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Great job Bruce! The construction does look fiddly, you did a great job with it.

Great work! The model looks really nice.

Outstanding work. The paint work is great!

Both are brilliantly done. I really like them both.

Very nicely done. I have a soft spot for AMC's, since my first car was a Matador.

Really, really stellar work!

Wow, that looks great!

A very clean build. Great job!

Another nice save Michelle. Great work!

Great job Mark. Top drawer work as usual!

Great job! I think it looks great.

Nice save Michelle. The model looks real good.

Great job on the rescue. The model looks very nice. I really like the blue paint.

Thanks Joe. I would appreciate seeing the pictures when you have some time.

Why do you guys use heat and what does it accomplish? I hope this does not come across as being snarky. I have never heard of this technique and am curious.

Life always seems to get in the way of fun. Best of luck to you taking a summer class and studying for the CPA. You have a full plate.

Have you tried the decal setting solution without the heat? I have been using Micro Sol and Micro Set on Tamiya kits for years and the decals conform to the model fine. For what it's worth, here are a few examples.

Very nice! I built this one box stock a number of years ago, and it remains one of my favorite finished kits.

For years the readers of Scale Auto have been asking for more content or page count in the magazine. The editors informed the readers that they needed more advertising revenue to increase the content of the magazine. If ads like this help toward that end, what's the harm? If you don't like an ad or it does not apply to you, then don't read the page. It's that simple. For the medications and other products that are getting the snarky remarks in this thread, it's significant to remember one thing, they help people! It's wonderful that those of you who are in your 40's and older can claim to feel like you are in your 20's. Count your blessings. I know of a few people who are in their 40's and they feel like they are in their 60's or 70's. They drew the short straws when it came to how their health would hold up through the years.

Very nice! Great job with the paint and decals.

Personally, when I have tried to use a semi gloss or satin black paint, I have been very unhappy with the results. It seems that the paint is splotchy or does not apply evenly, so I get some areas with a higher level of gloss than others. To achieve a semi - gloss or a satin finish, I do the following. I use a flat black and then apply Testors Model Master Gloss for a semi - gloss and Model Master Semi - Gloss for a satin finish.

I used it to do the trim work on this model. No problems.

Looks spectacular! I really like what you did with the water. It looks like real river water.

Great job! I built one of these and did the street version. Yours looks much more aggressive. I like it a lot.

The single most important thing is to make sure the decals are going on a smooth gloss finish. Otherwise silvering can, and most likely, will occur. Applying gloss over the decals is a personal preference and can be highly controversial, as Jonathan mentions, the teams really don't gloss coat their cars. I use Future or whatever it is called these days to seal the decals. It is really inert, but I have had it wrinkle decals on an occasion or two.