oldcarfan

No matter how good your eyes are, I recommend a pair of cheap drug store reading glasses. I'm always amazed how a part I'm working on looks good until I put the glasses on and see something I missed. I would also add a jumbo pack of #11 blades. Sometimes I go through one a week or more.

For me it's been stalled project week. I brought down three different builds I started quite a while ago and have been chipping away at them. I have one almost done and the other two are coming along nicely. Now if I can only keep the progress going.

I often do screen shots of things that might make a good build. They go into my phone or computer for possible later use. I was wondering if there is a a place for ideas we might want to share with others looking for a new or different project. This is one that caught my eye while looking up something the other day. With the release of the Mobius ramp truck and AMT's always available ramp truck kit, I'm thinking Vasek Polak's old hauler might make a cool build with a tasty vintage racer on the back.

Can I ask a question? In general, what is the pink primer used for? I bought a can a while back but haven't used it. Is it only for red paints?

A lot of the Italeri, and the earlier ESCI kits were designed in the 80s and 90s and they require some improvisation as some of the parts locations are not clearly marked. Over all, they make me think of an Italian version of 70s-80s AMT kits as far as quality. I currently have their Range Rover 2 door and two of their Gelandewagens sitting on my bench. I work on them for a while and set them aside when I get tired of them. I like to watch for good deals and this last year I got their AUDI Quattro, MB 190E, the rally MB 450 SLC, the MB 600C, and two more Gelandewagen built ups on eBay super cheap because the seller misspelled the name and so I guess no one else noticed they were listed.

Thanks, I'll look at them.

I could be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that he got burned on some US bound orders due to confusion with the new fees and got charged to get his own products back or something like that.

I'm looking for a better decal option than Micro Scale paper. I've used both the laser and the ink jet kind and had problems with the paper breaking up on application. Backstory: A couple years ago I printed decals using Micro Scale laser paper. I found the decals to be brittle, even with the recommended clear coat. I made them work, but it was frustrating. For my Datsun pickup box truck I tried decal paper made for coffee cups. This paper works well but is a little thick and kind of rubbery. Yesterday I made some more using using new Micro Scale paper and the decals broke into several pieces while being applied and peeled off when dry. I tried several techniques including hot, warm and cold water and none made a difference with or without Micro Set/Sol. This a picture of the decals printed on white Micro Scale laser paper. They were put on and allowed to dry for a day. I went to check this morning and parts of them had peeled away and landed on the work bench. These were put on over white vinyl, but the ones on fresh smooth paint reacted the same. Below are decals made using the coffee cup decal paper. They went on well and seem to have stuck with no problem.

More power!

Great color! For the taillights, rather than paint them red over red, I usually put some Bare Metal foil on the backside to give them more reflective look, then maybe do a black wash to make the raised parts more noticeable.

The map is actually a computer from (I believe) a Lindberg Police Crown Victoria. I bought a bag of assorted parts at a hobby show a while back and that was in it. The screen is a reduced screenshot that I copied and pasted to print. The LED light bar came off a Kinsmart 1/43rd-ish scale diecast 4x4 toy truck. I bought a bunch of them from Walmart over the last year. Even though they are smaller, some of them have a few useful parts I can adapt.

About 20 years ago when I was too young to know better, a couple friends and I started a model company and made a pretty decent living for a while. We mostly built ships and sci-fi stuff for museums and private collectors, but did pretty much anything someone was willing to pay for. One time I built a Johan hearse to match the livery for a small town funeral home in Kansas. My favorite one though, was ordered by the spouse of a female proctologist for a Christmas gift. I built a 1/12th scale Dr. Barbie, Proctologist. Used a standard Barbie, but added scrubs and a complete endoscope setup with the scope, tubing, video screen and everything. I even created a box with full Proctologist Barbie markings. I loved that job, but it fell apart due to the usual, workload and finances.

I don't know if it could be reproduced reliably, but I spray painted a couple of model car bodies and accidentally left them under a porch during a rainstorm. They didn't get directly wet, but when I remembered them a hours later the paint had dried with a cloudy sun damaged look to it. I assume the humidity caused the clouding. Maybe you could spray them in a bathroom with the shower running? lol

I ordered two sets of his stock steel type wheels and tires on Etsy. I ordered before the uncertainties started, of course. They arrived quickly and well packed with no damage. The only problem is that I screwed up on the millimeter to inch conversion on one set. Math is not my friend!

To me, that magnesium color looks spot on! Nice work and nice build too.