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Now he should duct tape one of those to the wall and call it art! How much do you think it might go for?😜

I picked these up at Dollarama for a couple bucks each. They stack nicely and come with 2,3 or four compartments and also in a couple of other sizes. I save most of my styrene sheet cutoffs and label them 1, 1.5, 2, 3, etc. with a pencil. It makes finding a suitable thickness easy when digging, rather than having to measure each chunk I grab.

These are great looking cars, and not too bad of kits. I rebuilt a ZZ Top version a while back. https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/177032-‘33-ford-3-window-coupe/#comment-2662969

Dog gone it…where did I put my keys?

I really like that yellow on it.👍

Good movies, really GOOD movies, are few and far between.

Cool looking engine Bob….but I think you want Ulf’s ‘34 Ford thread.🙂 He too is using the Fisher 12 port engine.😎

Thanks Paul.🙂 The engine attitude is on my list of things to address. I did modify the ‘29A transmission crossmember and got it too high. I will lower it some more, and that likely means un-doing my firewall mods or moving the engine and trans forward.🥴

Bell.😕 They gave me a free subscription to Crave tv. Very nice of them I thought. Then I tried to get it on my 60” tv and couldn’t get it to work. So I hooked my iPad up to the tv with an HDMI cable. Everything could play on the tv except Crave. I called Bell and they said the subscription was limited to “small devices” and I have to pay for a premium subscription if I want to watch it on my tv….so it is basically “bait”.😡

Merry people are more fun to hang around with than grinches.

I’m interested to see what you do with it Bob. I have a Revell kit that is molded in purple. I’m not into drag vehicles, but this one I just might do as one?

Yep.

Splurged and bought myself a quality set of larger #1-#60 drill bits. I have a full set of “Mastercraft”🥴 drill bits but they are very low quality ‘made in china’ BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH. Some are not properly sharpened and a few of the smaller ones all measure the same diameter.🙄 These new ones are far, far better quality.👍😎

This is something that would almost never need to be built since headers or stock manifolds are far more popular. The stock 6 cylinder manifold though (from the AMT ‘51 Chevy kit) is a pretty wimpy looking 6 into 4 unit.😕 So I drilled correspondingly spaced holes in a wooden block and bent one hoop out of .080” evergreen round to fit the outer holes. Then bent and trimmed the inner tubes to suit and glued in place with CA. I made a flange from .030” strip, drilled to match. Then added a piece of .080 x .188 rectangle to the bottom and sanded it to shape. I trimmed four of the pipes flush with the back of the flange and left only two for locating purposes.

The stance is now set in styrene! I tried to modify the AMT ‘51 Chevy header to work, but wasn’t happy with the prospects. So I scratch built a Cast Iron manifold for it. I also detailed the injection system a bit. I originally wanted to use the side draft carbs from a Corvette, but they stuck out way too far for my liking.🥴 The downside of the exhaust mod is that I have to relocate the distributor to a front drive setup. Not a big deal I figure. There seems to be quite a variety of modifications that have been done to these engines so I’m not worried about 1:1 accuracy.

Ahhh, but you guys don’t have the certificate that proves your banana is an original.🙄 The buyer did actually get some art though, because the seller really did raise grifting to an art.

Floyd once toyed with building a droid.

Wow, this is an oldy….but good trick. I do pretty much what Dr. Cranky did, but I use two pieces of 1”x1”x3/16” angle iron. I use washers as spacers to allow for different track widths, or if the wheels don’t protrude beyond the floor pan. I square everything up with the lines on my cutting matt so the model doesn’t wind up doing a crab walk.

Time to crack open a fresh model box because the one I’m working on has me flustered.

WAY TO GO TEAM!!!

Yeah, I routinely see two or more cars in the intersection and then doing a left turn after the light turns red.😡

Probably easier to find a ‘70 Marquis than a Jim Croce 8-track.

Yes, but they weren’t classics back then. I’ve recently been on road trips in my 2013 MX-5 and my wife’s 2014 Jeep Wrangler….both will be classics one day.😎

I have not tried that paint so have no advice on it. Like Matt asked, what airbrush and compressor are you using? A picture of your setup might help someone pinpoint the issue?

Seas and oceans are both saltwater.