LL3 Model Worx

I'm wondering what the best way to go about doing the stripe around a Nascar Aero wheel would be? Anyone have any suggestions or advice?

I think it was texas 3d customs I saw now that you mention it.

You could recreate the truck from the opening scene of commando and put a small uzi in the back! I probably have a resin one of those also.

Looks good. I would also suggest doing some bags in white. Along with making some "cardboard" and different color and shape boxes. You could probably do that with painted note cards and or air dry clay bought from a dollar store. Take some small sprue cut it to small lengths and heat gently and smoosh it with some smoot jaw pliers then paint it to look like bent soda or soup cans. You could make small wads of "packing paper" with painted kleenex (will hold its shape) just ad a dab of Elmer's or matte mod podge to the paint. Tile grout will make for some nice looking dust and pebbles. Small balls of painted clay can be made to look like smashed/rotten tomatoes. And old cabbage and other perished produce. Get those small plastic coffee stirrers that are whit with red or blue strip and stretch a little sprue and you can make like fast food soda cup with straw ( the sprue) Hell, its Halloween... I'll send you a resin skull if you want The truck could be operating in a "mob area" ?

I can't remember where I saw it, but someone is out there selling a resin hellcat engine that looks pretty dang nice!

Good to know! I have ran into scaling issues before but not after hacking on the kit thank goodness.

Throw up some pics so we can see what your working with... its easier if I see what's been done already.

Have you simulated caked up old grease from the hydraulics and surrounding areas?

What is the funniest/worst mistake you have made on a model? You know the kind I'm talking about... the ones where you either laugh or you are compelled to immediately destroy the model! I'll give you mine and then one more that's slightly different. 1: I had spent months building a Burton era AMT batmobile kit I mean I painstakingly ran fiberoptics with color changing/pulsing lights and went as far as delving deeper in the internet than I ever wanted to go, in order to find the perfect way to replicate the paint job of the original car. (It's not just black) then spent even longer testing and getting the process down to lay the paint on the body... I got it all done and got down to putting the 2 porthole windows in the upper bulkhead and I blobbed a huge spot of superglue right on the bulkhead... I came so close to jumping up and down on that model... but I stuffed it back in its box never to be seen again! Ever! :2 being a silly kid and trying to lie to myself and build up the confidence that the little testors spray can enamel is going to work this time on the kit that I've worked so hard on... the ruin of many a good kit. And damn near turned me off the hobby. Until I learned a better way... Tell me your biggest blunder/s

I saw the supra at hobby lobby yesterday... almost bought it but didn't.

My silly pup is a beagle/ cocker spaniel. Nearly 7yrs old. His name is Neyland and he is a cat dad. Him and that cat (2yr now) are best friends and totally inseparable. They eat,sleep and play together constantly.

Yea 1993. My wife made me watch it with her...She owes me.

The reasons are many and not nearly as pointed as many believe... but that's a topic for a different place. Yea, I know they do it on a schedule rather than having the coupon these days, but I didn't realize the shcedule is every other week. Thanks for the tip!

I walked into Hobby Lobby for the the first time in about a year today. Not for any specific reason, just had some time to kill and figured I'd see what kits and supplies were on the shelves when I saw that the bulk of the kits are $39.99!!! Maybe I've been insulated around my neck of the woods and it's been like that elsewhere for longer, but DAMN! I have no problem paying good money for hard to get or obscure kits, or even new releases,but paying $40 for the same AMT kit that was $20 last year is insane to me... I can only imagine how you folks more advanced in age feel... ? Styrene is getting nearly as expensive as a drug habit.

The leprechaun sucks!.. review over!

You beat me to it... My wife's theme song!

Kindred spirits. I spend far too long for what I actually get done.

Well yesterday and today I'll be at the bench from around 7a.m. til about 6p.m. with a lunch break. I have to know I have "the whole day" or I can't even go in my model room. Now, ill admit that while my setup is rather large and organized, my workflow isn't exactly efficient. I toil away doing things that others either wouldn't do, or would do much faster. So I have a problem with efficiency... I constantly get distracted to another element of the build. That's why I can't just do an hour...I would get NOTHING done!

Looks great. Is that testors "racing blue"?

Alot of it for me boils down to mold lines and the quality of the plating in the kit itself. I find that most things that are chromed are way too thick and have flash and or mold lines that I can't tolerate. Sometimes though like older monogram kits, Fujimi kits etc they have less of a chrome look and more of an aluminum finish and some of that stuff us great. But mainly I strip it all.

You are very welcome. I would personally recommend using Klean strip or the equivalent lacquer thinner.... NOT "paint thinner". I'm personally all for folks repackaging 1:1 paint and selling it to us in hobby sized containers even if it is expensive per oz... convenience isn't free. However, that being said I do believe that paying good money for a 2oz jar of thinner is absolutely bonkers... I mean unless you just like the look of the bottle and label ? I use more than 2oz of thinner just cleaning my airbrush...

Like I said earlier, it happens alot. We just see it less because most of the stuff we shoot comes pre reduced (like alot) and has far less solids content than 1:1 paint. Even the guys that are repackaging and selling 1:1 paint aren't using high end high solids products for the most part... If they were, we would be paying ALOT more. My wife's Camry got hit in the door... (it was a new car at the time) 1 pint of base coat was nearly $500... "Galactic Aqua Mica"

Yea, I didn't mean crazing or "spiderwebbing" I meant exactly what you are talking about. Like throwing cobwebs on the piece. It literally could have been you didn't have it mixed enough. And it could actually be it needed more thinner... some colors depending on solids content and other factors require more thinner to atomize correctly... depending on temperature and humidity. I've done it myself with hvlp spraying black semigloss lacquer on a guitar body.

One or a combination of 3 things... 1: Too little thinner 2: Spraying too far way 3: Spraying too high psi Usually one or a combo of these three to get the cobweb going. I've seen guys do it 1:1 more than a few times.