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(Well I'm going down) Going down a hard road (Just don't know) Don't know where I've been (But I think I've been walking) I'm walking round in circles Can't even find a friend

Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes, Elvis Costello. Edgar Winter, Free Ride.

I don't think so. The one I bought is repopped from a promo, with the hood solid in it. That one's nice, though.

Of course it is! It should be the Modeler's National Anthem.

Baldwin would build you anything you wanted, as long as you had the money.

Happy and I'm smilin', walk a mile to drink your water You know I'd love to love you and above you there's no other We'll go walking out while others shout of war's disaster

Couple years ago I bought a very nice resin repro of the MPC '68 GTO promo body off eBay. Any idea who made it, and if it's still available?

Quarterflash, Harden My Heart. Good tune!

Slusher, old friend, I apologize to you personally for my earlier rant.

Eye of the Tiger, Survivor.

I know this one, but I DESPISE the song and refuse to type its title. I have turned off the TV when someone starts singing it on Idol or some such show. Eagles, Desperado?

I found the perfect way to handle "sexual intellectuals"* of this kind. I just say, "I'm not understanding you. Show me what you mean on YOUR model." I have yet to have one of these blowhards show me a finished model. *Sexual intellectual--A guy who knows 87 exotic Oriental lovemaking techniques, but doesn't know any women.

Even as a kid, I didn't paint more than two models (AMT '66 Corvair and Mustang GT) before I realized that brush painting just wasn't going to work for me, and moved on to rattlecans.

Good post. There are a couple workshop builds of a car I know a little about on now. On one, the guy seemed to be interested in accuracy and detail, and hadn't painted the body yet, so I suggested an easy fix he could make on it. On the other, there are a few changes that can be made that REALLY improve the accuracy of that body, but the guy already painted it before he stared posting the WIP so I just kept my big evil mouth shut. Ah shucks oh well.

All of the above techniques will work. But I've found the easiest/quickest/surest way to fill depressions of this kind is to rough up the area a little with a Scotchbrite pad, steel wool, or maybe #400-600 sandpaper, then lay a coat or two of superglue over the dent. When it dries, block-sand it (start with #320, then #400 or #600 to smooth), then prime and paint as normal. When sanding cured superglue, a sanding block is ESSENTIAL.

Bon Jovi, Dead or Alice. Soundtrack to the best opening scene of Miami Vice ever!

Ah, I see!

Hard to judge from the photo. Here's the paint chips: http://www.69pace.com/paint2.htm And here's pics of real cars: http://www.69pace.com/paint1967butternutyellow.htm If you're going "Day 2," especially a few years down the pike, you can basically paint it any color you want. It would have just been another used car in those days, subject to a paintjob on its owner's whim, not a valuable collector item worthy of a factory restoration.

I actually painted this Camaro with Model Master military flat (Aircraft Interior Green, FS 34151) and then clearcoated it for the gloss. I airbrushed the green, but could have probably brushed it if I were careful. I think this might work with SOME of the MM flat paints, but wouldn't guarantee that it would work with all of them.

I just keep my Evergreen strips in their original packages, which clearly identify the size. They're pretty flat and don't take up much room.

Interesting hood. Did you just fill in the depressions for the SS chrome trim?

Very nice indeed! I WISH I had the patience to build these things.

I don't know what "Santa Fe Tan" looks like but Testor has a light yellow in the little bottles that can pass for Butternut Yellow, Lemonwood Yellow, Mayfair Maize, and other such '60s GM light yellows.

Although I own four or five airbrushes, I still like to brush-paint the occasional model airplane, especially if it's 1/72 camouflage. There's something very satisfying about it. By the time I glosscoat it for decals, and then flatcoat after the decals, you can't tell it's brushed. On cars, I'll always either rattlecan or airbrush the body and the engine block/heads, but still from time to time I'll brush-paint the interior and/or chassis. And of course many details. If I HAD to brush-paint a model car body, I'd do it in flats, and then spray a glosscoat. I THINK I MIGHT be able to get away with that.

Usher is his given name, and was his father's name. He's actually Usher Terry Raymond IV. And he's actually pretty talented, too. And from what I saw of him on The Voice, seems to be a nice guy.