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I extended the inner fender pieces to meet the radiator wall. I'm playing around with a possible firewall cover too, same .010" aluminum material.

Dom is our president and is on here now and then. Mike handled all the vendor tasks, his 1st time and he nailed it. No small feat. I'm missing a model from 2 years ago... likely in the house in a clever spot. The last I saw of it was at the NNL East in 2023. I'm sure I brought it home. The next show is November 20th, 1 week from today, 7 pm in Bluepoint. At the Henrietta Acompura Lodge on 27A, right off Nichols Road, at the end. Hang a left and the lodge is on the left, just after King Kullen, before 7-11.

I do see more AMT Mercs out on the contest tables than the Revell ones.

Any beauty supply store should have them. The brand is Suisse something. They are sticky on one side, place it down, soak the back with thin CA glue.

The '63 F100 might be interesting. But the similar era Mobieus kits are pretty much the current gold standard.

Hobby Lobby is running their 40% off thing this week....

Very slick. I need to do one, if only to take pictures of my models. I have some diorama details saved on eBay. BUT... it has to fit in an 11" x 17" bankers box for storage. I plan on using thin laun plywood for strength. We built them as kids. My mom worked in a department store and would bring home heavy white coat boxes. They were sturdy. I would cut 2 walls out of them, make door and window frames from wood coffee stirrers or construction paper. Fab up an engine crane and so on.

Nicely done ✔️! I should do one.. strive for a box stock and focus on good paint, etc.

Again, there is some pretzel logic going on with model designers. The '59 Edsel looks light years better than the '58. I was at the NNL East when Revell introduced their new '49 Mercury. They were not happy when I suggested that a '51 would have been a better choice. Don't even mention the AMT '41 Plymouth to me, the '39 or '40 is much more pleasing to the eye.

Steven's has been around a long time, very early in the internet days. I see many items on MH that are sold out. I've bought from The Model Roundup and Hobbylinc (spelling?) lately. There was one that is long gone, Scale Dreams. They had just about anything and everything. I see very little of Detail Master stock anywhere, even on eBay.

I worked on the truck late last night. The bed fits the chassis finally. I had to open the firewall (I added a piece to mount the master & booster) to clear the driver side valve cover. I closed up the passenger side by 1/8". The fender wells interfered with the upper control arms, those were opened up. They will be covered with aluminum pieces I made. The ones pictured might be made bigger. Possibly may add a firewall piece. I'm slowly working the fit bugs out of it

2 with Brie at my girlfriend's and 2 with Ivan when I got home.

The last time I was in Lowe's (2 years ago) they were down to ONE cashier and the rest were self checkout. They were in the process of putting everything else under lock and key. Now I shop mainly at Ace Hardware or buy what I need online if I can wait.

I believe it was a VCG Resins piece. Thanks. I have some window handles and arm rests from ESS Resinworks. No part pictures of the window handles, they are hard to see. I had to relieve part of the bed do the 4-link and coilovers had clearance. The bed cover hides everything anyway.

I went to my girlfriend's in Miller Place, more snow out that way. We cooked and watched TV.