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I've been there. But with models that ended up broken in a move. There were a couple that there was no way I could piece back together and I would forever be aggravated looking at them in a fixed but still not right way. I didn't smash them but just pitched them into the trash. Keeping things for the memories is good but when the memories turn sour its time to pitch it and move on. and that will fill my philosophical quota for today. 😁

Academy does a lot of armor and plane kits. I didn't even know they did 1/24 scale kits. All the armor kits I have built from them are good. Good details, good fit. No issues.

You aren't missing anything. If it wasn't the main thing I use to keep in touch with people and family that I don't live by, I would have deleted my profile long ago.

My first car was a 1974 Ford Maverick Grabber. Orange...everywhere, inside and out. Full on Orange with white accents. This isn't the actual car but looks the same

Great idea. Definitely better than starting from scratch for each one.

That's a cool kit!! I really have to branch out more. That is gonna be awesome.

"working on" to me would mean actively doing something with. So working on would be 2. Started and put back in the box is like 8. The status can and does change often from working on to started. In the box, out of the box, back in the box and son on.

Wanted to get my dad a couple of Tshirts from back in the day. Couldn't find any so I worked up a couple designs and had them printed onto shirts for him. Have been hanging onto these for a while and figured I would share.

Here is a screen shot of what I see...

If you aren't worried about exact color code match, This worked good to replicate that sheen as mentioned above.

Almost there..... Just down to the fine tuning now, clean up some wonky paint spots and such.... Oh, and figure out where the heck I put the CB antenna. I think I lost it in some other kit box.

I have a couple sets of 3D printed parts and wheels and tires that I ordered after I had totally changed my mind on the direction I was going with a build.

You repainted it 13 times? is that one overt the other? How many layers of paint are on there? You definitely need to strip it to even see if there is any plastic left.

That is super cool!!!

Not so much that there would be parts left over....more likely most of them would disappear into the black hole beneath the workbench

1/35 aint too bad. It's when you get down to 1/76 or 1/87 for the HO train stuff that it gets sketchy.

Quick update. Getting close to final assembly.

Don't think any kit itself has made me feel that way. Usually it isn't until I get into the build and have my own crazy ideas of what I want to do with it that before I realize I have created all new challenges for myself. To me though, that is the fun in it. I can't seem to ever just build a kit as is.

Seems like no matter how much pre-fitting I do, I always end up with stuff just like this happening on final asssembly. Did you check to make sure that the glass has enough clearance around that radar detector? I made that mistake once.

I tend to experiment as lot so I use a variety of paints. Craft paints, testors little jars, vallejo, green stuff world, Citadel and other wargaming paints. I go through brushes a lot. I use everything from cheapo ones for small but not delicate applications, to artist brushes. I will get a pack of brushes in various sizes from Hobby Lobby or Michaels and go through them rather quickly, but also use finer brushes used by a lot of the small figure painters. Honestly, most of my brushes come from family as gifts for birthday and such. Some people gets socks and underwear as the standard gift, for me it's small paintbrushes.

This one? Hadn't seen that before. Looks like a 1968. Not sure about what wheels it has. The Revell 68 GT 2 'n 1 kit should get you the closest.

Price is key. Some 3D printers offer full kits from time to time in limited runs. None are anywhere near the injected model price point. It is going to take someone actually offering 3D printed full kits at much much less to create the competition. Right now they can charge full kit price for components and people are buying like crazy. It will take a shift in that for someone to want to produce full kits offered at a lower price than they can sell an engine for. Especially when you can print more than one engine at a time but a full kit will require multiple prints just to complete a single full kit. Definitely a possibility in the future but will the market support it vs cranking out components for the kits somebody else is making.

Agree 100%. I struggled for years trying to dial in my airbrush to spray well. Switched and tried createx and watched a few videos, mixed some up and boom, worked like a charm. Only issue I had was on me and not realizing that the pearl white needs to go over a white base coat. Pearl white over grey primer made a cool silver though.

one of the best rattle can paint jobs i ever had was done under those exact conditions.

I'm pretty much the calibrated eyeball guy as well. I tried the exact measurement stuff once and found that the wires looked too thin. They were in scale but didn't look in scale. Plus, I have yet to find a way to make an out of the box distributor work with any scale of wires. I end up going with aftermarket ones then tend to be a little bigger than scale anyway. I have yet to see a throttle linkage spring that was actually scale correct. Sometimes it boils down to accepting that every little piece isn't in scale because the overall detail looks good and accommodates my skill level.