OldNYJim

I used to post on there years ago - back when they had a rule banning more than three photos per post (apparently to save their bandwidth) I photoshopped 4 larger photos into one regular-sized-image to further help save their bandwidth and got banned for “circumventing the rules” ???

Thanks buddy! I found a great video online of a walk-around of one of these...I haven’t been able to find as many good reference pictures as I would like to this has been invaluable... About half-way through they talk about the rear speaker on the back shelf, which I thought was a really cool feature...I’m not sure if that was standard or an option or just on certain models, but the AMT kit doesn’t model that so I figured that’d be a fun Saturday project. Using the video as reference I make the approximate shape in my vinyl cutter software: And then ran to the dollar store to pick up a sheet of their $1 styrene sheet ? A quick cut later... ...and we’ve got this! I made the Studebaker ‘S’ a seperate piece and whilst I had the cutter fired up I had it cut a fabric insert to replicate a cloth cover for the speaker: I’ve just shot the parts with some primer and paint and once it’s good and dry I can insert the cloth piece, add the letter and add some photoetch screw heads to match the 1:1 part. I had to take some liberties with the thickness of the letter to make it possible to cut it and the dimensions are approximate because I couldn’t find any other pics for reference - but it’s a fun little detail to add to the interior that you’ll be able to see through the rear window pretty easily when the car’s assembled. More soon, soon as the paint dries!

A little more progress on this one - did some work on the engine this week - added a few little details, did some detail painting and got it pretty much wrapped up except for the air filter; And got all the interior pieces prepped and into their red paint - plenty of detail painting and stuff to go on these but it’s cool to see them in color! This red is a little bright compared to the factory color I think...but it’ll dull down some once I brush some pastels into the nooks and crannies and start breaking all that red up with the chrome and so on. More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

I was just reading about that! The makers of the world’s pinkest pink also don’t seem to like him either: http://stuartsemple.com/project/worlds-pinkest-pink-50g-powdered-paint-stuart-semple/ ??‍♂️

One of the best models I’ve ever seen - and I’m so thankful that you’ve shown all the steps in it coming together. Can’t wait to see what’s next...what IS next?

A couple of sightings from on my block this past week - I’d take the Vette, but the Monte is probably a fun drive too!

There’s some joke about using aftermarket parts there I’m sure

I’m gonna pick some up I think and experiment - you can get a sheet (enough for probably 10 cars) for a couple of bucks on eBay and cut some out on my cutter. Could even make them with curved edges so they just attach right to the outside of the glass

These new ads on the site can’t seem to tell the difference between models and models either ?

I'd try this with Matt black sign writer's vinyl - it looks like a sheet of rubber, is easily cut, sticks for years and doesn't have the thickness of paper or electrical tape.

Those are really cool - thanks for sharing Tim! Really interesting to read the history and reason behind the formation of the NNL events...now I wanna dig out that old magazine and read that angry editorial

A couple of sightings from around the block this weekend - the Alfa is cool! Kinda beautiful and ugly all at once ?

Thanks buddy! Mini update - got plug wires in there and a few bits attached to the block. I used some Detail Master wire (with a thicker wire from an old phone charger for the plug boots) and scratchbuilt a distributor...And a quick inspection of the paint on the body that I shot yesterday shows nothing much in the way of dust or other nonsense in my nice finish - a tricky thing to achieve shooting in a New York apartment with nowhere good to paint! More soon, soon as I’ve done more ?

Thanks Dave! It’s cool that you guys are so proactive about this stuff and willing to tweak things

Thanks for all the comments everyone - cool gasser Disco! The humidity was really high this week which slowed me down a little in getting the body color laid down...but it dropped to 55% today from 85% and I managed to get some spraying done: I bare metal foiled the decals on the body before I shot the paint, after I saw a technique Steven Guthmiller recommended in a thread here - hoping I can pull it off! I prepped a bunch of pieces and got them in primer ready for paint - the interior tub’s primed, most of the engine parts are done and this thing should go together pretty smoothly all being well seeing as I’m building it pretty much out of the box. I’m adding a little detail here and there though, like replacing the levers on the steering column with a little scratchbuilt assembly: More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Funnily enough, I got another full page ad when this topic reloaded after I posted just then too...I don’t mind keeping my adblocker turned off for small ads, but if I have to close a full page ad every time I load a page then that’ll get old fast...

Yeah, I’ve got the ad at the top too - normally they’re not too bad, but some of them seem to resize and take up the top 1/3rd of the screen as you scroll down

Some of these ads are getting much more intrusive lately - particularly on mobile. The last couple of days I keep getting full-screen ads when I load a topic that cover the whole page, like this...

Since you suggested that place I’ve been a few times - helpfully it’s within staggering distance of the one ‘proper’ bar I’ve managed to find in Bensonhurst ? They make a great slice, it’s true!

The Skyline engine? I think it actually does!

I was reading a 25 year old mag the other day and the editorial there said that the hobby would be dead in 10 years because kids are busy playing with computer games and and watching TV

Cool Miata!

Can't wait Dann! Always enjoy your builds!

Sorry to hear about your father - but cool to hear about his cars! I’d like to visit the Studebaker museum next time we’re visiting family near there! Whilst I’m replying anyway, I’ve been messing with this paint to see how close I can get it to the factory color - it’s not a dealbreaker for me if it’s not perfect as I haven’t got access to a 1:1 to compare to anyway...but I tried the paint over a couple of different color bases and a white base seems to get it pretty close: Actually, it dried a little lighter than it is in my spoon-test pic there so I think it’ll work ok. I shot the engine with white Duplicolor primer (which I really like, it lays down like Tamiya primer but it’s a quarter of the price) and then hit the block with some of the hearing aid beige (sorry, Studebaker Ivory Mist ?) Now, all the 1:1s I found seem to have either a dark green or a black block but I’m building this more as a nice almost-stock restoration rather than straight-off-the-production-line so I decided I’d like to see a nice immaculately-clean engine bay so I’m going with a matching block, body and frame here. Something that you’d see at a car show and say “wow, that’s CLEAN” rather than “wow, that’s just like original”. I don’t want to go full-streetrod with the color-coding though, so I’ll be painting the various accessories and components that attach to the block in a variety of metal tones...I picked up this paint at Target a couple of weeks back and thought that’d be a nice shade for a bare-metal oil pan-color and mixed in some Tamiya chrome to get some slightly different tones for a couple of the other parts: I got some white primer on the body too this afternoon - I’ll let it shrink and set-up overnight and give the body a check for any cleanup that it needs and then give it another flag to make sure the final color is as nice as it can be. I’m thinking I’ll need to use the foil-under-the-paint trick for the various emblems and details on this body and then use some more BMF once it’s done for the spears and window frames More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Huh, fascinating! I wondered what they could be for - thanks for the info! Makes sense! Funnily enough, my wife's Aunt who sent me these kits lives in Valparaiso, and these kits came from the Grandpa's garage in Munster! Throw in that the Studebaker factory was in South Bend and my wife is a Hoosier and we've got a lot of Indiana connections on this build!