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  1. absmiami
    Just a quick note on Archer Transfers - Woody worked on this stuff for years - I’ve always used his rivet sheets - but he has finally called it quits and closed the sales door on his website a couple of months ago - which is a shame - so we’ll be scouring the internet for strays now …. Oh well …
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    Great stuff
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    Halifax ! One of my favorite cities - though ive only been there once … the Cape Bretton drive is my alltime favorite roadtrip - hope to do it again one day - but with a stickshift … and gracias
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    forgot that you've chosen to build the Revell kit and not the older Heller kit - for the record - the heller front suspension was compromised too ...
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    And by the way - saw Pryce race this car at Watkins Glen in 74 and 75 - this would be a good kit to try Tamiya’s black laquer …
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    Well chosen Don Nichols is smiling - somewhere …
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    All good in fact, all very good consider re-doing the upper A arms - they are less than great - not as precise as the rest of the forward compartment … show the age of the kit …
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    Some more color - I’ll knock the paint edges down w a sanding stick before i mask for the dark green
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    Nice - is this milled fr alu stock or - what ?
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    Wouldn’t it be weird Charlie if we had I phones in the fifties and all the pix were in black and white ? Btw - liking your jag powered roadster ….
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    Mr. Circle Track made the gauges - pleased with the result - those of you that build dirt track racers know his work …. the bezels are sanded flat on the bottom - used this great new tool I bought at Dirtyoldfinger.com. - they are going fast - buy yours today …
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    The bezel for the tach is a short peice of .140 alu tubing - chucked into a foredom drill and polished w a sanding stick - the bezels for the smaller gauges will be rings of nickel rod .. the gauge decals are clear coated with acrylic clear and then will be applied to the gauge discs - on the white background they will look really good …
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    The tach is bottm right - gauge is about .125 - the two smaller gauges are for water temp and - not sure - fuel pressure ? They are anout .100
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    Took this shot at The Brumos Collection in Jacks …
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    Time for the dash - the one on the left is the panel for the Miller 91 fr dr kit that Harold made - the dash for the 122 has a different shape because the top of the cowl is nearly flat - using a peice of Evergreen .015 sheet.
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    I’ve known Mr Model Car Garage for decades - when he sold me this set years ago he swore to me that it worked - you were right, Bob …
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    Nice
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    Then placed some .014 brass rod into the trench and bent the hinges into shape around the rod - using files, fingernails, whatever - the metal is very soft - but will hold its shape once its “worked” around the rod …
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    I then mashed the hinge tabs into the trench with the end of this Xacto blade - and a flattened tooth pick -
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    Instead of shaping the tabs with a photo etch bending tool - I laid out some Evergreen siding sheet with a wide pattern and made a U shaped “trench” to shape the tabs - and taped the hinge panel onto the sheet with tabs over the trench…
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    Next up is the hinge that sits inside the bonnet on the left side - attaching the left side panel - I’ve had this Model Car Garage hinge package for years but hadn’t tried it - Bob still has it on his site - last i checked …
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    There is a small ridge just visible on the paint line - but i think that i can knock that down before i add the contrasting dark green below …
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