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Welcome to the forum, Boston. Good luck with your project.

The six sheets were probably successively finer grits. A common method when colour sanding is to sand in one direction with one grit, then in the cross direction with the next finer grit, and so on. It is the best way to erase the fine scratches left behind by the coarser grits, though often the body contours and features dictate the direction of sanding. However, if you are working on the hood in the photo above, it can't be saved with colour sanding. I'd strip it and start over.

Beautiful Jag, Tom. Nicely built, and looks great in that colour. Well done.

Just beautiful, David. Such nice, clean work on such a challenging kit. Excellent!

Welcome to the forum, Terry.

You are correct Roger! Thanks for the correction, got the two kits mixed up. I think the Maverick comes with both, but the Comet definitely comes with the Boss only. Original post edited.

A couple other kit Cammers; - JoHan Maverick pro stock. A good looking engine, though with some accuracy issues the anoraks will find fault with, such as the same block being used for the 427 Cammer and the Boss 429, which in 1:1 are two different engine families. The Cammer parts are decent. - MPC flip from Mustang (origin Ohio George Mustang?). Most of the engine is undersized and generic, but the Cammer parts look great, and includes the 'Ford 427' lettering on the cam covers, which many exclude (most cam covers in period did not have this lettering). - AMT '68 Shelby, some kit releases but not all. A decent engine with nice looking Cammer bits. Seems to me there was a thread on the forum a while back listing and comparing kit based Cammers. It would be worth while to dig up that thread. As mentioned above, Texas 3D Customs has just released a gorgeous Cammer, with induction and transmission options. Having purchased some of his stuff, I can say his engines are top notch.

I am always amazed at what a good panel beater can do. As impressive as the chassis work is, and the scratchbuilding of engineering components, I understand the mechanics and dynamics of creating those assemblies. I can do some of that stuff. But the body work seems such a black art to me. Where the other stuff is pure craft, the panel work feels much more like art. Very impressive, Randy. Thanks much for taking the time post this stuff in detail. Cheers.

Welcome to the forum, Martin. Some examples of excellent model building you have posted there. Fine builds, and very creative. Looking forward to seeing more. Cheers.

That is one sweet looking’Bird, Steve. Love the style, nice and clean. Cool colour, too. Very nice!

This build is coming along very nicely. The black on the engine cover looks great.

What's that big lump in the fore-ground? An intake plenum?

Interesting kit. Never heard of this one, but the body shell looks right. I'll be watching to see how this one goes.

Good looking Firebird. Nice work on the decals.

That's a fine looking Vette, Andy. I like the colour combination. Nicely done.

Thanks much for the link. That is the mother of all rabbit holes. It also means that I can now dump that pile of magazines in the basement without my head imploding.

Thanks Mike. Very helpful indeed. Cheers.

Very cool, Tim. A great 80s period piece. The Chevy makes for a nice, tidy delivery. Thanks for posting. Are the tires starting to eat the wheels? In some photos I see some red around the rims that I wouldn't expect to see there, almost looks like red plastic bleeding around the edges.

Love 'em! Both are cool Ramchargers builds with that great period look. Nicely done. Been looking recently for a set of Ramchargers decals for my own JoHan '64 Dodge, but they're getting hard to find.

I dig it! Cool parts box build. That's what model building is all about. Your dragster collection is impressive. Thanks for posting that photo.

Beautiful Pantera, Sonny. You did a great job with this kit, which has its issues. You have massaged this kit into a lovely Pantera. Very well done.

That's exactly how I do it. Works great.

Good tutorial, Jim. Cheers.

Additionally, using a magnet holder can magnetise your tweezers. My go-to tweezers are a fine Triumph watchmaker's tweezers made of carbon steel, and as it is, they will magnetise slightly over time. This makes it very frustrating to handle small parts made of iron/steel, for example, a carb linkage made of .009" guitar string, or a plastic door handle with guitar string pin, etc. I find I have to de-mag my steel tweezers about once a year, or so. I would expect a magnetic holder to aggravate this problem. Not a problem, of course, if only handling plastic, brass, and aluminum.