Russell C

A search of RocketFin's resin finder page turns up a chopped Zephyr: http://www.rocketfin.com/resin_product.cfm?id=5275 by Boulevard Resins.

I use the latest version of Firefox on an iMac, no problems in getting secondary pages to open for me. Sorry for depriving MCM of a bit of ad revenue, but I have AdBlock which kills every single ad, and so I wonder if the efforts of ads loading for secondary pages might cause problems for some people. Before I had the AdBlock, I'd sometimes see black bars with spinning circles in them that looked like they were slowing down the page loading process ...

Imagine what the rest of the car (or racing forklift) looks like.

BMW 840/850 Coupé by Willy Koenig https://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/whats-deal-koenig-specials

Like the sign says .... "Passing Lane Slower Traffic Keep Right"

First, the late Bob Paeth (of AMT Models?) demonstrated this technique at one of the GSL contests. I make my own basically out of any paper that’s stiffer than just flimsy notebook paper. Fancy junkmail envelopes work just fine. I start by punching a hole in the paper about the same size as the screw for the bit or shank or whatever that’s called, then I cut the paper just roughly the size I want, mount it into the bit, turn on the motor tool and then press a pencil onto it to draw a near-perfect circle on the paper. Turn off the motor tool and then use a scissors to cut into a much better circle — doesn’t have to be perfect, though. If the paper gets too fuzzy after many sawing actions, just use the scissors to trim it back a little.

(like I need another work-in-process build, but they are just so tempting to start) Got an idea for a hot rod Lincoln, so I cut/ground the exhaust headers off an original issue Monogram '41 Lincoln Continental V12. Also a good excuse here to show that you can cut plastic with paper. I cut the back part of the molded-on starter with a regular saw, but used a circle of paper in my motor tool to cut the top and underside of it. Doing it this way allows you to cut at an angle that just wouldn't work with a regular saw blade. I actually cut it the opposite way with the motor tool aimed at the oil pan, so the photo is for illustration purposes. Yep, you can buy little steel circular saws for these motor tool bits, but I'm deathly afraid of those.

Me, too, but going further back to some publication (I think it was National Geographic's "Men, Ships, and the Sea" book) in the 1970s that had an artist rendition of what it looked like at an angle in the starlit sky. Then our local newspaper had excerpts of the "Raise the Titanic" book when that one came out, which added to the fascination for me about how Titanic could be seen again. Of course that idea went out the window when it was rediscovered. Been tempted to get one of the kits, but so far I've only gotten a lucky score off ebay for the 'cardboard kit' that's 6 or so feet tall and maybe 3 feet long.

FYI, the GSL Contest's category of "Box Plus" is described at length fight near the top of this page: http://www.gslchampionship.org/competition-principles/

Cheap purchase off ebay, very old but not at all rare simple 'futuristic' car with what looks like early '50s Cadillac taillight fins on the back. What I see in it, however, is a car headed in the other direction, as in custom slab sided / chopped & forward raked top late '30s Ford. I'll have to grind back decent sized chunks of those pointy pontoon fenders, mostly. It scales out to roughly the same size as those cartoonish M2 street machine diecasts, so that's where I can source its wheels and maybe one or two other bits. Should be a fun little project when I get to it.

On the way to the grocery store, I spotted this fire truck with very tired sun-baked paint, and over nearby was this Chev that somebody let the air out of so it could rest for the remainder of the day.

I'd gut the electrics and put in a gas V12, but then I'm 'old school' when it comes to the sound being part of the supercar experience.

I learn something new every day! Glad to accidentally save history.

Never gave much thought to the covers because I'm not a plane guy. No idea what that is.

Here's my whole 4-sheet collection. I hadn't thought to re-read the inside covers lately, they're all even older than I thought. I might have bought them all instead in the late '70s, probably from a hobby shop that had a big unsold pile of them, or maybe from Autoworld, which might have had a large older stockpile. The flames shapes in the 3rd sheet result from the paint masks I used for my Lambo Flambé. Never had much use for large areas, so I just avoided the wrinkled bits.

I've lived with the splotchy yellow tint on the junkyard replacement wheel I got for my daily driver for years. Didn't get better looking with age. Wasn't water soluble, didn't come off with Formula 409 cleanser, and really nasty paint solvents only seemed to smear whatever this was. This morning, I decided to use what many model builders use to remove various kinds of glue bomb paint, Purple Power. Don't know why I didn't think of that a year or three earlier. Whatever that stuff was on the wheel, a non-automotive grade clear coat, or cheap furniture polish, it dissolved right off, the wheel looks almost new again!

Not so for the 4 sheets I bought around 1980, where I'm only now starting to cut into the 4th sheet for larger bits. Adhesive is still good, I just avoid the wrinkles which can't be salvaged, and I can polish what I do use to a brilliant shine with Simichrome polish. (works great on any metal)

Only got a short stack of pure VWs, the GTI pickup is a shortened custom of the old Revell 32 scale kit I built in the early 1990s, while I explain in my Under Glass post how my directionally challenged Bug was actually aimed straight at the GSL 2019 Contest's Common Kit category. For Porsche, there's my avatar over there of my 911 Turbo woody wagon. Also built in the early '90s, Under Glass post here.

Just like a couple of others said, I went back and fixed the busted photo links for nearly all of my old threads. Took a while, though, but it would have taken way longer to replace the threads from scratch with new text if they had arbitrarily deleted.

For Macs, it's the command key (⌘) and either the + or - key to make the fonts bigger or smaller. Old age has me hitting the + key more often than not above whatever the page initially comes in as.

This Don Emmons:

Fabulous job! Very realistically cartoonish!