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Yeah, I think they crashed it on purpose to give you the perspective of being a bowling pin.

Wow!!! That is absolutely astounding ... I wasn’t expecting the guy to get in it and ACTUALLY fly it! Awesome This is the only thing I’ve ever heard about that even comes close....

I agree ... great vision. Cool work ... that thing would deffinately have a nickname around the shop!

Thank you kindly for that Roy! ... Nice to see it resurface back to the first page too??

with aliens running

them after that! ?

Wow! The planning of all that must have been intense to get everything choreographed so smoothly. Wonder how many takes they had to do... Yeah, “amazing” pretty much sums it up. EDIT: Didn’t notice the link. Guess I’ll check that out. Thanks for sharing something unique and interesting Peter!?

Sexy body lines! ...Sounds like you already got a bunch of time into it thinning the shell...I’ll love seeing this one come to life knowing how good of work you do.

Haha ... I’m gonna remember that one?

Yes, they are one of the wickeder sounding cars I’ve heard. I saw a video where Peter Brock or one of them guys was saying that the Daytonas were actually too loud and that most of the guys who raced them, including Dan Gurney, experienced hearing loss.

I found these at Walmart tonight in the party isle for $1.75. The diameter is perfect. They are super compacted, tightly wound paper (lolly-pop) sticks basically. They are pretty easy to bend and they stay bent and can be cut with side cutters and trimmed with a razor. They do wrinkle slightly, but I think paint will obscure that, and if you bend them much beyond 90 degrees they’ll start to split. I bent a piece and cut it to fit my application and I think it’s going to work. I’m thinking of using thread or fishing line to do the ribbed wrap, (thanks to above suggestions), but probably best with some type of thread since the stick is paper and I’ll have to use canopy glue. The only con I can think of so far is will the glue adhere to it and also to resin? It’s so dense that it seems like it should, but I’m actually not even sure exactly how im going to be doing the fitting at this point anyway.

Thanks John... Looks like he has now responded to this thread below. Thanks Walter, that was one of my first thoughts also, but they’re too big and don’t really have quite the right look. No and no. Thanks Richard! That’s a pretty good idea ... might have to look into it. Thanks Gary ... Maybe the obviously perfect solution, but I’m hoping to not have to order online for this, so I’ll keep this one on the back burner. Ahhh ... after seeing it, this is very convincing. I’ll have to go up to Hobby Lobby and see if I can get it in the right diameters. What type and brand of glue did you use? Thanks Jack. This is looking to be (generally speaking) the most recommended idea so far, but perhaps the metal wire would be easier, and I already have some? Thanks Sean. The spring...possibly, but I don’t think it would hold bends well. The electrical tape, however, seems like it would be to thick and stiff and would come undone too easily. Thanks Peter, im liking your trick as well and will keep it on the back burner ? Thanks John for looking that up and posting the link ... I may end up having to go that route if other options don’t pan out first.

Dose anybody have any good ideas what I could use to mimic these disc brake air ducts in 1/24 scale???... Slightly smaller in diameter than a pencil I suppose.

Yes I totally agree ... but you know how much humor is based on someone else’s misfortune (strangely/unfortunately)... and sometimes the funniest ones are because we can relate ... we’ve been there in that agony before ... but suddenly we get a glimpse of it from a whole new angle and we laugh. It just happens. Maybe someone can get a laugh out of this one, though it was a while back; My Shelby Cobra Racer that I posted pics of on these forums was the first model I ever used an airbrush to paint and the first time using waterborne paints as well. I had used the airbrush and paints a lot on other artwork however and was using a heat gun to flash dry between coats, only this time I had no heat gun. The gears in my head turned and a lightbulb came on when I realized I could use my oven at super low heat ... great idea!? ... and it was working perfectly! I got everything painted and clear coated and it came out beautifully. I then did it with the frame, and some of the parts trees that I had painted, carefully watching through the oven window ...and that’s when it happened... I saw something sag!? It was part of the front suspension which I was able to reheat and straighten with, of all things, a lighter!? Once I got all the undercarriage assembly complete with the wheels on, everything went together nice and square and at this point I had gobs of time put into this thing. This was my third Revell Cobra build so I was familiar with how things fit together. As I began to place the body on the undercarriage I knew to put the nose on first and then with minimal finagling the rear would “click” satisfyingly into place ... but this time, no “click”... the body simply fell over the back end like a way too big cowboy hat. “Oh noooo!” was the only thought going through my head as my heart fell into my gut. Although invisible to they eye, the whole body had seemingly expanded. This seemed insurmountable to fix, and after I deliberated about it for some time I realized it was going to have to be all or nothing ... I plopped it back into the oven with cold water running on the side. I would pull it out and bend it where I thought it needed and run it under the water while holding it in the bent position, and then go back to re-fit it on the chassis ... it took several attempts at this to begin seeing/understanding, just exactly how I needed to bend it, and back to the oven and water I would go, contorting the body to extremes while it was hot to counter the spring back. I spent hours doing this and likely put it into the oven around twenty times. ...And finally it happened ... it “clicked” into place!... I felt total disbelief as I expected to find something else out of alignment, but while I was inspecting everything it was all sitting just perfectly ... absolutely perfectly....? The relief of that moment was immense. The moral here? Oven/plastic = bad idea. But also ... Don’t give up! Turns out, you don’t need to use heat at all, just blowing the air from the airbrush is enough the flash dry small sections at a time.

Yeah, masking tape cut to the same width as the rim. Wrap it round just enough times to take up the gap. I’m sure you could also apply some glue to the tape/tire if necessary.

unless elves were

This might also end up being one of the funniest threads on the board ... you know, the evil kind of laughing about other people’s miserable experiences type of funny. I’m sorry.

Did you say a cuss word? I sure would’ve...maybe three or four.

Well that’s good to hear! ... Is the paint pictured below considered a sub-line? If so, what is it’s closest rival? Can’t imagine going without it? (It’s Chrome Silver FS12178)

except the correct

....AMAZING....

Absolutely nuts! .... This will be cool to watch?? Hey, what scale is it?

part except the

spilled on head

Artist does amazing paintings of people’s cats onto rocks...