Snake45

Wow, looks like more and more people are learning how to play The Game. I was right about the crash, but it looks like the crasher actually won, and with little if any car damage. Cantu's bad sportsmanship exceeded even my expectations. Wow. He was acting like a little girl, and at one point I thought he might actually cry. Chief should have thrown him out. JJ and Trish both played The Game very well. I think I'm gonna have to watch that whole episode again.

Those bumpers don't look hard to scratchbuild. In fact, they look like the easiest factory bumpers in the world to scratchbuild.

Very cool project! Drive on with all due speed!

Sorry about the Eldo thing. Dunno where I got that from. Senior Moment. Promos/frictions are seldom extremely valuable unless they're in perfect condition or darn close to it. That's why I don't buy or mess with them. However, the ones needing a little love, as you put it, I'm not at all afraid to provide some.

Looks pretty darn good! Well done and model on!

I've grown fond of Duro super glue, purchased in 4-packs at Walmart, but for this particular use, I'd think almost any thin or thin-ish CA would work. You just want it to soak into the porous filler and then cure hard and lock everything up. As to a sanding block, any suitably sized FLAT piece of wood, metal, plastic, etc. works fine. The rubber eraser makes a good sanding block for surfaces that aren't perfectly flat. A sanding block ain't exactly rocket surgery.

Just like a man. You hear a problem, you want to hear a solution, or you'll try to come up with one youself. Many women, OTOH, when voicing a "problem," aren't particularly interested in solving it, they just want to be heard and commiserated with. Some men, too. This is not just my observation; whole books have been written about it.

The most interesting things I see are the '64-'65 Falcon un-AWB body, and the '63 T-Bird hardtop. Do you have the suspension etc parts to get at least some of those Ford rods together?

I just spot-checked eBay. No JoHan '67 Eldos of any kind on now. Completed items, last 90 days: 1 unbuilt kit, three or four nicely built (very rebuildable) kits (one missing engine), three or four promos, no frictions. For what it's worth.

I've had good luck filling such holes with putty, block sanding to shape, then hitting the putty with superglue. The superglue soaks into the porous putty and, when it cures, stabilizes and locks it into place. Then I block-sand again. Haven't had a hole come back since I've been doing this.

I fixed the "short shot" missing panel on my '64 Cutlass HT resin body with "fauxberglass." Dreading doing this has kept me from building this thing for YEARS. Now it's done, and I can drive on. Details of the fix here:

I've now fixed the "short shot" on the left rear quarter with "fauxberglass." I cut two strips of newspaper. I coated one strip on one side with superglue and pressed it onto the backside of the lower quarter, pressing it on firmly with a fingertip. Then I coated the second strip the same way and immediately applied it to the back of the first. In the pics below, the dark area of the newsprint is the area saturated with superglue. I let this dry several hours. Notice the tape on the underside of the interior tub--we'll come back to that in a minute. I then applied a thick coating of LocTite Super Glue Gel to the face of the "fauxberglass" in the area of the missing panel, overlapping about 1/4" over onto the body's resin. When this was dry, I FILED (the stuff is hard, you'll need a file) the SG gel down to within about .002-003" of flush, at which point several pinholes and small fissures had opened up. (This is not unusual and was expected.) I filled these small voids with more SG gel and let it cure overnight. (No pics of this step because the SG gel doesn't really show up all that well.) Next day I filed all the gel down to almost flush, then switching to #400 and #600 grit fingernail sanding boards to true up the surface. Then and only then did I trim off the excess "fauxberglass" and newsprint with a razor saw. Looks like I might need to adjust the forward angle just a hair, but the missing material is now replaced and the fix should be undetectable under primer and paint. And that masking tape? That's the strip that the resin body maker applied originally to hold the interior securely in the body for shipping. I've never removed it--didn't even have to take the interior out to accomplish this repair!

From my three kids, I got one card and one phone call. This is exactly one card MORE than I've gotten from them in the previous three years, so things are looking up!

The current issue of Air & Space (I got mine at Walmart) has a nice article on Jay Leno's custom cars with enormous airplane engines in them. Pretty cool stuff!

Very interesting, will remember that. ETA: Just went back and cut all the junk from the original post

Here's a VERY interesting lot of old survivors. Most of them look like they'd clean up nicely. I'm not interested in buying, but I enjoyed looking at them. You might too: https://www.ebay.com/i/164920029914

Thanks for the review! The original finally showed up on one of the streaming services I get so I got to see it a couple months ago--pretty good! I could have sworn I saw a commercial that said QP2 was going to be on the HBO-MAX deal for the first 30 days after its release, but it wasn't, so I must have been mistaken. I'll wait for it to show up streaming somewhere.

I put the roll bar and braces from the AMT '72 Nova into the '66 Nova. That might work for a Camaro.

The Big Lebowski is on Netflix again this month, so I gave it another try. (It was discussed in another thread, the one about real crime movies, but that thread seems to have disappeared for some reason.) Although I'd seen it twice before, turns out I didn't remember anything about it except maybe some bowling. Not a great movie but not a horrible one, either. Not sorry I watched it but probably wouldn't want to see it again. Also saw The Untouchables again, which I hadn't seen since it first came out. I remembered it as pretty good, but I was wrong. It's pretty bad--a real hamfest. Definitely won't be watching that one again, ever.

The DC site schedule preview says "when a racer hides from Jason Cantu long enough to spoil his plans, he takes revenge into his own hands." Since JJ has a callout on Cantu, this must mean that Cantu beats him again.

And most thankless, too.

Pretty clean build, model on!

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Very clean build! Well done and model on!

Thanks! Testor "Arctic Blue" is a very dark metallic blue that's similar to many factory dark blues of the '60s, and which in previous paint jobs I've found to be very easy to work with.