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It may be possible that at sometime Norm offered it, but I just couldn't find any info. You can try emailing Norm directly and ask him. I've heard that he will take an item out of his catalog, but if he still has the molds, he might be able to make the part for you. I've emailed him and he has sold me parts that were offered as part of multiply items. Also, if the part had photo etched parts, I know the person he was getting the parts from quit providing them, so some items he could no longer offer because of that. You can send Norm an email at replmincomd@aol.com. Depending on how busy he is at the time, it may take him a few days to answer back, but I've always gotten a response when I emailed him.

I couldn't find it in the 2019 catalog I have, and I checked Craig Stansfield's Fotki album of some of his parts and found item #RH-109 from the Rik Hoving line that says the following. "1/25 '40 Ford Dashboard w/Photo Reduced Gauges, Steering Wheel & Column, Standard & Deluxe Gauge Bezels - For AMT Kit. Pattern & artwork By Rik Hoving" https://public.fotki.com/crstan/replican-and-miniat/replicas-and-miniat/100-3069-jpg.html It doesn't say it is for the Revell '32 Ford kit though. They do show a part #RH-508 Auburn Gauge Panel w/32 Ford Roadster Dash. Steve A.

John, I've been friends with Curt & John for several years, and I was the one that did the 3D printed parts for them. If you look at Curt's original post about the build in the "On The Workbench" section he mentioned me doing the parts for them.

I signed up awhile back, and replied to a few posts, but just haven't posted any pics of my builds till now. Haven't had a chance to work on any new builds for awhile, but hope to be able to start working on something soon. I figured you would be able to finally get the Curtis Turner Mustang finished a lot sooner than I could. Just finished the decal sheet for John, and hope to finish up the Multi Maverick decals for him soon & also do up the Corvette SR-2 decals for you & Andy also.

I have one of those Tamiya kits in the works, and tried finding one of the carbon fiber decal sheets made for the kit, but the only ones I found were from over in Europe and cost about the same or more than the kit itself. I figured I'll just try cutting & fitting a sheet from like Scalemotorsports.

A lot of you have seen my friend Curt Raitz's builds of the Curtis Turner cars that he raced in, mostly NASCAR and USAC & he even did a Pikes Peak car. I've help Curt out with some decals for a few of the builds when there isn't a decal sheet available. While doing some research for some of the decal sheets, I found a couple of cars that Curtis raced in that Curt didn't know about. The models Curt has built have been sent to the Curtis Turner Museum, so I thought I would have a little fun and build one of the cars I found out about. Back in 1960 when the big 3 automakers introduced the sport compact cars, Bill France decided to invite them to compete at the Daytona Race. Curtis Turner was asked to race on of the Ford Falcon cars entered. I found a few black & white pics of the car (mostly after he had rolled the car) so when I decided to build the car there was some guess at what the colors where. The info I found said the cars were taken off the showroom floor, modified slightly and then went racing, so looking at colors from 1960 it looked like the car was probably Belmont Blue, so I ordered some paint from Scalefinishes. I found a resin 1960 Ford Falcon body, used the AMT 1960 Ford Ranchero model kit, some parts from the spare parts box and made up the decal sheet for the build. I gave the finished model to Curt, and he has sent it to the museum.

Hey Casey, for parts for the Revell Bronco kits you should check out Fireball Modelworks, he has rollbars, tires & wheels, bumpers, winches, jacks and probably a few more things too. Also, check out Olson Brothers Resin Cast Model Parts, they offer a bunch of stuff for the Bronco kits. Steve A.

Alan, I sent you an email regarding the Magic Muffler decals. Steve A.

Thanks Bill, I was able to friend him on FB and sent him an email and received the files. It's too bad the engine isn't included in the files, but what is there looks really nice. I'm working on getting the files ready to print, and going to be printing 2 of them, one for myself and one for my friend Curt Raitz. Curt builds some great models, so I can't wait to see what he does with it.

Are the files to print the model available someplace, or do you have to know Bill on FB? I've seen his store on Shapeways, but if I can get the files to print myself on my 3D printer I like how they turn out better.

Any updates to this build? It's been awhile. I've always wanted to do a Belly Tanker, but they no longer offer the resin ones, or if you do find one it is really expensive. I've been watching for a 3D version, but haven't come across any yet. If you made your files available to purchase, that would be nice.

Roy Sorenson, who use to own the magazine years ago then sold it to Gregg recently announced that he is retiring and just finished his last issue of Model Car Builder. That may be who he got confused about.

You might try contacting Jameston at Scalefinishes, he has been very helpful to me in matching colors for several projects. I recently picked up one of the Salvino Jr's 1979 Oldsmobile Busch NASCAR kits, and the Tamiya blue called out in the instructions was not right for the car from the pictures I found online of the real car. He was able to get the correct blue.

