OldNYJim

The Rigor Motor coffin-dragster - the skull looks like this:

Excellent news! I wish you all the best in this, and I’m excited to see what happens!

Excited to read about the reboot of MCM on the Facebook page today - the intention to bring it back, and have it more like SAE used to be than Scale Auto (which wasn’t as content heavy as the older magazines, by far, much as I loved it) sounds intriguing! Good time to start publishing Model Cars Mag regularly again for sure!

Oh wow, this is stunning - world class building! Very very impressive Claude!

Wow, thank you so much for all the nice comments everyone! Sanding day today - the body was pretty straight but the frame needed a little more to be perfect and there were a few little touch ups to handle: Back in primer tomorrow for another try - shouldn’t be far off being ready for color. Speaking of color, had a few little parts that WERE ready for color - loved getting a chance at spraying some of that Boyd red! LOVE it! Not an interesting update, I know - but was excited to see how that color looked on some parts! More soon!

Ahh, interesting! I never used one of those - sounds like you got a real bargain with that one!

What do you use it for?

Testors high gloss clear cut 50/50 with the thinner ??

Pity, because we love everything about the place apart from the neighbors - but NYC rent is too expensive to keep paying for somewhere you don’t like...

We’re about to move, and you’re right - it sucks. Doesnt suck as much as living next door to the Moroccan family with the wife-beating husband and the child-abusing Mom and the perma-crying (unsurprisingly) young kids though. The roach infestation coming through the wall of their urine-smelling apartment was the final straw, after the landlord said he couldn’t do anything to remove them because they accused him of racism and threatened him with some kind of Muslim rights lawyer...so we’re about to pack up and move out, soon as we find a place. Pain in the donkey though...

Looks great Randy - looks like it would be a fun little hot rod to bomb around in! Nice job!

Donn Yost: http://oldmansmodels.com/id106.html And, thanks to watching some of his videos on his YouTube, me too. ? I’ve only tried this technique with the enamel clear over acrylics - but it works great for me!

Just my little Silhouette Portrait cutter - could’ve probably just used regular tools like a normal person but the machine was sitting there doing nothing ? Thanks Jim! I have been contemplating some hood sides, yes! I think where I’ve left the frame and wheelbase standard length it’ll never look as flowing and elegant as a Boydster - more squat and stocky and aggressive! Which I don’t mind - but I’d really like to do a proper replica of a Boydster at some point, once I’ve worked through the Boyd kits that exist already. Even the bad ones (looking at you, AMT 32 Ford) ? No major progress to report today, but did a bunch of cleanup and prepping some of the bigger parts so I could shoot some primer and then really go over the body and fenders with a fine toothed comb and see what more work it needs to get ready for paint - more soon!

That’s the plan! It lays down nice and dries nice - I just seem to keep getting ones that clog ?? Probably takes 10-15 minutes to hit touch-dryness, but I leave it overnight anyway usually I think it’s actually a clog in the valve or the tube in the case of mine - even with a brand new never-used valve they won’t spray again. Like you say, might be bad storage or old stock or any number of things. I get on fine with their colored cans and the metallics and whatnot - just having a lot of issues with the primer lately ?‍♂️

I just clogged another can of Rustoleum primer today - I now have 4 clogged cans basically full of paint. Im doing all the shaking they recommend, inverting to clear the nozzle, all the stuff you’re MEANT to do...and after a couple or three uses, clog another one. I’ve only been using them before I bought a few cans when Amazon had them cheap one day, but I’ll be switching brands now I think ??

To the Googlemobile! Thanks again Claude!

Another awesome build in progress - I’ll be watching! ?

Agreed - although I think it’s bad practise of a hobby store to tell their customer to deal with the manufacturer directly. Not many instances of retail where you can get away with that - would be much better if they exchanged the goods and took it up with their distributor rather than leaving the customer to do the legwork

Great info - I’m familiar with the 33 but not the others you referenced - time to do some learnin’ Thanks Claude!

That’s really cool - I was trying to find out if he ever did a Coupe version of a Boydster - this is the closest I’ve seen so far! Back on topic, great looking build @Brudda - would love to see some more progress on this one!

Oh wow - this is OUTSTANDING! Could VERY easily be mistaken for the real thing...in fact, I just showed my wife and she had no idea it was a model. GREAT job! I’m really impressed!

You don’t need to - if you can see the sky, it’s working fine, but if you see tarmac you did something wrong ? GREAT looking build! Really nice work on a cool subject! Paint looks great!

You did a GREAT job on that motor plate - nice work!

I think a lot of people use those Micromesh polishing grits that go up (down?) to 1800 grit cloths or whatever they come with, and end up using an unnecessarily coarse grit to start out the process - seems like that’s asking for trouble. Your technique is a testament to your painting skills Steve! I’m always envious of your finishes!

I believe those are also the ingredients for a 7-Eleven hot dog ?