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JTalmage

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  1. Absolutely beautiful. Color choice makes this car too. Well done.
  2. Another project finished. 2 in 1 day! I forced myself thru this one and it shows. This is part 2 of my Little T backdating project. Lot's of mistakes/sloppiness. I just wanted it to be done. I hated this Tamiya Camel Yellow, the stuff is soo thin that almost every part on this thing is a different shade, no matter how many coats I put on.... whatever, sent it. I repainted almost every single piece of chrome that was from the original Little T parts cars on this thing with molotow and a paintbrush. I now have a Little T built in all 3 ways!
  3. Finished another one this afternoon. A curbside build of a 2001 Expedition Lightning. I 3d printed the wheels and brakes, used the Lightning chassis and severely (and ugly) lowered it, had to move the rear axle back. Although I think it went too far back, but, meh. Used the Lightning kit tires over the 3d printed later Lightning wheels. Glued the side skirts from the Lightning onto the Expedition and puttied them together. Had STS decals make me the necessary decals to get the job done. Painted with Testors Revving Red and covered in their clear. It's a bit sloppy and not as cleanly done as I'd like but overall I'm happy with it. Enjoy
  4. Order it online. That's what I did. Got it shipped to the US.
  5. Yes. Everything but the two decals I mentioned come with the kit.
  6. Finished this one up yesterday. Super happy with the outcome. Yes it's a car based on their die-cast line.... but, technically it's a screwbottom hahaha. Anyway it goes together really well. I had almost no issues with it at all. Paint is Tamiya Candy Lime Green. Interior is Tamiya Light Sand. Bumpers/wheels/blower/grille/headlight buckets, door mirrors and handles, were all brush painted with Molotow and clearcoated with a waterborne clear which helped retain its shine a bit. I had STS decals design the license plates for it, because that green reminded me of the bright green stereotypical cartoon toxic waste. The rubber on the lower quarter panels came from the 90 Mustang kit. Everything else is built as it was from the box!
  7. Got my custom license plates today for it. Had to have plates from it's native homeland on it of course.
  8. I thought I posted this, but apparently I have not. Built it in like late March or early April. 79 Mustang pace car kit built as a turbo 4cyl t-top non pace car edition. Unfortunately MPC changed the grille from the original issue of the Cobra to the Pace car edition, so the horizontal slat grille is not correct for a base model. But it is what it is. Used Tamiya yellow for the paint. Someone sent me some houndstooth decals some time ago, that I've used for the seats. Probably not correct for a foxbody, maybe more for a Mustang II. No plug wires or anything like that. Just wanted a quick build.
  9. Finished this today. The MPC 1/24 scale Amphicat. This is the recent release of the Space 1999 moonbuggy. Discovered that if you want to be able to disassemble the Amphicat for display, the area where the control sticks go thru needs to be opened up *significantly* I had this pretty much finished a couple weeks ago but lost the fuel cap. I bought a 2nd kit (I wanted one anyway) and cloned the fuel cap with Bondic.
  10. I have plans to backdate a couple Boomer Bucket kits to Little T's in different variations based on original box art photos. Here's project number 1 completed. A lot of folks in the Scale Survivors group on Facebook helped out with acquiring the specific parts. This one is painted Tamiya French Blue which looks nearly identical to old Monogram blue plastic of the Big Drag. I left the phone and mufflers off of this one, as a drag car wouldn't have those. But I left the header caps on, because I didn't want to damage the original headers. Enjoy. Edit: I brush painted almost every original Little T donor part with molotow. And look how you can see my reflection of holding my cell phone to take pics in the last photo!
  11. I bought this unbuilt for 5 bucks. It was a Young Builders Club kit. I wanted to build it like it was a surviving driver you'd see on the road a decade or so after it was built. I stripped the chrome off the grille, then coated all body parts in Future. After that I rubbed everything down with tamiya weathering powders and some vallejo washes. Just a light weathering for a quick build.
  12. Just finished this... except for license plates. It's a reasonable facsimile of an Australian 1982 Ford Falcon XE with the ESP package. I consider it a bit of a street machine, as I printed deep wheels for the back, has dual exhaust and custom interior. Everything but the windows, tires, brass axles, exhaust tips, and the side trim is 3d printed. These cars were the last Falcons in Australia to get a V8 until the 90s if I recall correctly.... and they had 351 Clevelands in them! Colors are Tamiya Bright Red over Tamiya Light Gunmetal, with 2 heavy coats of Testors Wet Look/Extreme Lacquer clear. Tamiya lacquer bottle orange for side stripe. Tamiya acrylic for interior colors and for the headlights and taillights. Headlights and taillights are covered with bondic. Wheels are colored with Molotow for the rims, and testors gold for the centers.
  13. Bump! Don't forget we had to change venues unfortunately! New address is 10995 Oakridge Drive, Harrison, OH
  14. ****VENUE CHANGE!!**** Cincinnati Challenge 2023 Due to reasons beyond our control, we have had to move to a new, new venue! Thankfully it's only just a few short minutes from our old, new venue. The lighting is way better here too. New location is: 10995 Oakridge Dr Harrison, OH 45030 Just off Ohio 128 (Hamilton-Cleves rd) We'll be in the far end/back half of the "Delta" building. Please share with your friends! Apologies for the change! There was nothing we could do!
  15. Got any glass and headlight lenses? I want to build a "Little Drag".
  16. I considered it. I really did. But, I like the charm this one has. I need a turtle deck and a windshield and I can build the blue "Drag" version. Which will be nicer than this one.
  17. Hey all. Last year I was digging thru a parts box at a friends house and came across 98% of a Monogram Little T original issue. Unfortunately it was all in parts as it has fallen completely apart. I thought it'd be pretty neat to reassemble it as it was before it was banished to the parts box to fall completely apart. The only liberty I took was painting the radiator and hoses because I didn't like the look of red thru the radiator shell. Thanks to some help from some people on the Scale Survivors Facebook group I was able to locate the remaining parts I needed, along with a box and instructions. All of the glue had decomposed and even parts that were still together had to be taken apart and reglued. It's absolutely not a show winner, but I didn't want it to be. Hope ya enjoy it
  18. Cincinnati Challenge 2023!
  19. Whoa. I forgot about this one. I do need to find it. It's buried from when I had to temporarily get out of building a couple few years ago.
  20. Here it is! All done. Some fitment issues that cause some warping in certain areas of the body, since the body was soo fragile I couldn't get it perfect. The body broke on me at least 10 times during the construction! Finished in Testors Tropical Turquoise and Tamiya Light Gunmetal for the roof. Cheapo spray cans for interior/roll cage/chassis. The chassis and drivetrain is an AMT 90's Pontiac Nascar. Hindsight I wish I had opened the front wheel wells up more front to rear to create the illusion that it's steerable. Used pop cans for the tin work under the hood and in the trunk to make it look more "finished". Enjoy.
  21. Mishap after mishap with the paint caused me to strip it and start over. So, heres the new colors. Almost there...
  22. Way cool. I have one I believe that is also molded in red flake.
  23. The body will sit a little lower once fully secured.
  24. Wow they could almost be twins!
  25. I kept suffering paint issue after paint issue with my old can of Testors one coat purplicious. So I had to strip the car. Back to the drawing board, and so much for finishing it by Friday.
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