The gold Smokey used was a Chevy color called Granada Gold. You can sometimes find it in a spray can from Duplicolor, or if you have an airbrush you can order a small bottle of it from Scalefinishes. You can find it on his website under the first gen Camaro colors. I built this Curtis Turner '65 Impala using the Scalefinishes paint.

As an IBEW electrician for 20+ years I can tell you that you want to use a fan speed controller instead of a light dimmer switch. The basic electrical reason for this is that a light dimmer turns on the light low, then brightens the lights as you turn it up, and this is not good for a motor. A fan speed controller turns the motor on at full speed, then slows the motor down as you adjust the speed, this is better for a motor. I made a simple speed controller from parts you can get at most hardware stores. I used a fan speed control switch, 120V receptacle, a 6' power cord, a 4 sq galvanized electrical box, a 4 square box cover for a receptacle & light switch and a clamp for the power cord to the box. I think there are a few online instructions on building one from these parts.

There is the old line "It's so ugly it's cute", but I don't know if that can apply to that car. lol You did a great job with your build though John.

I tried checking a few websites I have saved, and I could not find anyone that has done the decals for that exact car. From what info I found, Mario Rossi built the car and Darel Deringer drove the car. If you check out the pics at this link you can see the car had a couple of versions of the numbers on it. I see some had gold numbers on the door with a white outline, and the car in your pic from Daytona shows gold with a red outline. http://mariorossi22.com/Photos.html I found that Powerslide made a decal sheet to do the #22 Bobby Allison '69 Dodge Charger blue car from Mario Rossi, and that will have most of the decals to do the '68 Roadrunner car. The only decals not on the sheet are the "Plymouth" across the rear fenders, the "Rossi Automotive Engineering" on the front fenders and the sponsor decals, but you can find the sponsor decals from several decal makers. I don't know where you can get the "Rossi Automotive" decals, and the "Plymouth" decals can be found in white from Keith Marks like in some versions of the car. Finding them in gold seem to be harder to find. So depending on if you want to replicate the car from a specific race, then you might be able to build something close.

I was an IBEW Electrician for over 20 years before I was injured, and a 3 way switch is actually used to turn a light fixture on from one of two locations, like at each end of a hallway. For the application you are wanting to do you can either add another on/off switch to the existing switch giving you one for the lights & one for the fan, or you could possible find a 3 position switch that one position would be off, next would turn the lights on and the 3rd would turn on the lights and fan. In your example of what you are wanting to do, flipping the switch to the 3rd position would turn the fan and lights on, and after you are done painting flipping the switch back to the 2nd position would turn the fan off but leave the lights on. I'm guessing that the paint booth you have uses a rocker type switch currently, and you can probably find a 3 position rocker switch close to the same size to fit into the existing opening. However, either way you decide to go, you will need to open the unit up and trace out the wires to find how they go from the switch to the lights and fan and see if it is possible to wire each separately. If you are not experienced with electrical work I would find someone more experienced to do the work, especially if there is any sort of printed circuit board inside. If the unit is still under a factory warranty, modifying it will void it. If you decide to try the 3 position switch, there are a few electronic supplier websites that you should be able to find it at, just make sure to get one rated for the voltage and amperage(current) needed.

One place you might want to look at for tires is to check out Scenes Unlimited. He has a lot of different sizes & styles of tires, including truck tires. He also has some really nice resin wheels, including some to replicate truck rims. Also, you might want to check out B-N-L Resins as he has several Chevy 4x4 conversion kits listed (he does other brands too) and has transfer cases too. I've bought from both of these vendors and had good experiences with both. I think the owner of B-N-L Resins recently had to shut his website for a little while for personal reasons, but I believe he is back up now.

Scalefinishes lists Coca Cola red under their "Racing/Fleet Colors" section. The owner is a great guy to deal with, and you can try contacting him about the USPS Blue color and I bet he can get some for you. Here is a website with the paint code info that he might need: https://usbrandcolors.com/usps-colors/ His paint needs to be airbrushed, you didn't mention if you wanted spray paints or if airbrushing would work.

Scenes Unlimited makes a really nice set of resin Torque Thrust wheels in a couple of offsets, and they are cheaper than buying a complete kit.

Nice build so far, one thing that AMT made a mistake with on the model is that a '77 Vette did not have the vents in the rear deck behind the rear window. I think that was a holdover from them turning the '76 into the '77. My dad bought a '77 brand new from the local Chevy dealer, so I know that they didn't have those vents. It's too bad that wasn't caught before paint. I have that AMT kit and planning to build a replica of my dad's Vette, and puttied over those vents first thing. It looks like yours will be nice when it is finished.