Roadrunner

I puttied one up without the backing once, and then putty started pushing through into the interior during all the handling that's required during finishing, so I said "no more"; been using this method ever since.

My example seems remarkably straight. On some airliners I've built, the vertical stab looks all twisted and warped, not so with this baby.

Fuselage got all taped up after gluing major seams. It looks like there's a groove in the seam, because there is. I usually bevel one surface to assist with gluing and provide a shallow V shaped trench to ensure a 100% complete putty filling job.

Some good progress made on this last night. I added .015 backing strips to window area for putty to follow, assembled nose gear well, and epoxied a fishing weight inside nose.

Wings are straight as an arrow. This is good to see, as in some kits, they're apparently warped pretty bad.

Too bad I didn't notice it earlier, but I've filled it with CA now, and puttied the area of the hood that was bad. Kit was open, but parts bags were sealed, so I assume this is the way kit was released. Either way I'm cool with it, and intend to begin painting tomorrow.

My first, but certainly not my last, car purchase of 2016, the gorgeous '68 Dodge Charger. Hobby Lobby, 40% off, the only way to fly for someone on a very tight budget.

Hood, which some say is from the '68 Roadrunner, clearly says 440 in vents, while trunk clearly says Hemi. I'll leave the Hemi script, as there's no way I can highlight the 440 on the hood. Also, the left taillight housing has what I assume is a molding defect that will need to be sorted out before I can paint this, hopefully tomorrow. I have no idea why the trunk looks like I sanded it with 80 grit paper, but I'll need to address that too.

Also, the louver (or vent or whatever it is) on the driver side, has a nasty depression that had gone previously unnoticed. This seems to be a molding issue, not a sink mark. Plymouth (shown on box cover) is not molded on hood, but the fun continues beyond that,...

Some interesting discoveries here. Hood (I hadn't noticed this before), has a deeply recessed rectangular opening , presumably for a blower or whatever. This in turn has caused stress marks to appear on the hood (best photo I could get, but it's very visible), just owing to wet sanding. I can't even begin to imagine how bad this will get if I don't fill those relief trenches with some CA.

They're gorgeous, if not alway altogether accurate, at least the 767 anyway.

Markings will be Delta Airlines, as that’s what I have (though I like several other liveries), with window decals by ATP, though I may order some nifty Nazca decals for the windows, as they’re more “interesting”. I may (or may not) cover the bottom with Bare-Metal foil, then spray some metalizers to try and give the impression of raw aluminum.

As has become an annual tradition with me, I always try to start a brand new kit on December 31st, the last of the old and the first of the new, as it were. To that end, I was gifted with this nifty Revell AG 767 airliner model a couple of weeks ago, which I will begin tonight. Later, we’ll begin our annual pig fest, this years menu being boiled shrimp, meatballs and small sausages in BBQ sauce, three different cheeses, chips and crackers, all washed down with some ice cold Fitz’s root beer, a local favorite.

My vote for building it, goes to anyone other than me.

W can at least content ourselves in the knowledge that 25% of the hundreds of millions of dollars of lottery proceeds go to education.

I have the DVD, and it's excellent, (except for that weird hare krishna garbage at the beginning).

Two weeks ago, I received a message from an acquaintance of mine stating that a "surprise package" was on it's way to me for Christmas, and I still haven't seen it; this irks me,... a lot.

Well that figures. It seems that every car I've ever owned in my life, as well as all the ones my dad owned, have never been done in kit form, not one.

Walgreens just recently had small bottles of nail polish for $1 a pop; I snatched four that I thought might look nice on a car. They're all enamels though, and I was really hoping they were lacquers. Oh well, I'll still find some use for them.

OK, thanks, fellas. Now the big question, has anyone ever done a model kit of it? I'll be Googling for that one, but you guys may know more.

OK, fellas, here's another one from the past, my fathers Pontiac. I'm guessing this is a '61 Ventura, but am obviously not really sure. Any ideas? Sorry for the lousy photo, but that's all I have.

I'd have to agree with Greg here, for the sake of continuity, I'd start at the beginning, and it's all good,...at least as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks, Bill. I really hope to finish several in 2016, and since I work mostly OOB, that should be very doable.

Congrats on your anniversary. The Cowsills? That was like a hundred years ago,... and I was there. I'm beginning to feel like Methuselah.

Oh yes, I'm enjoying it a great deal, Nick. I intend to start painting my '69 GTX this week, no doubt about it.