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George lost some of my parts I sent him also. An original beehive oil filter and original bumpers for the old Model A pickup. After calls and e-mails he said the plater apparently lost them. Basically said tough poo to me. Lost and weren't found so I'm out of luck. Also the plating had to be redone on some parts. Needless to say I will not use him again unless that's the only option. I'll use Kustom Kar.

I use a homemade repurposed cabinet with a light bulb socket installed in the top of it. A piece of glass under the bulb inside the cabinet and then lined with reflective insulation. I have used weatherstrip to seal the plexiglass door and a latch to keep closed. I use a 95 watt bulb and turn it on a couple hours before I need it. I also have a thermometer inside so I can monitor the temps. It gets to about 105 F. inside. Paint dries and flows way better then without the baking cabinet. I got the idea from I think it was called Dr. Cadillac drying booth or something like that. I don't have a picture at work but will try to post one up later so you can see what I use. I like it this way because I have no fan running to mix up dust and introduce it into my paint jobs.

Ok, not to take over the post, But, What do we use to strip old white paint off of tires? Does the Super Clean hurt tires? I don't want to come back to 2 black lumps in the bottom of my pond. Anyone have experience stripping paint from tires?

Ok I have searched but don't seem to come up with anything. But what would I use to try to get the white paint off of old tires? Does the Super clean hurt tires or does the purple power? What does everyone use to get paint off tires?

Believe it or not nothing. They track pretty straight down the track. But also the "guide" track that runs under the center of the car keeps it from turning. And is pretty close to the inside edge of the tire. My old car has pretty loose steering and it still tracks straight.

Actually we have a bunch of these. My parents are proud owners of 3 1929 model A fords. Been around them all my life, that's how I know vacations as a kid. took them all over the country. Anyhow I built a Hubley in 8th grade for a race at a national model A convention. It was ran on a track like a pinewood derby track. It was a sedan car and it ran good. So move on a few years and now my mom races it at all the model A conventions they go to. She has won a bunch of races with the same car I built in 8th grade. Haha. She loves it, carries it in a Longenberger basket when she travels with it. LOL. Was just in Nevada for a convention, but didn't seem to do as good as usual. But my dad must 6-10 hubleys in various stages of completeness.

Well that sucks to hear of his passing. I haven't seen him around the Colorado scene for awhile now, wondered what happened to him. I remember the first time I saw his builds at the first GSL I went to. The detail was amazing and the engines he showed were beyond amazing. And the boat he displayed was intense. He will be missed!

Jimmy Flintstone use to make a kit of this couch. I have one built in my display that I painted red with all bumper and taillight pieces being white metal that I polished. Used bmf for the chrome. Came out great and I love it in my display. I call it the chillin caddy couch.

If you can make it over near Boulder, there is the Shelby America museum in Gunbarrel. It's between Longmont and Boulder off of Hwy 119 on your way from Longmont to Boulder. I think they are only open on weekends so you will want to check out there hours. Colpar hobbies on Havana is the model place to go to. When you go there be sure to stop at Rusty Tacos, the best street tacos ever.

My better half got me 2 of the new 29 roadster kits, 3 new drill bit sets and a new Grex airbrush. She won't see me for awhile, I'll be in the workshop!! Merry Christmas!!

I've been looking for a set of the rmcm kelsey hayes wire wheels but rmcm doesn't supply them anymore unfortunately. I want a set real bad for a sedan project I want to do. I have all the kits that come with wires and none are real good, spokes too big and out of proportion. Having a hard time coming up with something other then rewiring the wheels. I do have a couple sets of Detail Master wire wheels but they are more of a bonnelli?? style i think. Let us know what you find. AFX is that your set? Want to trade or sell? PM me.

Want to thank Kris for putting this on again this year! Good turnout of models and variety of subjects. Had a whole fleet of semi trucks which was cool. Alot of drag cars and alot of primer princesses. Surprised to not see alot of hot rods. Good turnout for having an IPMS show the same weekend. I liked that it was at the Hobbytown so you could look around at all their stuff, BUT I did like last year that it was at a spot that the cruise cars were coming by. The Havana cruise cars didn't make it by the store so you didn't get to see any of the cruise cars. That or make it a stop for the poker run so we could get more traffic through the store and the model display. But besides that it was a good show, got bigger then last year and got one of the coolest trophies ever. Thanks again for putting this on for us. See you next year with 2 winners circle cars.

