Snake45

The real ones are even harder to find, because they never actually built any.

Have you tried shutting down and restarting?

For very small decals, I'll "apply" them backward to the pad of my middle finger, then place them on the model. I also do model airplanes so I've gotten very good at this.

Looks like a good First Scratchbuild Project. For somebody else, not me.

I built the MPC '77 Monza as the '76 Buick Skyhawk I drove in the early '80s. Started the model in the mid-'80s, finally got around to finishing it up last year.

I asked about the PL VW here a while back and IIRC it seems to be 1/24, not 1/25. Only 1/25 Beetles I know of are the old IMC and the Revell--the old ones, not the newer ones.

Is this question for real? Hold the (wetted) decal between your thumb and forefinger, thumb on top. Hold the thing near where you want it on the model. Slide the decal off the backing sheet and onto the model with your thumb. Then place it exactly where you want it. I've been doing it this way since I was about seven. Maybe six. Good luck with your project.

Before and after Snake-Fu. It turns out to be darn close to 1/25. Full report when I have more time.

That was MY first thought too! (And she'd have said, "And you'll notice I'm not married to them, too.")

Wow, sharp eye!

Great start! I like what you've done with the fenders. Drive on!

Thanks for reminding me. I'll try to look at that tonight. My email is SnakeACP45 at aol dot com.

I just got a nice '73 promo with wheel covers. If anyone needs them, I'd be willing to lend a wheel to a reliable resincaster for duplication.

Thanks! Biggest PITA on that one was the comicly overthick vent window frames. Spent over an hour filing them back to something more reasonable. Spent some time considering altering the hood skull into "Old Velvet Nose," the semi-famous logo of the late great Warren Zevon, and then decided it just had to go. It came off with Walmart non-acetone nail polish remover, which didn't alter the luster of the semigloss black paint a bit. I've been trying to research the box art history of Don Greer. He first came to my attention back in the '70s as the artist of the covers and many of the profiles of the Squadron/Signal In Action airplane books. Few years ago I realized he'd done some model car box art. Just last month I was looking at the box of the AMT original annual '66 Mustang HT/convertible and realized it was a Don Greer! Looked at a few others I have, and he might have been the artist for all the AMT '66s. And he's still at it--what a career!

Very nice! That's just about as well as that old crock can be built. Or as Letterman used to say, "You got all of that one, my friend." Well done and model on!

Absolutely. Either we were visited long ago by beings much farther advanced than us, OR humans were at one time at a level of technology far beyond what we have now (at least in some ways) and then everything went to hell, everywhere, for some reason, and it's taken us thousands and thousands of years to rebuild. Does anyone else have a third possibility?

What movie or TV show is that one from, Bill? (BTW, that photo could be mistaken for a real car.) Did you catch my satin black '69 above? That's the ERTL Deathproof diecast, which I saw on your website as I was researching what I'd just bought at the toy show. Had to hit it with a little Snake-Fu, of course.

Like Jantrix, I've also had similar ideas. Will be watching to see what you do with this! Drive on!

Preach It, Brother Lunajammer!

Bought an ancient ('50s) 1/48 Aurora P-51H kit on ePay. I have a soft spot for this old crock, as I built one at my grandparent's house when I was maybe about 8. These things normally go in the $40-50 range and up, but I got a hella deal on this one because it's been started, which is fine because I want to build it. It's GOT to look better than the one I built when I was 8, right?

Yeah, but it also has the trimmed front fenders and nonstock side hood bulges of the Ohio George car. I've noticed that very few modelers ever fix those when they build these kits as something else.

SFan, you just won my New Favorite Post of the Day So Far award.

Hah! Way ahead of you! I started almost that exact project around 1972, and got about as far as you did. Mine's still boxed up, and I'll get back to it someday. Meanwhile, dead/comatose projects and those serving long sentences on the Shelf of Doom have a home here. We started doing this just about one year ago, and in that time something like 30 cool models have gotten done. Many of us have discovered that the truth is that these models aren't perfect, they're never gonna BE perfect*, but it's a lot of fun to drag them out, finish them off, and stick them on the shelf. *Straightliner's Junior Fuel dragster excepted.

You just reminded me, Monogram's curbside Porsche 924 was molded in red, too. At least mine is.

Just bought what looks to be a very restorable glue bomb AMT '72 Chevelle SS convertible (?) on ePay.