Roadrunner

I like it.

Real nice. I'd like to eventually find some of the old Tetors metalflakes myself. My original '32 Ford Phaeton from when I was a kid, was painted Sapphire Blue if I recall.

I must be really odd, I don't like any of them.

On our return to St Louis, Saturday, we ran through a little burg in Illinois that was having a car show. Looked like there may have been some decent stuff, but I didn't feel like stopping, now I sort of wish I had.

For the most part, many of my first few kits will be OOB, and curbside. Little or no engine or interior detail, no modifications to body, just a straightforward and hopefully easy model. To take a break from the desire to go nuts on a kit, I usually select something, decide what I will not do to it, then proceed to have fun. Not everything I build needs to be detailed, and as frequently as not, I'm happy with the outcome, regardless, especially if the kit is a decent one to begin with.

Agreed.

Very nifty. It reminds me of the AMT AWB cars.

Already created prop templates too, one inner, one outer, four sets.

Slight change in plans/addition to the fray. I've been a Hawker Typhoon fan for as long as I care to remember, so I'm also fretting around with this, the Hasegawa car door Typhoon.

My dad had one that was similar, possibly the same thing, and you could plane wood so thin, you could almost see through it. I still remember the smell of him planing some cedar boards that he was using for something or another.

I like the desert schemes. I was fortunate to acquire four of the long out of production AMTech 1:48 P-40 kits.

Old school, Charlie, real old school. I have several B and C sized drawing cloths around here somewhere, the real stuff, used back in the 40's. I consider it to be some of the best drafting medium,... ever.

After several delays, I was finally able to get some chrome on the wheels. Through a complete coincidence, this is probably fairly close to the stance this baby will have when finished. Lousy photo perhaps, but is shows what I intended.

Color looks great. Nice work so far.

I decided to give my spoons a polish today. They really look a lot better, but the photos don't really do it justice. Thanks very much for all the advice and help that's been offered up, it's helped me out a bunch, and I feel that I now have a handle on the basics,... at long last.

I knew you were going with a similar style, but was unsure of what color you had chosen. I agree, it looks a golden yellow to me too.

Thanks a lot, Bill. I think Allen has one good approach, perhaps the only one that'll work now.. If I had been thinking, I would have used BMF beforehand, and used the polish to remove the paint from the high points, as it already did on mine anyway (you can see it in my photo above), but I'll probably just do as Allen suggested, though just to be different, I'm considering black on the inside of the emblem.

I'd hose it with some oven cleaner and see what happens. What kind of paint is/was it? I think Steve was just kidding, though it does sort of look like trunk paint. I really like the color though.

Yep, she was quite the hottie in her day.

I had a Bersa too, but never fired it, same with my 9mm/.40 Sig.

I have a 3-D landscape designer bit that's pretty cool. Time progression too, so that you can see what plants will look like several years down the road.

Yep, good show, reruns on TV from time to time, but I haven't actually watched it in a long while.

I ignore one person on another site, but have no experience with it here, though I do have all signatures turned off, as there were some here that made me crazy.

My fave of all time, the Walther .380ACP PPK/S. I don't currently own one, or any others for that matter (for reasons I'd really rather not discuss here), but certainly intend to grab another one of these days.

Just don't adjust the rear sight so as to prohibit the rising block from moving.