OldTrucker

Nice breezy partly sunny day to work outside on a car!

Repairing rear window channel and have to use flux core. Keep burning through the metal no matter how I adjust!?

The Testors is not a true lacquer paint. It isn't as hot as a real lacquer is.

A friend and myself started hitching and along the way joined up with a REAL hippy and his chick along the way. Got to mid Ohio when we were busted for hitch hiking on an interstate ramp and they found a big bag of weed and about 15 tabs of acid in the hippy chick's bag! They called our parents and stuck us on a bus back towards home! So missed out on the big concert! Although I wouldn't trade what I have for anything, sometimes I wonder how things might have turned out different had we made it there!

Didn't take long to figure out it didn't work worth a hoot! Went back to the original tube glue and still using it! Took an old yard sale kit apart a while back that used the lemon stuff. Not only can you still smell it for the most part it didn't set up hard at all!

Just don't push it. Let it heal at it's own pace.? Takes a real calm person to drive a big vehicle with 30+ kids behind your back!!! Been there, done that!

Had a flawless paint job on an AMT 65 Chevelle wagon but when I went to shoot clear on it I picked up the wrong can. Didn't even notice. The clear looked great when I put the car in the shoebox to cure but when I checked later the paint was all wrinkled up! Lacquer over enamel!!! ? Now I have 3 soaking in the purple pond. A Willys panel that I painted when it was too cold and a 65 Nova funny car that the paint fish eyed really bad on . Candy red over silver base. My wife evidently sprayed room freshener through the ac system when the car was on the bench!? Also working on a 1:1 66 Buick Special and although the most solid car from all appearances with solid floors and most trunk and lower quarters I keep finding rust in some of the oddest places????

My feet have to be covered no matter how hot it is! If not I can't sleep!LOL

Or like my sister-in-law sleeping with your eyes open! Freaked me out the first time I saw her like that when she fell asleep in our couch when she was about 12 years old!

What irks me today is feeling like what the dog left in the yard all day and not getting anything done. Same stuff that has been going on for years that none of my doctors can seem to tell me the cause of.

I can attest to every word he said to you! I too thought I had the world by the tail when I was a youngin'. I have since learned that I still have a lot that I don't and never will know!

I swear I have seen some of those models over at Randy's site!

Worked for a fella that had a VW repair business. One of his younger brothers had a 58 that he put a Porsche 6 into. That thing would lift the front wheels on a hard launch! Cool build!

49 years ago today we made a promise to each other and have kept it! I must be crazy!!!

LOL That reminds me of a place we lived when I was a kid. Downstairs apartment that was all horsehair plaster and lathe. Grandpa made repairs as needed and took it off the rent as per the landlords instructions. He had just patched an area that had crumbled between the back and bathroom doors. Looked great all it needed was a day and then paint. Just before he came home from work on the day he was going to paint my sister grabbed a couple cookies that I had on the table while doing homework and took off. and ran into the bathroom! She slammed the door to lock it before I couyld ctch her and all the plaster from ceiling to floor fell off the wall, all except that small area that he had just repaired! Yeah, we used to buy and rehab houses and lived in them while we did. We went drywall on all of them. I wouldn't wait on doing the plumbing. Once you have the wall open just do it now and save having to rework later. You will be glad you did!

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Started this one about a year ago and after a mishap was so upset with it I put it away until a couple days ago. Had it mostly done except tires and the little pieces to finish when I came home one day to find little orage finger prints on the sides with a hint of cheese! Yep, they were Cheetos prints put there by my granddaughter! Bad enough the bonnet didn't fit right due to the warpage of the kit but I cleaned it up best I could but you can still see the staining a bit on the sides. Didn't want to order another set of aftermarket decals either. The kit isn't that good.

Same here. Over half of what I have displayed are in the old Johan cases that are well over 30 years old. The wife insists on using her duster on them and over this time I have had to repolish them because of the buildup of fine scratches over time. They are due for a wash ad polish right now. but really dread the job! Been studying on getting a couple Carney cases that hold 21 or 24 cars.

May have took a lot of hours but the end result seems to have been well worth the effort! Fantastic Falcon 2 Story tractor! Seems like that particular semi tractor was a favorite on the carnival circuit! I would see them at carnivals well into the 1990's!

Great job and an even greater tribute!

Love it and great save! Takes me back to when we lived on Colorado and I worked for Simplot Soil Builders, an ag service. Ours were Internationals and one Ford. Still can remember starting down a field that was almost a mile and half long over a hill! Real pain keeping a straight line on tat one! Thankfully had the foam to mark our way!LOL

1968 AMT kit Only thing changed was the scoop on he hood and color from Candy Rootber with a white stripe to what you see!

Unfortunately my building of a kit is so sporadic it would not be possible to do a build thread on them! Some where in under glass is a Johan 31 Cadillac that I built.

I remember those days of trying to finish as quickly as I could. Just could not wait to see the finished build. Try slowing down a little, pace yourself a bit and you will see even bigger gains in your building skills! Great job on the trim! I used to paint all of mine but the hand isn't as steady and the eye not so sharp these days so went to using Bare Metal Foil and a magnifier! Keep on modeling!!!

Nice job on this one for sure Michelle! You are coming along nicely in your building skills. Try touching he exhaust tips with some flat black too as it will add a bit more realism to the build!