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Very cool. USAC had a great stock car series when I started watching TV again in 1983. TNT televised some of the races, most cars were '81-'82 Monte Carlos with 427 power, on dirt and pavement. They ran them at Eldora too.

I like it a lot. Does someone make a '57 grille? Those look great on the '60. It is nice to see the '60 and '63 kits coming out again. I have an OG '62 or '63 that I have been collecting parts for. I may as well build it since it is coming out again. I found some parts from Modelhaus some years back. VCG resins makes a nice stock 332/352-ish 3D printed engine for it. I also have a GM SM420 granny gear transmission I plan to use with it.

This is the only one I could find on eBay. Everyone seems to make a '79 however. https://www.ebay.com/itm/355474656452?itmmeta=01HQ3E8VRMP7WR59SA20DRYGCN&hash=item52c3f0ccc4:g:M2IAAOSw95Nl0nsE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwFogt2xQVDycL5GJ3mx5bQfK8MLxEufmaMYPybsBsWs0oZ70hbz6Obn3p%2FJFO%2Bs8W23GhOu59t%2FWRNZmMhq90eMmarQ9NcXG16LthNCmAdsnOafV2dDE3pf8Kr5UbI3HQHWJYYOqVYUDwCb3A349OkekcZUY55ZIWm7AwxCZEjUH8hf1lsLIy6pXyTWQma0V4%2F27dUlNyHsRu5ylvd9wnLue4Zmiqq7ayfypKch2EaK9EvaPz2vPvB56UrmCbaOeSg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7S8o-64Yw

I pick up metric drills when I see them. The conversion to decimal is easy, take the metric size x 4 and it is a cinch. Example, 1.2 mm, just use the significant number "12". Multiply that x 4 and you have 48, which is .048". I do most of the conversions in my head.

I recently bought one... it may have been boss when I was 14, but sure not cutting it with me now. Edit: I was supposed to do a '55 Chevy gasser build-off with my brother, he initially was in but bailed on me. I was going to give him some 3D printed stuff if he wanted it. We both agreed on the AMT kit. I'm going to pitch it as a group project at our next club meeting.

Nice Stangs. I took my '20 to a show in 2022 at a Mustang show at a Ford dealer. I didn't win anything but had a good time.

Yeah, I'm old. I'd revert back to the AMT Trophy Series kits. '40 Ford coupe '34 Ford pickup '36 Ford coupe '49 Ford and Mercury '53 Ford pickup '32 Ford kits I'm sure I am forgetting a few.

I would say so. I warm it up first. I like it over duplicolor.

Got it mocked up with tires and wheels on. I used .047" brass rod to pin the shocks. I need to fine tune a few things before I continue with prime and paint.

My sister beat breast cancer, free for 5 years now. I had a skin cancer lesion removed from one ear a couple of years back. Nothing to fool around with, glad you are ok.

Very cool, those were so ugly that they were beautiful. Digging the color.

I have one of his resins in the works... I got frustrated and put it down years ago, this was for the AMT donor car. I wish someone would make a '51 Merc trans kit or a decent printed body.

That is an amazing look. I have NEVER done a '55 sedan before, maybe it is time. I picked up some pro-street chassis parts, I believe from Iceman.

The AMT '34 Ford kit has a nice set of buckets in it.

I bought a set of 6 small drills at a hobby shop a year or so ago, 1mm to 1.6mm in a nice little case. Made in Israel. 2 of them were ground with a negative-rake, unusable. I have a set of #60 to #80 HSS drills, but the plastic package is difficult to open. I should look for an empty index case. Outside of that I really have not bought many drills in the past 40 years. I have bought some for machining jobs, mainly in screw-machine lengths and they were TiN coated. One job I had, we were encouraged to take drills from the tool crib when we needed them. I had garbage picked a lot of carbide micro drills from work, those I use by hand or in my mill since they are on the fragile side. Most of my small drills I keep in old rx jars with flags on them or in old end mill cases. Yeah, I have to measure up a few if I can't read the marking on the shank.

I skipped out of FB maybe 5 years ago, I may have checked in a couple of years ago, but to me it is a big waster of time. Plus being full of malcontents and attention-whores. There, I said it. I've said this before, I used to catch flak at shows by using parts I had machined up, I made some on CNC equipment. People would say that it gave me an "unfair advantage". By the same token there are many a model decked out with layers of PE parts at shows. More power to those who literally think outside of the kit box.

IIRC both kits were out at the same time. My brother did a box stock SD and it came out great. They were $25 in stores at the time, now I haven't seen one in many years. I doubt they are still being made.

Mopar touch-up paints on eBay, you can sort it by spray paint. I also select free shipping as a filter. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2332490.m570.l1312&_nkw=mopar+touch+up+spray+paint&_sacat=0

Thanks, the bed is from the snow plow truck kit. I just cropped the fenders and added a flat piece of plastic to cap it off. Also angled the inner bed to match. On building real tow trucks, the magic number for the rear-tow bar plate is 38" behind the axle centerline. This one was pretty close out of the box.

That is quite a crutch for a critical issue. Boeing has had other work-arounds for serious flaws in the past. Which were correctly resolved.

By the same token, I have seen and bought a few real crappy 3D parts. I had a tow truck push bumper, so awful I used it to take dimensions off it to build my own from plastic stock. I see 1/25 scale carburetors that look more like 1/32 pieces. Also I have a couple of sets of headers that are on the smallish side. I will probably give them to someone that I don't like. Conventional resin cast parts have always needed work to get some of them to look passable. Norm Veber's stuff is an exception to that rule, he casts very clean parts. Carburetors are one of the hardest things to make and look nice. They are one of the first 3D parts I have plunked my money down for. Now I have it narrowed down to a few sources I like. We had one guy (who has passed) in the club that made conventional-cast resin Holleys. The model he made to cast it by was astonishing in itself. Not a dud in any of them he had produced. I agree that parts are parts. The 3D market will in time make better and better parts with experience, better materials and better printers. We did a lot of 3D printing at work before I retired in 2020. We were able to quickly make prototype parts for fit-checks and we could hold close tolerances. Assembly tooling was another thing we made in quantity.

Squirted paint on a few things today.

I use the Bondo brand and it lasts a long time. I used to get the yellow tubes of Nitrostan, but had a big tube dry up on me. The caps are lousy.

I would like to replicate my '65 C30 panel truck. I think Flintstone makes the long body for one. Mine was in great shape with the 4-speed and 6, which got swapped for a 283 I had.

Some of the early AMT NASCAR kits had a bumper that is sort of like the Vega piece. Really easy to adapt it with plastic stock to fit anywhere.