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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.

The AMT '67 pro street kit has them.

A friend of mine used to run a wrecker service and moved a lot of junk cars. I drove for him off and on when I was out on workman's comp.... Anyway, he got all of his cars at the junkyards, and so did i. Many times the cars had a minor issue that was easily fixable. So he finds a '71 LTD for his wife to drive. It was quite clean, it needed a transmission. We changed it while it hung from the back of a tow truck. That car ran well for years.

On the R and L part thing, I mark the R parts only, usually with a small drill point where it won't show once assembled.

Holy carp... one flat out amazing build.

Great body style. There was a local one that was used to deliver auto parts, it had a 429 and factory 4-speed. I tried to buy it for a while, then it was gone.

I follow him on IG, we have discussed his model car builds. He is quite a good builder. It will be great to have him back.

I use the small tackle style boxes too. I pick up most at Hobby Lobby. I make a label that goes on the inside of the cover and it gets recycled to the next project. Most of my projects live inside those stackable plastic shoe boxes. I see a few guys in my club doing this. I will also re-purpose rx pill containers to sort parts as I clean them up for prime and paint. Finished parts go into the tackle boxes.

Have you tried a silver base coat? I have had it block reds and yellows that tend to bleed through. Of course over a suitable primer. Good old Black Gold Orion Silver was great for this.

I usually wander outside if I have to really make a mess sanding something. I find that a cold "snack" or two helps keep the dust down.

The '60 Ford was (thankfully) a one-off year. It is possibly the widest car body ever made. I had driven a few when I was fixing cars, had to eyeball the garage bay opening carefully. I did a little fit-up of the '60 chassis under a '61 body, doable with a lot of slice and dice activity. Like I need another Frankenstein project.

I have a couple of the '61 sealed kits, the one with the molded-in hood, no engine. I hope the new one comes with some decent detail, an engine and opened hood would be nice.

I use Dullcote to protect tire transfers and decals. Someone else here uses Tamiya TS-71 that does the same thing. Or similar enough.

I was lucky enough to start welding in HS when I was 17. Onto auto college, we had a mandatory good gas and arc welding course. With the stock cars, I had a racing partner, the best welder I have ever come across. He could do anything in steel. No gumball welds, no bolts added to fill gaps.

I have a partly built '58 in a box somewhere. I chopped the top and am struggling with the glass. Fun times. I recall that the engine and chassis built up quite well. This is one of the cars that has held up well since it came out. I guess the molds were well-done back in the day. Everything on the trees still looks crisp and clean on the newer ones.

I missed grabbing one of these kits at our recent show. I was busy vending. Hobby Lobby (king of the 40% off dealie...) hasn't gotten them yet. The only hobby store close by has them for almost $40. I can wait for HL to get them in or catch one at a show.

I have a few of those bottles too for some reason... I mainly store parts in then on ongoing projects. I will have to squirt some sample paints on them. I also have a good supply of leftover kit pieces I use to experiment on. I have been doing that for many years.

I just sold a bunch of kits at a show, got rid of many duplicates. For an odd reason I came home with 2 unsold AMT '49 Merc kits. They were priced to sell. I had a Replicas version of the '56 Ford, that came home too. I was talking with a modeling buddy yesterday. I was talking about taking a year off and building nothing but Trophy Series kits. Everything always fit together well on those. I never recalled a struggle even at 9 years old. I'm building an AMT '66 Impala Modified Stocker. I also have a stash of this series and most are pretty good. Talk about fit issues. I had to sand the sides of the interior tub to get it to meet the tops of the doors. I made up blocks towards the front of the tub as stops. I will have to pin the chassis to the interior tub and make up something to positively locate the rear of the chassis to the body. Imagine a little kid of 12 trying to put one together?

Thanks. There was talk of adding a spring show some years back. The show itself takes some work. We set up on Friday afternoon. Once everything was at the facility, we had it done in an hour flat. I was a vendor there and that went fairly well. I had hoped to sell more than I did. We had 170 paid through the door, included modelers and spectators. Models on the table, just under 250. Usually we get between 275 to 310-ish. I think covid had a negative impact to this day. Plus the 2022 show was canceled at almost the last minute. The number of clubs present was very low. I don't recall seeing any from The Town of Newburgh, Classic Plastic or Masscar. I'm not sure that the Masscar club even exists. The Tristate club from NJ had a good representation. I may have missed some since I was selling and stayed busy with that. The cast of usual-characters was also low. The diehards that used to come to the show were absent. I know some that are older than me, some have passed on as well. We are not getting any younger.