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Same here…although my lathe is broken and I don’t have a milling machine.? I am certain that I don’t have the computer skills to operate a printer, never mind designing print files.? I will stick to scratch building bits and pieces, or purchasing printed parts from someone who knows what they’re doing.

Nice tribute there Tom!?

Great looking Roadrunner!?

Nice clean little Hotrod!?

Looks good Matt.? I am currently working on the boat tail version.?

Chain up truckers before you head up that icy, snow covered mountain highway.

Do please finish your model gentlemen before moving on to the next one.?

It was definitely a bad can. I had no receipt, but luckily I paid for it with a credit card and Canadian Tire exchanged it after checking my history. This one sprays nicely!?

Depends what part and where it is. Best to install pins before paint so any marks can be repaired if necessary. I will usually install the pin in the mirror or door handle first then just eyeball where the corresponding hole needs to be in the body. For more accurate placements or multiple pins, I have used short sharpened pins in the part (not glued in) to mark where the corresponding holes need to be. For something like a bumper, I might drill the hole in the body rom the outside, tape the bumper in place and then from the inside, drill out into the bumper…carefully so as not to go right through.? I added some rubber tips to a set of tweezers to hold small parts. A pin vise is better for controlled drilling of shallow holes than a spring loaded push drill.

Screws can be used by surgeons to help repair broken bones.

Great ingenuity you are displaying with this build…and fine scratch building skills as well.??

Legs on a spider number eight.

Calendar shows six more days till NNL North in Minneapolis.

Very nice clean looking Monte!?

All of a sudden it’s Monday again.

Beautiful looking Bronco!?

Very nicely done.?

Nice clean little hot rod!??

Slick looking Cyclone Claude!??

Very, very nice looking ‘32! ??

Sweet Sizzler!?

Awesome paint and decal work!? And a nice diorama setting too.?

Micro Mark apparently has good quality drill bits and a variety of pin vises and push drills. I have a set of Vallejo #60-81 drill bits that are very good. I also have some Godhand drill bits that are very good quality. https://www.micromark.com/search?keywords=Pin%20vise

Woods are lovely, dark and deep…so goes the line in a poem by Robert Frost.

You’ve got the right Idea. I like to use .020” brass for really tiny parts like mirrors, but any tiny solid wire will work. Best to drill and install the pins in the mirrors and pre mount them before any painting is done. It’s easy to re-open the holes in the body if they get filled with paint, and the pins in the mirrors give you something to hold onto while painting. Get a large sewing needle to make a divot for starting the drill bit. Good quality bits are a must…cheap ones may never stay on center or may drill an oversize hole if they will drill a hole at all. Just a very tiny dab of CA is needed for final assembly.