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  1. Some years ago a very good friend, Glen Smith, built one of these. It turned out great and yours looks pretty good so far. He used pulled cotton balls airbrushed with light gray to limit the need for interior details.
  2. Those kits are difficult to make look good but you succeeded! Great job!
  3. rsxse240

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    Let's be brutally honest here, like you said. Did YOU enjoy building this model? Do YOU like the way it turned out? If you answers are both yes, then you've done a great job. Just look at how your build turned out and observe the points you want to improve and ask how to do those. You are asking a very vague question by asking "How can I improve my build?". See if you can find a model club near you and attend regularly, that in itself will vastly and rapidly improve your skills. I have even gone as far as hanging a flyer up at Hobby Lobby for recruiting modelers. Give praise to God for everything and you'll be just fine.
  4. Looks like a first gen IH Scout that's been chopped and channeled. I like it.
  5. simply amazing what you are doing with limited resources. Keep up the great work! I check on this thread on a daily basis, it's the only thread I am subscribed to. LOL!
  6. I think you did a great job. I'm of the opinion that the right wheels, suspension and paint, and maybe some window tint can make any car look good. I personally like the J30, here's mine, just to show what can be done with this "Boring" kit. Since it was a curbside, it went together easily.
  7. As seen above, a candle works well, but make sure not to get to close. I tried and found that the candle I was using gave of a lot of soot or other impurities that clouded the "GLASS". I tried again using a heat gun for heat shrink (butane torch with a sort of heat reflector shield thing) and it softened the plastic and left it crystal clear, although my mold was less than what one would consider poor quality, it still turned out a nice crystal clear part. As for mold material, wouldn't plaster or drywall mud be too grainy and brittle? I had to mash mine in pretty good. I might consider an epoxy resin mold or maybe JBWeld or some of that 2 part plumber's putty, tamiya 2 part, miliput or any other hard 2 part putty. I have SO MANY kits I haven't built because of the headlights being poorly cast, not clear or otherwise ugly. This trick is going to be a great motivator for me! Thank you so much, Steve, for sharing this great tip!
  8. Squad 51! Heck yes! I used to watch that every day right after the Andy Griffith show or maybe it was after Starskey & Hutch, or Rockford files, I don't know I watched them all!
  9. Ok, I first have to apologize for getting off topic, but my question is about the image of the builds. Who built the VW caddy, and could you please send me information on on it?
  10. for an airbrush only booth, you really don't need that much, but if you're using spray cans a lot, you might make sure you get a good amount of cfm. If you are pulling 150 cubic feet per minute, that is replacing the air in a 10'X10'X8' room in just about 5 minutes. If you asked me, that's plenty sufficient for a 2x3x3 booth. The math tells me that your little booth would have all of the air replaced every .12 minutes or about 5 seconds. That's pretty good. The main thing you'll want to consider when selecting a fan for your booth is what kind of paints you'll be using. If you are going to be using an air compressor spraying water based paints, volatility may not be an issue, but if you are spraying lacquers, or other highly combustible paints or aerosols you will definitely want a spark free fan motor or sealed motor to lessen the chance of blowing yourself up. not that I've ever heard of anyone blowing up in a freak airbrushing accident. lol, it could happen!
  11. what kit did you use? I guess if it's a curbside, it could have any engine you can imagine, lol It really is a good looking model. one of my favorite cars too.
  12. very nice! excellent work on this one!
  13. ahh, yes, but was it the rare maveNck, or was it a maverick? I also like that it's labeled as a Grabber, but is CLEARLY a base model with out the grabber hood or V8 engine. lol But then again, it's a TOY for children to play with after they build it. Nothing wrong with that, that's how I started building models. I am definitely going to look at the diecasts next time I'm at wally world.
  14. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the intake manifold is too long for the heads. The "bolt heads" holding the ends of the manifold are dangling out in the atmosphere. This pic is of a single 4 barrel, but it is still a 302 and the manifold clearly fits within the length of the head. http://www.proformanceunlimited.com/specs/crate_engines/302_300_L.png It looks like the manifold is 1/24 on a 1/25 engine, to be honest. The manifold seems to sit too high on the head as well. I wonder if that is just from another kit that they adapted to fit. I would have expected them to give us a separate distributor, if indeed, this is an all new kit. I think utilizing the 302 from the Revell 32 Ford 3-window would be a good move for accuracy. Don't confuse me with a rivet-counter, but I am a perfectionist and a mechanic, so I've seen my share of 302s. Other than the intake fitment, I'd say it looks pretty good so far! I can't wait to see the bodywork and even the box top! lol
  15. I know it's a mustang, according to the kit, but it sure looks like a GTP Capri or maybe a 78 Mustang. The one in the background of the second and fourth pics, now THATS a mustang! Your build looks like it's going well. I'd love to see more progress.
