Junkman

Had some leftover orange from the 57 Chevy project: Can't believe it, after 30 years looking at this kit, I finally got into it. And the golden pearl is added: Next is clearcoat. I want to build this into a 1960s street machine but without any body mods except for the pearl paint. It will get a slight rake, achieved only by lowering it in the front, not jacking up the rear, and big'n'littles on nice 60s style mags. It will also receive a warmed over 409 W-head instead of the mouse motor that comes with the kit.

Hi all, I'm back. And I started this big scale thing just because I finally decided on the colour - orange pearl with a pearl white roof. First I painted it a Peugeot colour, called 'Seville' straight from a Halfords rattle can: Then I added 'magic' pearl in gold: Unfortunately, the weather doesn't allow me to clearcoat the body for the time being. But I got me this ultra-expensive piece of kit:

As mentioned before, the only parts really shared between these kits are the tyres - and I find exactly them the downfall of all three models. The tyres are simply too small. The otherwise actually quite nice lineup should be expanded with Challenger/Cuda/Charger/Road Runner and Mustang/Cougar.

Check out this thread - excellent pun!

Why as a diecast? Why? Why? Why?

Hi all, I need some hints how to apply decals on chrome surfaces. The problem occurs on the Red Baron and on the Aoshima Stormzender Spiegel HP-022 Cyber Formula racer. Cheers, Junkman

Lola T70?

Yep, received my example this week. What I instantly liked is the way they engineered the seperate 'undercut' side panels - they follow 'natural' seperation lines around the doors. Neat. What I don't understand is that they didn't provide any information about decal placement. Which car am I actually building?

Studebaker Avanti

Erm. The pictured engine is a V6, no?

It would be easier if at least one part of the car were standard. Whatever this started life as, is there anything left of it? To me this is a "Ship of Theseus".

I have a Jo Han Javelin snap kit that was badly packed. So in the better part of two decades, the rood was pressed down, so now the a pillars are bent outwards. They are rather fragile, but not broken yet. Is there a way to get them straight again?

Don't get me started. Painting cars or models was invented by Murphy's branch of hell. After making futile attempts at both for a quarter century now I tend to think I've had it all. Until the next project... I'm always glad to hear of others going through the same ordeal - not because I'm schadenfroh, but it comforts me to know that I'm not alone. One always seems to live under the impression that 'this never happens to the others'.

Funnily enough, for 99.9% of my modelling I use a sprue cutter a X-Acto 11 a razor blade sandpaper Admittedly, my models might look like it, but all these fancy tools I accumulated over the decades were not used more than once to try them out. Then I usually revert to the 1958 way of things.

That's why I usually remove them. They look ###### being molded on and not seperate.

I'm so relieved. I always thought this only happens to me!

TKM? Run!

I remember equally enthusiastic reactions when word was out that the remains of Jo-Han were bought up. Back then, I exulted. Since then, Jo-Han is dead as a can of corned beef. After that experience, I wait until I have a box with parts in it on my workbench before I believe anything.

Both have been done. The Scirocco by AMT and the Corrado by Revell AG. They aren't hard to find on I pay.

What I find generally underrepresented in model form of any scale or material are ironically the high-end makes - Rolls Royce, Bentley, Daimler, Mercedes, Jaguar, BMW. A Silver Shadow? A Mulsanne? A Hooper bodied DS38? A fintail or W108/109? A Mark X or XJ V12? A 1800, 2000, -02, 3.0 Si? Also missing are models of any kind of regular full size American cars of the Seventies - save for a few Caprices. Where are the big Buicks, Cadillacs, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles? Plymouths, Dodges, Chryslers, Imperials? Fords, Mercurys, Lincolns? Come on, a late 70s Town Car! Or a Continental Mark that I can build in Lipstick guise. A complete decade of US-Cars - completely ignored in model form! What about the Detroit Show cars from the 50s to the 70s? A Lincoln Futura and what is supposed to be a Pontiac Club De Mer is just not enough. And then there are the real odd balls that will never make it on the radar of the mainstream collectors: Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire, Aston-Martin Lagonda, any Tatra, you get the picture.

Wow! I haven't seen one of these in this millenium. And not in the last decade of the last one either when I think of it. I bought one of these almost new in -let me lie - 1983? as a service/tow car for our rallye team. Sturdy, indestructible, never broken, but a bit harsh in the suspension department. I wish I'd never sold it. Now HERE is a kit subject! Tamiya? Aoshima? Fujimi? Hasegawa? Anybody hear me?

1962 Jaguar E-Type currently undergoing restoration 1977 Mercury Cougar beater, clunker, refuses to be restored 1961 Imperial Crown Southampton 4dr 1958 Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire 346 1951 Triumph Mayflower And my everyday runarounds are a 1988 Olds Delta 88 and a Leyland Sherpa van. Do motorbikes count? 1929 Indian Scout 1932 Excelsior 1939 Francis-Barnett Cruiser 1982 BMW R90 CS

On the older kits that are molded in white or light grey, I paint the faces the appropriate colour and then scratch the paint off the numerals with a very small screwdriver.

Interesting. The 1961 Imperial is my favorite car of all times. A true beauty. How different tastes can be.

It is a metal mesh that is used to strain petrol for example. Comes in all kinds of sizes and should be available in your local diy shop.