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Gotta love el caminos!!! Great looking color and sweet motor!! I wish my 1:1 71 el camino looked this good.

Great looking Camaro, the paint job looks terrific!! Silver isn't always very easy to get smooth and even looking (at least for me).

Nice looking Bug!! Love the Tamiya Beetles, they go together like a dream and you did a great looking job on yours.

Had the Route 66 Fun Run car show yesterday here in Kingman, AZ and it was sunny and 85 degrees, cold front moved in so today was only 75 degrees.

Chris this is an amazing build!!! Your talent is off the charts. Thank you for sharing your progress as you go, it is a great tutorial for the rest of us.

That short wheelbase and huge engine would make that one scary ride!!! Very cool model though!

Okay the pictures didn't come through so I'm going to try this again....

Here's one I finished about a month ago. It's a Nova bracket racer built to run in the 10.50 second class. It's something you would see in a run what you brung or a sportsman class. The model was built pretty much box stock, with the modifications being detail master wiring and oil and radiator caps, and a scratchbuilt roll cage. I dry brushed some flat black on the body and under carriage behind the rear wheels to indicate the rubber that is built up after burnouts. The decals came from a Slixx drag racing contingency sheet.

My other hobbies include my 71el camino which I'm trying to get back on the road, reading (Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and World War 2), Arizona Diamondbacks, NASCAR, and NHRA. But my favorite hobby is my three year old granddaughter!!

John: These are both incredible models, your work is truly amazing. It was great to follow both builds on the forum, it's just amazing how quickly you built them. Hopefully I Will see them next year at the DSC.

Raoul and Jonathan: thanks for the great pictures, and to every one involved in putting the contest together thanks for the good time. As always it was a quality show with great models!

Just finished this Ford Bigfoot model. It was built box stock and put on a base made of plywood, celluclay, railroad ballast, Arizona dirt, and coffee grounds. The two cars it is crushing are a 57 or 58 Ford (I really don't remember), and a Pontiac GTO Judge (never did like that model). The base and the two crushed cars were done about 5 years ago and had a different monster truck on them but I was never happy with the truck. Still not real pleased with the finished product of the truck, but as a whole I like the look of the whole model.

Just filled out my online registration for the Desert Scale Classic. Missed last year, but I will be there after the 200 mile drive. Just wish my 1:1 1970 el camino was up for the drive, but with no floorboards its a little to Flintstone for my taste!!!

This is going to be a very cool model. I remember going to Manzanita in the mid to late seventies to watch the super modifieds run, and remember watching Ron Shuman, he was a Manzanita staple.

Finally took the plunge and bought a decent airbrush! Don't know why I waited so long, I've owned cheap airbrushes before and always got cheap results. Gave up on most of them and went with spray can paint jobs, but got tired of that. I am extremely happy with the badger, it is very easy to use and clean up seems to be a no brainer. I am hoping to spray some alclad chrome next week on a monster truck I am finishing up, like the good airbrush I have never tried that before. Hopefully I will get good results. At 54 years old you can teach an old dog new tricks!!

Can tamiya acrylic gloss black be used as a base coat under alclad 2 chrome or does the base coat need to be an namel or lacquer?

That's a sharp looking build, very clean looking. Definitely makes for an interesting street legal truck.

You're a typical teacher Bill, always willing to purchase the items needed for your classroom. I left the profession after five years to start my own contracting business, but my wife has taught for thirty years and it always amazes me how much of her income goes back into the classroom. Once again thank you to you and all of the thousands of dedicated teachers.

Bill: it's great to see a teacher trying to get kids involved in our hobby. I did the same thing the one year I taught seventh grade, we did it as an exploratory class (basically an elective). The kids really liked it, we had a little show at the end of the class for the rest of the school to view their work. Unfortunately we didn't get kits donated, the school paid for all the kits, glue, and paint. I donated tools and paintbrushes from my stash and all twenty of us had a great time. I only taught the one year at the school and unfortunately the program left with me, probably because of the cost for the school. I applaud you for your patience and caring.

Great job on the el Camino, I agree the work on the dash is great!

Here is something I finally figured out this weekend after failed attempts at masking windshields on models that don't come with pre-cut masking film. I imagine others already do this, I'm just a little slow on the up-take!. I use tamiya masking tape to tape off the windshield which makes it difficult to see the "relief" area that is to be painted black. So I trace around the "relief" area with a mechanical pencil before covering the window with the masking tape. the pencil mark is visible through the tape and gives me a good outline to cut the tape out. Simple to do, and like I said its probably been done millions of times but hopefully this helps someone else.

Is realistic racing colors tru-match paint still available, and if so does anyone know who sells their paint. I am looking for a can of #1013 day-glo red for a nascar project

Very clean looking build, great job. Where did you get the hood pins from?

Great looking build Bruce! Did you heat wrap the headers or did they come with that texture already on them? If you did wrap them what did you use? Once again great looking model of a classic NASCAR.

Very nice looking build!! I built this same model as a Christmas present for a sister-in-law in baby blue with a tan interior. Like you said it went together very well, one of my favorite builds. Unfortunately she is now an ex sister-in-law and I have never seen the model again!