Junkman

That is a 9" Ford right there. Trust me, I know. I used about 50 real ones in the past 25 years.

I have no friends. I'm a car modeller.

Well done. Especially when one considers that our hobby leaves little time for such activities.

Here is one: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/SPEED-RACER-imai-Mach-Go-Go-Go-Plastic-Model-Kit-Japan_W0QQitemZ300388748490QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45f0908cca Now figure it with every imaginable grade up part, resin, PE, you name it.

Imai did a superb 1/24 Mach 5, then issued a plethora of 'grade up' parts for it, so in the end it was possible to build it into a museum quality model. Then they upped the ante and released it in 'crystal', i. e. clear plastic, so it is possible to build one where you can see all the underbody details - if you can find that stuff. I seem to remember that it is going to be reissued, but can't remember where I read it. Rumour has it that Aoshima is going to release the movie version.

It looks like the vote goes ever so slightly into one direction.

I'd love to have the Land Cruiser and Jimny. But it looks like a black hole has opened and swallowed all 1/20 scale kits.

In this kit are these wheels and these tyres Entirely btw, I just noticed that the body has a copyright 1999. It's hard to believe that this kit is already 11 years old.

I finally found some time:

Anyone able to paint with an airbrush says this. Please count me out. First, I'm not Anyone. Second, I tried countless times over a period spanning four decades. I cannot do it and I will never try again.

This engine is for a Daytona???

The Hubley diecast kits were first released in the early Sixties. They were available off and on from various manufacturers until about the turn of the century. This Hot Rod and an Indy style racer are the rarest of the bunch - they were only available for the first two years and have never been reissued.

The 'poor' owner of a brass era car had his servants polish it on a Saturday afternoon, while he waited in the club until it was finished.

You. Can. Not. Spray. Acrylic. Clear. Over. Humbrol. And entirely btw, I have never achieved a glossy paint coat with an airbrush. Hence I don't use them. There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who can spray with an airbrush, and the ones who can't. I am one of the latter and I admitted defeat a long time ago. Being able to paint with an airbrush is a congenital ability. One cannot learn it if one doesn't have it. A bit like plaster work.

My ewewen yeaw owd Dauwter showed me.

They always look like this. I'm never convinced myself at this stage. But you will see how correct they look all of a sudden once they are painted.

This is going to be a bog standard 60s Mitsubishi J-58 like the myriads which were trampled in the Godzilla movies of my childhood. The starting point is this Aoshima kit: It will basically provide the body only and a few ancilliaries. The chassis and wheels will come from this 1/20 Mitsuwa Willys: Why? Because the Aoshima Jeep is one of these 'can be motorized' deals, so this is what is supplied as a chassis: Hence this is what is best done with it: This is the body supplied by Aoshima: The fender flares are already removed in this picture. As you can see, the floor is way too high up in the body to clear the intended mechanicals for the motorized version. Therefore, my first deed was to cut it out completely:

Any small town engineering company can do the pipe bending. Just check the local yellow pages.

You are really better off starting with a cruiser frame, honestly. These are way too many mods to make it feasible.

I don't doubt for a second that you built this model. And I like it. One thing to improve is stance and wheel alignment. Also, the tyres could be mounted a bit more carefully. Always keep in mind, that stance, wheels and tyres are what make a model plausible - actually not unlike a real car. As for cleaning models - I wash them, believe it or not. I wash each and every model before it goes into my display cabinet.

Found mowe: After you cwick on 'Wanguage Toows', cwick on the fowwowing wanguwages: "Bowk, bowk, bowk!", "Piwate" and "Kwingon, uh-hah-hah-hah". Make suwe yew have the wumber of an ambwuwance sewice weady.

Not a single occurrence in 30+ years.

Go to google.com, type "ewmew fudd" in the search line and hit 'I'm feeling lucky'. Once you recover from what you see, click 'Wanguage Toows'. Hawdly ewer wawed this hawd. Then go back and click on 'Advanced Seawch'. wmao.

What exactly is the problem? I am painting whitewalls with a paintbrush and matt white Humbrol for over 30 years now. It has never failed and even the first ones still look like new. I do it exactly like Dennis Doty describes it in his book. It would have never occurred to me, that there could be any other method. And whatever other methods there are, they all sound more complicated and ineffective to me. With Dennis' method, I have four superb whitewalls in less than ten minutes and I can even do it when the tyres are already mounted on the model, hubcaps and all. Need I do a tutorial?

Pics, or it didn't happen.