bobss396

Me and my brother had ZZ Top worthy beards for a while, everyone in the family HATED them including wives and girlfriends. What to do... grow it LONGER... When I got a real job in 1981 I cut it shorter by a lot. My brother needed to go to court about something, his was gone. Now I trim it with a #1 or #2 guide on a Wahl trimmer.

Anything that needs strength I will pin it in place. I drill holes while things are in the raw plastic state, pin one side with brass rod, aluminum tubing or stainless steel pins (1/32"). Then I use as little CA glue as possible. I rarely ever scrape paint off anything.

I like the scoop. I have (yet another stalled project..) and I grafted a scoop from a '66-ish T-Bird onto a Mercury hood. That comes with a chrome piece for the front of the scoop that sets it off.

Watch with photo-copying a decal sheet, with my printer the scale is a little off. Put a scale in with whatever you are copying so you can check it.

Stalled project from 2014.... those are rookie numbers! Seriously, the car looks great. I could build for a solid 3 years if I unearthed all of my stalled projects. I have some going back to 2000.

Citadel is one my local hobby shop carries, the shop owner says that the figure-guys like them. I found Vallejo acrylics at Hobby Lobby, so far I got a black and silver to start with, they were $3.99 each. Online at eBay they are $6-8.

I was there yesterday, no '30 as well. They serve up the SOS it appears.

I'm going to give them a go, thanks.

We were supposed to see Betts at a show out in Montauk NY some years back, the show was canceled by the time we got out there. No internet that far back. We found out later that he was too inebriated to perform.

A step in the right direction, thanks. I will look that up. Are they reputable to do business with?

I have been using Tamiya acrylics to to small detail painting. I have a bunch of their clears, also the X22 which I use mostly as an adhesive and some blacks and silvers. I will give the Vallejo line a try. Anything I paint is very small, everything else gets sprayed. I use the clears over TS-30 Silver Leaf on things like steering wheels, fans, shift knobs, side marker lights.

I just ordered a set of these from VCG Resins for my GMC wrecker. I got them with the case. https://www.vcgresins.com/shop/p/jerry-cans

I build a lot of the old MPC modified kits and the kit coil-overs are not cutting it. I have made up my own and it is very labor intensive. I use real springs from McMaster Carr. I really should get a small lathe for myself. That would be a good long-term solution. I have a full sized Bridgeport mill in my garage. VCG resins used to make shocks, they are a little on the fragile side. I have a set I'm going to try to adapt. Does anyone know of a source? It would be a big help to me and others. Thanks.

Very well done, a lot of scratch building there.

That is excellent, looks like a real stock car. Very obscure too. Questions: What paint was used, what did you use for the tire stripes? Are those the decals that come with the PPP tires?