Bainford

If the glue doesn't go right to the window edge, you may be able to save the glass by carefully grinding away at the heavily glued portion with a dremel to free the unglued bit. Between grinding and using a hobby knife, you may be able to save enough of the glass to re-use. Of course, if the glue is heavy enough to have spilled out into the window opening, this won't work.

You know, somewhere there must be a Back To The Future Doc Brown figure that could be converted into a Jim Ignatowski.

Don't know how I missed this one. Beautiful Aston Martin. I really dig the DB4. I really need to build one of these. I love the colour, and the bumperless look. Your trials have paid off handsomely. I have a file of about 1500 car photos from the net that runs on slideshow on my model bench as project inspiration, and among them is a black DB4 without bumpers. It looks so cool, much like yours, and every time the photo pops up, I think I need to build one.

Great save. Fine looking GTO. It must have been a bear getting the roof pillars sorted.

Good looking pair of Pontiacs.

My '74 and '78 Pinto has it as well.

Oh yeah, that's cool. Nice job adding life to a simple kit. Lovely replica of a very cool and historic MG. I love it!

That's really neat. What a great looking taxi, and cool setting, too. Nicely done.

Sharp looking Merc. I quite like that colour. It works well with those sleek lines. I really should pick up one of these kits.

A very handsome Model A.

Luke, Curt, You are quite welcome. Thanks for the kudos. Much appreciated. Charles The fire truck panel looks terrific. Very nicely done. I find many uses for the thin aluminum rings, though like you, lately I've been using them less for gauge bezels if there is enough room in the dash for fitting gauges made from aluminum tube. I'm getting good results with the larger gauges, but still struggling with decent results on the small gauges. The photo below is the un-pretty side of the Europa dash shown at the end of the main post.

Nice looking Pontiac. I really love that shade of gold. Cool stuff.

That's one mean looking Chevelle. Nicely done.

Looks good in red with white. Nice work.

Very cool funny car. Your efforts have paid off handsomely. Nice clean work. Despite the issues with the decals, they look great. Very well done.

Welcome to the forum, Gary. Nice looking trucks.

Very cool project, and awesome supercharged v-12 concept. Love it. I enjoy the hot rod wips, though I haven't built a hot rod in decades. I loved to build them when I was young, but decades of going through muscle cars and then vintage sports cars, in scale and in 1:1, I have lost my personal hot rod edge. I am amazed at the knowledge of hot rod subtleties and engineering displayed by forum members. I have a few hot rod projects in my project book and would like to get a couple built, but I find myself lagging behind in intimate knowledge of the genre. I particularly enjoy threads such as this one, which is a fountain on information on hot rod building, and the parts available to do so. I appreciate your taking the time to photograph and explain things well. Excellent thread, and wicked build. Cheers.

Very cool! It certainly invokes the 1:1 well. Nice weathering, and I love a whole raft of carburetors. Really digging this one.

Digging that Plymouth. Looking good.

Cool collection of short trackers. All ready for some Saturday night brawling. These were some of my favourite kits when I was a kid. Really digging yours. Nice work.

It turned out great, Mark. I'm glad you stuck with it. Cool subject and cool build. The photography looks great, too. Very well done.

Looking good. I quite like the colour.

My last resort, when nothing else works, is a soak in brake fluid. Tough stuff may take a few days, but it usually comes off. I've not tried the alcohol that Brian mentioned, but it would much cleaner than brake fluid, and has a good record for removing lacquer, which is what the undercoat usually is. If using alcohol, use 91% or higher.

Not fully ripped off, just gently ripped off to that degree we all quietly consider acceptable when we irrationally want some hobby related item we see. We don't judge.

Hhmmm, interesting. Is the intended purpose of these things for paint sampling, or were they originally marketed for something else? EDIT: Never mind, I just went to amazon and checked them out. Never knew these existed.