Snake45

Here's the Krylon "Foil:"

Very cool, jump on in! After pics are nice but Befores are mandatory.

Very cool, Chuck. If you have to choose between hard-edged camo and the very soft edge as in your right spoon, go for the hard edge. It'll look better.

I'm very interested in a teardrop hood for the Revell '56 Del Ray, if you have that available. Thanks.

This is one reason I enjoy my glue bomb "rescue" projects so much. They're fast, fairly simple (in most cases), and I accept the fact going in that they're not gonna end up "perfect," so there's no stress. I also really enjoy projects where I can just polish the plastic and not have all the hassles of painting. And Silver Sharpies are my best modeling friend. It's a hobby. It's supposed to be FUN. If you're not having FUN, you're not doing it right.

Don't even have to soak it. Household ammonia will wash it off right now. So will rubbing alcohol, but that can damage some acrylics and lacquers, so the ammonia is the preferred go-to in this situation.

I had good luck with Krylon "Foil" paint, available at Hobby Lobby. One coat, dried smooth, dried fully. Have only used it once but I'll definitely use it again.

Shoot, I have to do that now!

Scott, I REALLY like those--all of them! Well done and drag on!

Oh well. I tried.

TCM is available for free streaming. I downloaded the app onto TLMS's Ipad.

Some years ago I bought an R&R. After looking it over carefully, I decided it was unbuildable (by me, anyway). I swapped it off to another modeler who was glad to get it, but I'm pretty sure he hasn't built it either. Last year I bought a MCW '65 4-4-2. It looks pretty good, and I plan to build it. Only downside is no plating on the chrome parts, but I can work around that one way or another.

No it does not. It looks just like this, except instead of red lenses and chrome bezels, that's all now gray J-B Weld. The taillights will be added by the magic of Testor Stop Light Red paint.

Got the taillight areas fixed on the thoroughly roached glue bomb '65 El Camino I've been working on. Long story short, I filled the whole areas with J-B Weld, then filed the correct body contours and taillight shapes back in. Took between 2 and 3 hours, but very satisfying work.

Fabulous rebuild/save! The last pic especially could be mistaken for real. Well done and model on!

I enjoyed it. Awful premise, but a satisfyingly happy ending. It was, of course, another version of "The Most Dangerous Game," one of the most famous short stories ever written. We read it in HS freshman English back in the day. I thought "Crystal Ray" reminded me of Chelsea on Street Outlaws. Looked like her, talked like her!

Thanks! I think I'll go ahead and drag it across the finish line curbside, and I can always add the engine later if I find one (and the motivation to install it). I don't have any hopes/delusions that Stupidbird is gonna be in the running for the winner, anyway.

You managed to get a fairly decent model out of this wretched old turd. Well done and model on!

You just reminded me, I have one of those Monogram Porsches molded in red I've been planning to get to and putting off for far too long. I hope that red plastic will take a nice polish.....

For some weird reason, something my Mom used to say just popped into my head: "You keep pickin' at that scab and it's gonna get infected."

It was even a song: "I have just met the perfect girl, I could not ask for more, She's deaf and dumb and oversexed and owns a liquor store."

Fabulous, thanks so much! I must have missed it somehow, sorry.

Those don't appeal to me at all. Not even a fan of the '54 Vette, which would be a horrible CB choice anyway. Best I could do would be build the AMT '53 Stude and call it a '54. Hey, did my above question about engines/curbside ever get answered?

1. Might be trademark/licensing problems with calling it Mako Shark now. 2. As modified (as far as we know, the molds haven't been changed back), it's not really the Mako Shark anymore. 3. Motion Performance actually produced conversion kits that would turn any '68-'72 Corvette into a Mako Shark-ish clone. Several were actually built. So "Custom '68 Corvette" really wouldn't be inaccurate.