bobss396

Richmond VA? There are some shows down your way, a couple of clubs too. One of out members moved down to NC some years ago. I don't venture out too much lately, I'll go to New Hampshire, the old MASSCAR club used to put on a good show. There is one upstate NY in October I would like to attend. Maybe stay over night.

Nice work, resurrecting a glue bomb is always a challenge. I have never tackled making a body side before. I have an old AMT '62 Ford glue bomb in process, I was lucky to get it apart and not break anything.

I place an order with Mega maybe 2x a year. They have some Detail Master stuff like sanding cloths, I try to fluff the orders up to offset the shipping. There was a site, Scale Dreams, but it has seemed to go POOF... gone. When I have a decent order of Evergreen, I buy from them directly. I buy a lot on eBay and have some saved sellers I use over and over. I buy touch up paint from Quirk Auto Parts, free shipping but the paint is not cheap. I use a lot of Mopar colors, the cans spray nicely. I have a hardware store not too far that has a good K&S line of materials. The NNL East is in April, Wayne NJ. Not a bad ride for me, over a couple of Bridges and I'm there in well under 2 hours. The ride home is like 3 hours. Many vendors I had expected were not at the last one. One guy I like was there this year, Model Empire. He sells on eBay too.

I have a plastic storage box that sits on one of my dining room chairs with all the plastic stock in it. That is largely in an Evergreen bag. I have to often sift through a bunch to find what I need. I'd like to separate it out into cardboard tubes, round stock, flat and angle and other odd shapes. Metals are in a smaller photo-album box, I keep the unopened stuff separate. The box you have looks pretty neat, something like that might help me.

I picked up one at a Hobby Lobby, 40% off. So far I have opened the box and looked at it. The exhaust in the floor has got to go. I have a few 572 3D printed big blocks that may be good options, although the headers may be too short. Maybe I'll make up some fenderwells out of solder. I would like to open the rear wheel wells deeper and lower the rear, like a TLBT car. I have only got about 15 projects ahead of it in the queue. I also got a '66 pro street Nova... cracked that open and cut out the trunk lid last night. Gonna be rainy here today, will make a batch of pickles and hang out on the bench.

Thanks, now I NEED one... I'm on a semi pro-street binge lately...

Thanks. Real odd that they would do a partial ship of a fairly large order. I'm not happy about losing the 3/64" tubing. Maybe I will set up an account. I buy from Mega Hobby and of course eBay, quite a bit. My local hobby shop has zero aftermarket stuff, has some scratch building stuff. The other 2 big shops are 25 miles each was and the pickings are slim. I used to make up a shopping list for the NNL East each year, but this last year many vendors that I knew were not there.

I see one on the road now and then, always liked wagons of any type.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

Kim Haynes was a good guy to follow 20 years back, he did great restorations of old Cup cars.

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.

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.

I have started to give away my current collection of resin carbs, really not as god as the printed ones.

I just saw the Comet at a hobby store, no Mustang so far. That is one I'd like to see again.

Thanks, I will look for it. Nothing locally so far. I have a good selection of their stock as it is.

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.

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.

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.

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

I have to look for those kits, I have a snap Earnhardt Jr car I have started. The tires on those are extra nice.

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.