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  1. Thank you Atlantis, after all these years I've finally completed my Snoopy collection. I've had the Camel kit since its first release many moons ago but I painted it up as a Snowbird a/c and it's still in my display case after all these years. While I have a number of those great 30's luxury cars there were some I never got so I'd love to see them all available again. I also saw that Atlantis is going to release the Aurora Silver Knight so I hope we'll see all five of them. I built a couple of them a few year back and found them a great diversion from my usual models and a bit of a challenge in the paint department. I hope that Atlantis does great business with all these older molds and Monogram/Revell eventually regrets getting rid of them. So many of us today are older modelers who are enjoying reliving our plastic youth and to some degree the simplicity of model building in those days.
  2. Just finished one of these myself. It builds up into a fairly nice model. Did mine in a dark gray with a red interior based on some photos that I found on line. Thanks for the background on the kit, I had wondered myself about doors, hood and trunk being separate parts which seemed strange for Italerie but you're never sure what you'll get from Protar. The four openings doors fit well except for the drivers one which sits a tiny bit to high. Like you I didn't like the thick side windows and cut them off but replaced them with thin clear plastic and had them partially rolled down, then I added a sliver of trim to fill in the left over gap. You'll notice that the last vestige of the hood spear is still on the cowl and needs to be sanded off when building the 1600. Sorry I can't provide photos of mine but haven't taken any yet and don't have a hosting site. I like yours but chose the gray because I have way to many red models on my display shelf. Thanks again for the kit background.
  3. That engine is a work of art. Your effort has proven that any glue bomb can be restored into a pride of place model. Keep it up.
  4. Looking very nice and you've got a very nice kit to work with. I built the cv version when they first came out and I learned quickly that you had to be careful fitting things together because things fit so tightly. I believe this kit is being reissued this year, Now I've heard it said that, "all Corvettes are red and non red ones are just a mistake", but your yellow one is going to look very good sitting on your display shelf.
  5. Glad to see others also building these classic '30's cars. I just finished this same kit about a month ago. My brother loved Duesenberg's but wasn't a very good modeler, when he passed away five years back he gave me his models and I've been trying to build at least one of them each year, this year it was the Duesy. I painted it in Tamiya TS-15 Blue with a tan interior. The only real problem with it that I had was getting the exhaust pipes coming off the engine to line up with the pipe on the chassis but in the end I got it to work. He also gave me the Duesenberg Town car plus a couple more of those great old Monogram classic kits but he'll have to wait a couple more years for the next one to be done. I think yours is going to look very nice in silver and look forward to seeing it done.
  6. Have used MM Turn Signal a couple of times but I always start from a White Primer base so didn't have a big problem but yes it is semi-transparent and it needed multiple coats.
  7. My favorite is Tamiya TS-13. I know it's in a rattle can but I just decant it let it sit for a few hours for the propellent to gas off then put it through the airbrush , thinned or as is what ever works best. I always decant more then I need so seal up the bottle until I need it again. A few years back I bought a few dozen Badger bottles to store extra paint in. I decant by having a number of Tamiya spray nozzles with a short piece of flexi straw glued to them so the paint dribbles out rather then spraying out in a blast. I clean the new nozzle out by forcing a little lacquer thinner down the straw till it comes out clean from the base of the can nozzle. For clears I keep a few of my created nozzles for only clear paint to ensure no colour gets mixed in.
  8. Well done but this must be of the car before it had done any time on the track....much too clean. Have a couple of those kits but yet to build one, too many models and too little time so I am envious of the great job that you've done.
  9. Been using Badger for more then half a century (yes I'm an old modeller) and have never regretted it. I have a 200 model for general work and a 105 for more detailed work. I find that n particular the 200 is easy to disassemble and clean.
  10. That looks very nice especially in the light blue. Thanks for your tip on doing piping. I have the Aoshima kit that I', hoping to do sometime this year, I'm certainly going to try your piping idea and may also steel your choice of color. What paint did you use or did you mix your own?
  11. I probably will build it one day but the Jetson was built in '21 and I try to build a variety of modelling themes each year so it will probably be a few years before I get around to the Homer-mobile. I also have the Snoopy and His Sopwith Camel built up for my Odd Ball collection but the a/c is painted in the markings of Canada's Aerobatic Team the Snow Birds. I'm a Canadian and their home base is only about a hundred miles from where I live.
  12. Well done. Love to get out of the box sometimes and do something nutty. Have both the Flintstone car and the Jetson vehicle in my display case but have never thought of doing up a car. I do have the Homer car that Polar Lights did some years back but haven't decided to whether to build or save it as a collectors item. Again well done.
  13. Brings back memories. The second car I ever owned and the first car that I paid for myself (yes I'm an old geezer). Mine was white with, as I recall a blue interior. Gave me few problems so I don't remember why I got rid of it. Been looking for the model of one for years since it is one of the few cars that I owned that was done in model form but haven't found one yet. Seeing your build brought back some good memories.
  14. How about a store that sell house paint as its main stock and trade. Haven't been back there for a few years but the last time it had a nice selection of kits, model paint and train stuff. Don't remember the name of the store but it was in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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