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Good looking teardrop!I love the bagged stance too.Thanks for sharing.

Very cool my friend!I was beginning to thinking I was the only one building anything steam punkish.Keep doing what you're doing.Thanks for sharing.

I personally have always loved all things in miniature.Being born during World War two there were no model car kits that I get saw anywhere that I haunted like dime stores but there were older kids in my neighborhood the built rubber band powered propeller driven balsa wood airplanes like Piper Cubs.At about 50 cents each they were double my weekly allowance but I enjoyed watching them build them.To my horror they spent all time and money buying and building them and then would wind them up,attach a litl fire cracker to them and launch them to seemingly enjoy the obvious explosive result.I found one of those old balsa wood kits last year at a garage sale and added it to my stash of unbuilt kits just for the nostalgia of it. My first model car kit was a Lindbergh kit # 609:29 1/32 scale Jaguar 120 roadster that my mom bought for me.I remember promptly customizing it by adding dual front fender mounted spare tires,brush painting it yellow with red flames.How do remember the exact kit you may be asking yourself?(probably not),I found an inbuilt kit a long time ago and picked it up my stash.No it was no longer 29 cents. My first 1/25 scale model was the multipiece Revell '57 Cadillac coupe.I really thought I was pulling out all the stops when I customized this one.I somehow forced the upper body panels down over the lower ones(notice I didn't say it looked nice)to make it look sectioned.Next came vertical grille bars from an old pocket comb, and lakes pipes made fro drinking straws.Man I just knew I was stylin with this custom Caddy. The rest as we say is history.

Great work in any scale!Have you considered posting the suggestions you have recieved on this site and having the readers vote for their favorite?I would simply add a street sign on the corner that would place this scene at the corner of Cool St.and Awsome Ave.

I promise to on my "A" game tomorrow.I might even write this down on and have my staff(read that as wife) double check it for me.Or maybe it's time quit embarrassing my self and move along to something else that requires less of an attention span.

Two major scores IMHO today.First I was able to buy a big box of vintage license plates from here in my home town.They go back several decades,all belonged to the same person and best of all they all have the same number and are in their original wrappers.These are going to look great on my garage wall. My second score was a lifetime subscription to Rodders Journal Magazine today.I have been in a regular subscriber for several years already but this was a very limited time offer I received by email yesterday. Yeah I am am a happy camper at this moment!

Our maybe one of us is watching to see who's watching who(or which of us has ADD) You're safe Harry(that would be me).

What he said!

Today is Wednesday,9/39/15.Today's average "birthday boy"age is 50.Harry,again I excluded those too shy to post their age in their profiles. Youngest listed is 26,oldest is 77.Ain't this fun!!

I bit the bullet and bought 2 lengths of the fussee chain and it's awsome stuff !

Harry I did not include the one person that did not include his age in his profile as part of the average.Plus I really stink at math in general!

I will be 73 next month.Another answer I heard was"today I am both as old as I have ever been and as young as I will ever be"

I had a random thought just now....what is the average age of the members listed today(at least those not too shy to list it) Today that age is 39.6 years.Or average year of birth is 1957. Don't you just feel better knowing that !?

Very crisp and clean details.The washes really make the details pop.I personlly put my vote in for a bare metal body!Look forward to seeing this in Toledo.

I used 1,300 of the Grandt Line Styrene rivets in a gas station model I'm building.I predrilled the holes with my Dremel Stylus and wet the end a wooden tooth pick to pick them up and insert them where needed. I also added 650 of those same rivets to the exterior of a steam punk hot rod I built 2 years ago.I cut the stems off of those,put down a micro dot of CA and again picked each one up and applied them individually with the moistened end of a tooth pick. I will admit to using an Ott Light magnifier for the hot rod body rivets but not on the station.Those went pretty smoothly for hand application.

What better way to escape the stress of being a conflict zone than model building!I hope other modelers will read this and be inspired to keep building or get back into it if they've stepped away from it for a while.Thanks for sharing.

I personally liked the version with the green tones the best.Lookin good!

Thanks Lee.And more importantly THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.I never thought about a tackle box but it makes complete sense.I do a lot of scratch building so I'll need space for some sheet and shape styrene along tools and CA adhesive.

I own a real '48 Chevy so naturally I'm looking to adding a few of these to my stash for future use.

That should work perfectly.I have used clear to install window glass on some of my scratch built model projects.

I look them right in the eye without flinching and tell them"You can't afford me".

I use whatever brush that I have that does the job that needs done regardless of what the bristles are made from.For cleaning out dried enamel paint including the excess that builds up inside the threads of the lid,I use Testor's# 1156 enamel thinner and brush cleaner.It's available at any Hobby Lobby and it works very well.

Killer effect!Thanks for sharing.

Looking great!

What model building supplies and tools do you take along for "on the road"model building?Do you have a traveling tool kit with stuff all neatly secured in a wooden case? Or hands fulll of stuff thrown into an old cigar box held closed with a rubber band?Show us what you grab on your way out the door to keep your projects moving along when you're away from your away from your main workbench.