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Needles and Pins from the group Smokie who were around back in the 70's and 80's http://youtu.be/SpZVVJEyB40 Finally figured out the video embed options.. lol

Sure wish I could have made it this year. The wife and I are planning to try and go next year though.

Nice Job on the detail work Joe. Looks like your headed to the finish line. Been kinda under the weather here for the past week so I haven't been on much. If I get to feeling better soon, I hope to get started on a nother project myself.

outstanding work Tim

I've been air brushing since about the time tamiya acrylic paints started showing up on the hobby shop shelves. (dang am I telling on my age lol) and I started out using their thinner until I found out it was nothing more than denatured alcohol. I have tried several ways of thinning it over the years and the one thing I learned is NOT to thin it with lacquer thinner! Lacquer thinner tends to cause it to clump up. At least most of the lacquer thinners I've tested it with. What works the best and the cheapest, is the cheap brands of denatured alcohol you can by at any hardware store, or walmart or home depot or even lowes. When it comes to cleaning your airbrush afterwards, that's where cheap hardware store lacquer thinner comes in to play, it's not as hot as the stuff sold by automotive paint or parts stores and wont hurt your airbrush, even if you have the ones with the rubber rings. Why can you clean your brush with the cheap stuff lacquer thinner but not thin with it you may ask.. well because your not spaying the cleaner on a model, so if it clumps the left over acrylic paint in your airbrush as you spray to clean it out, it wont hurt it. Just keep running the thinner through it until it runs clear and not spitting from clumps. For me, I still take my air brush apart after painting and clean it completely anyways. As far as rubbing alcohol goes.. you can thin tamiya acrylics with it as well, but it tends to dry a little too fast if not mixed just right, even before it hits the model and can cause a ton of unwanted orange peel, And if too much rubbing alcohol is used, it can even cause what I like to call, for lack of better words, dry, flat or blotchey spots. For mixing with denatured alcohol, I found a couple of mixes work pretty well, depending on how much gassing out time you want. Remember, the longer it takes to gass out, the smoother the the paint will be when it does.. So for a fast gass out time.. a mix of 1 part paint to 1 part thinner. For a slower gass out time, 3 parts paint to 2 parts thinner. For flat colors I always use the first mix i stated. The other benifit of the cheap hardware store lacquer thinner besides using it for a cleaner, is, you can use it to thin model master non- acrylic enamels. Yes those old enamels that take forever to dry, and it works well as a thinner for those. It speeds up their drying time, and even helps them lay on smoother. Again, don't attempt to mix the enamels with automotive lacquer thinner as it is a much hotter thinner than the cheap hardware store type and will cause the enamel to clump when mixed with it. I'm sure others will have other ideas about mixing with tamiya acrylics, but this is what has always worked for this old dog.

NIce work Jeff

Really nice paint and detail work Tim.. it's really starting to come together.

Really nice work so far Joe. Sorry aint been on alot the past week or so. Been trying to get my hobby room ready to be redone. Our plan to to empty it out and completely repaint the walls and ceiling, and new flooring. To do all this in the spring, the wife says I gotta pack everything up and empty out the room.. grrrrrr, model building on hold for a few months lol.

Thanks alot for the kind words guys.

Thanks Michael. At times I got frustrated with it and almost gave up.. just ask my better half, she came out to my hobby room manytimes when things weren't going right.

I sorta was Joe, especially since my hobby room is in my garage and I had to walk through a snow storm to get it into the house today, which is where I took the pics lol.

Thanks Rob, the interior was something I color mixed with several different shade of model masters enamel paints to get it as close as I could to a true saddle color. It was mixed and then shot with a air brush. I don't remember right off the top of my head exactly what colors I mixed.. it was quite some time ago lol.. But should be in my build thread.

Not Sure yet Tim, I got to get my work shop cleaned up and then look through my kit stash. I have a couple in mind, but haven't made a final decission yet.

Howdy Guys just posted the finished vette over in the underglass section.

thanks for looking.

A couple more pics to follow....

Afternoon guys. I finally got this Vette done after 3 months of working on it. It gave me it's share of problems. Mostly fit issues and the way it had to go together with all the detail work I added. I wanted to make this vette a rarer 427 with factory 4 wheel disc brakes and air conditioning. I was able to make the changes I wanted, but it took alot of work. You can visit my build thread on it to see what all went into it here..... http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96097 I'll try to add as many pics as I can, so this may take a couple of posts to get them all in... More pics in following posts

Outstanding work Tyrone. A real show stealer

Hi Tim. Love the clean look of your mustang. I totally understand about clutter. You should see how much BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH that Morris Garages out of GB found a way to stuff into the engine bay of my little 76 MG Midget. I kept it all original just due to the fact that it only had 18,000 miles on it when I got it a few years ago, though I did DO a freshen up rebuild and dressed it up a little. One of these days I'll take and post some pics on here of it. But it's just tooooooo Coooooold out right now to go taking pics out in the storage garage of it. As for the info I posted earlier of the cuda, I was just trying to help ya out with what and where those dog gone vaccum lines went lol. But believe me when I say, your detail work on this build is top notch and very cleanly done.

Looking forward to watching you build this one Dave.

Nice detail work Tim. I agree I love doing detail. It seems each model I work on, wants it's own level of detail. Your engine work is really turning out nice. As for the lines coming off the valve covers, usually the one on the drivers side is a PVC line that goes to the back of the intake manifold just behind the carbs. The ones on the drivers side comes off the cap, (and usually there is two lines on the valve cover cap) the smaller one goes to the side of the rear carb, usually where the choke area is, and the other larger one goes up under and connects to the bottom of the shaker air breather as a crank case vent. One some cars there is even a 3rd line coming off the passenger side breather cap that goes to the fuel tank vent return line. Here's a reference pic for ya in case ya want it. Wish it were a little bigger. Keep in mind this is a 70 so it might be just a little different for a 71, but If memory serves me, there wasnt that much difference in the engine vaccum systems between those two years.

Nice Progress! Joe. When It comes to installing glass I usually use Microscales Krystal Kleer. It's made by the same guys that make microsol and micro set decal solutions. Sometimes if I have a really stubborn one. I will tape it in place with tamiya masking tape and give it a few tacks here and there with 2 part 5 minute clear epoxy. It's what I did on the vette to get the glass in place without hiding the chrome frame detail.

As promised guys. Here are a few bench shots of the vette finally finished. I just got it done today, so I'm letting her rest for the evening on the bench, then she'll get taken into the spare room in the house and I will take more pics tomorrow of her and post them in the Under Glass section of the site. Watch for her to be posted in the underglass section sometime tomorrow.

Thanks alot guys. I finally got the vette finished today. I hope to have at least a final assembly pic to post maybe later tonight, and then tomorrow morning I will take a bunch of pics to post in the Under Glass section. Thanks to everyone for all the comments, and for following along with this build. I have to do alot of clean up work in my hobby room before atempting to start another project. But hope to have something started in the next few weeks.

You did a nice job on your Camaro Dave. I like the color combo.