OldNYJim

I’ve been thinking about this thread ALL YEAR! Since reading this thread when it was first posted and thinking about what I’d like to build, about all I’ve done is try and hit my goal of building all of the stuff I wanted to this year. I should’ve made a shorter list - it was a LOT of work ? Here’s the list I made at the start of the year: And, in order of the ones I finished… Model A with ridiculous paintjob: A trike: An oval car: A lakes racer (kinda - did a Bonneville build instead of the vintage hot rod I originally planned to do): Another 34 truck: A VW: A Corvette: Something for a show (Desert Scale Classic): A Boyd Coddington kit: And something in vintage police livery: I didn’t finish a build with a scratchbuilt body, or a showrod - but in my defense I did finish an MPC truck for a Scale Auto review, and these two: I’m relatively pleased with what I achieved in ‘21…I learned a lot, and made some concessions in order to hit my goal that I set myself, even if I didn’t REALLY hit it ? I have some ideas for next year’s builds already so I hope there’s a follow-up thread…but now I’ve completed a bunch of builds that I’d been MEANING to do just to get them out of my head and onto the shelf, I really wanted to do some more focused and detailed builds next year. Bring it on!

Love those seatbelts - this project is great! Enjoying watching it come together!

Got a nice early Christmas gift from a buddy today - a Monogram ‘34 Ford customizing kit: The box didn’t fit in my booth too well, but it’s worth it for that gorgeous old box art! And this too - never saw this kit before! They’re both started, but just barely, and complete as best I can tell - super thoughtful gifts!

Well of COURSE Otherwise people would claim for issues like this more often and they'd have to stop their employees mishandling things and doing a poor job. Heaven forbid they take good care of the packages they've been entrusted with (which they seem to forget AREN'T theirs, to treat as they see fit) (I too sent a package this week, and it arrived looking as though a forklift drove over it)

Where the roof meets the body, you mean?

Wow, I just saw what these are going for on eBay…I was considering picking another one up rather than wait until next time I can get to my self store unit (an 11 hour drive away ?), but the cheapest one is a hundred bucks!

How many holes could a whole hole hold if a whole hole could hold holes?

That'll work too, same deal! I learned the hard, slow way that I just wasn't laying down enough paint and almost ALWAYS burned through and couldn't figure out why. Of course, 2K likely lays down much thicker than lacquer (and is apparently MUCH tougher to polish) so that could be the magic bullet to get quick easy glossy paintjobs, but same thing applies - gotta have enough meat on the bones to be able to polish it out successfully ?

Also, if you're polishing through the clear then there simply aren't enough layers of clear on there - it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure this out and thought there was often something wrong with my polishing technique, but no, I just simply wasn't laying down enough clear coat. For example, when shooting the Rustoleum rattle can clear (the stuff with the black chair on the can) I need to lay down a couple of mist coats and then probably 6-8 coats to get enough to safely polish out the paint job without fear of burn through. Your problem might be as simple as not laying down enough paint to polish...

Never used Spraymax, but I have cleared over Createx with a 0.35 tip in my (cheapo Chinese eBay) airbrush dozens of times without issue. Just need to make sure the paint is thinned sufficiently, but if you've ever shot any of Createx's opaque or metallic colors, and clear you shoot will likely be thinner and easier to spray than them. I've found, with Createx, that some lacquers (Rustoleum, especially, but not exclusively) can be too hot for it, and especially so with the Candy colors. Solutions are to gently mist of light coats and build up to a wet coat, or use an intercoat to protect the candy before shooting the clear. Future is a good intercoat, as is Createx's own clear or balancing clear - I prefer Future because it's quick and easy and thin too. I haven't ever tried 2K over Createx, but if I was going to I'd definitely consider shooting a coat of SOMETHING over top of it first to stop the clear dragging or damaging the candy underneath.

Came out great! Really like that color!

