OldNYJim

That’s awesome! Who made the resin body?

Coupla pics of what’s in the Midget kit, from the Atlantis site:

I would be OVERJOYED if they had that entire series...

Ahh, so you’ve been to the Brooklyn Flea? ??

Me too - I’ve had a bunch of trouble with Rusto cans doing that to me in the past. Which is a pity because they’re usually fairly cheap and readily available. My favorite primer was/is the $2 a can stuff that Walmart used to carry, in the blue cans. Haven’t seen that for sale for a while, and getting dangerously low, but it was thin, never flaked or peeled and the gray was such a light gray it didn’t affect anything if I was painting a light color over top of it. I need to find more of that stuff…

So, you guys who own Optivisors - which lenses do you like for them? I see they have various magnifications (with varying respective depth of fields…)

Ohhhh, this is cool!! Nice start!

That looks awesome already! Like the Topolino in back too!

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I've intentionally sprayed them through an airbrush without thinning them probably 100 times ? You're right - works just fine!

I built one of these a while back - I don't recall any issues at all, I think it pretty much fell together... Decently detailed, for what it represents

I like this kit - I’ll be watching! I wish I’d seen kits at my local Walmart - NW Indiana here, right under the lake

$30 today ?

For ‘dry assembly’ I like three techniques in particular. One, is pinning. Drill a hole in a hidden spot on one part, and insert a little piece of wire. Then drill a hole where it goes and you’ve got a good repeatable method for mocking up a part repeatably every time. Second, when that’s not possible or desirable, is this stuff: Plenty strong enough to temporarily mocking up most parts, and cleans off with water. Downside is wait time for it to dry, and it’s not so good on big heavy parts (think heavy resin tires, for example) Third, is this stuff: It’s an infinitely reusable putty-goo-stuff that you can mold into whatever shape you need to hold things in place, and cleans right off most surfaces just fine. Also useful can be little jigs and stands to hold things off your bench so you can work on them a little easier - I just scratchbuilt these this week to hold up the (painted) frame of a build so it didn’t get marked up accidentally: A lot of guys are enjoying using magnets lately too, but I haven’t got a bunch of person experience of using those on my builds so far…

Much more southern NY than that…but definitely a semi-famous spot in the 70s thanks to a certain movie: Saturday Night Fever was filmed in ‘my’ neighborhood in Brooklyn and I frequented it pretty regularly until we moved out of the city. It just closed this year, so this is a little tribute to a spot that I’ll miss… Thank you! Awesome! It’s a fun kit - get to it! I added a steering box from a Revell Deuce - not sure how accurate it would be to the 1:1 but it’s in there anyway - I’ll take some better pics when I get the steering shaft made and installed properly… A little more progress today…got the body ‘polished out’…actually I flattened the orange peel and got it relatively smooth and uniformly kinda-glossy by doing a partial polish but not all the way to show-car. I don’t want it looking syruppy, but I didn’t want lumpy paint either… Then, with that done, finally time to add the holographic numbers I’d been excited about: Next up, finished up the brakes finally and got them properly mounted to my satisfaction. The disks were shot with SMS chrome, got a black wash and then some thinned Vallejo rust around the edges: Made a little rock-shield (I guess?) to mirror one I saw on some 1:1s in reference pics. Not sure how much it would protect the radiator, but maybe it’s a simple air flow thing or something? And as you can see in the pics above I’ve been detailing the radiator some today. Made a radiator cap, mounting brackets and installed the hood pin posts: There’s an aluminum catch-can on the other side that I forgot to photograph and I made a start on the hoses…need to finish the driveshaft so I can get the engine in place before I can get the hoses installed before I can glue the radiator in ? Quick motivational mock-up…it’s starting to look like a thing! Still a bunch of work to do, but I like how it looks so far! More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Regular pics are much more reliable than videos, just FYI ??

Got my delivery of Bugs! Came in a nice Revell box - I assume that’s what they send out to dealers: I was concerned these were mis-listed and would be 1:32 scale or something weird, but nope, just as described!

I'm not an expert on these Revell / Monogram funny cars, but do they share parts with the 57 chevy funny car that Atlantis already reissued? | They'd be relatively easy kits to release if they do - new bodies packaged with the funny car tooling they have already with the Chevy kit...

You’re not wrong about Red Caboose. ? We lived a few mins walk from Jan’s for a coupla years and I used to stop in there pretty regularly. Sad that it’s gone, but not surprising I guess…

Looks great!! Thanks for sharing the process (I’m trying to get good at polishing Createx myself…)

BUT BUT BUT - Rudy's in Queens, and the Red Caboose and Jan's on the Upper East Side!!!!

Looks great - I too love the color! Did you polish out that Createx clear? Looks GREAT!

Anyhoo… No Ding a Lings for us (unless some of those remaining parts are still on the trees somewhere? I can scratchbuild a rectangular box myself to finish it…) but I’ve been meaning to build a couple of Little Red Wagon variations too for a while so I can see me picking up a few of these… I think you’re doing a fine job Round 2! Keep those hits coming!

Looks like you got a reply on your other identical thread…this is the work in progress section, where people post works in progress as opposed to finished builds. I don’t think you offended anyone ?‍♂️