LL3 Model Worx

Keep it wet with paint. Make sure the belly of the brush can hold enough paint to go from one end of your surface to the other without running out of paint.

I'll check as soon as I get home... im pretty certain I have that kit I robbed an engine out if a couple years back.

I cut pullys from aluminum tubing and used medical tape colored with black sharpie on this thing a few years ago because I lost the blower belt... It passed the sniff test for me.

I use glass eyedropper bought a pack of 10 for like $2 on Amazon and I still have 9 left after about 6yrs. Testors enamels or some of the best brush paints there is in my opinion. I have painted hundreds of miniatures with some of the most high end miniature acrylic paints available and while they are great they have one fatal flaw. They cannot be altered once dry and drying happens fast! Enamels dry very slow and can be altered with a little solvent as long as it's not completely cured. Thin with mineral spirits and keep the brush wet! The brush doesn't have to be some high end Windsor series 7 or nothing... regular ol synthetic brush will work fine, just keep it wet ans make 1 stroke. And if you have to make another pass thin it even more and lay it on even wetter that way it levels and blends to the existing coat.

So, I've acquired lots of various wire over the years in various sizes and colors and materials... The real question is where do the hobby specific vendors get their wire? That can't be that much of an arcane secret. I'm willing to bet it's from industrial supplier that we could all call and order from... I don't really have the need as I have plenty (bought from hobby suppliers and salvaged from electronics) but it would be nice to know why no one can seem to find where the hobby vendors source their stuff. Baffling.

My wife got me this awsome "parking garage" display case. I just put it together and I think it looks awsome! Now need to dust off a few builds to go in it.

My starting point.

I'll be doing this... it just screamed at me and said America! 🤣 seriously one of the most important vehicles to come out of Detroit and one of the most dangerous perhaps barring the Pinto. Such a visceral experience driving one of these.

Yes indeed. Thanks Kevin I'm going to check those out!

Anyone have any American 200s (coke bottle) wheels they would part with or know any kits they are in?

Well said! That's it exactly.

I fully understand this feeling. The therapeutic nature of the process is what always attracted me to the hobby.... thats why i don't care much about my completed models. Just relaxing and trying new things is what really does it for me.

Folks it's probably been mentioned a billion times before... but here goes. The majority of spray paint found outside of an auto parts store is enamel based... rustoleum, Krylon etc...its cheaper to produce and comply with regulations than lacquers or urethanes. however with any oil paint the solvent used can vary wildly. It could be as simple and natural as linseed oil, mineral spirits or as harsh as acetone, lacquer thinner etc... Putting a hotter solvent paint over a colder solvent paint or primer will usually result in a bad time. You CAN spray lacquers over enamels and vice versa but it can be tricky and you have to know your products. And make sure things are cured and coats are light. Most hardware store paints have fairly hot solvents to speed dry time and help etch/adhere to various materials. These days I personally use duplicolor for rattle can primer on non body parts... and then I'll use automotive 1k lacquer primer for body's if I'm not shooting enamel. Buying a gallon of automotive 1k primer for $50-70 and then straining and thinning it with "cheap" Klean strip lacquer thinner produces a great spraying/covering/sanding primer and in an amount that most would have for the rest of their life. We are talking more than 2 gallons sprayable.. Tamiya acrylics are also alcohol based and alcohol will activate/strip enamel.

I'd like to add to the great advice above... I many times have used the original paint color or clear that is on the surface to adhere small parts. Like mirrors... say I used an enamel clear coat then I'll take a small amount of that enamel clear and put it on pallet or bottle cap or something and let it tack up then apply to the part and stick it to the model while it's tacky. Same if it's an enamel or lacquer I haven't cleared... I just take the base color paint and do the same thing. It will bond fairly decent and it won't leave any noticeable marks.

The AMT nascar kits I have are not that style. I can't speak to what else is out there though.

If someone has these and would send them my way, I'd be happy to cast them in resin... make them plentiful.

G- body Malibu wagon...

From past experience, I'd probably have nothing of interest for you. Happy trading.

It's probably weird but the 56's have grown on me to the point its my favorite of the 3... and this one just looks plain mean!

Sorry Dave, I know better. won't happen again.

I must say, I'm excited... but indecisive. There's what I want to build... and then there is what "should be" built for a Cannonball race. Hoping to have a decision this evening.

That was awsome! 🤣

I have so much respect for these little trucks... they are absolutely the toughest things on 4 wheels. I've saw them used for almost everything from campers like this, to box trucks, to tow trucks, and even "light tanks" in some of the less stable areas of the world. My buddies granddad owned one that was a blood red box truck we called "the red barron" it has over 700k on the odometer and still keeps going somehow. It's been hit, caught on fire and partially submerged and still goes. So every time I see one in their various regalia it makes me smile and laugh 😊

Nice place. Looks alot like my neck of the woods.

That sounds like 4 fatalities... thats a damn shame. People don't realize that it doesn't take a "fast" car to kill you... cars are kinda like guns... any of them can kill you all the same. Had a similar thing happen here about 4yrs ago... kids doing about 90 on a small backroad by my house. One had taken his dad's old foxbody without permission... alcohol was involved. Needless to say out of the 3 only 1 lived. Trees stop cars folks.