bobss396

3" of snow with a layer of ice under it on Long Island. 7 degrees this morning, already fed the birds. I'm not going far today.

Some of the Moebius kits have very nice hub caps, probably older than you want.

I save up old red plastic sprue to use in general. The source of these was a clear red plastic grille insert from the AMT '37 Chevy kit. It already had the curve in it. I sanded off the raised part, got about 95% of the shape and cut them off with a razor saw. I even polished them up before the last cutoff.

Very nice. I have 2 AMT kits going and a Revell one sitting idle. For the resin one, I'm waiting for some 3D side pipes. But that is moving forward. I also have a resin '51 to do, that is made for the Revell kit. Great choice on the color, it will look amazing with some clear over it

I'd say so. It goes on very well and I tend to have a heavy hand with any paint.

I have 2 of the Galaxie kits I picked up for a decent price. But with bad decals, Hobby Heaven had new ones. I'm looking forward to building them both. It is nice to seeing them being reissued.

This is one of Norm's resin grilles. I shot Tamiya gloss black over it, the resin itself has a good surface, as supplied. I let it sit for a day, took it outside and shot the chrome over the black. It really took very little, one major pass to get 100% coverage then shot it straight on before I took it back inside. The can sprays very well. I did heat it up in hot water first.

Ok, hope this is final primer. I'll give it until later tonight to look at it. The Revell chrome spray came out better than expected. I'll try to take better pictures of it.

Thanks. I still have to poke a few more holes in it. It wasn't much work to make.

This is from a Charger kit. 383 or 440.

I was off it for almost 6 years. I will go on very quietly now. I don't friend just anyone. I steer clear of politics and any bickering.

I would look around on eBay. At least you will likely not get skunked on the deal.

It has got to be either a Monogram hot rod pickup when I was around 7. Or an AMT 1934 Ford I got when I was 9.

The one by me looks to be barren of almost anything as of last week. This one has the self checkout. The kiss of death for many a retail store.

I've used BMF in some cases where it doesn't show much.

Ok, back to work on this gem. The engine just about fell out of it, so I'm making new mounts up. The exhaust was loose too. I had forgotten I prepped it for sneaker pipes, I have some 3D printed side pipes on order. I may omit the under car exhaust entirely. The trunk lid had a license plate recess, I moved that down to the rear valance. I blocked up the exhaust notches too. The body work is close to complete, I need to squirt more primer on it. I just washed the body. Paint is a Mopar touch up spray. Wheels will match the body color, I machined up some trim rings a while ago.

More work on this one. I'm down to painting. I sanded off the side trim, also on the hood and added a center strip made from .040" half round. On the body I had a minor ghosting issue since I'm using a lacquer paint. I used a Mopar touch up paint I got on eBay. Much better than Duplicolor sprays.

I buy the PPP ones on eBay. One vendor sells them with free shipping.

I had a neat old board-track book years ago, with artist illustrations. Some tracks were quite large and the cars were far from slow. The wood planks would get damaged, racers had to avoid the holes. One driver talked about daredevil kids sticking their heads up from the bottom of the track through the holes.

I follow this on the HAMB boards.

I need to get one going, but it will have to be able to be stored in a banker's box, no bigger than 11" x 17". Maybe I'll start off small and see where it goes.

This is how we built them as kids using heavy coat boxes. We either cut out 1 or 2 sides. Windows were cut out, frames made with construction paper. They were a lot of fun.

I would definitely buy this body if I came across it.

I made one using a smaller block of wood, I like to be able to turn it with one hand. Another I want to try will be using a hockey puck, real easy to turn that and it has mass to it.. won't tip over.

This is the nail silk material I have. The pillars on my Ford stock car, I just used aluminum stock and CA glue since it does not have to look pretty.