Snake45

That's exactly what we all had to do before the stock HT kit was finally released.

J-B Weld isn't MUCH harder than styrene, and I've found it feathers fairly well. Use a sanding block, too, not your fingers or "naked" sandpaper. That helps.

To continue the analogy, there WILL come a point in the immediate future at which the parachute will not only not be needed, but keeping it around forever will severely impede your progress and activity.

Oh my yes. I dare anyone reading this to spend a half-hour looking at the Gasser and/or Altered sections (I DARE you to get out in less than a half hour!) and not come away with six or eight cool project ideas. Last time I was in there, I noticed something. Couple months ago I went through all my old '60s model car mags. There were some weird, wild, funky, totally implausible and even comically ridiculous drag models built in those days. And yet there was some REAL stuff built back in the day that was even MORE weird and insane!

Now I"m glad I asked this "stupid" question. Lots of good info coming out, which I'm sure will be of interest to many.

I know you've built airplane models, so multi-piece construction shouldn't bother you at all. Drive on! (What's that putty? It looks like cake frosting. You're making me hungry!)

In that pic, I'd say he looks more like Martin Sheen in his younger days. I've never seen the Aurora James Bond figure, but I have the two Men from UNCLE and they're not too bad at all. Closer than this, anyway. For my money, the best cinema JFK was William DeVane in some TV movie. I saw one last year where Rob Lowe didn't do a horrible job.

I agree with AFX about epoxy but disagree about the 5-minute type. You say it needs to be "blended in," i.e. sanded. All 5-minute epoxies I know of cure to a somewhat rubbery texture and are VERY difficult to sand. I'd recommend a 12- or 24-hour cure type. J-B Weld is my favorite epoxy if sanding is needed, and it doesn't have to be clear. It mixes at a 50-50 ratio and since it's half black and half white, you KNOW it's mized when it's uniformly gray. Doesn't seem to be super-critical on mixing ratio, either.

Here's the only CCKW I've ever built. I think it's supposed to be a communications truck, though I never put any antennas on it.

The PM system doesn't work for me here for some reason. Just email me: SnakeACP45 at AOL dot com

Golly gosh, what could you use some of that paint on? Hmmmmmmm.....lemme think..... I got an idea. It's kinda crazy, but hear me out. Maybe you could use some of it on, uh, I dunno....MODEL CARS?

Good. Thank you.

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Very nice, I like it! Model on!

This is what I've long called the "Mustang/Spitfire Curse." A new model company's first effort is likely to be something of known popularity and proven sales potential, such as a P-51 or Spitfire. This first effort is likely to be pretty poor, and then as they work their way down the list of desirable subjects, they get a little better every time until their 18th effort, a Fiesler Storch or something, isn't half bad at all. Meanwhile, other players in the field look at the market and say, "Well, no use wasting our time with a Mustang/Spitfire, Revell (or Airfix, etc.) has that market covered, what else can we do?" Thus we didn't get any halfway decent Mustang or Spitfire kits until at least the late '70s, and really good ones were still decades away.

Enough buying, Scott! BUILD something, already!

A better analogy with many old models might be: Would you rather watch an old B&W TV, or not have any TV to watch at all?

Or, as I heard the colorful gold mining genius Freddie Dodge say on The Dirt the other night, "If you can still smell a fart somebody cut inside undewear and heavy denim jeans, what makes you think a little cloth mask is gonna keep you from getting a virus?" Moving on.... (If you don't get that last one, that's an F/A-18 Hornet jet.)

A couple weeks? Has any woman ever left the same color on her nails for a couple WEEKS?

Interesting, thanks!

Yah, I know. I have the Navion. Or maybe I should say so-called Navion. Would love to find their Midget Mustang sometime, though.

Well of course it does, duh! Was just sayin' I'm not all that familiar with the early Monogram car models, especially the sub-1/24 ones.

Didn't know that; my condolences. I'll say it looked better with its clothes on.

One heavy coat. I put my fingertip on the bottle, get some on my finger, and smear it on thick and fast and let it flow out. No muss, no fuss, no cleanup, no paintbrush hairs, no old paint residue, and little if any dust. Couldn't be easier. It might look thick wet, but have faith, it'll dry thin and nearly invisible. One warning: Use it BEFORE you cut the decal from the backing sheet. Use it on a cut decal and you will be lucky to EVER get it off the backing paper (it'll seal the edges tight).