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You would think we should be capable of building just about any model. After all they are made for kids right? Do any kits say “For ages 45 and older”?🥴 That said, I can’t imagine a kid trying to build the Revell ‘31 model A with the opening doors and hood with separate little hinges (I’m sure some of you have done it 🥵) I elected to glue them shut.😳

Catch a fish and give it to someone, you feed them for a day, but if you teach them to catch their own darn fish you feed them for a lifetime.

Do you think you can hurl it as far now?🙂

Yes, I have a few kits that I know are either challenging or just not very good that I really want to make into something nice or special. The Testors/Fujimi Porsche 356B comes to mind. I know it’s a fiddly kit with a lot of parts and I want to do it justice….so I am putting it off for a bit. My biggest problem is that I get obsessed with a project and tend to rush things that should not be rushed…especially paint work.😳 I know if I take my time and follow a procedure, I can conquer most challenges.🙂

Older vehicles have a lot of appeal.

The body would have to drop a fair bit in order for the sills to clip under, but the stance looks pretty good right now.

Well I’m not happy with the fit of the body/chassis/interior.🧐 I’m not sure if I screwed up or not? There are huge gaps at the cowl to engine bay, and you can see right through to the ground behind the seats. I’m not sure if the sills are supposed to clip in underneath the chassis or just be level with it like in this pic? The rear package tray interferes as do the front fender wells in order for the body to sit any lower. The rear window glass would also need some trimming. That said….every picture I find on here and on the web seem to have the same gaps to some degree. So I don’t think anyone has corrected it if it is even correctable? I don’t know if the body will then sit too low if I took it apart (not easy!🥵) and did all the grinding necessary to get the sills to clip in under the floor pan. So I think I will just leave it as is unless someone has some insight into the issues.😕

+7C right now and it’s supposed to get up to +17C this afternoon. Might have to take the MX-5 for a spin.😎

Horrible glue bombs can present quite a challenge to resurrect.

The trim and paint finish look great and you did a marvellous job on the wheels too.👍

Ooh! That color looks gorgeous on it! Nice work.👍😎

I got the foiling done and the body and chassis mated. I used some photo etch seat belts instead of the kit pieces. The wire door handles turned out better than I hoped.🙂

Amazing how a clear coat brightens up that red!🙂 Behind the clear outer headlight covers Fujimi just gave us some flat chrome headlights. I had some spare clear headlight lenses so I glued them in over top of the chrome ones. I think they look a lot more realistic now. I gave the badge decals a few coats of microscale liquid decal film since the guage ones disintegrated on me and managed to get them on with minimal damage.

This blower has one coat of Revell Chrom straight from the can. Not sure how long I let it dry…but then it was dipped in pledge twice. The wheel has the kit chrome for comparison. BMF on the left and Chrom with a pledge dip on the right. More info here: https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/181804-revell-spray-chrome-test/page/7/

Fenders or no fenders on a ‘32 ford is always a dilemma.

So I shot some black primer on the backside of the rear walls and covered it with some self adhesive shelf liner to give it a bit of protection. It looks good enough to me. I made some shelf brackets from a piece of 1x1 square tube and added some 1/16” foam gasket for the two new shelves to sit on. It should take me a while to fill this one up now.🙂

Just a few pics I pulled off Pinterest.

Got a new chemical dispensing bottle for the Mr. Color thinner. it was getting difficult to reach the thinner with a pipette. I’ve drilled a 1/8” hole in the lid of all of these bottles so that they won’t accidentally squirt when I pick them up. I need to put my finger over the hole in order for them to dispense.

And another fine job!😎

Beautifully done Glen!👍😎

Beautiful looking ‘37 Bob! Real nice job stuffing that big block in there!😎

Pigpen went to school with Charlie Brown

Thank you all guys!🙂 I got a couple of blemishes on the body and around my hinge mounts fixed up well enough so got some primer on it the other day. Then yesterday I gave it a few coats of Vallejo red. I am heading out to the garage later this morning to shoot some clear on it.

Snack on that rat all you want…I’m sticking with smokies.