bobss396

I hosted sort of late in the game, decided a week ago and my girlfriend picked up a turkey for me on Monday. It was just me and my 2 sons, I invited others for coffee and pie, no takers. I did clean off my dining room table... and had a table cloth on it. I managed to organize all of my model car stuff, put stalled projects away in the finished basement. I really should move my building operation down there. We had a nice day, we are all thankful for mainly good health and my kids being gainfully employed.

I showed my Mustang fastback build to someone in the club. He clued me into showing me that the wheelbase is too short on the most recent release. By about an 1/8" according to my mock up. I'm struggling through fit issues with mine right now, interior tub to the body and glass issues.

I got into that earlier in the year, I am sold on it. Their lacquer clear goes well over it. A guy a few blocks has one, same color as yours.

I still think that the best car I ever had was a '65 Falcon. 27 mpg, 3 speed on the column, manual choke, no radio or even carpet. Just a rubber mat. It did have seat belts.

Aftermarket parts are aftermarket parts. Look at traditional slush-cast resin pieces. Some are really crappy and need a lot of work to look decent. Norm Veber is the polar opposite of that, his stuff is ultra clean and thin. Accuracy and appearance are everything to any modeler. So is time. I have a lot of 3D parts in my stash and I use them. Most take little or no clean up time to get ready for paint. I'll take that convenience all day, any day. Sure there are complete 3D kits, I see them mainly for trucks so far. And some stock cars on Etsy. I have seen the bodies close up at shows. Some require a lot of work to remove the step-over striations. I think that this will improve as techniques and equipment/software get better.

AND the said model will show up at contests as a hologram....

For rear leaf spring cars and trucks, I make up lowering blocks from styrene tubing. Look at some 1:1 car sites, like Gambino Customs or Porter Bilt.

Most stores carry as small as #12 beads. I ordered some on eBay, but they sent me round instead of the hex shape I wanted, they were #15. I'll find a use for them.

I have a set of MCG PE emblems that came with their '66 Nova set. This is the way to go, but likely expensive. I like the decals too. My brother would BMF the emblems first and then paint the car. Then he "polished" through the paint to expose the foiled emblems. This is the best method I have seen so far.

I have a good Mack brush I like, 520-0000.

With pure white, I like to polish it out and leave it at that. I have some I did with white auto paint and used clear lacquer over that. Those finishes have stayed white and have not yellowed.

I like the Tamiya TS-14. I have shot TS-65 clear pearl over it too with good results.

You got both of my '49 Fords and orange '32 Ford. Thanks. I had 8 cars there including a Vette in the theme class. The day after the show I was getting texts from people crabbing about the judging, some discussions were on FB, I gave up FB a while ago. Some of it has merit from what I saw. As a club we will have to discuss it. We used to have judging clinics over the 25 years I have been with the club.

I just realized that I have an old built Rat Packer I need to rescue. I built it around 1995 when I first got back into models. Tube glue that has held poorly, Testors enamels with no primer. I have on hand some 3D printed 572 Chevy engines... hot damn... just may be the ticket. One has injectors...

I know that the '69 has been out recently. I built a '68 a long time ago, I would like to have another one.

This and the AMT '40 Ford, you cannot ever go wrong building one. One of those kits that are nice box stock-ish builds.

Very nice! I need to get one. A guy in my club just finished one, used Tamiya paints and box stock. I have an old Rat Packer from 1994 or so I have to resurrect. I picked up the AWB Mustang fastback last week.

Not long ago, I scored a few cans of MM 1453 and 1454 spray metalizers at hobby shops. So I'm set for a while. I see them going for sick $$ on eBay.

Or just cruise around on trash night. I see them out at the curb all the time. I see interesting storage units at Hobby Lobby. Some have up to 10 drawers in them, tall but narrow.

I was up by Niagara falls at a park... nothing but smaller black squirrels. They were all over the place... like they owned it. I'm on Long Island, the south shore. The north shore has chipmunks, only this year I finally saw a straggler in my yard. I will have to watch for more of them.

I need something for my paint cans. Right now the ones not in service sit in my front foyer in boxes.

I got nothing, I'm not on FB but I would expect you may find them there. We had a photographer lined up, not sure what happened but he didn't make the show,

I saw the test shot of the car at the NNL East, very nicely done IMO. On the old MPC thing, IIRC my first was the Dodge Charger. Then onto something like the '66 Pontiac. Immediately even at age 11, I noticed that the bodies were thinner and crisper than the AMT kits at the time.

I picked up a Mustang fastback at a recent show, I agree it is quite basic. But little that has to be un-done to make it a good display piece. The roll cage is rudimentary and the "tubing" is out of scale at least to me. I will be dredging through my parts boxes on this one.

I have an OG '62 Ford hardtop glue bomb resurrection in the works. I'm lucky it came apart and I got the interior and glass out with no big issue. I also have a semi-built '62 'vert and a un-built one, also a rag top. The hardtop is at the BMF and final assembly stage.