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Hi all, I don't have a web site yet as I have been building slot cars for customers when I should be taking it easy in my early retirement. Never worked so hard in my life. I've cooled it with the digital painting and I'm back to painting hot rods, pin up girls and weird-ohs with the brush and airbrush. Unfortunately, my own projects have taken a back seat for the last couple of years. I'll dig through the archives and post a few more pics. 8)

Hi Manuel, I think I might vacuum form the window glass. I picked up a used Mattel Vacuform Machine online at you know where for 30 bucks last year. Making a mold for the windows? I'll burn...errr cross that bridge when I get there. :oops:

That was me! I covered the top of this mold with layers of paper and white glue. Unfortunately I gave it a coat of Grumbacher gesso which is more like a latex than a real gesso. It leeched into the white glue and turned it rubbery...which is good for crashes but lousy for mounting the body because it's kind of warped. Next time I'm going to try the fine RC model airplane fiberglass and CA glue on the inside of a cheapo plaster mold. One of these days I'm going to hit the local RTV silicone and resin distributor and get me some real molding and casting materials. :oops:

Tom Davison's 1963 Revell Pactra Model Contest Best Paint Winner roughed out in bondo.

A 1/32 hand carved balsa version of Len Terry's Shelby Can Am...aka King Cobra Can Am... ...with lotsa curves which I like but the rear wheel wells will have to be reinforced with nylon dampened with lacquer thinner on the inside because the balsa in really thin and overhangs the tires slightly. Shoulda picked a car with radiused wheel wells!

This is a carved 1/32 balsa body I did of Oscar Kovaleski's Ferrari Super Monza "Car 54 Where Are You?" It was used as the Auto World logo back in 1963. The logo on the top right corner was done by Ed Roth and the one on the lower left corner is the Car 54 Super Monza This catalogue was my first exposure to slot cars although I didn't get my first "road race set" until Christmas 1964.

I was playing around with a computer that was given to me back in 1998 and voila... This was my first attempt at digital airbrushing way back when. The program used was Photoshop 4 when it first came out in early 1998. The computer was a Power Computing with a 133 Mhz Power Mac processor and a 2G hard drive. The cheapest smallest WACOM tablet available at the time was used with the Photoshop airbrush tool set at 20% pressure. The original file was an RGB 3000 X 2000 pixels at 300 dpi and started out a scanned pencil sketch. It looks pretty stiff because it was the first time using the pen tool and bezier curves. The original sketch was influenced by the work that Ed Newton did for Ed "Big Daddy" Roth in the 1960s.

Hi guys. These are a few projects that have been on the go for quite a while. This is the old 1/32 Revell 1955 Chrysler New Yorker kit. The plan is to build a brass chassis circa 1964 and power it with a Revell RP66 motor: It was massaged a bit so I can turn it into Tim Flock's Kiekhaefer Chrysler 300: These old kits make for interesting slot car conversions. This is the Mercury Montclair which will be converted from a 4 door to a 2 door NASCAR or a Carrera Pan Americana racer:

I'm in! I've got a few shelves of models that will not get built if I have to go through the process of researching and super-detailing them. Hmmm...I see an AMT '64 Mercury Marauder, Mono Green Hornet, Revell Pontiac Club de Mer and Lincoln Futura, MPC '29 Woodie as well as a couple of 1/32 scale '56 Revell re-issues in my closet that would make decent slot cars. cheers, Bob S. 8)