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Beautiful two tone paintjob and awesome mods!

Yes, that little piece of tire is cool, very clean and nice build!

Thank you very much for the kind words!

After I applied the black, I left the parts open I wanted to have in silver and covered the rest... After the silver, I applied a few coats of clear, then a little diluted version of matt black that comes between the ribs, and finally, the very strong dilute matte black for the rest... ... and I wash not... ... I'm typing with the brush tip into the respective groove, the rest makes the capillary action...

No cause, Mitch, you're welcome, I'm glad to help if I can... The body had some unevenness and multiple visible seams and requires the most work... ... the usual, filling, sanding, filling, sanding... in my opinion, is the preparation of the body, the most important thing about a paintjob... ... if everything here is correct, fine and clean, polished, washed and free of any grease, then it will be great... Something that is important: before priming, I carve all the lines again, with a scriber... Since my decals were not so great, I decided to paint the body first in White, Spray can, matte White / primer... ... then taping... ... because I was at it, taping bit more... ... then black, Tamiya, Spray can, TS 14 (synthetic -lacquer spray paints for plastic models) ... ... and when the paint was still wet, the taping comes back down... Then i taped the body for the silver parts on the front... Step after this, I apply a layer of clear coat, again Tamiya, Spray can, TS 13... Thereafter, the decals come on the body... Ending with a few layers of clear coat, again Tamiya, Spray can, TS 13... Depending on how it looks already, I apply some wax and polish a bit with a cotton pad (such that are used in the application and the removal of makeup)... That's all... PS: PREP THE CAN Put your paint can for 10 minutes in a bucket of hot water prior to painting, not in boiling but in hot water... ... and then shake, shake & shake some more. Shake your spray can at least a full minute before painting (longer if you havent used the can in a while) It's a real pain but there's nothign worse than your paint coming out chunky because it wasn't properly shaken...

I have this one also never built before, so... This is the box: The kit was sealed, so, first of all, a little control of the parts, and a first glimpse of what to expect ... On the whole, it's a great kit, many parts, some are very detailed. The body had some unevenness and multiple visible seams and requires the most work, finally the body is the first thing you see... ... the usual, filling, sanding, filling, sanding... Here is one more reason, why I use very rarely, these tires from the kits... First, because they are in two parts... ... and secondly because they often look like this: ... and requires a lot of unexpected work again... When applying the decals, I was about three times on the verge to throw it against the wall... Really, I rarely had so much trouble to solve these decals from the backing sheet and even attach it to the model in one piece... No idea what it is, bad glue, old Age... ... the flames, for example, broke into five pieces... ... they are just bad... ... and one more Thing... ... who in the world makes decals, with black lettering (Hooker), to install it on a black car? Only stupid...

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Cop Out Feast your eyes on the Cop Out...drag strip version of a far out police car! The body of this mean looking Plymouth Duster funny car tilts up to expose the detailed chassis, driver's compartment and big blown 426 Hemi mill. Giant M&H "wrinkled" slicks ride on deep chromed mags, topping it off, a lineup of the very latest emergency lights. Tom Daniel had developed a cutting edge "Funny Car" Chassis for the '57 Chevy kit "Outcast"... ... and the powers, that be at Monogram wanted to utilize that chassis under some other kind of car Body, so TD thought, that was a kind of a cop out; and he wasn't too thrilled about using the Plymouth Duster body, so "COP OUT" it became, complete with Cop car accouterments... We had a contest on the Coffin Corner 2 - board and my friend Chuck (Starry Eyes) challenged me, to build just for fun a boxstock kit during the contest... ... this was my choice... No idea when I built the last time a kit from start to finish, original, and only with the parts out of the box... Believe it or not, this was certainly a challenge for me! I caught myself several times, as I wanted to replace some parts by others and to improve it in some places... And somehow, did almost nothing be from this build, somehow, the building was difficult, and I had doubts whether I can complete it on time... But here it is done and except for a few color changes, Boxstock... Hope, you like it.

