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The one problem with 1:1 paint mixing/creation of metalflake paint is the sheer size of the metal flakes on models. What I prefer for scale effect is airbrushing diluted pearl color nail polish. What would be handy is if some Movin' On fan can take a swatch of that proper green color and see if there are any really close pearl green nail polishes that come really close to that color.

If you're tossing that one out the window, I'll take it! =) As for my favorite, I'm split between the red & white '32 speedster and the black '51 Bel Air. Funny, you'd think in the future folks would have figured out miracle spray-on inhibitors to keep rust from running away on them .... either that, or they know to avoid mid '70s GM vehicles like the plague for hovercar conversions.

But you beat me on the search time by a long shot. Sometimes I'm more lucky on finding the right combo of words sooner.

Took me a lot longer, but I probably started out with the wrong set of search words. The trick to getting Google to spit out better than average results is to not be satisfied with superficial searches of items like 1988 Buick Regal promo, but to instead put specific sets or words into Google's search window that are within quotations marks. That forces Google to give you only results of those specific words, not overlaps of all the words. What finally worked for me was the string "1988 Buick Regal" "plastic" "promotional" "manufacturer", where the top result was Uptown Automotive Hobby Shop's Promo Perspective website page, which had a link within it taking readers down the page to the section telling the story of the never-named Product Dynamics Ltd company. Put that company name within quote marks in a Google search and one of the top results is a MapQuest page showing where it is located, along with a description of its portfolio of customers. Now, how each of those sources arrived at their claims remains to be seen. The task there is to take on the role of an investigator, and find out if there is more material out there to corroborate these claims. As near as I can tell, Product Dynamics Ltd doesn't have a current website (some other unrelated company seems to have it, I think). At a minimum, I found this Worthpoint page of an old eBay listing for an entire carton of 1988 Buick promos with the Product Dynamics Ltd label on it, but by this time, I'm running out of gas for further digging. But I hope all that helps on how to make the ol' Google system work for its living.

If God had meant for cars to fly, He would have given them wings. .............. oh, wait .......

I owned a '73 back in high school, and disliked the thin front bumper so much that I swapped it out for the much taller '77 bumper with the integral turnsignals in it. I should have stolen your accidental idea because it does actually work and makes the truck look a bit tougher.

I'm a little surprised that the decal company accepted a bitmap file in the first place. Trained graphic artist that I am, when I worked at a couple of different sign companies, I used to be an beast with the salesmen about being sure to either demand vector artwork from their customers or charge extra for the time I needed to scan the customer's bitmap files to use as templates to draw vector files, which then had super crisp and infinitely resizable shapes. That subsequently allowed the customers to have artwork which was usable for screenprinting, vinyl decal cutting, business card printing, photo etching (thin flat metal sheets or deep etch magnesium plates for sandcasting brass/bronze/aluminum plaques), etc. One of these days when I get out from underneath current obligations, I intend to have a retirement career of eclectic graphic arts where I can do vector art drawing of old or custom made decals, among other things. Alas, zero available time to do so right now.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1975-porsche-911-14/

Those of us who are stuck forever living in the 1980s can never forget the widebody creations of Willy Koenig.

Moon Mackser I never cared much for the basically uninteresting back end of the old Monogram Beer Hauler show rod kit / more recent RC Cola Wagon version, and I never cared much for the hokey front end of the Revell Moon Mixer. If I combined what I like in both, that would be the result below. However, although parts piles for the are Mack stakebed are found fairly cheap, after watching enough Moon Mixer eBay listings go into triple digits prices, I might as well just relegate this quick 'n dirty photo alteration I did several years back (never got around to making it all one color) into this thread of projects that I'll never be able to get into. Other versions of the Revell Corvair-powered show rod are cheaper, but they don't have the Moon Mixer's particular cab's distinctive textured glass details, which would be essential for pulling off this visual pun mashup.

What?! And spoil my appetite for all my other existing workses in progresses projects? Alas, hungry that I am for more, I'll let you eat this one up, since you are the one who's completed more entire projects than I've completed of unpainted subassemblies for just one of my projects.

That exact idea has been rattling around in my mind for a while, and the photo rendering Kurt really reinforces the basic Cobra resemblance on the front end.

Very true, seen it personally! I'm used to seeing birds no larger than pigeons all year long, but in one of my Colorado summer vacations, I was hiking up a narrow path in the woods and was startled to see a huge wild turkey on the path. I figured it would walk off into the bushes to get away from me, but instead it launched into the air and easily sailed down the hillside and out of the rather small clearing in the forest just as easily as any robin or bluejay would. First and only time so far that I've seen something that big take off.

Good info & links in this older thread, including Frontenac stuff: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/137781-educate-me-on-model-t-speed-equipment/

"........... as God as my witness ..... I thought turkeys could fly." ?

(breakfast of champions)

Oyster boat.

Cool, I learn something new every day!

Me, too. Didn't catch it at first, it's neither rhd or lhd.

Those were quite pricey on ebay, the other newer versions a little less so until the most recent reissue just came out. Some guys may have leftover unused stripe decal sheets if you need that exact color combo. They'd probably look good over white, or dark blue.

This black stepside?

At the grocery store before supper. Nice engine rumble as it rolled up. Appropriate store sign behind it.

Don't get me started. Poor as I am, I can't afford Tom's approval rate, but I could award him a bright blue star instead. I'm Sirius about that. =)

That's a really nice look.

Fabulous idea! I guess it's time to finally deal with the orphaned wheelcover missing its big logo cap that's just been leaning uselessly against the garage wall, but I'll have to find the time to round up a clock to replace the cap.