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I've done this before, it works quite well. I quickly sprayed three colors on top of water in a 5 gallon bucket, with the water moving in a gentle circle. Give it a couple moments to mix a bit, let yellow and blue give you some greens, etc, and then dunk straight through the paint film. Mount the parts in whatever way makes sense to you. A model body could be taped to the end of a length of 2x2 or 2x4. After the body is underwater, use a stick or something to clean up the remaining paint that's on top of the water, so it doesn't stick to your part when you pull it back up. I used cold water and Krylon enamels. I can only find a pic of the surfboards I did, but I plan to do a full size van here very soon. In the past, it may have been silly on a model car becasue there was no way to replicate it in 1:1 vehicles, but now with vinyl wraps, you can hydrodip your daily driver if you have the means, which I would love to see.

I'm no expert, but boxy cars can cause a vacuum behind them which can cause drag and/or turbulence. I think this wing is used to push the air over car further behind the car and at least reduce that vacuum. Just an educated guess.

That would be Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver in Kill Bill Pt2 Here's one for ya. I've never done battle. I've just pushed some people and run away!

Complete agreement. The container would have buckled the cab completely. Also why would it have been placed there is such a position. I think the container could be removed and another car thrown across the vans rear chassis, and the realism would be spot on. The work though is really spectacular. The weathering is so good, it looks real.

I dig it. Terrific work.

I like it. Terrific work.

There are lots of musicians, but there are much fewer that take it to the level of an artist. Eddie, like Neal Peart, whom we lost in January, was one of those.

Paul thanks VERY much. My plan is to add a pair of Brooklands windscreens as the stock unit looks like it's from a tank. The Bugatti pieces look perfect. I'll look into it.

Or more exactly, they are extra material added for the ejector pins within the mold housing to push against, to push the part out of the mold. Like Tom said, much prefered than having pin marks in the plastic part itself.

I quite agree. That's why a beach racer made more sense to me than a hot rod. Some minor engine tweaks and then remove as much weight from the bodywork you can. Get in, go like heII. John, Carl thanks. Gonna be a slate grey with door numbers.

I'm not a fan of anything larger than 17's on any classic vehicle.

Finally back at this one. I'm gonna keep at it until it's done. I usually dislike the spider look on the ignition wiring but they are so short it's impossible not to have them that way. More soon.

Good choice. That car could be (and has been) built hundreds of ways.

I get it, ads help pay the bills for this forum, but there needs to be limits set. Ads that take up the entirety of my screen or those with actual commericals embedded are the worst. And I'll bet also whats slowing down the forum. This is a screen grab of an ad in between posts in a thread. It's getting out of hand.

I think I would agree with Steve in the long run, but if I had to choose a kit.................. I think I'd lean to the AMT 1949 Ford Coupe. It's a good kit, has lots of options and its one of the most popular post war cars for hot rodding of all sorts. It's a real good looking body style. As long as I have a never ending variety of parts to use, I could do with just that one. There's hundreds of ways to build it.

Zona makes a good tool. Been using thier saw for a long time.

Well Ringo Starr has sort of made his post-Beatles career of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr_%26_His_All_Starr_Band Then there's Chickenfoot - Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Very impressive. I've attempted hand painting on a model, it's very difficult to pull off.

I quite agree. The book was utterly terrifying and try as they might, they never got as good as my imagination for bringing it to life. I think most of us would argee Playboy (and other associated periodicals) had an influence on us growing up. Oh yes. I read through these in my mid teens as well. Bond was not a nice guy. There's no comparison between the books and the movies, though I do enjoy the films as well.

I realized that this is an unusual question on this forum, but it's literally the only place I frequent where most everyone grew up before the video game generation and may have had a well used library card. My mom was a big reader and I fell in love with it as soon as I got past Green Eggs and Ham. I read kid stuff until the age of 9 or so, when I picked up a paper back, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. To call it a life changing moment is an understatement. I devoured everything I could find by E.R.B., Tarzan, John Carter, Pellucidar, Carson Napier. Then I dove into Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Alexandre Dumas musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo, and from there into Mr. Tolkiens world of Middle Earth and C.S Lewis' Narnia. I also tried my moms book stacks, Peter Benchly, Alex Haley, Robin Cook. Sadly, my reading has fallen off as I've gotten older, with so many other time sinks in my life, but Stephen King has been a favorite. But it was definitely the early adventure books that influenced me the most. Heroes, nobility, brotherhood, self sacrifice, love and honor. These were the finest things a person could aspire to and I filled many, many hours with them. It had a great impact into the kind of person I wanted to be, the person I became and the decisions I have made. I will say though, in our world today, those six virtues seem as outdated as those old pulp novels themselves. And it makes me sad. So what literary works influenced you the most and why?

Kenneth I've run quite a few build offs over the years and participated in many more, and I'm going tell you that the more you narrow the theme, the less interest you will have. So in my opinion - convertibles - great idea. Plenty of kits of all sorts. American only? I would recommend not adding this. Because people who would have ordinarily joined you with the Jaguar or Mercedes roadsters they have planned, have just been asked not to participate. More people join build offs when their planned build coincides with the build offs theme. Also short time frames are a killer as well. I'd go with a fall/winter type length. I wish you luck on the build off.

You're right there. It's so custom it doesn't look custom. No angled antennas or silly visor. If I have to pick the best custom of all time, this would be my pick.

I've done the NASCAR chassis swap before. It works terrificly but it does make the exhaust system problematic.

Joel, the Cannonball CBP is first a build off. Pre-built entries aren't allowed. At the beginning of the year everyone starts with a new kit or kits, and then build them together as a group. After the build off ends Dec. 1, there is a people's choice poll determine the winner. These instructions are in the first post of the build thread.

So I've dug into my kit. The reports on the brittle nature of the plastics are not unfounded. You gotta be REAL careful with it. This kit is made for big and little tires. So if you have other plans like I did, a tire that looks proper, in front, will look small in the back, and vice versa, due to the size of the wheel wells. I have obtained a Revellogram Grand National V6 for some engine bay interest. I'll be adding a better looking turbo and I'm still kicking around the intercooler plans. Not sure where to put it for realism. Will be adding a naca duct for air intake to the turbo. That should be a fun hole to cut with this plastic.