Venom

Dingalings for dopes

Bent Wrench Ranch

That would just make me give him all the more lovin’. He’s in a good place now???

Well them’r dang nice! Would love to see a shot of the pickup with the hood and bed cover on. Nice Work? BTW, welcome back

in the closet

Oh man...I can’t believe I didn’t even notice the WING!

Motorcycling pothole cops

Wow! A unique change from the classic Cobra build...Ambitious. I’m interested in seeing your vision come to life on this one so I’ll follow.? Do you already have the wheels/tires picked out?

Bloedorn blow horns

Cool, thanks guys. Just ordered myself some.?

Radio and socks

Hey Erik, could you please tell me what that Tamiya tape is called or post a pic of it please? Thanks?

Flying yellow distributor

Other than for the cleanup I stick with the brand specific products. Thinning is done with #4012 REDUCER, the clear coat is #5620 CLEAR COAT GLOSS, which I put down several coats of, let dry for 12 hours, then wet sand with sanding sponges, then polish. I clean my brush with any Windex that has ammonia in it. .. BTW, people seem to achieve different results with this clear coat. For me it always turns out more like semi gloss, but it is very workable with layering and spot spraying and sanding/polishing. In general, there was a notable learning curve with this line of paints and at first I was frustrated with it, but have now come to appreciate its abilities. You have to find the right thinning mixtures for you and be patient with it while you’re spraying your coats?

We be in the same boat then ... I also have to sand and polish my clearcoat jobs, which is where I’ll be very soon.

Hey Walt, sorry I’m just now getting to your post. That is awesome you still have that Daytona slot car after all this time ... heck, I hadn’t even been born yet!? ...I’m glad you’re enjoying this - I’ll keep doing my best ... there’s a lot more to come, thanks?

Oh man, sanding is my week spot, especially in the awkward areas ... sometimes it makes me want to scream as hard as I can, but I don’t because it would be weird. So cudos to you for doing it, as it’s sure to pay off in the paint results?

Just last week I was thinking about that old Testors glue and wondering if people still use it. The answer is obviously ‘yes’. My thoughts on it resonate with Snake’s response as I remember I loved the sweet smell of the stuff, but nothing else about it seemed very practical to me ... it seemed to take an eternity to set up well and constantly oozed nonstop instantly after removing the lid, and when the lid was on you dreaded when you’d have to remove it again ... it was like having a hand grenade nearby at all times. Uuhg... sometimes the good ol days are better off gone.

Hey all, thanks for your compliments! ... I can’t wait till I get the clearcoat done since the way I do it is kind of a lengthy process. Trevor, I can’t say what the actual mixture is since I just go by my eye until it says it looks good ... I actually had “Guardsman Blue” leftover that I mixed for my Revell Cobra build, but I wanted to do a slightly different mix for this car since there is actually no known formula for the Guardsman Blue on the early Shelbys and the race cars got repainted a lot so there were visible variations from car to car. It’s a cool part of Shelby American’s history and I want my models to have a bit of that reflected in them also. ...Below are the paints I used to mix the blue.

Update: For the stripes and roundels I will not be using the decals and will paint them on instead. The reason is mostly because I have very little experience with decals much bigger than a fingernail and the one time I tried a bumblebee stripe on the back of a Charger I nearly had a panic attack... I definitely want to get some experience in on applying decals, but since I’m used to painting, this is definitely NOT the model I want to practice decals on! Also, I wanted the stripes to be Wimbledon White and the VRM decals are more like a plain bright white, so I’ll be able to solve that issue here as well. Oh, but first I had to fix the horribly glaring steering wheel issue as posted in the previous pics...? The pic below shows where I reused one of the tape roundels. I don’t know why I thought I needed to save all three for this project.

Hopefully this link works right. It contains a detailed story about the prank https://www.macleans.ca/general/ EDIT: Wrong link above ... try this one instead https://www.macleans.ca/general/i-prank-therefore-i-am/ Re EDIT: Sorry, don’t understand why the links aren’t working This is where the story is if you want to search it for yourselves:

Yes! The RUF Yellowbird is possibly the most impressive of all the Nurburgring runs since it is such an incredibly hard car to handle at speed like that. And while we’re at it, this Camaro run has got to be near the top of the list also

I think it’s because from the angle of the square photo, you wouldn’t have been able to see it since it was directly under the bridge, and the G.G. is a huge bridge, so the pic in the small circle was taken from quite a distance which would explain the hazy image since there was probably mild haze in the air.

Nope, wasn’t photoshopped....

I saw a YouTube vid where a girl tinted her plastic glasses lenses with this stuff and by the looks of them I think it might do great on model car windows