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bobss396

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  1. I see one on the road now and then, always liked wagons of any type.
  2. I ordered some material from Hobbylinc on eBay recently... well... 1 piece shows up via AMAZON, the 3/64" thin wall tubing, and it looks like a pretzel. I have to check on the status of the other 6 things I ordered. I have some square tube in aluminum. Pretty bad when I have more stock on hand than most hobby shops. My latest count of Evergreen stuff is over 70 items.
  3. I use mainly the Shabo dry transfers for my tires. I have a bunch of brands. The decals that come with the Performance Plastics tires work well. I wash the tires first, soap and water to get any mold release off them. Apply the decals, give a light coat of Dull Cote. I'll do another light coat the next day.
  4. I never ever cut the stainless pins, use them as is. I used to be able to get brass pins, but they no longer carry them. I use brass pins I cut from stock, I roll them using a hobby blade and snap them apart. I sharpen my blades with a Smith hard stone.
  5. Look at the 18-8 pins. Really a good deal buying 100 at a time. https://www.mcmaster.com/products/pins/dowel-pins~/diameter~1-32-1/
  6. I really paint nothing until all attaching parts are completed. I have guys in my model car club that do things like paint the body first... no test fitting of anything. One guy got to a final stage with some odd kit with a huge windshield and was stumped. I tend to tackle those obstacles first since the whole project hinges on how good the glass looks. Lately I pin almost everything. I picked up some 1/32" stainless steel pins from McMaster-Carr, 1/8", 3/16" and 1/4" long. I was cutting up brass rod. I still cut up 3/64" brass rod, no pins are available. I use a small Palmgren vise to file the ends square and flush. I'll leave the brass exposed since it adds a coolness factor.
  7. Kim Haynes was a good guy to follow 20 years back, he did great restorations of old Cup cars.
  8. Mine are similar, only with a little ring between the 1/16" and 1/8" pieces. All telescoping aluminum tube. I made 2 to bring to a club meeting last week and gave them away. Like this one from Gofer. The last ones I got were literally breaking in the package. http://www.hobbylinc.com/gofer-racing-wired-distributor-with-boot-red-plastic-model-vehicle-accessory-1:24-1:25-scale-16002?source=froogle&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuf2nv9rygAMVTPvjBx3Z4wo2EAQYAiABEgKiy_D_BwE VERY flimsy.
  9. There were a lot of odd versions of what we thought were the same car seen everywhere. I'm researching a Richie Evans Chevy coupe modified, ran into a site with 8 pages of photos, there were some very obscure cars I had never seen.
  10. I have started to give away my current collection of resin carbs, really not as god as the printed ones.
  11. I just saw the Comet at a hobby store, no Mustang so far. That is one I'd like to see again.
  12. Thanks, I will look for it. Nothing locally so far. I have a good selection of their stock as it is.
  13. I built all of the ones in the OG form, probably around 1970. The Comet, Mustang, Falcon and the Time Machine 1965 Chevelle. I built another Chevy II around 1995 when I got back into modeling... man did it look like BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH. I should un-box it and give it a new life. Like the old MPC modified kits, they are a good start to a well detailed build. Like a blank canvas.
  14. I have to grab one of these kits, nice work... very slick looking. I have to give 3D printing a try. I spend enough buying parts already made, but the $$ is not too bad. On small tubing and other stock. I use a load of K&S 1/32" and 3/64" brass wire. I pin almost everything these days, makes a good fit a lot easier. Also their 1/16" aluminum tubing and up from there. I have looked around for some 3/64" tubing, no luck. RB Motion has some on their site, tried to order some but it failed. I have to give them a call to see if they are still in business. I'm doing some hinges mow on a pro-street Chevelle trunk and somewhere got a package of Plastruct 1/8" square tube with a hole through it. I'd like to hunt around for more. This is the stuff you need to get their solvent glue for or use CA glue. On roll cages, I use almost exclusively Evergreen 3/32" tube. The hole takes a 3/64" piece of stock.
  15. I need to get out more, SA was pretty good for a long time. They even had a forum, but I was done with forums for a very long time until recently.
  16. The '31 Ford was a woodie, the box art had it posed like a surf wagon, in stock form with black wheels. I'll look for a shot of it. I'm going to see a collector later on, I'll see if he has one that isn't buried. Found one. I think the one I had was way older. https://www.modelroundup.com/product-p/rmx-7637.htm
  17. I have to look for those kits, I have a snap Earnhardt Jr car I have started. The tires on those are extra nice.
  18. I was about 10... got the Revell '31 Ford woodie... never finished it. It was hard to tell the parts from the chrome-tree. Other Revell gems of the era were the '56 Ford pickup, the '56 Chevy (green car on box top) and the '57 Nomad. I had always wanted to do the OG '55 Chevy (2 cars racing on the box top) based on the boxart alone.
  19. Very nice, that was a great annual when they came out. VERY hard to come across now. I have a '62 Galaxie glue-bomb in the works, I have to take some pictures. I scored better bumpers at the NNL East this year. I was lucky it came apart without breaking anything like the glass and interior tub. I swear by those PE saw blades that Model Car Garage makes.
  20. I hit the local bookstore 2x... no dice. They used to have the Scale Auto Contest Annual, is SA still in business, been a while for me. My local hobby shops are awful for anything but $40 car kits. Hobby Lobby has some scratch building stuff, but 40% off on kits at times. No car magazines at all anywhere, maybe some military stuff. One hobby shop is a few miles from me, I pick up glues and KS materials. And a hardware store 12 miles out has some KS and other materials. The other 2 "bigger" shops are 25 miles in opposite directions. One... zero model after market stuff. The other has about 1/100th of what I have and is mostly Pegasus wheels and tires.
  21. I built one MANY moons ago, it was unusual then as it is now.
  22. I am a '36 Ford junkie. I have likely every release from AMT from 1961 to the Dick Tracy version. I have a couple of Monogram issues boxed up. Like the AMT '40 Ford, the '49 Ford and Mercury, it is a timeless subject.
  23. I saw Allison at Flemington with a #22 DIRT modified. I met him in the pits after the race, he signed one of the Flemington purple bumper stickers for me, I should have it still somewhere.
  24. bobss396

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    Exceptional all the way. I have an old Torino Cobra I tried to rescue last year, maybe the #43 is the way to go. I definitely want one of the ramp trucks.
  25. That looks like the OG style issue from when I was a kid. Most of us gave up on them... the stuff was way too fiddly for a 10-year old to tackle. I knew only one kid that had the patience and skill to pull one off.
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