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we have a 3 bedroom house. One of the agreements when buying the house was I get one room and the garage, the wife can have the rest. The garage is now taken up with my business and my room was a guest room/office/hobby room. The office is the priority, so my hobby area is literally inside the closet, with the doors taken off, and a little desk for the spray booth. Anyway, I have been throwing hints out for a year that I want the full bed out of this room and into our son's room. He's just about 15 months now and a little young for the bed, but still. Last night she says okay, let's move the bed. He will still be in the crib for a bit, but the bed is in there and we can ease him into it. I had all my photo stuff setup in the garage, mainly for taking stock photos of products for my website, but now I can have it inside. I'm super excited. This is what I threw together last night, but I'll get it dialed in when I have time. That thing to the left is a massage chair I am "storing" for my parents There are 5 bulbs in each light, they call them soft boxes. I use it for creating pics for my website. I have two more lamps with massively bright, 300 watt daylight bulbs, but right now they are overkill.

I bought a new 1/48 Revell Airplane model from the hobby shop a couple years ago. Got home and opened it and there was a large cut across the entire wing assembly. Through the plastic bag and into the model parts, like someone sliced open a box with a box cutter and it went into the model. sent a picture to Revell and they sent a new set immediately.

That looks awesome

I managed to lose both coils from this kit somehow. I spun some styrene rod in a drill, then inserted a piece of wire for the contact point Then I used some scrap PE fret to make a bracket Here we are now. Normally I jump from build to build and can't stand stuff all over my bench, but I have been pretty content with this build, so this is where I am Can anyone recognize the show I'm watching in the last picture??

PE fan from set Still have to paint and bend to shape I had these laying around Figured they would make good connectors Removed some wir fro the insulation and slip these in Brass screws set into the starter and wire connectors attached with .5mm nuts Same with the Alternator Coming together. The toothpick was used as a dowel to line up the pulley. The PE fan doesn't have a pin

.5mm brass threaded nuts cut their own threads right on to this wire. The wire is very soft This is a pre-colored resin distributor from R&M of Maryland. I pinned it because I always break these off. Here is some of the fuel line complete in place. Next i made the T fitting from styrene rod, to route the fuel line to the filter I cut the fuel line where needed and test fit the T fitting Here are all the pieces trimmed and ready to install best closeup I could get

Next is the engine, my favorite part. I used Hemi Orange from Scale Finishes. The valve covers I did in gun metal instead of the usual black. I probably should have done black. I don't know if I like it, but I'm not changing it. I found this stuff called Blue Tack on Amazon. It's a life saver. It works as an infinitely positionable masking putty. I used to use tape her, this is so much easier. You can tuck it in to get a perfectly clean line The tranny is Alclad Dark Aluminum right over the orange. Here is the beginning of the rabbit hole. .5mm bolt head, MCG carb linkage and some steel tube. It goes here in the middle Here is the center link installed with the bolt through the link and into the tube Next is fitting the fuel line I got it all finished up and realized it was wrong, so here is the start of the new shape

alright, not a ton of work done, but satisfying progress. I did everything 2-3 times. I can test fit parts like a champ, but when it comes to final assembly it's like I have ten thumbs. I wasn't planning on doing all this, but I did one thing and it just kind of snowballed. I originally planned to use the slicks, but then I realized they wouldn't fit without trimming away the rear openings, which I didn't want to do. So I went with the stock tires. Then I kept thinking about it and really wanted slicks, so I said screw it and modified the rear end to tuck the slicks. Beginning of slicks mockup I will use these I ground these down to a nub and also removed a lot of material to narrow the overall width This is not the final stance, but with the rear end glued together with CA, you can see how they tuck. The final stance will be fairly level Here are some of the stuff I will be using. Model Car Garage carb linkage, hood pins, battery fittings, seatbelt fittings, pug wire, wiring looms and Hobby Design wipers Chassis painted but not weathered. I also have the MCG detail set for this. The grill is tricky. I scraped off the grill detail and bent the PE pieces to fit. I'm not sure that it will be worth it, this grill is pretty risp to begin with.

Off topic, but we use super glue to fill chips in granite. Some accelerators react with the minerals in certain stones and several days after you will see a green or aqua colored bloom. We call it green bloom. If the chip is very tiny, you could see bloom the size of a dinner plate. When it first started happening, people were freaking out. It looks like copper oxidation. To this day, there have been many theories, but no definitive answer. We mix Comet with Bleach and let it sit overnight and it gets rid of it. Or, if the customer isn't watching, we use a torch and it comes out sometimes like that.

Alclad is a lacquer. General rule of thumb is no lacquer over enamel, although it's not always disastrous. I would be careful. I think with how thin Alclad goes down and how fast it dries, it probably wouldn't cause any harm. My next Alclad session will be over Scale Finishes Gloss Black. I have been using Alclad Gloss Black Base, but I messed around with some Scale Finishes today and it laid down MUCH smoother for me without any effort. It stays on the part better too. The Alclad is so thin it takes quite a bit to build up a good base. Both are lacquers and dry very quickly, I'd recommend trying one of them out.

This is funny. I JUST bought the Ford Teal Metallic from Scale Finishes last week specifically for my 93 Cobra. I'm happy to see that it looks exactly like I hoped it would. Excellent job.

Nicely done, looks awesome.

Thank you guys. The color turned out a little darker than I wanted, but still looks nice. My next Ferrari will be another Ferrari color, but not red. I have a few from Scale Finishes I am looking forward to using. I have 5 Ferraris left and I think only two will have to be red, the 250 TR and the 288 GTO.

I think it's great for what Harry said. next to the jukebox or pool table, or as a cheap display somewhere.

It was descriptive enough to get you in, apparently. You wasted your own time with this rude comment. You're on the internet, I hardly doubt you're not already wasting time.

I bought Fujimi's Delux kit, with the white metal parts. even some of those aren't very good. This is the same conclusion I came to. The Fujimi tires are excellent, the whee;s are good, but Revell's are pretty much the same. Fujimi's windshield frame and a few other pieces aren't bad, but the Revell body trumps Fujimi, as well as the engine. the engine is bigger physically and much more detailed. I am going to do a 427 with Webers. I have to scratchbuild an FE manifold, other than that, I have everything I need. I have both kits, white metal parts, plus the Hobby design PE set, which also has turned parts for the radiator fittings. It iwll be nice when I get around to it.

Nice!

that turned out killer, nice job

I'm not too much into lowriders but this is very well done. Nice and clean, nice job.

they are terrible. engine detail is pathetic and the body is very wrong. From the side view, the front fenders sit higher than the doors, it's very ballon-y

I'm trying new techniques and learning as well. I wouldn't be doing this without the help I've received on the various forums. I will have some nice updates soon.

No, if you clear it, it loses it's effect. Also, if you handle it with bare hands, it's likely to dull or even turn black at some point. I always use latex gloves to handle it. Many parts I have handled with bare hands have turned black somewhere down the road. I think it's the oils in your skin. You're exactly right. I'm in a unique climate and almost everyone's painting advice has not worked for me over the years. I've had to kind of find my own way,

the first two aren't entirely true. You can spray over any color, with or without clear. It's the smoothness that is the most critical. I also spray at a higher psi, like 25is.The more sever of an angle, the better shine you will get. I actually try and spray across the surface as much as possible. Here is my WIP showing some results http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=99418&hl=

Sorry I wasnt trying to be a buzzkill . It would be awesome if it was real

That looks great. I really want one of these kits. I have a juicy big block waiting for it.