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Beats me. I guess they think selling the monster energy logo on a product will induce under age people to want to consume it. Under age people don't build models. They don't have the patience for it. They want instant gratification. They buy diecasts. When were gone the model car/plane industry will probably be gone as well. JMHO.

Too bad there are no Ollies around here. I have heard that Hobby Lobby wont sell them because they have the Monster Energy logo on the box. My one LHS does not even sell them. Pretty sad.

Awesome looking build, Jim. Excellent job on the three tone paint. Great job on the decals as well. I'm curious why the numbers were two tone. Cant ever remember seeing that before.

Excellent job , Louie. You have world class skills. Looking forward to more of your builds.

Its always good to have a connection to the car, that will give you inspiration to get it done, no matter how many times you have to fight it, to get it right. Sounds like you will always have fond family memories when ever you look at this build..

Looks Awesome , Dustin. Paint, decal work, all top notch. You should be very proud of this build.

Donn Yost did a dvd on how to do this, if you want to look into it, but I just played around with it till I got it to work. I thin the enamel paint 50% with common lacquer thinner you can buy at auto zone, and have a squirt bottle of lacquer thinner ready in case the tip of the airbrush clogs up. I just tried different air pressure setting with different paint supply settings which I can do because I have a double action brush and a needle valve where the hose hooks to the brush to control the air pressure. Its like shooting lacquer paint except that its glossy instead of dull on the model. Maybe some people can shoot lacquer and it comes out glossy, but I sure cant . Thanks for the reply , D.

Thanks, Cliff. I really appreciate the reply.

I know how tough silver is to do and yours is perfect. Clean beautiful build as always.

Another fantastic one from your bench. That two tone paint line is so flawless and smooth. Like a machine put the tape down.

Another awesome one. That air cleaner looks so real.

John, Clean excellent work as always. Decals and paint are superb.

Here are the leftover decals.

Thanks, Neil, Craig, and Jim, for the enthusiastic replies. I really appreciate the feed back.

John, there is no way I could ever surpass your paint jobs. Thanks for the props on the build. Just really glad you turned me on to testors enamels. Its a lot more flexible to use them because you can just about come up with any color you want by either adding white, black or silver. Its so much easier now to match my decals to the color of the model. Plus I did not have to polish this model which I really hate to do. But if I wanted to I could have polished it because I was surprised to find that you actually can polish testors enamels.

Thanks, Andre. It was a fun build.

Thanks , Bruce. As you know, he is the most interesting man in the world.

Finally finished. Go to 2018 ARCA ford to see more pictures.

I always wondered what my favorite snack might look like as sponsors on a race car. The build took 54 hours. 23.5 hours of that was for creating and printing the decals. Paint is small bottle testors enamel, shot through my air brush using lacquer thinner. I had to darken the green with some black until it was close to matching the decal backgrounds. The kit is a Joey Logano snap kit.

Just finished the model. With any luck, I can take the photos this afternoon, and get them posted.

I figured as much. I'm sticking with enamel. I'll never get as good as you, but I'm really liking working with it.

Another excellent one, John. Is this one enamel? If so, looks perfect as always.

Jims right, my method only works on the old snap kits with metal axels. He sounds like he has a great way of doing the glue kits.

Excellent job Dustin, and your not afraid of close up shots. But, as the others said above, a setup with lights on a gray curved piece of paper, would certainly improve the photography.

Beautiful build. I like the way you fixed the shark fin.