve built stock. Somehow I’ve always been more interested in the ordinary people’s cars than the famed and fabled exotica. All have a place here.

And at some stage we’ll look at newer Exotics. I’m not up with all the latest Ferraris, Lambos and McLarens, preferring the ‘classic exotics’ but once again I think I can find enough. They’ve never been a major interest of mine. I have a Ferrari 275 GTB-4 on the back bench; I’ll wait till I’ve finished that. Might as well get my latest builds in the story.

We’ll also take a look at muscle cars. Of course. I was 14 when this came out. Like most, I was captivated by the style and the sheer power. Things such as build quality and fuel economy never entered my head. With a model fuel economy is a non-issue, and the build quality is up to me.

If we look at muscle cars, we also have to look at pony cars. I haven’t yet thought how I’ll approach this. I might do one story just Mustangs, and a separate one for Others. But then I have so many Mustangs, from ’65 to ’13, so maybe I’ll do just the ’64-’73 models as a first story.

Classic big American cars; call them land yachts, call them luxury cars. As I write this, I think I might to have enough for a story, but I’ll have to check and see. Off the top of my head I can think of two Lincolns, two Cadillacs and a few Buicks, a Chrysler or two.

Sporty coupes should be easy. I could probably do a story on Celicas alone. Throw in a few Preludes and sixties Isuzus, some rotary Mazdas, with cameo appearances from an Alfa or two. But would an Alfa require a separate Sports Car category? Probably, and we could do that too.

El Caminos and Rancheros would make an interesting theme. I might have to expand it to all smallish pickups. Once again, it depends on the numbers.

Of course, this brings us to ‘real’ pickups. I’ve shown some older ones before, so perhaps this story could be from the later sixties forward.

I could maybe do SUVs if you insist; I might even have enough.

Then we get into off-roaders. This Jeep is an obvious fit, but a lifted 4WD pickup? An off-road-equipped SUV? It gets confusing…

Then there’s vans, like this ’37 Ford. I’ve built a whole series of these with different vintage logos. They’d make for a colourful story.

And we’ll take a look at several eras. The forties and early fifties come to mind. Maybe not enough models of each individual year, but we could put a few together.

And individual years; there’s plenty to choose from in the ’55 to ’75 era. Some years, like 1970 and ’71 I might have to split and run over several weeks.

Newer cars like this Evo X might get a look in; I don’t build too many newer cars though.

What else could we do? Some of the older Japanese cars maybe? Perhaps a story on the Japanese four door hardtop? Italian cars? Those famous Austro-German cars? I’m sure some of you will think of a category I haven’t mentioned. And when I look through my files, I’m sure to find things that don’t fit any of these categories! Guess that means a Random Sightings sort of story. We can do that.

So that’s something of what’s in store from CC-in-scale for 2025. Enough varied themes there to do us through until July at least.

We’re in for an amazing flight this year.

I’d better get busy! See you again in a couple of weeks.