Snake45

Traveling Wilburys?

Dirty Laundry!

Living for the City, Stevie Wonder's best song (IMHO). War, Edwin Starr.

Don't Look Back, from the fabulous Boston.

Without that, the stuff will have a tendency to "pull up" as it dries, leaving holes (bubbles or craters, if you follow what I'm saying) in your coverage. With it, no holes. The food coloring helps assure you of that.

I have no idea about "ratios." I squirt a large squirt of Elmer's into an old plastc 35mm film thing, and then I add HOT water until I get it the consistency I want. It mixes better the hotter the water is, and it will take much LESS water than you'd think (if you're getting it too thin, just squirt in more Elmer's). You can make it any thickness you want, right up to a semi-gel. I like it about the thickness of thick enamel paint. Several drops of dishwashing liquid (I use Dawn if I have it) breaks the surface tension of the stuff so it flows well and doesn't leave bare spots, and also might help with it removing easy, I dunno, but it works. I add some red food coloring so I can see where I'm putting it. The red coloring will NOT leach or "bleed" out onto white paint--I've tested it. I apply the stuff with a soft paintbrush, and then rinse the brush out immediately with hot running water--it comes right out. For things like airplane canopy framing, I put it on with a toothpick, and the stuff flows beautifully right up to the frame line. Lovely stuff to work with! The batch I'm using now I mixed up about 2 years ago and it's still good. If it dries out or something, a fresh batch is only about 5 minutes away.

Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico! Battle of New Orleans, Johnny Horton.

I have a world-class case of ADD. Look up ADD on Wikipedia and you'll see my picture. Hey look--a squirrel!

My guess is that, like enamels, some colors will brush better than others. The only one I've used so far is the Clear Red, for taillights and rear side marker lights and emblems and such, and I have to say that I've been VERY happy with the results I've gotten with it. Nice stuff!

Elmer's, water, a drop of dishwashing liquid and perhaps a squirt of food coloring for visibility makes the most perfect liquid mask I've ever used, and it costs only pennies.

I don't think they're attempting to repro the original box. I think they're doing a new one in the style of the '69 annuals. At least, that's what they've done with the '66s, '67s, and '68s. I like them.

ABC, Jackson 5. (I'm embarassed to know that.)

ELO, Do Ya.

Nazareth! That's it! (Smacks forehead.)

Ooooooo, ooooooo, Love Hurts! Can't remember who did it, though. Some hair band of the '80s, I think?

Wow, Coyote, those are FABULOUS!

Mendoza air rifles? I have one, a lovely thing, and a certified squirrel-assassin. It would be just the thing for destroying recalcitrant projects, if one got tired of flinging them against the wall or stomping them into bite-size pieces or blowing them up real good with M-80s. (I don't do such things, but I've read posts of many airplane modelers who do. I hate wasting or trashing things I've spent good US dollars on.)

Kenny Rogers & the First Edition. I don't have time to type the title.

Yup. Would have also accepted Linda Ronstadt, as she also recorded it and I'm pretty sure that her album that it's on sold WAY more than Zevon's. That is a fantastic song. I would love to hear someone do it on American Idol or The Voice, but there is NO WAY you could broadcast those lyrics on a mainstream TV show today. The lyrics would have to be completely rewritten--and the song title too.

Some of my builds, I try to replicate some "real thing" as closely as possible. Others are completely from my own imagination. Sometimes I'll change one or two little things to suit myself, even if not "correct." For example, when I build my AAR Cuda, I'm gonna paint the spoiler body color, not matte black, just 'cause I think it would look better that way. Other builds are "inspired by" something but not a faithful replica. For example, I'm doing an AMT '66 Mustang funnycar sort of like the Bowani match racer, but it's not an attempt to model that car exactly.

Everybody's restless, but they got no place to go Someone's always tryin' to tell them Something they already know So their anger and resentment grow.... (Second song...for some reason the board combined two different posts into one.) This is the one about the girl The girl who came to play Ah, but love came down like a hammer and it blew her away...

Rod Stewart, Maggie May.

Magnificent work. Really nice.

Prolly ten percent. Maybe 20. Whatever the exact number is, it's absolutely shameful.

Great thread! Thanks for the topic!