  16. There's a guy in Russia that is selling corrected nose piece for this model. I have heard that it's pretty good quality and really takes away the droopy sad looking lights and puts them much closer to where they're supposed to be. I posted a thread in the car resin/aftermarket section. You should take a look at it before you get real crazy about the paint and body work. You shouldn't be disappointed.
  17. That's getting a bit picky! lol Most of the time, engines, seats and other various parts are not exact to scale, due to material thickness, production restrictions, or any number of reasons...designers were just lazy and didn't want to do another scale calculation, who knows. lol That engine may seem slightly larger than the stock one, but it's the best one on the market. AMT also did a 71 or 72 Mach-I with a 351, but I'm almost certain it's a Winsor and it would most certainly be simply a lump of plastic with some " 'at'll do" details and floating belt pulleys. Like Jon says, go with the Mustang's Cleveland, it'll be your best bet.
  18. From the factory, this is one of the worst looking skylines ever made, however, with some personalization, they do look really good. Yours has nice paint and is a good clean build. It may make you feel better about it if you detailed the window trim and put some nicer wheels/tires on it. Not all kits HAVE to be show stoppers to look great on the shelf. Take my Chevelle for example. It was an attrocious kit. I painted the interior black to hide details on purpose, no engine or undercarriage, decent paint and wheels, some BMF to pick out some details and it's one of my best looking shelf models.
  19. Love it! Skylines are overdone in my opinion, but yours is VERY, VERY nice! I have that kit and fitment issues keep me from building it. Great job! I'd love to see what you could do with an older Aoshima or Fujimi S13!
  20. For Baby moon caps, use thumb tacks. If they aren't the right size, put them in a drill and use files or sand paper to get them to the size you need. Plus, if you get the right kind, they'll be stainless and you can polish the edges back up when you get them to the right size!
  21. Alrighty then! lol Well I took some advice and it seems to be working. I switched gears for a day or two, doing some real car work on my 240SX, helped the wife clear out my son's old room so SHE can begin a remodel, went to Lowe's and bought some LED shop lights (two for the garage and one for the hobby room, I'll let you know how it goes, so far I'm impressed by the lighting). I had cleared my old hobby table off and broght in a new-to-me desk with drawers for more storage, so now my workspace is super clean and all my projects are stashed away neatly. I pulled out a MRC Mercedes SL500 curbside, no detail, just a possible wheel swap. There's only like 30 parts, so it's bound to go quickly. Now, to address the topic of building them as quickly as possible, I do NOT agree with it, mostly because I can't build more than 1 model a year. I love building, and for the most part, don't really care how long it takes to finish as long as it turns out the way I want it and usually do, because I'm so persistent. lol
  22. Very true. Today, I woke and went to the table, opened up a snap Kenworth. Studied it for a while, saw many things needing done to build to what my minds eye was invisioning and promptly stuffed it back away. I guess I should go buy a couple duplicate kits and slap a few together without the pressure of ruining the only one in my stash. Or getting some Chevy kit that I don't necessarily care about and doing a box stock build. I have an old 58 impala that was given to me by dad about 10 years ago. I don't think I have even opened it. I could "build it for him"
  23. Thank you, I am certainly glad I am not the only person who suffers from perfectionism. I've been saving a 64 Comet for a full detail build with the Trumpeter Falcon as a donor, but it may be time to build it free of details. I tried building the AMT Plymouth Prowler as a flame test car but it had horrible fitment issued so before I even glued the engine halves together it went back in the box with a gorgeous "real fire" on black paint job. I polished through a pearl white paint job on a Nissan Leopard/Infiniti M30. It literally needs foiled and stuff the guts into the body and its done...but I will re paint it....again. Mustangs, probably 30 of them, most started, none even remotely done. ...just to name a few. I just need to drop everything for a night/weekend and get into a groove, but make sure I turn on the vent fan...last time my wife came in the room and had to immediately leave due to the paint FOG because I'd been in there for 6 hours. Lol.
  24. OK, I have discovered that I can't build anymore. No, I haven't been disabled, lost my building supplies or work space, in fact I've got it pretty good thanks to hard work and patience. My dilemma stems from my creativity. I can't leave well enough alone! I am afraid to start another build because I can't seem to finish anything. If I open a kit for an oob build, inevitably it ends up getting details and corrections that are all consuming! It just isn't as fun as it once was. Do any of you have this issue and if so, how do you get out of it. I REALLY want to build with the care free joy I did way back when I was a young teen.
  25. Very cool, man! I've never been a huge fan of the rear end of the Cobra Daytonas, but yours looks pretty good. I've had kind of an idea in mind for a LONG time, and that's to kit bash a Cobra and a Datsun/Nissan 240Z and your build kind of gives me some ideas.
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