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Good to know - thanks Greg! Hopefully the trend will continue.

Are you serious, or joking Tom? Those spoke wheels and tires look like something you find on a child's toy. I would not pay $2 for them. The entire "model" looks like a $18 kid's toy. I think you must be joking - you are one of the NNL East organizers - you have a good idea of what a flawless model looks like.

That is a really weird moulding flaw!

With all that metal (body. seats), your model's weight will probably be to scale with the 1:1 vehicle! compared to plastic kits, that model must be really heavy!

There are many hobby-size laser cutters on eBay. Even Micro-Mark sells them. It woudl be a nice addition to my hobby tool arsenal.

This is only the 2nd FSM issue after the demise of SA mag. Give them a chance to expand on the automotive coverage. I have been FSM subscriber for over 30 years, and I don't have any expectations that it will even be like SA mag. It is not, and will never be like SA. but it is nice to see them cover a wider range of subjects (like automotive, Sci-Fi, figures, and civilian aircraft/ships.

If you were spraying the paint too heavily, it woudl result in a wet ,shiny (and possibly runny) surface. Never gritty. Was the grittiness apparent as you were spraying, or when the paint was wet it was glossy, then the grittiness showed up as the paint dried?

Thanks guys! I built that wrecker close to 30 years ago. One of these days I'll scan more of the photos I took back then (with a film camera), and post it in Under Glass section. I agree that by using flat finish with different sheen levels, (dead flat, flat, satin, semigloss) will produce different dulling effect on "chromed" parts. I mostly use Testors Dull- and Gloss-cote, and I make custom mixtures of both to produce different levels of sheen.

So just to be clear, Alclad Silver Candy Base paint is more durable than Alclad Chrome over gloss black (without any need for extra top clear coat like Future)? That is how I understood your earlier post.

Canada? That's odd. Not sure how you got there. I bought the wheels on American eBay, and all his listings there are in US$. Here is link to those listings: https://www.ebay.com/sch/forward_resin/m.html

That's ok. My post was toungue-in-cheek.

Good for you! Looks like a fun ride (especially with 120 hp under the hood for its weight). I don't see anything ugly about your car. You are rigth., U.S. government regulations in the '70s ruined the looks of many foreign cars. The 5 MPH bumpers and the sealed-beam headlights just to mention the main reasons for this.

I've sprayed Testors Dullcote to make the "chromed" (metalized plastic) model wheels look like brushed or satin aluminum. I have also done that to model truck fuel tanks. I masked the straps to leave them "chrome", and sprayed the tank with Dullcote. Then I took a fine black permanent marker and drew in the "rubber cushion" under the straps.

I suspected it was an Australian Chrysler product.

More durable than Alclad's Chrome?

That is one cool Porsche! But why post this in a thread which died in 2012 (yes over 8 years ago,) when we already have a very active thread about the same subject.

True. Wood can (and usually does) contain some moisture which can ruin the resin mix.

I basically do the same with my photos, but I use Corel PhotoPaint (just another bitmap editor). I crop first, then "resample" for maximum width of 1200 pixels or less. I also do not save the file as a high-quality JPG file, but I use medium quality (that reduces the file size with minimal reduction on quality). That makes the photo small enough for posting online, and large enough to still show details. This one is 800 pixels wide. Its file size is only 68kB.

What do those look like? Do you have a photo?

Not quite the same. It doesn't change the size of the jpg file - it simply tells the browser to render it smaller. That is how I often "shrink" photos to smaller size in a quote to a post. I hate when people quote others and they don't either delete the photos within the quote, or shrink them visually. Especially those who quote a post with a dozen of large photos just to resound with "Looks good!" or similar. Grrrrr! They make my finger hurt from needless scrolling!

Hmmmm . . . interesting.

Thanks Ralph. These look like copies of the original (smaller) tires. I guess I can ask, but if they were the bigger Desert Dog copies, those would be too large for my model.

Unless you really need those large photos for something else, you could also likely just change the settings in your camera (or smart phone/tablet) to take smaller size photos.

I use clear acrylic rods. 1/4" and 1/2" diameter. I bought clear rod stock from a local plastics supplier (they have since closed), but there are plenty of online sources. I file one end into hemispherical shape. As for cleaning, as I pull the rod out I slowly spin it with my fingers against the side of the mixing container . Your ideal is clever.

And I thought all Testors spray cans were all made in USA/Canada.