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Looks pretty good from here. When I built mine, I was not brave enough to paint the headlight frames.

$20!!! You stole it!

Superb job!

Thank you fro answering my question. I plan on building one as a dark blue street machine and the other as a bracket racer.

Have you figured out how to lock each moving piece in either direction? If not, may I suggest hidden mini magnets.

While I am not retired yet (7 years to go God willing) I feel EXACTLY the same way. Though I do have a mostly done driveable 1:1 to tinker with.

I think the biggest problem would be adhesion strength. Especially with parts that have very little surface area contact. Like engine fans and rear view mirrors.

I have two of these in the 1992 issue of the 3 car "Muscle Car" set. Would they have the correct interior parts?

I have one of those to build. My dad had a 54 convertible that has a number stories associated with it. (Including a scar it gave me that took 20 years to fade away)

I agree with your assessment. However, I pretty much know it is the O-rings. You are correct about the seal. I have seen the lubricant mention on some videos. I will need to get some.

Dang! That is way cool! I gotta get one of those. Nice color combo.

After the drama of my two Chinese airbrushes blowing bubbles in the cup, time to get a real airbrush. I do not do camo or fine lines so I figure a 0.5mm nozzle is best. I simply want to paint body color on cars and semi-trucks. After watching more YouTube videos, I have decided I would prefer gravity feed and dual action. My budget was $200 which gave me a lot of choices. I was really leaning towards an Iwata HP-CS. But after learning that Steve G. uses a Creos PS-290, I checked out some videos on it. I like the trigger, the handle option, the HUGE paint cup and the fan spray option. I bought it off Amazon for $129 plus $26 for the handle. Hopefully I can set up my paint booth next weekend and try it out.

Thank you Jeff.?

Thank you Dan and Gary.?

Yes, all of the above.

You are getting back in with WAY more options available to us now. Airbrushing, factory paint colors, photoetch, custom decals, and most recently 3D printing. Here is a pic of some photoetch and 3D items I have gotten recently.

Since light blue and white are not really contrasting colors, I would add some darker details when selecting stripes and/or livery. Something like I did with this.

That is pretty cool. I like the way the strip goes right to the hood scoop.

I am in agreement. I have somewhat limited taste in subject matter but high caliber craftsmanship is something I will always take note of.

Progress has been made. Windows, interior, sleeper and fairings have all been assembled. Been adding parts to the frame to. Unfortunately it is curved. Between that and and the generally known fitment issues, I have had to make some spacers and tweaks to get the body to properly align with the frame. I found only half of the custom decals I made for this truck. Fortunately. I still have the artwork files from 15 years ago. Spent part of this afternoon finding them and printing them out on decal paper. Here is the assembled body pending BMF and decals and some of the artwork to be applied.

I am not sure you could put Snowflake wheels on a 1:1 truck. Trans Ams had a 5 on 4.75" bolt circle and I pretty sure the trucks had a 5 on 5" bolt circle. I want to give some Corvette Rallys from a Monte Carlo to my cousin and they did not fit his Chevy truck. He was bummed.

Watching too.

Stainless steel and in scale. Nice tip.

You did a fine job on it.

I like it.