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Good looking Nomad. Nice paint.

Good looking GNX, Jason. Nice paint. You pushed through the 'oops' moments to a great result. Nicely done.

Welcome aboard Jason.

Welcome to the forum, Casey.

Welcome to the forum, Ken.

Welcome to the forum, Ethan.

AK Interactive Extreme Metal paints look good. Their brass has a nice brass patina look.

Yeah, looking great. Really looking the part.

Great looking Vette. Very nicely done.

Good looking long-roof Mustang. I love the stock treatment for this build. A nice, tidy build of a very handsome car. Very well done.

Nailed it! Great work keeping it real. That's one bad a** Chevy. Love it!

Well Francis, after 66 pages, I find myself out of superlatives. It sure is great to see this thing in final assembly (and I'm sure you're glad of it yourself). It must be a bit tense bringing these fine sub-assemblies together and doing the final fit-up without damaging anything. Everything looks fantastic, and I'm eagerly awaiting the final reveal.

I like the Testors stuff in the black, plastic bottle when I need a thicker glue. It's not as thick as the tube glue, and it's not stringy. Apply it with a toothpick, etc. It will be more controllable than Tamiya liquid, but not as thick and gooey as the regular Testors tube. Humbrol and Revell also make model cement with a similar viscosity, though I've not used them.

Looking sharp, Bill. Nice work on the decals.

It's coming along great, Kurt. I like your simple brake calipers, they would make a nice addition to a lot of kits. I like the seat piping, too.

It’s stronger too, and has better elasticity. Some of that aluminum tube is not very resistant to bending.

Very cool. That's one sweet little mini-bike.

Semantics. For those who wish to blindly adhere to what the marketing department put on the label, then ok, it's an ink. Otherwise, it's an alcohol based acrylic paint.

Molotow is an alcohol based acrylic chrome paint.

Hey, very cool project. Love it. Don't forget the burn mark on the seat where Rudnick extinguishes his cigar.

I have several pin vises, including one similar to the photo. I bought this style specifically for use in scratchbuilding. The hex design of the collet nuts facilitates making round tube or rod into hex tube (to make nuts) or hex rod. Chuck a piece of tube or rod in the pin vise, then clamp the pin vise horizontally into a bench vise, with vise jaws gripping the pin vise by the hex flats. File a flat on the top surface of your rod/tube material, then release the bench vise, turn the pin vise by one set of flats, and re-clamp in the bench vise. File another flat across the top surface of the rod/tube, release the bench vise, and repeat until all six sides of the rod/tube have been flattened. For those who like to have several pin vises around, picking up one of this type may be useful. Mine has become the 'go to' pin vise on my bench (Note: Mine is not the brand pictured. The one I have looks exactly like the one sold by MicroMark).

Keep in mind that any Chrysler option will have the opposite cylinder bank off-set.

It seems to me that there are several kits with injected Cammers, but the only one coming readily to mind is the AMT altered wheelbase Mustang, issued in several iterations.

A couple of the Fujimi wheel/tire sets have the GT40 tires, if that helps. I know this set has them Campagnolo Wheel Fujimi 192925 (super-hobby.com) Most places are out of stock right now, but worth keeping an eye out for.

Thanks for posting that link. Very interesting read.