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No idea. I follow the Guild on facebook and once in a while watch them on youtube but I've never seen that car mentioned...

Yup. Grainger and his shop are top notch! If I lived closer to them, pretty sure I would have spent my career working there.

I really like that! Nice job.

Thanks for all the comments! I gotta say: this is one of the most-fun kits I've done in a long time. Though I took several months to finish it, it stayed in my mind the whole time.

Nice! It is an easy kit, but it displays very well. Yours looks great!

That's some nice work! Easily one of the best Ford trucks I've seen.

Very nice work. I briefly owned a '79 Chrysler Newport, which uses the same body, and you've got the St. Regis looking pretty close to what it should be. I love it.

A few more...

Now appearing in "Under Glass"...

'32 Deuce Roadster... A re-issue of Monogram's 1959 kit. Pretty much box stock. I added the tailights - cut down '49 Ford custom lights - and since the kit flames were pooched, I used some from the parts box. Molotow chrome airbrushed on, thinned out the front discs for a better fit, opened up the slots in the rear wheels, scribed in the door and trunk lid lines, and added clear headlight lenses instead of the kit's styrene units. This is a two-piece body (what do expect from 1959?), so it took lots of gluing, filling and sanding to get it all schtuck together and looking good. Good ol' GM 8555 black base and two-part clear for the finish. A pretty simple kit, but I'm more than happy with how it turned out. It was a lot of fun. Comments always welcome! :)

Absolutely beautiful...

I love it! Nice job.

Very nice!

That's some very nice work! It's nice to see the every day cars from back then. Not every one had a Hemi or 440 6bbl car.

I picked up a glue-bomb '60 Desoto with a hacked up original chassis and no engine. I like the body style, so I used a Color Me Gone '64 Dodge as a chassis and suspension donor. It fits reasonably well and has a decent enough stance to be believable. I plan on using the big block from a '71 Charger as the power plant. I'd like to pick up a long tube setup from Harts Parts, but I'm not that far along to know if it will clear the hood. I'm sure both chassis and power train won't pass close scrutiny to someone with intimate knowledge of '60 Mopars, but it'll work for me. Hope this helps...

Love it!

It's been too nice out to spend much time at the bench, but I've been picking away at this. No chrome pieces in the kit, so I gave some Molotow through my airbrush a go. Quite happy with the results. We'll see how well it holds up. The front discs were sprayed with metallizer. Comments always welcome.

You're not the first guy I've heard of that doesn't use a tack rag. Years ago, one of my best friends in the biz told me he never uses a tack rag unless the boss is watching. He did the same as you: blow it off and lightly wipe it with his hand while blowing at reduced pressure. He's one of the best painters I know, so it works for him, obviously. His jobs are simply flawless, more often than not. I'm not smart enough to learn from him... I use a crumpled up tack rag with barely any sticky left on it. Works for me. On a side note: I hired a painter years ago when I had my shop. A real Pro, or so he and everyone else he gave as a reference said. He put his first job in the booth, blew it off, loaded the paint in MY gun, tacked the car off, and THEN turned the exhaust fan on. Dirtiest paint work I've ever seen. No orange peel or dry areas but it was hard to look at. All I could think of was how much this was going to cost me to re-do... That was his first and last paint job in my shop. I don't spray in a booth either. My favourite model-painting spot is just inside the door of my shed, with the door open. Dirt floor, cobwebs and all... it's all about what NOT to do when it comes to painting. In just about every paint class I've been a part of, the instructors will tell you that 99% of dust and dirt comes from the painter, either because of what he did, or because of what he didn't do. I sort of cringe inwardly when I see guys showing off their paint booths. Talk about creating a path for dirt to travel in...

Right before I spray, I wipe it down with an alcohol swab, followed by some careful passes with a tack cloth. There is no possible way to ensure the body is free of dust before shooting, unless you can figure out how to paint in a vacuum. The best you can do is try to keep dust to a minimum.

No matter what works for you in cleaning resin parts, it's been my experience that lacquer primer doesn't bond well to resin unless it's been abraded somewhat. I use Comet cleanser, a bit of warm water and an old toothbrush to scrub the parts before putting on ANY primer coats.

Very nice job! Love the colour.

Thanks for the compliments! I keep meaning to take a few pics with all the scuba stuff outside the cargo area, for some added detail. One of these days I'll get to it.

Thanks again, it was a fun build.

Very, very nice!

Very nice!