bobss396

I snapped up a slew of NASCAR kits over the years. I still come across boxes of them in my stash. Any time I saw one for $5 or less, I got it. We had an outlet store selling them, I grabbed a lot of AMT and Monorgam kits back then for $1.97 each. They are great for chassis donors and to grab other parts from.

I have been going back and forth between Tamita TS-30 and TS-76. I believe that the TS-30 is a little nicer on a body.

I have a thread on a similar car in the works. I'll post more on it today. I got the body on eBay, used a NASCAR donor chassis and an engine I had tarted a while ago. Yours has the same look as mine, nice work.

I would like to get mine down to a core of 100 kits. I have been giving away partial kits to other builders. One trader I know well, he is older than me and his stash is astonishing. He buys collections, big ones at times. From guys who passed or are in nursing homes. He sells year-round at collectible shows. I sold alongside him at a show last year, we both did pretty well. Some day, someone will have to deal with what he has. I no longer have qualms about raiding a closed kit for something I want. I just put a note on the box so I have an idea of what is left. Then there is the case of aftermarket parts, which I have a lot of. Most of that could be sold for close to the package prices.

That car has been "missing" for over 50 years. BUT.. there are loads of pictures of it thankfully.

Usually chlorine for hot tubs is granular or the 1" tabs. Being heated up adds to the caustic reaction. Be safe out there!

Having an off week between painful dental surgery recovery, food poisoning early in the week and seeing my pain management doc yesterday. The '40 Ford project got in the way, I'm also dabbling in the '65 Fairlane stock car. But the '56 is coming along.

Very nice. I put the nose extension on mine and went NASCAR. It builds up well out of the kit. I see it is out in a new box.

I took apart a Chevy II that I built around 1995... Testors paint and tube glue. I was astonished at how much glue I used to get the glass and tub installed. I thought it could be saved... nah... maybe a few parts but I'm calling it toast.

The 39 had great headlights too.

More work on the 40. Interior is done and I'm happy with it. Chassis is painted with Tamiya TS 4 German Gray. Switched to the Ford Y block late in the game. Body work is almost done, needs work above the windshield. I frenched in the kit light pods. Glued them in with CA glue and waited a few days for it to dry. Then sanded them to the front fenders. Prime, putty, sand, rinse repeat. I have fitted the lenses to the pods. Also the chevron tail lights.

No clue why AMT chose the '41, as the '40 was a far better looking car, at least to me. Kudos to anyone who tackles one and does it up right. Note: there are none of these in my hoard.

I got back into the hobby in 1995, I was away for 20 + years. I figured I would be good... not really. I was using tube glue, knew nothing about primer or removing mold flash. You will get there, little by little.

My son works for the NYC MTA, in the Coney Island Brooklyn yard. He works on wheels and axles for passenger trains and subways, these axles are very heavy duty. They have something around a 6000-ton press they use all the time. It recently broke and his group had to be reassigned while it was under repair, waiting on parts.

On the breaking-body thing, I have started a while ago taking material off the sides of the chassis before doing too much. I remove maybe .050" to .062" per side, it makes fitting the chassis a ton easier. Any sharp corners, I radius them with a sanding stick. Not too much, any little bit helps. On regular plastic bodies, I'll also sand some off from behind the rocker panels. Most kits for some inane reason, the bodies curve in at the bottom quite a bit.

VHT has a nice bronze spray can, made for wheels. But worth a look.

I did one a year ago, a '62 Ford that was in decent shape. The chassis came off with the screws, the bumpers too. I had to cut the interior nubs off with the MCG PE saw blades. This would be not doable without these saw blades. The firewall I broke off cleanly, the glass came out using the PE saw blades. The interior and glass will not go in per the kit instructions, I had to get creative with the dash mounting too.

I forget exactly when, this was when most model production was shifted to China. Along with that was a fear that these molds could get lost in the case of some conflict and we would never see any of these models again. Some in the industry were instrumental in digging up old kits that had flaws in them, but full speed ahead. There was not much in new models on the drawing board. I think that fear fueled me and others to go into a full-hoard mode. This is why I have 2 to 6 of certain kits.

They used to sell them in the backs of car magazines when I was a kid. I later found that there was a catch.. you had to buy an entire RR car of them.

This is simply staggering to me. I'm familiar with various CAD platforms, the 3D activity I see here is well beyond my capabilities. I have been messing with Tinker cad a bit. My son's girlfriend works at a library that does a 3D printing service, she pointed me to Tinker CAD. so far I can't draw a simple cylinder to make a wide-5 stock car wheel. One guy in my club is good with Blender, he does some really intricate things including seatbelts that "click" together.

Whenever I saw the ribbed rubber tires in junk collections... it took me right back to 1962 when I built mine. I true flashback to age 7. It was a cool kit then. I should do another one. But I would have to dig up those OG tires first.

Mine are very used to seeing me outside. If I go out to shoot some primer, they stay on the deck rail and keep eating. I know where they live, nests in the trees. I see them coming in for breakfast. Then there's the bluejays. I must have at least 15 of them. They sound the dinner-bell cry when I step outside. There is a couple of real fat ones. This is the bird that was all but eradicated by pesticides. By 1970, they were simply not around. It was around 1996 when I heard a familiar racket and saw an easy dozen of them outside in a tree. Then, not a one until I noticed them in large groups around 2016. My girlfriend got me feeding them every morning.

I have one of his older '34 coupe bodies, excellent quality. I'll have to compare it to his new one.

How about toluene? That I'd prefer over MEK. I worked in a machine shop and the owner practically swam in MEK. He would leave the gallon can open in the shop and I could detect it right away.

I saw a 2018 with a 5.0 at a dealer last year. Otherwise the same car as mine. They offered me an even swap, but that car had 48k miles on it.