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About Author: Peter Wilding
Posts by Peter Wilding
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CC In Scale: Year Focus – 1969 (With Random Thoughts On Design)
Posted on January 25, 2024 | 29 CommentsHas there ever been a decade that has seen as much social change as the sixties? Not during my lifetime! Naturally, on a site like this we’d be thinking of […] -
CC In Scale: Anomaly Street – Buses, Trams, Trucks & More
Posted on January 11, 2024 | 23 CommentsThere’s a street in the industrial area of the city near me called Anomaly Street. Strange, because as far as I can see it’s a perfectly normal street for an […] -
CC In Scale: 2023 – A Retrospective
Posted on December 21, 2023 | 46 CommentsAs we approach the end of the year and slip into holiday mode, I thought I’d take things easy and look back at some of the models I’ve built this […] -
CC In Scale: They’re Not Always Shiny
Posted on December 14, 2023 | 42 CommentsOne of the things I really enjoy about CC is that we look at cars as found. Curbside. Like the name says. That’s not to say we don’t enjoy car […] -
CC In Scale: Part 9 – A European Tour
Posted on November 30, 2023 | 31 CommentsFor today, let’s just imagine ourselves on a European tour sometime in the sixties. I’ll say the sixties or we’ll be here all day, as there’s a fair bit of […] -
CC In Scale: Part 8 – Independents Day
Posted on November 16, 2023 | 31 CommentsThere have been so many American independents over the years, and a surprising number of their cars appeared in scale. I’ll keep the Brass & Classic Era for another […] -
CC In Scale: Building Styles – Doing It Mainstream
Posted on November 2, 2023 | 64 CommentsAs I alluded to in Joe Dennis’s recent Cutlass post, and following on from Eric’s comment, I enjoy building mainstream versions of ‘fancy’ cars. This is a long-standing thing […] -
CC In Scale: Part 7 – Fifties Fords
Posted on October 19, 2023 | 26 CommentsI had thought this was going to be easy, until I started looking. As with the Sixties Chevy and the Mini Mopar Muscle articles, I found an abundance of […] -
CC In Scale: Part 6 – Mini Mopar Muscle
Posted on October 5, 2023 | 49 CommentsOne memory that’s always stuck with me from my teenage years was getting a ride home one day with a friend who’d borrowed his dad’s car while he was […] -
CC In Scale – Part 5: Japanese Cars Gallery – Taking a Look Around
Posted on September 21, 2023 | 47 CommentsYou may have been wondering what my house looks like with all these models. Here’s one display area. -
CC In Scale: Part 4 – Sixties Chevy Car Show
Posted on September 7, 2023 | 39 CommentsOne thing I have discovered in looking at car shows is the need to limit what I look at. Whether it’s new car shows, hot rod shows, car club […] -
CC In Scale: Part 3 – Childhood Memories, A Gallery
Posted on August 24, 2023 | 66 CommentsI thought for today I might look at some cars I remember from my early days. Less talk, more photos. -
CC In Scale: Part 2 – Turning Japanese
Posted on August 10, 2023 | 35 CommentsLast time we finished up in the early seventies. I said “It was hard to imagine a world where cars this size were the norm. But the early-seventies styling […] -
CC In Scale: Welcome To My Daydream! – Part 1
Posted on July 27, 2023 | 77 CommentsBowing to popular requests, I’m beginning a series of occasional posts on my models. I’ve been reading and commenting at CC for eight years, so no need for much […]