Roadrunner

I just glued them in place, Clayton; too fiddly otherwise. The one thing I wish that I could adjust, is the stabilizing legs or whatever they're called. That way, I could display it separate from the rig, if desired.

Coming along fairly rapidly now, and undercarriage components are being installed as best I can, though fit issues continue to be a concern.

I hear ya', Joe. Lifelong habits are hard to break.

Doors are a pretty lousy fit, so I've added some substantial strip stock, to prevent the doors from falling into the box while gluing in place, as there is only one small positive stop per door. Kit comes with some pretty cool AMT and Round 2 decals (as well as some others), but I'd prefer to find Revell, Hasegawa or Tamiya, if they're out there.

I guilt myself for letting myself down. I always know when contests are scheduled, I always plan projects for these events, and I almost always don't finish them in time, either because I goof off when I shouldn't have, or work on other items. I'm trying to put something together this year for the national convention in Cleveland, and I have every reason to presume that I'll muck that up too.

Very nice looking rig, very nice.

I paint year around, so I don't really care. We had about 4" of the white stuff last night, Tuesday is supposed to be 52°

As seems typical with AMT kits (at least most of what I've seen), molded surface details are really quite decent, but fit is an altogether different issue. Given the sheer quantity of ejector pin marks, and other molding/fit issues, this trailer will never go into competition (at least not without a ton of work), so that should make slamming it together for the shelf, much easier.

What's a big rig, without something to drag around? To that end, I was recently able to snatch an AMT box trailer.

Nice progress.

Me too.

I can think of many, but this one is as good as any I suppose, though not obscure, at least by my standards.

Another approach then, would b to glue a washer the same thickness as the pin head onto the cowling back, with a flat piece of plastic glued over that, trapping the pin in the cowling, but still allowing movement.

An icon, that's for certain. R.I.P.

My dad would have loved your stuff, Harry, he really liked the early autos very much.

Looks real good, Sean. I love the trailer kit too, so thanks very much for that.

Agreed, Casey. "Paying it forward" can have it's own surprising rewards.

You can also dispense with the pin altogether, and just glue the prop/spinner assembly on with a smear of Elmer's. The prop won't spin, but that's OK, and the Elmer's is way strong enough.

Very classy.

Nice colors. I like it a lot.

The gathering is cool, the truck is awesome!

Fascinating. Thanks. I may have just swung a deal for a brand new Tamiya 1:32 P-51D Mustang kit.

I don't understand the problem. Doesn't the pin install from the rear of the cowl front piece, then into the spinner backplate?

If money was not a problem, I'd build a real 29 Ford Phaeton to match one that I built as a kid, now that would be awesome. Like I said earlier, for me the opposite doesn't seem doable, as the majority of cars that I've owned, and would like to build as a model, have no corresponding model kits that are an accurate enough match.

I think I'd probably prefer not to see those.