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    2006 Camaro Pro Stock

    in Model Car Racing

    Posted

    I've often wondered - how do you use a styrene model for slot cars? I've seen a few slot car tracks and they move so fast a single wipe out would reduce a model car to scrap in an eyeblink. Seems like an LOT of work for something that can be trash in a few minutes. Please explain.

    Barely 'cuda 2 In Progress

    in WIP: Model Cars

    Posted

    Hmm. Darin you are a wizard of styrene. In my collection of junk builds and kits I have a Pontiac Banshee, 69 GTO and late 90's WS6 Firebird. I may have to try my hand at this kind of stuff. Barely GTO? I'll let you know what I come up with, thanks for the inspiration.

    New Kit Induced Insomnia

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted

    This happen to anyone else?

    You get a new kit home, open it, peruse the goodies (and the baddies), bag the glass, stow the decals, and look over the instructions. You continue with your day.

    That night as you lay in bed, that kit pops back in mind and suddenly your thinkin....

    Hmm, if I take the engine from the saltie build, then hammer the remaining parts of the saltie build to ity-bities, then use the wheels and tires from the 49 Merc. Then use the saltie tires (didn't get hammered) on the Merc and add the blown cammer engine from parts box, we get a saltie Merc? Then the Caddy engine from the Merc.............maybe in the 53 Stude? Would that make it a Studillac? Need to research..................yada yada yada.

    Suddenly you glance at the clock and notice about 3 or 4 hours has slipped by!?

    You get up for work 4 hours later, tired as heck, but it's cool because you have every build planned out down to the tiniest detail for the next three years?

    Please tell me I'm not the only nutjob here. This has happened to me more times than I can count. I'm gonna start taking a Unisom every time I buy a new kit.

    Frankie Goes To Hollywood

    in WIP: Model Cars

    Posted · Edited by Jantrix

    Here's another method to make your welds. Very thin solder pounded flat, then cut into strips. Use the edge of a brass tube to dimple the soft lead strip in a pattern to replicate the beaded look. Add a wash for patina and adhere to the model. I'm not a huge fan of the rat-rod genre. However I do see some very cool possiblities for some awesome show cars/ hot rods with this idea.

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    in Model Cars

    Posted

    HOLY &$%*!!!

    If that is "modelling", than what I've been doing for 20+ years qualifies as nothing less than the wanton destruction of styrene.

    I sure can appreciate the craftsmanship, and you do awesome work but 1/25th scale scratch carbs with working butterflies? Geez, that's on a level of insanity that I've yet to reach.

    Awesome.

    Stripping Paint

    in Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials

    Posted

    I've found that if you sand through the Tamiya paint down to the primer in several locations on the part to be stripped, the Super Clean/Purple Power will eat its way through the primer (I use Krylon) and dissolve whats under the Tamiya paint, so that the Tamiya paint lifts off in big pieces. It takes a bit longer, but it can be done.

    67 charger

    in Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials

    Posted

    Ah, my favorite subject. the 66/67 Chargers are my favorite muscle car of all time. I love a fastback. I have build this car three times over the last 22 years. Here are my pics. The first is a Revell kit, and it's a great kit. Box stock in medium metallic gray Duplicolor. The second is the old MPC body on the AMT 70 Superbee pro-street chassis. A great and easy conversion. This is an older photo I've since replaced that nasty hood with an new one in semi-gloss black and a hemi-scoop. The last is an MPC kit built gasser style from my youth. Go easy on it, I knew nothing about cars at the time.

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    There are more pics in my Photobucket. If you have any questions, feel free.

    New modeller?

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted

    I've seen a few posts by newer members who need this lil part or another, I thought I'd add a couple ideas for building your parts stash up cheaply.

    1. Check out your discount stores like Big Lots or whatever you have near you. You can often find kits or 1/24 diacasts which can be stripped for parts. Don't worry if you don't like the car, use the body for painting practice and the parts go in the stash.

    2. WalMart/K-mart/Toy's 'R Us sales racks- nuff said.

    3. Yard sales/estate sales- spend a Saturday cruising your neighborhood. Check the newspaper classifieds, people often will post a notice there. I used to do this as a teen on my 10-speed. This is a great place to find kits or old build ups. People are often selling off juniors collection of glue bombs or selling off kits that they bought, that they "might" build "some day". This is very common. My dad hasn't build a model since 1982, but he still has three kits stashed away for "someday".

    4. Flea markets- see above, but be careful, those flea market guys are out to pad their retirement, so they aren't gonna give it up cheap. It could be a 25 year old MPC Pinto gluebomb, but it's "vintage" you see. If you can't snag it for $5 or less, tell them to pound sand.

    5. E-bay "junkyards. The easiest way to do it now if you have the means. Do a Ebay search in the scale auto section for "junkyard". Look at them carefully, there will be some selling for quite a bit, because they include an old Johan or other hard to find car. Look for the ones no one is bidding on and the price is reasonable. These will usually contain cars easily available in kit form so no one is killing themselves to get it. Again, don't sweat it if you don't see a car you like, your just there for the bucket of wheels/tires, 15 engines, 12 chassis and 11sets of suspension components. And who knows there may be a diamond in the rough waiting for you that wasn't photographed well.

    I hope this was helpful to someone. If anyone has another place to snag some cheap kits/parts feel free to chime in. But my number one rule is- never pass up a cheap kit, even if you don't like the car.

    Break Out Models

    in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)

    Posted · Edited by Jantrix

    I'd have to say my break out model was this 40 panel. Altho, I'd modified models with spare parts before, the whole kitbash idea, hadn't struck me yet. I also discovered the wonders of Plastruct tubing and BMF. The 40 is kitbashed with a 90's Mustang and features a gullwinged rear door, hand built chassis, and channeled 4 scale inches (roughly). This was built in 1990.

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    My builds

    in Model Cars

    Posted

    Thanks. Glad you liked them. The 57 was built for the WW3 post-apoc build off on the SA forum. I call it the Gunslinger. It was so much fun to build, that I'd build a whole fleet to go with it, if I didn't already have too many other projects.

    My builds

    in Model Cars

    Posted

    Rather than post up a bunch of my completed builds, I invite you to peruse my Photobucket. The link is in my signiture. I once had many more built cars, until some sneaky movers made off with two boxes of complete builds. They weren't mind blowing builds or anything but they are real hard to find kits now, and I miss them. Please enjoy, comments and critisisms are welcome.

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