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After three weeks of not seeing ANYTHING in any TP aisle at any local store, I gave up and bought a case from Amazon. Cost me a little over twice what I usually pay, but the peace of mind....priceless! When it came I celebrated with a plate of burritos for dinner. Now I'm working on a new song. Tell me how you like what I've got so far: I've got a case of toilet paper and a .45, Country Boy will survive!

Looks good! I like it better than the Pro Street one. I have a black one, but will keep my eye out for a blue or silver one at the local toy show. I have ZERO interest in building a plastic model of this car, but a decent cheap diecast is always welcome on the shelf.

I was gonna say I thought he looked scared of something, too. Beautiful piece of work, BTW. You're making me wanna go watch Barbarians Rising for the fourth or fifth time. Model on!

I never knew Matchbox did an F-5B but just googled it and they did. Cool! I need to find one. I built their F-5A and had a lot of fun with it. I also have a Fujimi F-5B in 1/50 I need to slap together sometime. Nice model, BTW! Model on!

When I see something I want/need at a reasonable Buy It Now price, I do. I'd rather pay a fair price even if MAYBE it costs me more than it might have gone for, than lose it to another buyer or watch the bidding soar out of sight.

I like what you did there, Tom. Here was a tough case where I tried to do something similar. '68 Javelin promo, with the belts molded into the seats and the seats molded into the tub. The belts were very faint to boot. Instead of trying to paint them, I cut the belts out of black vinyl tape. Tried to put a little "kink" in one of them for a little more candid look. Not perfect, but the best I could do.

Very pretty! I like that color a lot--gotta get me a can of that. Well done and model on!

Replicas & Miniatures Company of Maryland has--or at least used to--a resin package called The Armory with a bunch of 1/25 scale guns. I don't remember what-all's in it or if there's anything you can use, but it might be worth checking out. I seem to recall there's at least one pump shotgun in it, maybe.

Careful. Don't get this thread locked down.

And don't forget your "Isolation 500" Chevy truck build on Facebook. That ate up time, too.

I do. Just crop the pics. We just want to see the model. We don't care about the room it's in. Nice model, BTW. I hear these things are fiddly but you wrestled it to the ground. Model on!

Just remembered another one: Seat belts laying crossed on the seat(s) in a perfect X. This is probably because I've seen a lot of otherwise nice old rebuildable glue bombs complicated by those hokey X plastic seats belts glued in so solid they ruin the upholstery. In my whole life I don't think I've ever gotten into a car where the seat belts were laid out in an X. And I SURE have never carefully arranged them that way when I got out! Today (and for the last several decades) the belts are on retractors and aren't on the seats at all when not being worn. Before that, they'd either slip down beside the seat (buckets) or just lay more or less back-to-front (benches). Or just fall in some random fashion if they were loose and limber enough. But carefully arranged in a perfect X? Never seen it!

No problem, I think you came in late so I have no problem extending you over into Round 7, assuming we have one. Stay safe, stay healthy, stay free, and Thank You for whatever important work it is you're doing.

Not surpising. Krylon Fusion is MADE to "dig into" and permanently bond with plastic. It ought to have a picture of a model car in a red bar/circle thingie right on the label.

Trying to get the Imp finished for Round 6 of the Bring Out Your Dead build. Last month I painted the body with Krylon Shimmer Blue. Before painting, I shot the rear seat area with white primer and then Testor White Lightning Pearl. After polishing the blue paint, I unmasked the seats and thought they looked too narrow. Also note the hood EMPI Imp emblem, which was done by the foil-under-paint method and masked with Elmer's Glue. So I laid a piece of white vinyl tape on sheet styrene, shot it with the White Lightning Pearl, and cut thin strips to widen the "upholstered" area as much as I could. Looks a bit better now, I think. The original VW engine was glue-bombed, and missing one carb and the complete exhaust system. I elected to replace it with a Corvair from an old Blueprinter Exclusive Parts Pack set. It's molded in dark metallic gray; I dressed it up a little with Silver Sharpie and Molotow. Not great, but at least it now looks satisfactorily "busy" back there now.

Congrats SMcM! Not just one but two done this round! YAY YOU! I'm still hoping for positive news from Tom Geiger and Straightliner 59. C'mon, guys, GITTEM DONE! As for me, I finished the engine for my Imp, got the paint polished out, got the wheel final detailing finished, installed the engine and wheels on the chassis, and am down to wrapping up body and interior details. Looking good to GITTER DONE by tomorrow!

I just google-imaged Cragar hood scoop. Got hundreds of pictures of Cragar wheels, dozens of pics of hood scoops of every kind, not one of which claimed to be a Cragar hood scoop.

The best way to see would be to spray some of your Testor Gull Gray on a plastic spoon (or a junk body, or the underside of an interior tub, top of a chassis, etc.), let it dry a few days, then spray your Krylon or Rustoleum on it and see what happens. (While you're at Walmart you can pick up a box of plastic spoons and have plenty of test specimens.) I've heard Rustoleum is hot but haven't used it much so can't really comment on it. Some Krylon seems to be okay, some not. Test, test test!

Sounds like a great new commercial with Samuel L Jackson: "What's in YOUR wallet? Oh, you think so? Guess again, m..............!"

Looking GOOD! You are a fabricator! Drive on!

The Lovely Mrs. Snake wouldn't let me throw away last Sunday's Washington Post when I was finished with it. I said, "But wouldn't using it for that be redundant?"

That is ringing a bell! Thanks!

Gotta love a P.35! Just finished watching Raymond Reddington use one to good effect in last night's episode.

15 little brushes for $23? That's not a bad deal at all, certainly worth a try. Back in my model airplane days, I used to pay $3-$7 for a single little brush. Couple years ago I discovered the brush sets in the craft department at Walmart. They usually have one or more sets of various sizes, which includes at least two or three nice small brushes. I've used them and they last a good long time. Best of all, the whole sets are only $4 or $5.

Can I subcontract you to do all my blackwash work? Mine look pretty good, but yours, just....