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Painting is of course a very elegant way of solving the problem! 👍 You could also print them! Concerning the plates, I just google the plates I need, e.g. truck licenses of Utah (😉) and then I choose what I like, make a screenshot and downsize it to be printed!

Cool hotrod! I really dig the stance and colors.

I made mine simply by painting it flat black and then going over the edges and stripes with body color with a super fine brush. It turned out okay but a decal would have been better. I make my license plates the same way Jurgen suggested. I’ve been collecting plates for years and I’m a member of a couple of world-wide collector clubs, so I have access to a lot of resources. North American plates are 6”x 12” so I just scale the photo to 1/2”’wide and it’s accurate to 1/24 scale.

I bought a sheet years ago. It was lousy so I used it as masking material.

I have a few Fishers as well: 1967 Chaparral 2 F 1969 Ferrari 312P coupe (I have a built Spyder from when Paul was Dragon Model & Pattern) 1971 Ferrari 512 M Penske Sunoco I also have the 1/32 Hawker Sea Fury kit.

That's where I get mine.

Now that's a new twist...... Olds powered Olds Gasser, definately COOL!!!! Good to see taking an old kit, and doing something creative with it. 👍👍 DJ

I keep notes as I build. After the build is complete, I write up a "build sheet" with list of paints and aftermarket parts used. I also note modifications, building issues and techniques used so I can use as a reference if I plan on building the kit again. I keep the sheets in a binder. I find it very useful and handy.

Love your 442! here’s mine!

Setting outside is my 1964 Corvair , black inside/outside/back-belly-& both-sides, 58K original miles survivor. Not a 100pt resto, but just a sanitary little car that has managed to "keep on keeping on". Was a factory special order 110horse 4spd with the optional handling package, has Flowmaster duals, little larger carbs, K&N air filters and recurved distributor with a 40K volt coil. STILL a ball to drive, and totally dependable!!!!! My personal thought: Ralph's wife ran off with a Corvair salesman.. 😉 DJ

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Thanks for the updated flyer!

I mark it as. Spam. If you open sometimes it will give you computer a virus..

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I don't know the details of this kit, I've never built it but I can imagine how that area is executed. Decals can be made easily by drawing them in a graphics programme or even Power Point and then printed on decal paper. I make all my decals that way. Stripes, corporate logos, licence plates, ... Give it a try. It's not hard.

I also use the Krylon Pewter gray, can is almost out. I hope I'll be able to find it again. Krylon is getting harder to find.

Grreat looking dragster!

Very nice indeed.

Looks great!

Considering that at the time of his holy war against the Corvair, he didn't own a car, didn't even have a license to drive a car, had never ridden in a Corvair, and had zero engineering background... There was nothing inherently wrong with the early Corvair (though it could have been better), and in fact, its rear swing-axle suspension design was identical to that used in VW Beetles and 356 Porsches, some production Mercedes cars, and even some highly successful F1 cars built years earlier. The problems were that 1) a simple, inexpensive device known as a "camber compensator" could have been fitted to make the first cars more friendly to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Average Driver ("camber compensators" were common upgrades on hot Porsches and VWs at the time as well...I ran one on my own VW), but the bean counters nixed the idea, and 2) tire pressures were critical to achieving safe and predictable handling of the very first cars in the hands of average drivers too...and GM mistakenly believed that putting the information regarding said tire pressures in the owner's manual would be sufficient. Nope. I've owned every flavor of Corvair ever made, and drove all of them hard. The 1960 (first year) with no camber compensator was indeed overly sensitive to tire pressures, but somehow I managed to avoid flaming death. The later first-gen cars through '64 were great fun to drive rapidly, safe and predictable. For 1965 Corvairs all got a sophisticated fully independent rear suspension design that was actually more advanced than what was on Porsches at the time and they handled great...but GM's gutless posture in the face of Nader's (and the hysterical yapping media's) largely exaggerated attack was what ultimately doomed the car. The last year was 1969. Nader's attack on the Corvair was largely the initial event that allowed the gubmint to push its camel's nose into the car-design tent, and the result has been a legacy of overly complex, expensive, and largely useless (and ultimately withdrawn...can you say 5mph bumpers, boys and girls?) "safety" features. EDIT: VW Bugs (below) and contemporary Porsches with swing-axle rear ends exhibited exactly the same extreme camber change in droop as the early Corvair, and were also sensitive to front/rear tire pressure differentials, but somehow managed to escape Mr. Nader's UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED !!!!!!! tirade.

Beautiful 32!

Used it on a couple of kits so far. Used the matte blue for my Tyrrell P34 (yeah I know, it's metallic) and I'm using the neon green for a 2008 Dodge Charger Super Bee. Makes a decent replacement for Sublime Green. Dries really quick, and no real awful smell more than any other paint.

Mischief Managed! Found out that the USB port under the dash will pick up a thumb drive and the stereo will read MP3, so I loaded a 15GB one with a bunch of ripped music Now I've got Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Grim Reaper, Avantasia, Kamelot....

Beautifully done!

Great looking Toyota'