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OldNYJim

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  1. That looks really good Kurt! What does the grout do? Thicken it up?
  2. So, we know it’ll be the Mail Box and then the Taco trikes one and two...I’m excited to see what number three is!
  3. What’s wrong with just twisting the parts off the sprue?! ???
  4. You ever have those days where you work on stuff all day and none of it’s really worth even photographing or posting an update on? Did a BUNCH of parts prepping today - sanding, Bondo-ing, priming...spent HOURS at the bench today and didn’t really do much interesting ? Mocked up some of the partially-painted bits of my Paddy Wagon NNL build to amuse myself a little, anyway: And another rack of stuff ready for it’s first or second coat of blue:
  5. These Deuces are great examples of the differences, for me. If you can SEE all the mechanical stuff proudly displayed, the axles, the suspension, the frame, the engine, then you’re more in Hot Rod territory...and if you’re hiding all that stuff and smoothing it all out and painting it modern colors then you’re more street-roddy. It has much less to do with the age of the car than the attitude and vision the builder had when building it for ME. YMMV
  6. A technique that I just read about that I thought was cool was moving the leaf spring mounts so that, where applicable, instead of them mounting on the underside of the frame they’d move them ‘inboard’ and mount THROUGH the frame sideways to gain a couple of inches. Just used that trick myself to solve an engineering issue that I was trying to overcome!
  7. Got a few goodies in from Gofer Racing - I’d never seen any of their stuff in the ‘flesh’ but they had some cool stuff I was interested in! The hot rod gauges I’m not thrilled with - the detail is more fuzzy than the kit decals I wanted to replace, but the wood grain will be perfect for a project I had in mind!
  8. I wonder if, for a texture more like the one in this pic, a good technique would be to stipple some relatively thickly applied paint with a brush - maybe use the bristles of the brush to help give some of those lines and strands that you see there
  9. That Escort is one of my favorite builds on this site ⬆️
  10. I love seeing your builds Steve, always such nice work! The flat spots in the tires is SO simple but makes such a difference!
  11. Thanks fellas! ? Shot a light mistcoat of clear on this today...I’m not really GOING for the final shine yet but it definitely added some depth to the color! I wanted to protect the paint before I do the next stages - Tamiya paint is pretty hardy anyway usually, but I didn’t want to chip a little off or something further down the line when I’m masking and messing with it so this is a good preventative step against that. More on the body once the paint dries in a couple of days and I can give it a quick polish to level it out! Meanwhile, just thinking about how to improve this front end...it’s going to be so low that I don’t really NEED to do much, but I’m going to give it a bunch of attention anyway: First thing I wanted to do was scratchbuild a steering setup, and then next I’m going to replace that sway bar at the front and figure out a steering box: More soon, soon as I’ve done more!
  12. One of the best things about Rudy’s is some of the stuff he says; ”We don’t have a limit on how much you buy!” and “we have plenty of bags so you don’t need to worry about purchasing a lot!” and my favorite “if your wife calls we won’t tell her how much you spent!” I need to go visit again, I haven’t been there in a while
  13. Spotted this today - not super noteworthy except for the interesting graffiti that seems to happen to a lot of these commercial vehicles eventually in New York...normally they’re a real mess but this one was nicely done at least. I keep thinking that something like this would be an interesting scale project! I was on my way back from helping a friend clean out the basement of her bar - found some interesting stuff left by a previous tennant! Excuse the off topic stuff - but I love finding cool stuff like this!
  14. Stopped by a Blicks this morning on my way to somewhere else for some K&S metal rod and sheet and they had all the packs of tube for 99 cents, and 50% off their rolls of thin metal sheet. Their display was pretty much picked clean (at least of anything I’d find useful) but I grabbed what they had, and some wire for scratchbuilding bits and pieces:
  15. 7-Eleven sold kits?!? Wish they still did - wonder if there’s some in the dusty old corners of some 7-Eleven stockrooms somewhere ?
  16. Thank you buddy! I’m excited to start to get to paint some bits now! I love that! Yes! It’s really cool when something looks BETTER, but you’re not sure why! Some of the mods aren’t too subtle on this thing, granted, but there’s a bunch of little things that I’m pleased with too. Whilst I’m replying anyway...shot a little paint today! Needs more coats still, but I love how this color looked glinting in the sun on my apartment’s built-in paint drying device ? I can’t wait to see it with some clear over it! I’m thinking of using some Pearl-Ex to give it a little extra something too - but those sparkles are really eye catching even just after a few mist coats! IMG_6155.MP4
  17. I’ve been resisting getting one of these for AGES, and I keep thinking “I don’t really NEED one”...but then I see a thread like this and think of all the cool stuff I could do with it if I had one ??
  18. I think you’re right buddy! It’s definitely going to be a good candidate for some ridiculous graphics. I actually did some more work on the body today so I could maybe start work on some airbrushing but it needs some primer so I can see how far out I am. Little progress today, got the engine in! Made a couple of simple mounts and got the kit 409 in there - should be just about dangerous enough to drive I’d think ???
  19. Thanks fellas! Getting closer! I think I’m pretty much ready to lay come color on there, after a final round of clean up tomorrow when the paint’s all set up and shrunk down nice: Just realised I’ve done something on this EVERY day this year to get it this far...I hate to think how many hours this thing has in it considering it doesn’t look that much different to stock ??. From front to back though it’s had a new front tray, reshaped headlamp openings, a smoothed out hood, side chrome deleted, door handles removed, trunk hinges removed, rear deck reshaped, trunk lid reshaped, gas filler removed, Frenched rear license plate added, new rear pan and the windshield posts moved inwards and the windshield narrowed. That was a lot of stuff ??. More soon, hopefully with some paint, finally!
  20. Haha, that sign! ? Another poor week for cool cars in downtown Brooklyn this week...only a couple of interesting-ish things of note. Wonder if there’s a pickup around here somewhere with a black cab and white mismatched bed? ?
  21. Went in one of the Chinese dollar stores near me this morning looking for anything useful for model stuff (craft supplies, pins, glues, whatever) and spotted a whole bunch of Tamiya rattlecans in amongst the $2 tools that break right away and off-brand cosmetics! I didn’t pick any up, I wanted to see if $6 was a good price for these...seems like it’s a little under normal retail though so I’m going to head back and pick some up in the week probably. Amazing what you can find where you didn’t expect to find it!
  22. That’s really helpful, thank you SO MUCH Eric...really cool of you to share your secrets!
  23. A little more scratch building today - seeing as that front end is REALLY visible I wanted to get the steering setup to look detailed enough that it could (probably kinda) work and be interesting visually. Started with the arms and the main linkage: And then made a steering box, using a 1:1 aftermarket Impala one for somewhat-reference and a couple more little links to make it all look about-right: A little more detailing with some scale bolt heads and whatnot and then I can figure out where the shocks will mount and then clean it all up for paint. More soon!
  24. This is looking incredible! Remind me Eric - are you using the deep-cut blade on your Silhouette or the regular one? I’m not getting results as good as yours when I cut...I’m normally letting the machine do 5 or 6 passes but it doesn’t do a great job of cutting through the material. Might just be new blade time...
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