Fat Brian

God that thing looks heavy, my back hurts just looking at it.

The diagram I'm working on uses two coil split-able rail humbuckers, a five way super switch and two push/pull pots to give you seven total pickup options. Here's a link to the original post with some notes about a couple changes that need to be made. https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=1748&page=16 For the paint, the goal was a to make a guitar that looked like it have been through several revamps over the years. I started with what would have been the original finish, a two tone sunburst. Then I used a crackle stensil and applied the metallic red paint, I wanted wider cracks because I wanted the sunburst to be recognizable under the white top coat. The white was actual crackle paint and most of it fell off immediately and left way more of the red exposed than I had intended. At that point I was kind of over it so I covered what was left with polyurethane. Here's a better pic of the body.

I just need to post these pics so I can link to them on another forum I can't post pics on. I'm having some wiring issues.

The MPC King Cobra, white box, yellow car with big flares, green snakes, has the rear spoiler and side window louvres too. The rear louvres from the currently re-released Shelby Charger fit pretty good in the rear window too but will need to be shortened about a quarter inch.

Stuff like that hurts my heart. I hope they make it to someone who will restore before there's nothing left to save.

Yeah, that kit was out but seemed to be gone in a blink for some reason. I wanted it because it had the corrected body with the gasser parts but I didn't want to pay ebay prices. I got lucky and found one at a show for just over MSRP.

My shelves are semi trucks and odd shaped boxes, Japanese kits and armor (basically the flat boxes), cars and trucks sorted by manufacturer, then race cars of all sorts.

Work is pretty boring, I'm a scheduler for a utility company. Other than that I'm building a guitar right now and every once in a while I'll get distracted with a video game for a few weeks or so.

Yes, it's honestly one of my favorite parts of a build, figuring out how a vehicle came to be the way I'm building it. I think this started because I'm allergic to building anything stock and had to find a rationale for the things I build. How elaborate it gets really depends on fun the story becomes. Here's a recent example of a deep story dive:

At first I thought those were pics of the real car you were building a model of. That is truly incredible work.

I'm subscribed to that channel, the amount of people who just cover things with spray foam is truly astonishing.

I brush Molotow from the refill on small areas but it doesn't lay down smooth over large areas. Bare metal foil is your best bet.

Unfortunately, a lot of "classic" model kits don't hold up today. I took a shot at the Monogram Bad Man kit last year and halfway through I was wondering why I was subjecting myself to building such a bad kit when good 55 chevys exist. I feel like kits of that vein need a high dose of nostalgia for the builder to tolerate their shortcomings.

One thing that makes that particular kit difficult to lower is the metal axles. To lower the front you'll have to cut into the engine block unless you find a different way to mount the front wheels.

I believe it was listed as a modified reissue so they'll probably add a flat hood and make sure the decals are correct.

It was listed as 24th scale so hopefully it's the Monogram kit.

It's an interesting question, is there intellectual property tied to a tooling that no longer exists anymore? Round2 has shown that they can copy and improve a tool and theoretically that could be done to any companies tool.

Yeah, the engine is trash in that kit, along with most of the rest of it. If I ever get around to building mine it's getting a full chassis swap and a new engine. I don't know what Revell was thinking in those days with all the sad kits they turned out.

There is a set on ebay but they're a bit pricey. If a have or know someone with a 3d printer there is also a file on cults. https://www.ebay.com/itm/134061992750?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=I_8LjZN6Sbm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=CNi_i6G9QKy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

The MPC Fire Truck kit will get you a small block Ford and headers that look similar to what you need. I think one of the versions of the Revell Tweedy Pie will get you most of the rest of the way.

There are a couple versions on Cults if you know someone with a 3d printer.

I trim off as much as I can and then paint over the rest.

I got it figured out, I used a boolean modifier to cut the hole in the tires bigger. I've done more in Blender in the last few days than I did in years before.

I made some progress last night and found a post about how to do what I need online. Once I get to sit down with it tonight I'll try to reproduce the post I found. I'm also going through a video tutorial about the basic controls. In the program I started using 20 years ago you had to manually enter vertices and faces so Blender is a big step up.

I have Blender, I tried to learn it around 10 or so years ago when I was still doing 3d modeling but bounced of it due to the complexity. I downloaded the latest version today and will try again. I know the effort will be worth it if I can figure it out.