That's a great build - thanks for the heads up on it! Link to save anyone else having to search: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1948-anglia-southeast-gassers-build.1247758/

Only very loosely related, but I wonder if we'll see a reissue of the Anglia too?

Funny thing was, when I asked him later how his dog was he said "My dog?! Fine....?" and I said "After the thing with the skunk?" and he said "Ohhhh, righttttt, yeah yeah yeah - ummmm, yeah, he's fine, kinda stinky". Sounded totally legit

My employer arranged for me to complete a (virtual) class to learn 3d modelling in a CAD software package. Great, I really wanna learn more about that. They guy they found to train me, however, is either really unlucky, or a flake... The course is 4 weeks, with a half day session per week. Week 1: The teacher's dog got bitten by a skunk and he had to take him to the vet. Course pushed back a week Week 2: Course completed Week 3: The teacher's hot water heater exploded, course put back a week. Week 4: Couldn't get a hold of the guy - he emailed me later that day and said he "totally spaced on the training" and can we do it next week Week 5: This week - guess we'll see! Santa stuck in the chimney? The reindeer ate his course notes? I should've completed this training already and I've only managed to get half a day under my belt...can't wait to see what this week's mishap will be!

Need to make a bunch of header pipes for a build, so picked up these pipe benders to help make the job a LOT easier. Nice quality, under $15 on Amazon and they work great. Turned a job I dislike doing usually into (almost) a joy ?

That engine is gorgeous

At our old address in Brooklyn we could get a lot of stuff same-day with Prime - it was amazing! As long as you ordered by 2pm (I think?) you’d get the package by 9pm. We’d use it some days when we didn’t feel like taking the train somewhere to go get whatever we needed - if it was anything where we would’ve otherwise just put it off until tomorrow, we’d Prime Same-Day it and have it before bed!

I was really hoping, from the thread title, that YOU were building one from scratch Bill

That one with the intake (I assume?) poking through the fender is super cool - thanks for posting these Casey!

Great fabrication - love seeing work like this

You're telling me - I figured I'd just build the kit, and add some detail and I'd have a decent replica....I'm over a week into this one just on messing with the frame Something that muddies the water somewhat too is there being the two different cars (and seeing as the Mooneyes shop has a damaged frame on display from one of the cars, at least one of them has been rebuilt at least once). Add to that, like any race car, parts break, get replaced, get upgraded, get swapped out for some other reason, tires and wheels get changed, and so it's tricky to know exactly what reference material to go with and which exact time period of the car's life you're trying to replicate. I'm going with a lot of 'reasonable assumptions' with my build, where I need to fill in a blank

This is my favorite by FAR:

⬆️ Steve does nicer work without a lathe than I can do WITH one ⬆️ ?

I read last year that sometimes when packages get routed to somewhere that doesn't make sense, it's making the most of available labor to manually process mail - so if a particular office is really backed up it may be quicker to route to another hundreds of miles away and let the staff there handle it and send it to the next destination faster than if it went the 'logical' route. I have no idea if that's true though. Like all organizations, the USPS no doubt has it's fair share of inefficient staff and likely a much smaller share of EXCELLENT staff. Our local mail lady in Brooklyn, Linda, was really exceptional. In 2018 I moved in with my wife-to-be right before we got married. After we got married a bunch of my wife's family sent cards and a few forgot to put our apartment number on the envelopes. Despite the fact that I had only lived there a couple of weeks and had less than a dozen items of mail delivered there, Linda figured out where to deliver all these cards addressed to my wife (now with a surname she didn't recognize on them and no apartment number), on a route that likely included THOUSANDS of customers. She was great - I always made sure to offer her a drink or a snack when I'd see her in our lobby or outside the building. Then, another time, I went to collect a package from our local PO and the guy said "How do you expect find your package? I have 10,000 packages here?! What do you want me to do, look at all 10,000?". I said "I dunno, don't you have some sort of system, or...." ?‍♂️