I found a way back in the 90's that i like to use. I took a bankers box or document box that has a seperate box that slides in and out of the outer box, and bought 4 inch foam from a fabric store and fit it to the inner box. I cut "squares" for the cars by putting them where I thought they would set the best and drew a box around them with a sharpie so the car would be able to set down inside the box. I then cut the boxes out with an electric knife so that the car will sit down in the "box" i cut the cut out piece in half or a correct thickness so that I have a piece of foam at the bottom of each "box"and a thickness of foam for the top. So car goes in "box" , foam top goes on. Car protected. I have room for 3 cars on one end facing the center of the box and 3 more on the other end and 1 1/20 indy car in the middle 90 degrees to the cars on each end. I took it in the car from Colorado to the GSL in 97 with zero damage and no slow driving. LOL. I have since built another one for the cars I've built since then. I also stored all my models in their spots for more then 15 years and had no damage what so ever. Sorry so long winded without a picture I thought I needed to explain so everyone would understand. thanks.

That's a cool article. Just as a note I live in Longmont not to far from Gunbarrel or Boulder where the Shelby museum is, and I also work for the Ford dealership down the street from the 2 brothers shop that does all the fixing, maintaining of all the Shelby's at the museum. They will come down to see if NOS parts are still available and sometimes will bring a car with them. Got a ride in an original cobra and they told me it could go from 0 to 60 and back to 0 in like 4 seconds or something crazy like that. I'll see the shelby trailer probably once a week at their shop. So reading that story and getting to see it in the museum is pretty cool!!

Cool, back in the day I had 4 or 5 peach crates full of vinyl, all "metal". But somewhere after college and moving back home all I got back home was about 40 or so. Sucks. I'd love to have all those back. I bet that search is a long and hard one. Money might be an obstacle also. I bet some draw a pretty penny. Good luck with your searching.

Could you not find the rc line color or is it not the same as I thought? Hey looks like your a man after my own heart, love all the old metal cassettes. You don't see too many people with some Manowar or Kix. I have about 100 or more of those old metal tapes. Trying to find all of them on cd, that's been fun. I also have a mustang 2 thats painted in the blue pearl, it's close but not perfect. good luck hope it works out ok.

Testors makes that color in their rc paint line. Not sure if that helps. Also check ebay for a guy selling a lot of boyds colors. They are all spray cans, you'll have to contact him though because he's trying to sell as a "lot" amount. But maybe he would split with a can of true blue. Check it out.

Hmmm. Sounds good. I also noticed that the one with the 250 on it has an ad for a contest on the bottom of the box. and the one without it does not have the ad on the bottom.

Hello I hope some of the historians can help me out. I have an AMT A129 model a roadster from the street rod series. I also have an AMT A129-250, model a roadster from the street rod series. The boxes are identical except for where the part number is and one has A129 and a blank space and the other has A129-250 in the same place on the box. My question is which one was first? Is there a difference? Why the two numbers as from I can tell it was never reissued in that form, but AMT T254 the mod rod is basically the same kit? Can someone explain the difference and is there one that's more "collectable"? Any help?

I love my microlux flex shaft rotary tool I got from micro mark. Smaller to hold and variable speed with the foot switch, works great and it's flexable. Look into micro mark their tools are really good.

Is 2whl the "famous or infamous" bmx vet pro? If so are you still racing or if not sorry to assume.

Is there some unwritten rule that says all model shows must be on a Sunday? Why can't a show be on Saturday? I think registration until 11 is way more then a enough time for everyone to get there. if you can't make it, you can't make it. But to come on here and complain about show time and schedule for a first time show is kind of silly. If you want a show set to your schedule step up and plan away. Mr. Diaz did a great job for the first time and I think 90 cars was a killer amount of cars. Maybe next year some people in Colorado can help with the planning and maybe come up with some different hours or day or things to do during show hours. How about instead of criticizing negatively we just recommend or suggest to help. I for one had a great time and got to see some great 1:1 cars and some cool models that you don't get to see every day. Anyhow thanks for letting me rant. And thanks again for putting on the show, can't wait for next year!!

So Matt did you make it to Longmont? Whereabouts in Longtuckey do you live. I'm out at road 3.5 and 119, by the sandstone skatepark. I would love to get together with other car modelers. I went to one at Jefferson county fairgrounds the day after valentine's day. Only had maybe 20 cars total with the race cars. Anyhow there is a show, not a contest in Denver on april 13th I think. I'll look at the flier and let everyone know the whereabouts when I get home. I could probably accommodate 3 or 4 people in my new shop I built in my backyard, but its only 10 x 14. Could be done though. I was really into the hobby back in 97 or so and it was hoppin. But now I agree the car modelers are pretty light in the area.

Welcome to the forum. I'm also new to the forum, but not new to modeling. I used to be very serious about building models about 10 or 11 years ago. Then i took a break to race bikes and rc cars. Well I'm back to try my hand again. I'm currently working on finishing a 1961 Impala SS custom that I started and was close to finishing about 10 years ago. I'll post pics from home. Any how welcome. What part of Colorado? I'm in Longmont.