Thank you for the kind words! From my own production, Jim, thank you for your interest. Condition is a lathe and the necessary materials and tools, but if you have these, there are almost no limits. Well, only time, high costs and effort... These are "rubber springs". We need them as low-holder for punching: It gives different colors and many diameters and lengthen.The idea was good ;D, but the treatment exhibits problems. The color of this rubber spring shows optically their hardens. The black is the softest (approx. 70 shores). Thus one can turn it only in a device with very sharp tools, or work on it with rough sandpaper. I had to use both variants and after much work and sweat, look this now in such a way: These are aluminum tubes: At the back of the new aluminum rims I turned a larger recess, in order to press the rims in. I receive after polish a stepless transition in the rim wall. And a very deep rim! Here is an example of the parts: These are a few that I have produced:

T `rantula- Kitbash. First, i stuck the body parts together. Then I cut a piece from the middle of the back of the body out and added the two halves, in a different angle, together again. After I have cut off the front, I replaced it with the front of the Barris T `buggy. The whole thing was filled and sanded in the right form. Original T `rantula engine. The front wheel and some parts for the fork, stem from the Mailbox- Chopper. The holder of the fork, and the entire rear wheels are a own production. The seat was a little changed, and painted in semiglossblack. The exterior color is a metallic green of Tamiya with a few layers of clear varnish on it. Hope, you like it.

Thank you very much for the kind words! Condition is a lathe and the necessary materials and tools, but if you have these, there are almost no limits. Well, only time, high costs and effort... These are "rubber springs". We need them as low-holder for punching: It gives different colors and many diameters and lengthen.The idea was good ;D, but the treatment exhibits problems. The color of this rubber spring shows optically their hardens. The black is the softest (approx. 70 shores). Thus one can turn it only in a device with very sharp tools, or work on it with rough sandpaper. I had to use both variants and after much work and sweat, look this now in such a way: These are aluminum tubes: At the back of the new aluminum rims I turned a larger recess, in order to press the rims in. I receive after polish a stepless transition in the rim wall. And a very deep rim! Here is an example of the parts: These are a few that I have produced:

Bad Medicine- Kitbash. First, i stuck the body parts together. Then I cut a piece from the middle of the back of the body out and added the two halves, in a different angle, together again. After I have cut off the front, I added the grille from the Pie Wagon. Before, I reduced this grille in the amount, roughly by a half. The whole thing was filled and sanded in the right form. Original Bad Medicine engine. The front wheel, some parts for the fork and the fork holder stem from the Milk Trike- Chopper. The entire rear wheels and the handlebars are a own production. The new interior has been adapted from two plates (seat and back) and related with a red felt . The exterior color is a self mixture metallic dark blue for the under half of the body and the scoop. For the delivery- cab, i use a metallic red from Tamiya with a few layers of clear varnish on it. Then I painted a "wooden frame" around the delivery- cab. Hope, you like it.

Great build, nice kolor, i like it very much!

Thank you very much for the kind words! Here is the proud, young, project manager, with his first, partly self-made build.

Well, this is the result of a collaboration of my son Luka(6) and myself. He himself has chosen the components and determines how it all must look like (his idea of ​​a very funny car). He also helped me to build it and paint a few details. I wanted to hang even a big arm out of the driver's window, but somehow he thought, it was stupid... Here the pics, hope you like it.

Thank you very much for the kind words!

In the beginning, I wanted to build a Dog Catcher... http://www.showrods.com/large_image_pages/dogcatcher_large.html ... out of the Sand Shark kit... http://www.showrods.com/large_image_pages/sand_shark_large.html Not easy, but not impossible... The beginning of the reconstruction also looked very good and everything went well... Then I got slightly off the plan... This "go in a different direction than planned project", is finally finished, not everything in detail exactly as I wanted, but it's done. Hope, you like it.

Thank you very much! Oh, almost forgot, here with Mr. Bones...

Thank you very much for the kind words! A brake pedal? In the vastness of the prairie? A brake pedal? You brake, you lose...

Built on a Weekend? Wow, I see nothing serious, what would bother me, it looks great!

Very clean and well done, nice kolor!