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    I just want to comment, Andy, on your door jamb construction. Adding .5mm before the jamb lip is a great idea . I wish I had been aware of this just a little earlier ( I wish I'd thought of it) The thickness of a coat of paint must not be ignored. I hope I remember this method the next time I open anything (but probably won't ?)
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    I love the smell of an old chevy burning oil in the morning. It's got that....that gasoline smell. ?
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    You are going to screw things up. I screw things up. WE ALL screw things up, Keefer. It's part of the deal. But you can succeed. My hands hurt all day long but when I'm chopping a top or cutting a door my mind is on the task; not on my pain. The idea is to keep busy doing what you love to do. You don't have to chop anything to build a nice model. But if you want to do that sort of thing, you are in good company here.( not me, of course, I mean the others like Steven. ? )
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    I told her it was inside the ashtray in the shadow. "Can't see it, but it's in there!" I said proudly. ? That ashtray is flippin' awesome, Steve, with or without the lighter.
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    I just showed Steve's Bonneville dash to my wife. After she studied it, woefully, she says "he put a cigar in the ash tray?" I said" Yup! That steering wheel is the size of a dime! Look at that detail!" She says "I don't see the lighter. Where's the lighter?" This is coming from a woman who has never smoked in her life....I don't show her my stuff very often. ?
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    I think we septagenarians should be exempt from using PE wire looms and adding carburetor linkage. Either of those two things could mean a stroke for us. If we could do some lobbying maybe we could force the PE industry to label their products. "Caution: Photo Etch parts may cause heart attack or stroke when handled by feeble droolers ? over 65 years of age"
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    I don't see any smoke rising from that stogie in the open ashtray, Steve. You're slipping... and at only 60! ?
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    Geeeez, It took you long enough! ?
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    Yup. Between the arthritis, the hearing loss, the cataracts and the dimentia................................uh....what was I sayin'?
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    Magnification is essential for me. That, and tweezers. I drop stuff a lot so I keep a streamlight and a long stick with tape on the end. Without any of those things I may as well just watch Netflix ☺️.
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    Haven't done squat. We'll, that's not quite true. I did do a little but not on this one. If you're tuning me in, you are either building a '40 or you want to. So here's the ones I would like to enshrine in styrene. Slice 'em every way there is. I love this body style. You can't muck up a '40 unless you are vision impaired. They even look good unfinished, abandoned, or rusted out.
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    Magnets, Jim. They will self-align the doors if you install them accurately. The tiny rare earth magnets. Ebay. I use .032 brass wire ( and you did too, right?) so there's a little flex. and the magnets will put the door where you want it. And yes, I agree they look great in those light colors.
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    It looks much better in gray, Jim. Thank you ?. Seriously, I like the hoodless idea (that's bonnetless for you Brits) because it makes a bold statement. You don't see it much on a fat-fender car but the hoodlums in my town were prone to that sort of thing ?. Quit staring!
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    That's it. I'm done. Thanks guys!
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    OK, the old lady bought a new Asus Zephyrus laptop with extreme capabilities. ? I was thinking maybe (I haven't told her this yet, please keep it quiet) using this new source of computing power for my own selfish needs. So I have questions. 1) how much do I need to spend on a printer to make model parts? 2) can it make good clean early Ford dropped beam axles and small fragile stuff like that? 3) what software is used for this and where do I get it? That's enough for now. Let's see where it goes; ? I know I'll have a few more.
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    Hey, Riley, I like your idea for patina. There's just something about that shade of green ?.
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    Maybe if you fill the bumper bracket pass-throughs in the fenders the missing bumper won't look as missing ?. I dunno, Jim, I think bumpers are just extra weight and you're not supposed to bump into anything anyway so......the sweet curves of these fat fendered forties (that's called illiteration) is just too nice to clutter up with unnecessary hardware.?
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    I saw the real thing only once. Around 1972. A co-worker (at the car wash) had his '65 Impala re-painted by the local (Providence) Earl shop. By then I think he was up to $39.95 (but still a bargain ?! ) He wanted "midnight blue". ? the thing I remember most is the way the guy was heartbroken over the color he ended up with. Made me ill. The chalky faded original paint was easier to look at. You get what you pay for. Maybe.
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    Love that stovebolt! Nice work, Andy, I can smell the oil burning from here ?.
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    Thanks, Earl....I don't think I can paint a 1:25 for $29.95 today ?. Have you ever seen one of those paint jobs? ?. Thanks for the info and pix!
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    Thank you Earl Scheib ( $39.95 paint job?). I couldn't find anything on it. Why the odd shape, though? Rear speakers were unusual back then.
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    Does anyone know what this is supposed to be? I can't find a picture of it on the web and it doesn't look like anything I recognize, so if you know or have a picture of it on a 1:1, I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciate it. It could be a speaker but the shape is kinda odd. The rear defogger is totally different. Should it be chrome? I dunno. Help!
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    Congrats, Bob, you did the right thing!?. Look it over really well because some parting lines are very elusive. Look closely around the headlights and the c-pillar / top of fin/ trunk opening. Look for very small molding glitches. If you have opened it and looked it over, I (we?) would be interested in any comments on what you find inside the box and you are welcome to do so "here".
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    I totally agree. The Revell is is good but the street rod version comes with only a coil-over rear suspension (mine did, anyway). The stock version has, well ?, stock suspension. AMT evidently was not concerned with accuracy when they tooled the '40,'36, '32, '34, etc. Those models were for a younger builder. It was important for cars to roll then.
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    Yay! Another '40! ? . Nice door work, Jim. The fun has begun!
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