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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.

Good choice. Nice contrast.

With all the colors available for muscle cars, black seem to be a rare choice. Well done.

I am a big fan of his. This is mostly his philosophy about enforcing rules he didn't implement and does not believe in on racers he respects. He just decided did not want to do that.

WAY cool all around. Well done!

I vaguely remember building a kit when I was a kid that had real springs in it. I'm sure it succumbed to fireworks not to long after. Here is a built that I still have.

Find some CAT 5 or 6 data cable. One of the strands wrapped around a hat pin should come out pretty close.

Nice work. I did a mini tub on my 67 Mustang GT. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/155547-stalled-1967-mustang-gt-coming-back-in-the-queue/

Way cool racer.

That is a very cool technique for comparison! I am building two twin semi rigs with subtle differences. I would really like to try to duplicate your efforts when they are complete.

Well done and with period correct stance too.

That is pretty cool. The Edsel being an "orphan" is pretty rare. You paint scheme makes me think that it would also look pretty in an "orange creamsicle" version.