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Good idea. My basement building area has a tile floor. Drop something and it could wind up on the moon. Now I build at my dining room table. Even those parts can bounce off my foot and be lost forever.

He looks pretty good all things considered. I've been back from the dead myself.

Potato salad is more traditional among modelers. I've known guys to use macaroni salad containers with good results.

It is tedious work, I'm lucky than a MCG PE set was available for my botched '66 Nova piece. I usually set a timer for like 10 minutes, work on opening grilles a little here and there.

I have done this and it works well. I often paint the transmissions (silver) late in the builds, so that happens after my wiring is done.

I soak them in warm soapy water, nothing else. Rinse, repeal, lol.

They came with the engine, source unknown. One guy in the club does slot cars and he sells the leftover parts.

I tried this on an AMT '66 Nova and it got so thin it broke.... I have opened a few using the knife blade.

Ivan LOVES this toy. The battery that lights up the ball is long dead. I added a 2nd ball that came from who knows where. I am unable to trim his nails, so he goes to town on this a few times a day. My local pet store carries the refills.

I used some obscure resin firewall on my last '32 coupe build. It was rolled and pleated, I painted it white. I now pretty much make my own if I have to recess it a bit.

This one is worth a watch, Sisu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu_(film) It is based in Finland, set in late in WWII. The Nazis are leaving Finland, burning everything in their retreat. They run up against a gold prospector who is quite the warrior in his own right. A tad on the bloody side, but very well done. Mainly Finnish actors, nobody that I recognized.

I have one started, really only 1 way to basically build it. I took my time making supports to mount the front and rear bumpers. The front bumper registry in the nose is not so hot. I opened the trunk too. Just another stalled project....

There will always be a good market for the '29-'34 Fords. It would be nice to see a new-tool '36 as well. Everyone has done the '40 Ford. I was talking with the Revell reps at the NNL East when they had test shots of their '49 Mercury. I said, all well and good, but you guys screwed the pooch on this one. They asked why. I told them they should have done a '51 Mercury, dare to be different. I don't think I made their day.

This is what I use mainly as glue for non-painted parts. I have around 5 CA glue types, like I said, I take care so they don't tip over. I have been using the Hobby Lobby CA glues, the caps stay cleaner than Zap-a-Gap does.

I use .020" brass wire on most of my radiator supports. I have also used stainless steel wire, tougher to bend. I use Detail Master fittings at the fire wall. The wire I just bend into a "V" shape at the radiator.

One of handsome Ivan.

Not available from what I can tell

More of Brie and Bleu. Mr. Beers is the older black cat ?‍⬛️.

When in doubt, crack open a '40... well done.

I super glue a plastic plate to the bottom of the bottle of anything I don't want to spill. I once spilled a can of zip kicker on the dining room table, it ate the plastic Xmas table cloth and I got some on a built chassis. I keep all my CA glues in an old potato salad container so they can't fall over.

I'm helping someone with a 5.3 LS swap Miata. We took the stock rear and gas tank out of it a few weeks back.

I had 5 of them, now all I see is 3. Names are Tippy (ears are mostly white), Red (lots of red on the underside) and Dorian (looks like a primered model car body). The one I called Shade is gone. This one had a long tail that acted as an umbrella on rainy days.

Those are brass brads I picked up either at a hardware store or a crafts store. I have been using them for around 15 years. The outer diameter is around ,020" and the heads are fairly small.

I did mine box stock-ish and it went together well. I would like to do another one.

My last '32 coupe I used .032" brass wire to mount the headlights on. Real simple and strong. Here's a couple of shots from a show a few years ago.