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Painting the chassis and interior first can give you a little practice before tackling the body. When I am painting the exterior, I have been starting with the hood and other small parts before I move to the main body shell. It really is just practice and seeing how each type of paint lays down. I have just started using an airbrush and find it to be MUCH EASIER than I thought it would be. The airbrush also gives you much more control over how much or how little paint is sprayed.

How do I constantly look past the obvious. All New Content and Since Your Last Visit are checked on mine. Highlighted in black, not sure how I missed it.

I look forward to seeing what 3D printing allows. I sure would like to scan in a part, make the changes I want on it and hit print. Molded in custom hood scoops, wheel flares on race vehicles and more detail on normally generic parts are just some of the possibilities. Kids will get involved, we will have to pay them to program our parts.

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Looks like wood to me. I have this kit as well and my try out this technique. Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for the reminder. I must remember to to keep the 18th open.

Like the details. This is going to be a good looking Charger.

Seems to be working fine for me. Make sure you don't have anything checked in the filters on the left of the page.

Tom - You should be able to delete them yourself. Look near the top of the page.

Beautiful cars. That '71 Cuda convertible is pretty much my dream car. I want a driver though, not an all out show car that I am afraid to scratch when I am cruising around the neighborhood.

I have always liked the red hockey sticks. Nice build.

I am coming up on all that assembly. I see I have a few fun nights to look forward to.

I did not say to try and force the kids into it, I just said to expose them to it. Just like your neighbor. It is harder now to randomly come across model kits than it was even just a few years ago. I believe I saw my first model kit walking down the toy aisle in a Woodward & Lothrup department store. Then I found other kids in my neighborhood that built models. Now, even the big box stores are no longer carrying kits. Kids won't look up from their phones and iPads unless there is something else to do. I was away from the hobby for 30 years and was glad it was still here when I wanted to start building again, although I had to go to the internet to get reconnected (which is how I found this site). Now with that said, I have no idea how you could randomly expose a kid to modeling. Some of the responses make me think you guys are old man Johnson that lived at the end of our street. Rumor was, he would eat children if he caught them on his lawn.

How did you find out about modeling?

There is one of these for sale at RK Motors right now. It looks like it may be this exact one.

It isn't as easy to expose kids to the hobby as it was years ago. A lot of the big mainstream stores no longer carry model kits. You need to take them to a hobby store, which are fewer and further between. I agree we don't have to recruit them, but we should at least expose them to it, when we can.

Check out carmodel.com they have a few small scale Oldsmobiles on there.

If I understand correctly. It looks like you could trim the tape around the edge, where the rubber would be, after you painted the door. Leave the tape on the clear part of the window, mask the painted door and then paint the rubber portion.

I agree that the zoo had to shoot the gorilla. I am sicked that they needed to make that decision. There is no excuse for that child falling into the exhibit. I bet the mother even put him on top of the wall.

Just a little more filling, sanding and shaping and you will have it. Looks good.

Remember to get the side of the hood painted and remember every piece of the kit has a mold line. A quick scuff with a sanding stick right after you cut it from the tree is usually all that is needed. Some of this is trial and error. Everyone has their own way of doing things. I have just been doing what I think is right and so far there are 3 or 4 things I will do in a different order next time. You will find what works for you. Look at everything, come up with a plan. At the end of the build see what worked and what didn't. Make changes to the plan for your next build.

That is a very nice space. Not going to lie, I am a little jealous.

I will play Devil's advocate. We focus on the car side of things. I have seen lots of kids buying Gundam kits and war gaming figures in my LHS. I have even overheard one of the employees tell someone in the store that those sections of the store is where most of their money is made. There are kids in the modeling hobby, they just found their own niche. We can hope that they gravitate to the car side as their interests change. There needs to be something in the car aisle that appeals to them when that happens. We, on this forum, are a small concentrated percentage of the market. There are lots of builders out there they do not know this board exists and there are those that do not care. How many of us commit to buy 10 kits a month at our LHS? If we all did that, then we may have a larger voice in what should and should not be built. We are a fraction of the overall market. I just don't know what that fraction is.

I have a lot that I like, but my all-time favorite is the 1971 Plymouth 'Cuda Convertible. As I have gotten older, I would prefer it to have an automatic transmission bolted to either a Hemi or 440.

I vote for finishing it too We need to come up with a cool name for it, like El Gato or something.