bobss396

Yes, 3200 grit is a good place to start. If you start with too coarse a grit, it cuts the paint quicker. Too fine a grit, the cloth or paper clogs up fast. I work by the sink and have a container of water with a few drops of soap in it. With each grit, you want the model to be "uniformly dull". You are knocking the peaks off the rougher finish, it will get shinier as you progress. Stay away from edges, crown lines, etc. Experience will tell you when you are ready for the clear coat. The TS-13 is one I like with the TS line of paints. Anything I color sand, I will quit at #4000 or #6000 grit and go to clear. Edit: What are you sanding with? I like the Detail Master DM9000 set. I also have some other of their cloths, from #800 to #2400. The abrasive pads, they are thick and I find it easier to sand through edges.

Tamiya spray goes on very thin and is relatively softer that most model paints. I always started out color-sanding at 3200 grit. But go easy, always use the pads/cloths dipped in water (with a little dish soap in it) so the pads/cloths don't clog up. How many coats of paint did you give it? I like at least 2 or more.

I lived by a large tract of woods as a kid, We had it all, snakes, toads, frogs, box turtles, You name it, we had it less any skunks. If I cut the lawn in low light, I had to be aware of frogs and snakes mainly. I had a frog come out the side chute of the mower and spray guts all over my arm. I moved to the same area in 1986, I have seen ONE box turtle, no frogs or toads, I would see brown snakes and found a shedded skin on a pile of concrete in my back yard. I ran across a bunch of baby brown snakes in 1987 in the late spring. I back up to state land on 2 sides, there will never be houses built. I have seen families of fox and raccoons, possums, one here and there.

This is why I think some parts-makers do not actually use their products. If you are going to add a feature, as in a center hole, make it something that is actually useful, a standard size.

My squirrels are well behaved. I had a rotten piece of fascia on the far side of my garage a few years ago and some got inside. I chased them out and boarded it up and had it repaired when I had the roof done. My girlfriend worked with someone and raccoons got into her attic and eventually throughout the house... even into the kitchen cabinets.

I was trimming bushes last week and came across a praying mantis. Seemed to be on the young side. They get a lot bigger and darker with the fall. This one squirrel was on my deck rail a few minutes ago, he was the clean up after breakfast crew.

One of my club members has a '49 or '50 Plymouth kit, not sure if it is conventional resin or printed. I will ask him for details. I know he has a source that does custom requests, they are not at all cheap.

Simply stunning. It still blows my mind that a kit with a 1963 origin still builds up very well. No wonder I have a bunch in my stash. I like the AMT kits over the Revell ones.

I'm down to 3 or 4 primers that I really swear by, none are cheap. And not everyone has the same definition of a "good" paint job.

I have struggled with time now and then. I hoard up old kit wheel backs, so most register on the tires and not the wheels. I have to sand some parts down so they have no interference. When I had lathe access at work, I made my own adapters/wheel backs. I find that if 3D printed wheels do have a locating feature, they are often not concentric with the wheel and are an odd size. So there is little chance of taking some plastic or metal stock to mount them. My best chances are with using the kit wheel backs, or sifting through my wheel back stash.

No problem. I grabbed a bunch of Edsels some years back and only have maybe 2 Starliners. I had plans on doing a bunch of old NASCARs with them as donors.

I did a trial fit of one under the AMT '61 Ford kit and it seemed like it would work. Also the '63 Ford kit. Of course with the usual slicing and dicing as expected.

TS-68 is pretty good, I used that and like it over the TS-82 tire paint.

I thought there were clubs in the area. I recall Silent Traffic and another club that I used to see on other message boards. I recall the Philly NNL shows, have never gone to one. This is a good show, I haven't been to one in a while. https://www.superseptembershowdown.com/

The Ford was up for inspection. Haven't had it out since June. Once it cools more I'll drive it quite a bit.

Anyone got Lantern Flies? These are in stage 3 of 4... they all over the place...

I have 2 rabbits. I chase the little one out of the garden now and then.

The latest of the ladies. They are getting big!

I would have to make it detachable, that adds a lot to the length of the truck.

Hmmm... I do have a leftover plow from my '77 GMC wrecker build...

I have 2 in the works, I got them cheap as opened kits with parts missing. I have 3 others I got new. They are cool to build. I'm now stuck on adding control cables, etc.

Ron Coon Resins prints some in 1/25 scale, not as realistic as ones made from metals. I have been making my own usually from 1/16" aluminum tubing. I squash one end in a vise, drill a hole through the flat part and then shape a radius on it.

Nice. My late wife had one, it was her mom's car. Somewhere, it was painted and a new vinyl top installed. The body was a darker metallic green which looked okay. The top... it looked like a pool table...

We had an older guy in the club, who is no longer with us. He had the habit of painting himself into a corner with his builds. Things would come up VERY late into his builds. He would paint bodies right away and put them away for final assembly. Another was a car that had a glass canopy. He was into the late-build stage and had no way to locate the glass. We tried to give him some ideas, I'm not sure if it was ever completed.

This is it, I have seen others as well.