jbwelda

was MM clear ever enamel? i know the rest of the line is, but their wet look clear, their normal clear and their dullcoat all smell like laquer to me and dry like it too. i was always kind of puzzled by that

you might try buffing them out with some novus plastic polish and then apply your clear. then if it still needs touch up, if you have a pilot or sharpie in the same color you can do some fine touch up and you will never notice it (some restrictions apply, see fine print, always wear a safety mask and goggles and give mom a kiss before leaving home.)

i typically clear with tamiya first, but for the deep wet look i then overcoat with testors wet look clear. i also like their other clear but it seems to have been disappearing from the shelves probably to be replaced by this wet look lacquer. in cases like this i assume its the old product with a new label but not sure about that in this case.

a Nikon Coolpix of anything approaching recent vintage is an awesome camera if you know how to use it. there are a zillion settings and if you know how they work, the color problem goes away. but then as someone said you are left with a) lighting color casts and the fact your monitor can really skew the color balance as well. contrary to what most printed sources seem to say, i pretty much always use macro mode for models...for anything closer than a few feet actually. the perspective "problem" goes away once you figure out how to make it go away via camera placement, or you use it to good effect in the photo. and the color balance seems to be pretty nice right out of the box too. red? tamiya mica red w/ red clear overcoat: pretty much looks like the real thing to me...

that looks sweet and right up the avenue i wanted to go one of these days. i saw a really kool falcon 2 door at NNL West this year, and it really struck me. some of that came from a real nice subtle fog job but also the lake pipes, bullet taillights, i think it was probably shaved and handles removed, and it just sat really nice. yours should be approaching that as it moves along, you got a great start on it. i dont think i would glue the hood shut; if you dont like the mo try another one. personally i would lean toward a ford 6 of the era and maybe put some kinda cheap looking "speed" equipment on it...and then an open header to give it the "right sound"! i really want to build a falcon delivery van though...might have to go hunting for a resin body. kool kar, keep it up!

yet another edit: its strange this photo above is not showing up...it is pointed correctly near as i can tell. getting closer! edit: ps: just looked at that tank side and the messy black for the knee pad...cleaned it up considerably!

model cars...thats the topic here. i think i will start posting about petroglyphs because, well, they interest ME. if you see my point.

well have been distracted by other life events but still have managed to slowly get close to completion. this thing is very fragile and fiddly if you cant tell from the photos. pretty much done with the bike itself, just need to hook up front brake cable, let the side covers dry in place and slip on the seat and tank which fit right on (famous last words). i had to redo some things about the fairing, including moving one magnet set to allow the headlamp (left off in the race version in the instrux) to be on with the fairing in place so that remains undone. heres some pics...coming along pretty nicely... dunstall mufflers are looking much better than i could have imagined: looks like a norton roadster i used to have: one last detail shot:

do a search of completed auctions on ebay for something like "shelby gt500kr" and see what they are selling for. you will either have a valuable collectable or a common piece of trash. hope for the latter and part it out!

and dont forget that clear will often yellow a white it is put on top of. like christian said, white is one of the hardest colors to match. but that shouldnt necessarily be a huge problem in this case because where the problem really comes in is in spotting or panel painting an existing 1:1 white paint job. here you just want to get closer to a color sample or something detached from the car itself. still...yellowing kills ya with white paint if youre not careful. like these other guys said, dont cheap out or you will regret it...and even if you dont cheap out, some whites are better than others. i personally would try to find a tamiya white that you needed or decant whatever you decide on and airbrush it.

so whats the deal with that GNX? is it a one-way build or are there parts for other versions? extra parts thrown in? i am assuming it has engine detail? if so what motor is in there? it looks like something i would like to get especially if it has a few race parts in it...

i have only built the 356 and even then just the motor and trans and etc mechanicals...let me tell you, it take some fiddling and test fitting and last minute re-fitting to get it to look great. looking "good" is possible right out of the box but there are fit issues lurking around every corner. dont know about the other kits though i have a few in the stash.

>Mine is very simple as I've never been on Evil-bay oh i totally love it. never been there but its "evil". nice logic. i laugh out loud when i hear this sort of reasoning. this latest scam though of ebay charging a cut out of shipping is for the birds. that means you have to charge more for shipping to get back the fee ebay is taking out if you want to cover your actual shipping cost. between this jive and all the push to make it more or less a retail outlet (buy it now) is just going to eventually eliminate ebay as a viable marketplace. or at least make it a whole lot less attractive to me anyway. why is it someone starts making money and they just want to make more money instead of sticking with what attracted people in the first place? silly question: greed is the answer. and as Ms Whitman showed in california recently, money dont buy everything.

like i pointed out in a PM (that you made so i couldnt reply back to...whats up with that?) you misspelled Lauderdale on the side...but since as you say the real truck has it misspelled too, then its not misspelled at all but true to reality on your truck. just wanted to follow up on our PMs

no way those are in the blueprinter issue of the sunbeam tiger? ive got one on the shelf but i am basically too lazy to check it. i assume that kit did not have those parts though or someone would have pointed it out already... edit: oh and i just realized that phone is a pay phone laying on its back as a console. that show was a crackup and the best parts were the cheesy spy gear!

those are some great rancheros there and i think the gasser theme is totally appropriate.

i usually charge canadians the same as the usa rate...and in fact strange as it seems it is sometimes cheaper to canada than to USA destinations from california! i detest that making a profit from shipping business. i wont deal with people who want 2X true cost for shipping. no way. the "handling" is part of the deal...

ya know art, when something you hate enables you to get fifteen hundred for something you figured would bring 4 hundred and you bought for twenty nine...well, i think you ought to start loving what you hate! but i know what you mean sometimes, ebay is kinda infuriating from time to time.

i am not sure what kind of machine guy you are talking about but i faintly remember some resin outfit, reps and mins of maryland maybe, repoping those tommy guns and stuff from the gangbusters series of cars. and i would think if you did some searches for military or even doll house stuff you might come up with a shoe. but christian is right and actually its pretty fun to try scratching something like that, and i often have surprising results myself when just goofing around trying to build something.

i absolutely hate this trend to "buy it now", right takes the fun out of the whole thing. and usually those BIN people are on fishing expeditions i am not along with. besides, if i told you my strategy i would have to kill you. but in general: if you want it, bid a million dollars. you wont end up paying anywhere near that and you WILL win it. (at least in the scale we are talking about).

got my copy today: at least the cover is still attached...but i doubt they sell many like this at barnes & noble. now i am going out for a drive in my "Ferarri", twice around the block would be appropriate i think.

i always thought that clear hood was too kool. beautiful build!

and 6 years later its still lookin great!