OldNYJim

Aww yeah! I've been looking forward to seeing some more on this thread! Bring it on dude!!!

Hey buddy! I’ve found it works just fine for what I’ve been using it for - and I like that the tube has a super-fine little nozzle to help apply it. I’ve been letting it set up for 48 hours before sanding and I haven’t really had any trouble at all - it just works like you would hope it would! That said, I haven’t tried anything other than a few little pinholes and imperfections so far - but I did have a sink mark on the hood that needed some attention so I’ll try that and see if it works ok there too! @showrods - thank you!! Still working away on some little bits so I can get some major components painted and start posting some interesting stuff - lots of priming and filling and sanding work. I’ve been trying to figure out how best to replicate the color of the real car. Now, I know Testors MAKES (made?) the exact color for this car…but it isn’t the right color. Well, it kinda is; apparently the real car was shot in a standard GM teal and then had a blue and green pearl coat laid over that, whereas the Testor’s paint is a straight metallic green. A good starting point, but the more complicated process they did on the real car explains somewhat why it could end up looking either teal… …or a much more blue-toned color… …or an even BLUER green/blue teal: …or just a plain old metallic green… …or even close to black or purple… …depending on the light. Of course, these photos are from a variety of sources and different qualities and processed differently - but it makes for a challenge to match the color when it looks so different so many different places. So, using some spoons and a variety of base colors I’ve been messing with spoons the last couple of evenings. From top to bottom we’ve got Testor’s Chezoom Teal over light gray, olive green, black, dark blue and light green. Obviously the grey primer and light green are out, which leaves these three possible contenders: Seen here under a bright LED lamp, I think of these three the left spoon is probably closest - which is the version with the black base. In regular daylight the blue base (right spoon) looks the closest…but then under a light it’s WAY too blue. Next test I think will be shooting some blue pearl over these (particularly the teal-over-black) to see if that lightens it up a touch and gives it the same flip-flop quality that the real car has where it can be REALLY dark green, or almost a man electric kingfisher blue. Soon as I figure this part out I can actually start painting some of the big parts and detail and assemble some stuff! More soon (and comments and ideas welcome on that color…) - thanks for looking!

Interested to hear what you think of the gasser kit - I’ve been thinking of building one of those…

Thank you for all the nice comments everybody! Love hearing people’s memories of the 1:1! I picked this book up from Goodwill - got some more research material to help me along here: I’ve been trying to make a conscious effort to have something worth showing after my usual two/three hours of bench time every night…tonight’s project was the front brakes. Now, the kit didn’t come with any, but I had some of the right diameter in my resin parts stash that would work. Problem was, the front wheels have these unusual pill-shaped centers: I carefully chucked them into my little lathe so I could machine a little off, and clean up the back of those rims a little too whilst I was at it: Success! I’ll need to modify them a little to look more like the 1:1 parts but they’re pretty well hidden in the wheels anyway. In other news, I picked up this Vallejo Plastic Putty last week to try, having seen some good reviews of it - I guess it’s kinda like when people melt styrene in some glue to make a paste? Works GREAT for filling little pinholes, I’ve discovered: And I’ve started prepping some of the suspension pieces and getting them into paint - there’s surprisingly few bare-metal components on this car, but there’s a few on the frame where I’ll get to use some metalizers: Not a very exciting update - but a little progress from the bench at least! More soon!

What a cool story! Do you still have the model? Would love to see pics of it!

$50 does seem high - am I right in remembering this kit doesn't even have an engine?

I just tried adding as many as it would let me to my cart - it maxed out at 9233 cans...so I guess they have decent stock of it

This is coming along great! Always enjoy your scratchbuilding and kitbashing That Grant wheel is really cool! Never saw one of those before!

Thanks everyone! I think it’s the exact same body as the curbside, right down to the closed hood. The very last step in the instructions, is to open the hood “if you feel comfortable with the procedure” ?: Kinda late to be cutting the hood open once you’ve finished everything else and already glued the body to the frame if you ask me ?‍♂️ The kit does include some nicely moulded hood latches, but if you use those you're stuck with an open hood so they won’t work for what I’m doing here. I’d to see your take on a Chezoom by the way Claude - always enjoy and appreciate your work! Tiny update, as I was replying anyway - got the frame all cleaned up and ready for color, and mixed up some very-dark-gray paint to match the semi-gloss powdercoating on the real one: I’m contemplating picking up either a Monogram or AMT C4 Corvette kit to help with detailing up the suspension on this build, seeing as that’s what the real one used. Anyone reading this got either of those kits in their stash? I’d be interested to hear which has the nicer detailing. More soon!

Saw it posted on one of the modeling Facebook groups ??

