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Beautiful interior....the whole thing is beautiful.

The front end made me think of a ‘67-‘69 Barracuda.?

I too have a Paasche H and love it! It is very easy to clean being single action external mix. I have an Iwata eclipse that I bought previously, but have not picked it up since getting the Paasche.

Very nice!

Super nice job. Love it!

Nice job so far. Looks like you’ve got that roof blended in pretty good. I just finished an AMT ‘36....and that roof does take a bit of work to look right

Thanks! It’s on the back burner right now, but I hope to get to get back to it soon.? I took the summer off and then started a few other projects, trying to get myself motivated again. Thanks to everyone for their interest.

Cool. I like these older Chevelles. I’m watching.?

Wow, nice job on this! Certainly couldn’t lose that one in the parking lot!?

Fabulous looking work on this one. It looks like really nice kit.

I believe Tamiya’s “PS” paint line is intended for the inside of clear polycarbonate RC car bodies. I’ve never tried it and don’t know how it behaves on styrene? Maybe someone on here has experience with it?

Thanks Rob. A bit out of scale doesn’t bother me much either usually. The new ones would scale out to 4-11/16” diameter and the smallest I could make the originals was 5-1/8” so that is quite a difference. If anyone knows of some good quality resin ones that are available...please don’t tell me now!

The lights themselves I made from .080” styrene rod, 3/16” od tube, .025”x.025” square wire, and some .015 styrene sheet. I made a wooden jig to keep all the .080” center rods canted at the correct angle. With the square wire mounted in them and all aligned horizontally, I glued the center rods into the styrene sheet first. Once that was dry I added the outer rings and just eye-balled them into position since they are not really “centered” on the centers. ? The red lens is just Tamiya X-27 clear red. The center bezels I made from .016” wire wrapped around a .046” drill bit and slightly squashed. Outer bezels are painted with Model Master chrome silver.

Well I finally got these tail lights done to my satisfaction. ? They’re not perfect, but they are better than the kit pieces. I wound up drilling out the body with a 3/16” drill bit. I then added a sleeve of styrene tube slightly recessed in the hole to act as a depth stop for the tail lights.

I have a small (12”) press brake/shear/roller that I used to bend the metal. It could possibly be done carefully with just a bench vise and a hammer?? To get the angle bang on I used a combo square/protractor. I used the same method with a compass that you used for the perpendicular line to split the mitre angles when laying out these fenders. Here I needed 180 degrees from six 30 degree mitres.

Nice. I like the color!

That is looking real nice. I really like the ‘60s Pontiacs too.

Yeah, the stuff I have says it sets in four minutes (gotta out-do the 5 min. epoxy guys?) I will pick up some of the regular stuff and do another test, but I am fairly impressed with the Milliput. Thanks, Greg

Not technically model car work, but I modified my magnifying visor. I cut the lighting function out of it so the battery box would stop putting a dent in my forehead.?

This J-B weld you speak of...does it come in two tubes, or is it a two part clay type stuff like Milliput or Tamiya? I have some J-B Kwik in the tubes but it can’t be the same stuff you use. I did a test with the three of them and the JB is still quite soft after 2 days and can be peeled off. It doesn’t adhere well at all. The Milliput is rock hard and sticks well. The Tamiya is still a little soft (I can dent it with my fingernail) but seems to adhere as well or better than the Milliput. Thanks, Greg.

That’s COOL! Where did you get the cab? Is it a resin Copy?

I also got a good start on the tailgate. It took me 3-1/2 tries to get that “W” to look decent.?

I bought the AMT Blazer hoping to use the frame and axles. However, the axles are not near as good as the GMC pickup pieces and the frame scales out to be a 103-1/8” wheelbase. My truck has a 106-1/2” wheelbase, but for aesthetics I am going to stretch it to 114”. This makes it a lot easier to shorten the GMC frame. The GMC is 1/24th scale, but the axle width looks OK, so I don’t really care. I will be going for an overall look here, not technical accuracy. Thanks for lookin’.

Cool! Got any pics of it?

Outstanding!