I just remembered (maybe I'm dreaming...???) there was a model of Richard's "Ol' Blue" in Scale Auto Enthusiast magazine in the early 90's... (Commissioned by Richard.) Using the, then available, photo etch emblems to make a Monogram GSX into "just" a GS... No surprise, Google searches have failed. (I did find a site with SAE cover pictures, but I only found a convertible GSX.) While "outside club hours," I tried Richard, but got voice mail... (Not that he "knows me," but was worth a try...) Will try again in the am. (Hopefully he won't be busy selling TR parts LOL!)
I spoke to Richard about it a few years ago. He said he didn’t commission it but he does own the model today. He says he lost his issue of SAE by loaning it to someone that never returned it. So I sent him a copy of a book that has a collection of articles from SAE and includes the SAE article about building the scale version of his car. I have a copy of it too and will dig it up and post scans of the pages if you want to see it.
I probably have that magazine, as I have quite a collection of those. Let me look and see. May take some time.
Thanks!!! I forgot about the book. I think I may have it... If I don't/can't find it, I may come back and ask for scans...
The original artwork for the Photo Etched emblems were done by a friend of mine, with emblems I supplied to him. I still have several of those emblems left lying around, somewhere. He did those in 1/24 and 1/18 scale for me.
3shields Thanks for all your posts! The Gulfstream Blue/Platinum Mist car looks to be an incredible model! And heartbreaking! Models like this often “tell a story.” Perhaps you had one (I hope fictional…???) in mind behind this one?
The SAE article/book attribute the emblems to "MPB Detail Products." Googling yields a ScaleMates page suggesting an only "historical" existence for "MPB Detail Products." A link on that page sent me to The Model Car Garage, and I bought what seems to have been the last two examples of their "GSX detail set..." (The pic doesn't look as "impressive" as the pic of the MPB parts in SAE... I guess we'll see...)