This sounds interesting:

Thanks fellas! A little work on the body today - this kit has the hood moulded closed, so first job was to scribe it open, then figure out hinges and details. First step: Next up, add some bracing to make sure it sits nice and level with the fenders: Then, I made a brass hinge and added receivers to the underside of the hood: And the moment of truth…all fits back together properly with the hood closed: And it opens too! I’ll need to mess with the firewall a little now that I’ve done this, but I’m pleased to get the hinge done and working at least. Speaking of the hood, I found a good shot of the 1:1 that shows the bracing on the underside: So I laid out a version of that in Illustrator: Cut it on my Portrait cutter: And got it glued in place ready for fettling and cleanup tomorrow once the glue’s dry: Just a little extra detail to notice when the hood’s open. Thanks for looking…more soon!

Nope, still not

Follow up question on this topic - which of these kits has the best suspension and drivetrain parts? Looking for the entire front suspension (plus sway bars, steering rack etc) and rear suspension to transplant into something else…any opinions, Vette experts?

Nice!!! I’ve been excited to see this one back! Skill level FIVE though?? ?

Yep! Tried that, plus some other airbrushable clears (Createx, Tamiya, Testors). The Future worked the best of them, but it still dulled the chrome significantly - I did post pics on here a year or so ago but I can’t find them right now. Turned the chrome to more of a polished aluminum look, basically

That’ll be a real treat to deal with! I’ll tell my wife to crack the window ?

Haha, you can see where they tried to Photoshop their pen over the Molotow one and then misaligned it - that's why the upper pen has a thumb-shaped notch cut out of it and appears to be floating there on it's own

Just got done working through a bunch of service items on my wife's 2010 Civic. We got it from a friend of a friend and it was a real steal, price wise...but it had a bunch of work that it was overdue for, so I've been gradually working through all the maintenance that it had missed before we got it. It's at just under 160,000 miles, but apparently you can expect 200-300,000 out of these cars if you take care of them so it was worth a thousand bucks worth of work to try and keep it on the road for a good few years to come. Changed the plugs, changed the filters, changed the oil, changed the tranny fluid, gave it some new tires, fixed a broken wheel stud, re-gassed the air-con, had the alignment checked and tweaked...finally got everything handled and it's running great. Last night, the air con starts blowing baking hot air out of the vents. Turns out a failed compressor is fairly common on this era of Civic...looking like well north of a thousand bucks to repair, unless I get lucky and it's a $30 relay. I'd be tempted to switch out a belt and just bypass the compressor completely if it dies a COMPLETE death...luckily it was working normally again this morning but I'd be surprised if it had magically fixed itself overnight... That said, even with what I've spent on the car and what it cost we could still sell it and make a couple of thousand, based on the blue book valuation...

Surprised that the '34 pickup is getting another run so soon - my local Hobby Lobby still has a stack of the last version AND a couple of the old Lindberg moulded-in-yellow ones from before that.

Thanks for all the replies guys! I never met Boyd, but I appreciate the detail in about everything I’ve seen of his - and I’ve been picking up every old book I can to find out more about some of his older, lesser known builds - enjoying this one currently: Back to the build, I’ve been trying to figure out what all needs to be done to the frame so I can get that into primer and paint. First up, a bunch of Bondo to get it straight inside and out (and a little on the body, which I’m slowly getting in line too) I added that aluminum bar to the front to keep the frame rigid so I could sand it and not break anything - the real car’s frame actually doesn’t have that whole piece that I drilled through there, so I sliced that off and made some brackets for the core support that I think are more accurate to the 1:1, and made a piece that looks more like the real thing. The kit is missing a steering rack too, plus the sway bar that the real one has; most of the running gear on the Chezoom is ‘92 Corvette stuff, so finding reference pictures was easy enough at least. I’m just making simple ‘sketches’ of the parts right now to make sure everything fits ok - I’ll detail them up some later… Oh, and I found a good detail shot of the frame mostly assembled showing off the little transmission cooler and how the lines run for that, so I added some receivers to the frame and drilled out the transmission ready for lines later on: The front suspension is going to need some scratchbuilding I think - the kit wishbones are pretty blocky and don’t look like the actual car…I think the upper ones will be mostly hidden when the body’s in place anyway but that probably won’t stop me making some anyway - more soon!

I really like this one - BMW 700 over Beetle running gear: http://www.speedhunters.com/2020/08/john-ludwick-jrs-bmw-700/

Purists look away; Honda K-series engined Ferrari 308: http://www.speedhunters.com/2021/08/cars-supposed-fun-k-swapping-ferrari-308/ Gives me an idea of something fun to do with my wife's 2010 Civic ?

Today’s Mail call! Never thought I’d see this one reissued - but I’m glad it was! Need to ask Atlantis for a replacement tire, but that didn’t dull my excitement any…

Oh man, those look AWESOME! Release day can’t come soon enough!