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I bought it at a place called Whistle Stop. It's the closest hobby shop to my house.

Except for an AMT '40 Willys( that was built in the last 25 years) I've never had a tire melt problem. I have original 60s and 70s vintage MPC, JoHan, and AMT kits and there's no tire melt. Was this more of a problem with Revell or Monogram kits?

The Accurate Miniatures Corvette Grand Sport kits have an intake manifold for Weber carbs( along with a beautiful set of 4 Webers).

Picked up my copy last night at the LHS. Very entertaining and informative so far( even with a couple of spelling errors),

Your continuation of the Art Car series?

Nah, that's not overboard, You're just getting started!

'41 Packard Le Baron Sport Brougham, A Chrysler Airflow, '92 or '93 Mercedes 500 E, a Chevy HHR SS, and I want back my '71 Firebird Formula 455 H.O. 4 speed .

The roof on the real car looks like it came from a '66 or '67 GM A body with the buttresses trimmed off.

They look to be behind in their work

Tim Boyd posted that the tooling was altered to make the '63 Nova. I, too, wish the Buick could come back. I have a built up given to me by a fellow model club member for helping him move a few years ago.

Bought myself some presents yesterday- the AMT' 63 Nova wagon with trailer, the '64 Olds 442 hardtop, and the Meng 1/24th scale Ford G.T.

You've been lucky re the cracking. It's a known occurrence with TS-13. Semi odd thing is that TS-13 won't cause TS-65 to crack, and TS-65 won't cause the base color to crack.

Our next show is March 27th, 2022 . I'm surprised that you hadn't heard of our show before this.

Whatever it is, it's to our benefit. I used TS-65 over TS-55 blue once on a '61 Ranchero and it came out great. It's still one of my favorite paint jobs.

Since TS-65 is a gloss coat, you really don't need TS-!3 over it. As a bonus TS-65 doesn't seem to cause the cracking problem that TS-13 can cause.

Went to a toy show in Kalamazoo and got two wheel sets, a Tamiya Mini Cooper and a pair of Flintstone bodies. Then we went to a few hobby shops around the area and bought a couple bottles of paint and a La Ferrari photoetch set. At the final hobby shop stop we caught a 10% off sale so I picked up an Italeri Porsche 911 Cabrio, a Revell BMW Z1 roadster and scored a NuNu McLaren MP4/2C and a BMW M8 GT3. This was the first time I'd seen NuNu kits in a hobby store in this area.

I built one of these several years ago and later tried to separate the body from the chassis. No go on that. Like the saying about the family that prays together- it stays together.

We'll do some tweaking of the tables for the spring show's judged contest. This NNL was the first time for the new layout.

I included that store.

Yes, along with Whistle Stop, P&D, Great Lakes, and the Nankin in Southgate. There's a place on 11 Mile by I-75, too, but that's military centric, no car/ truck stuff except for paint items.

We had about 420 entries in the NNL. That's about what we get most of the time. Yes, we'd like to get at least as big as the old Toledo show. It can be done but it takes participation from the modelling community in the region and maybe beyond. We don't have as large a nearby population base to draw from as NNL East or even the Milwaukee NNL does so we depend on modelers travelling to our show to make it grow.

Last Sunday at our Motor City show I picked up a carbon fiber decal sheet for the Tamiya Mustang GT4, a resin '50 Olds sedan delivery body, a Salvino's '71 Charger, a Hasegawa Nissan CP91, an Aoshima Lexus 400, a Fujimi 250 GTO, and a Tamiya Porsche 956 parts kit. Plus I was gifted a started and very nicely painted Fujimi ( Testor re-box) Mercedes 500SL. And I sold 31 kits from my stash!

We're lucky in the metro Detroit area. I can count 8 hobby shops, 3 Hobby Lobby, 3 Michaels , and a Hobby Town in the metro area all within an hour's drive from my house.

Be careful when using blue painter's tape or regular masking tape. Some are not recommended to be used with lacquers or polyurethanes. Read the inside of the tape roll to be sure.

When I tried that it still came out silver, not chrome.