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  • Birthday 04/21/1952

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  1. Model my aunt fanny, admit it, you drove this incredibly beautiful, supremely shiny and built to within gnats breath of obscenity to the photo shoot, beautiful job sir, so very well executed, luvit. Kind regards Michael, (roadkill) from Western Australia.
  2. G'day maaate, you clearly have a wicked imagination, a bit like my, and you do beautiful work, but I do have one question for you, what is and where did you get that amazing gold on the Harley bike. Kind regards, Michael Pederick (roadkill) From the left coast of Australia, being Perth W.A.
  3. G'day Ulf, when I stop to read and see someone else's work I usually scroll down slowly so I can stop before I see the first pic. Then I read what ever is there then I go to the pics, so when I read your blurb I started to think that the model was not going to be all that great, WOW, was I wrong, this is going to be a work of art, very well thought out and beautifully executed, very well done sir, can't wait to see the finished build. Michael Pederick, (roadkill), from the left coast Western Australia.
  4. Now "that's" what I would call pure art, very well done. Michael (roadkill) Perth Western Australia.
  5. G'day from Western Australia, with regards to the Porsche pic at the top of this page, I just think it's a bit rough using a pic of the real car and passing it of as a model, OR alternatively that's one awesome model friend, absolute kudos to you, I bow before you. Roadkill, aka Michael from the left coast of the (very) big island down under.
  6. Hey man, nice builds I'll be keeping an eye on these, also I noticed you have glass on you work bench, I was wondering if you could tell me what it's like to work on glass as I'm thinking about going that way, thanks. Kind regards Michael (aka road kill)
  7. Hey man, I fully understand the feeling of utter despair and the temptation to just chuck it all but chucking it all at the wall would be most satisfying, having said that and read your description of your struggle with this particular kit be assured you knocked it out of the park, in fact out of your post (zip) code, from what I can see in your pics that is an awesome bit of kit, truly inspirational. Kind regards Michael Pederick (roadkill) Perth Western Australia, Or as I like to call it, the left coast of the big island down under.
  8. Thanks gents, for looking and the praise, much appreciated. Michael.
  9. Gentlemen one and all, thank you so very much for looking and the positive comments, much appreciated, so all I've got to do now is get the beastie finished, again thanks so much for looking. Michael.
  10. FrankenJag, a 1/8 scale model as a version of something I saw in my head one dark stormy night, Mwahaha. Ok so this is the fourth post on my saga I call the FrankenJag. I’m almost finished building this weird contraption but I’m not sure I want to post any more pics as it’s not turning out anything like my vision and I’m having soo much trouble with it I sometimes just wanna smash it to bits or take it outside and just set the bastard thing on fire. I’ve repainted it four times, which involves re sanding, re masking, (geez masking up is tedious and takes so long, being 1/8 scale), and painting again, and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but it just keeps coming out rubbish, so I’ve just flat out given up and the paint is now just gunna have to stay as is which is pretty BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH. This model was the first time I’ve eva tried to paint a model in two colours so that was interesting to say the least, some of this colour came out reasonable so I’m not touching that either. I knew I would have to be very careful masking up to do the second colour and found the centre line on each panel or part and very carefully marked the lines for the masking and checked that the lines matched perfectly from panel to panel. Yeah well even that didn’t work, one edge of one of the panels is 3mm too &$#%cn narrow, which is 24mm (1in for us old fart’s), in full scale, I was so surprized, disappointed, pissed off and just totally bewildered how I managed to do it when I was so careful, like measure twice cut once kinda thing but still stuffed it, and I’m not doing it again, it’s just getting too hard and I can’t afford to just keep buying paint, masking tape and such. The reasoning for the two colours is I was trying to make it look a bit like the Gulf Racing colour scheme which I really like, I think it’s a very striking colour scheme and really stands out on the race track. OK so I have decided to put the pics up anyway so you can at least see what I was trying to build. Kind regards, Michael.
  11. Aww, mate I feel ya pain, I've painted things like that, same paint same model but one part just goes completely whacko, just weird and sooo frustrating. Michael Perth Western Australia.
  12. Love ya work, a little disturbing but that's a good thing, just look at the stuff I make. Michael Western Australia.
  13. Oh Trevor is there ever, here in the land down under we have a few things that really get us goin, a little annual event called "Bathurst 1000", and from there we extrapolate to our fave home (Australia) grown muscle cars, we have heaps. One of these is the XY Ford Falcon GTHO that in 1971 was a pretty awesome car, there is a very famous photo taken over drivers shoulder with the speedo just over 140 mph, this was straight off the show room floor. Some time back, not sure when a company called Icon Models released the 1/8 scale XY Ford GTHO, they also released the complete engine as a separate deal, the model had to be assembled, had fantastic detail and were an all round awesome model, and being diecast they are very heavy. At the time they sold for just over a thousand dollars, but to get one now you would probably need half the US defense budget. As you can see in the pics someone has taken the HUGE step to highly modify one, I just hope it turns out as good as this guys other works. Michael.
  14. Bob, thank you so much, thinking up concepts is the easy part, construction is getting harder but I still enjoy it. Michael.
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