OldNYJim

Nope!! People ran them, and they really did what they said they did (apparently). There were various cars (and bikes) running them and achieving impressive numbers in the quarter mile; excessive demand eventually killed the company when they couldn’t produce them fast enough to keep up and started sending incomplete setups to customers expecting them to make it all work themselves. The company owner went to jail for mail fraud, and the concept died right there and then. An interesting video on them can be found here: (Sorry for the thread hijack)

Oh, it probably paid for itself already this year in printing parts rather than buying them…but I’ll still pick up some aftermarket parts when I see them, or try and support people designing cool print files rather than designing my own if something is out on the market already. Sometimes it’s nice just to KITBASH or buy a resin something rather than print every little thing. All part of a balanced diet ? It’s a nice tool to have though, definitely!

Thanks fellas! I’m still plugging away on this - I decided on a solid orange for the paint, because I still didn’t like the first two paintjobs…finally found a shade I actually liked on this little T, even if it isn’t as ‘fancy’ as the previous two efforts. It’s funny, the first two ideas came out how I imagined them, and I liked the COLORS - just not the ‘feel’. My brain works weird, I know… Went to Michael’s this afternoon and looked at every rattle can and didn’t find anything but found an acrylic that I liked in the end… Seeing as the frame was always going to be black, I couldn’t be TOO indecisive with THAT…I’d usually paint any type of exposed frame in a gloss finish, but decided on a satin finish this time to see if that helps all the chrome pop a little more: And….that’s the shameful progress in the past week. Lots of prepping parts for chrome though, which will be tomorrow’s project, and then I can get started on getting this thing to ‘roller’ status…at least the pile of parts is getting bigger I guess ? I set myself a month to build this, and with Thanksgiving this week if I get everything in chrome that needs to be I can have a fun Thursday eating turkey and assembling some stuff - exciting! More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Not irked, just confused - what is a ‘hand painted’ paintjob meant to look like? I’ve achieved a ‘hand-painted’ look before with a brush and a paint roller, but I doubt anyone wants that on their $100,000 car ?

GREAT quote Tim!

That came out cool! There were some iconic racecars that ran that Marlboro livery - I’d like to build one of Senna’s F1 cars at some point

My wife’s kitten:

I definitely am! Keep them coming until I have time to read every single magazine myself - love getting some cool highlights!

I'm really impressed with the well-done changes you're making to this kit...makes me wanna build one of my own! Although I haven't built this particular one, these somewhat simplified Monogram kits usually build into a nice looking convincing model when they're done, and the changes you're making will just add to the finished piece. Keep going!

Guess they got that Ford license then…I’m pleased, because I wanted to build a replica of this car! I’ve never had any real favorite driver or team and I’m a pretty casual NASCAR fan, but I REALLY enjoyed the Clash at the Colosseum this year on the little 1/4 mile track…and Logano won that one! Looks like I’d need to probably source some additional decals to make a perfect replica of that particular car but I’ll be grabbing one of these for sure!

I tried BMF on a firewall for a recent build, and it worked OK, but not as good as just Alclading IMO. Main problem was you could see a little of the lumpiness of the glue and it was tough to get it as smooth as I wanted. The aluminum stuff might work better as it’s less reflective and you could get away with a little more in terms of not seeing the imperfections…

Great tips, thanks David - and you're right on the benefits of Createx paint. If I can improve my skills and learn a good technique for nice glossy finishes then I'd be happy enough to phase out lacquer and enamel clears from my process...

Really nice clean work on this Carl - love that color!

I have not, personally - but I’ve been wanting to! Didn’t realize they stocked that - thanks for the tip! I’ve never mastered a technique for polishing Createx acrylic clear that gave me results as good as I can get with lacquers or enamels, but I’d love to figure one out…but I’ve seen some good results right out of the bottle with that high-gloss stuff so I’m interested to try it

Thanks everybody! GREAT build @vtecfour! Some more progress…got a bunch of parts cleaned up and into primer: I shot a paintjob that I didn’t like in the end and redid it - settled now on Createx pearl orange - although I’ll be adding some more to this before I’m done, because can’t-leave-well-enough-alone-itus: Shot the engine in Alclad chrome then laid down some pearl candy…not a thing that probably happened very often in 1:1, but I’m giving myself some leeway for a showcar type build… And finally decided on an intake setup - decided on this cool Weber setup. Those little trumpets were kinda delicate but it’ll look cool chromed I think! Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

That's not cool

Been working on my Atlantis collection so I ordered their repop of the old Revell 57 Caddy, plus I picked up this little Tamiya saw for roof chops and more delicate work than my bigger razor saw is good for:

I’ve been using that same stuff too lately - works great!

Thank you to all who served, and those who serve today ??

I know all of these are available relatively easily anyway in 'standard' format...but I really like these 'advent calendar' kits that Revell DE has put out the past few years: https://www.revell.de/en/products/specials/advent-calendar/ I like the idea of getting a part or three a day, and working through building the whatever-it-is and having something finished by Christmas. Seems like it would be a fun tradition! Anyone ever seen these for sale here? I can find most of them fairly easily on eBay, but they all come from overseas (Italy, mostly) and the shipping cost is fairly high as a result. Their 'mystery box' looks intriguing too: https://www.revell.de/en/products/specials/revell-boxen/revell-box-us-cars.html

Haha, I DID fall down that rabbithole.... I saved a bunch of reference pics here, in case they're useful to you: https://public.fotki.com/NewYorkSpeedShop/11-cars/reference-material/mooneyes-dragster/

On the subject of the colors - Atlantis posted this, this week:

GREAT work - and you’re adding all the missing details that the kit doesn’t reproduce on that frame! I’ll be following!

Haha, @NOBLNG beat me whilst I was looking for a link…but I got an set of these at Michaels a while back, and for a cheap set of tools they work pretty well! The white handled ones are radiused so you can make consistent round bends, and I use them all the time on brass or thin steel rod. There’s probably better out there…but I’ve been using mine for a couple of years and they do just what I need and haven’t given me any reason to try any others…

That’s such a neat and tidy solution to setting up that rear end - looks great!!! Love it!