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The chassis...

Nice job!

Very, very nice!

I haven't really decided. I'd like to stick with the kit chassis, but it's messy...

Big thumbs on a small keyboard... ? Good catch. I applied the decals and never noticed!

You'll have no problems with stuff from Hart's. I've ordered a few times from him, and it all arrived within two weeks and was pretty good quality.

I picked this up a few years ago as a built gluebomb. Stripped the brushed-on orange paint, fixed up the missing pieces around the headlight buckets, levelled out the many sink marks from the previous glue job, scribed some panel & reveal lines, and spliced in a section for the rear valence panel. Sprayed it in white base coat with a coat of 2k clear, and did the deck spoiler, chin spoiler and hood stripe in spray bomb red. The decals are from Mike's, if I recall correctly. They were the only set he had. The chassis is sitting in its' gluebomb glory, waiting its' turn for rehab. Might be a while before I get to it. I mainly wanted to get the body & decals done while the decals were relatively fresh. Comments always welcome.

That is some very nice work. I love it!

Slow going...but it's at the final assembly stage. The kit tail stripe wouldn't cooperate, so I went with a white stripe I found in the decal bin. I like it better than the black one. Comments always welcome.

We had to put our Dane, Otto, down in mid-December. The house just seemed so empty without him. The couch sure was! So, we found this little imp at a rescue a few hours from here. Ivy. A Dane/American Bulldog mix. 5 months old. Instantly, she became best buds with 10 month old Dottie. She's not sure about 11 year old Roscoe, but he's ok with that. A real snuggler. Nowhere near the high energy level of Dot, but she tries!

The front axle is pretty much ready...

I've been scratch building the front drop axle, and was able to mock up the stance. Looks good to me. I swapped out the kit rear wheels for some of Drag City's very nice 16" Halibrands. They look far better, I think. I narrowed the rear axle as well. Once I'm done the front beam, I should be able to get everything painted and then start on assembly. Comments always welcome.

That is some very nice work. A real old-school look going on there.

Yeah, I've found this forum to be pretty good as far as hobby sites go. Some A-hats, but that's life I guess. Car clubs... clicky. That's an understatement! One of my former groups had a bunch of older fellows - 70s and up - that spent more time gossiping about other members, their cars, their lack of skills and anything else they could come up with, than they did on their own cars and club activities. They poisoned the entire club for a good long time.

The only hobby I've ever taken on that didn't have more than its fair share of egos has been photography, and I'm pretty sure that's because I resolutely stayed in the "I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm having fun doing it" end of things. The A-hats seeminly stayed away when I told them that. Hockey fans and car guys are among the worst I've ever seen, but I think every hobby is pretty much the same. I try to stay far away from those folks.

Thanks, I'll pm you.

Nicely done!

Good ol' lacquer thinner. The orange was REALLY low-hiding, so I put down some white primer, made sure I ddn't sand through it anywhere, and then put down around 8 light coats of colour as evenly as I could. Waited a couple hours till I was sure everything was gassed-out, tacked it off and then put on a double coat of over-thinned 2K clear.

A bit of a slump buster. I couldn't physically spend much time at the bench, so I opted for this little buggy to help pass the time. It was fun. Painted with nail polish, high-heat aluminum paint and 2K clear, I like how it turned out. Comments always welcome.

Back at it... A lower back injury has pretty much kept me away from the bench for a few months. But, an hour or two isn't out of the question now, so I fab'd up a pleated headrest and seat padding with some slices of styrene. Also did a protective cover for the QC rear. The kit rear was kind of too nice to be covered up, but here it is. Comments always welcome.

Very true! I've bought some top-shelf resin products from some of the best casters around, and every time I've wondered how they can make money at the low prices they charged. I've also bought some much lower-quality resin products from other casters that were priced very similar to what the top casters charged.

That is some stellar building! A good friend used to do a lo tof repair and maintainence on Citroens. He had regular customers all around the Great Lakes Basin area. I did the body and paint on 7 or 8 DS models for him, including a wagon and his own convertible. Love those cars.

Like Ace said above. The only sanding I would do is to possibly de-nub any dust specks.

A few additions in progress... All but the tanks, regulators and wheels are scratch built. I cast a third set of regulators and the MIG cart castors in epoxy.

My workspace is quite small, so clean-up is a constant, but I do have 6 or 7 builds on the go at any given time. My downstairs bench, though... it's always cluttered. Models, parts, tools, scroll saw projects, carpentry projects, car parts... you name it, you're likely to find it down there.