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How is this stuff for maintaining/revealing the fine engraved detail of a part being chromed? Can you mask a part so only one section of a part of it is chromed?

Thank you sir. Exactly what I needed to know.

Very cool. Nicely done conversion. I have a similar project I hope to get to soon. It will be a ‘72 in two tone brown. I have contemplated the difficulties in getting a good smooth roof. Yours looks great. Did you have much trouble getting it right?

Can scratchbuilt parts that include plastic + brass, or plastic + aluminium be plated by this process? Or for that matter, can brass and soldered brass parts be plated with this process?

I would think the best bet would be to route fibre optic strands from an LED light source hidden within the model. A different strand for each individual LED on the 1:1.

If the window has a register, then no problem. I was thinking of my attempts to do window masking on kits that did not come with masks. As for the airbrush, I'm sure the inference is that you will have a much better control over paint application. Rattle cans simply chuck great gobs of paint at the piece relative to an airbrush. An airbrush can provide smooth, even coverage without a paint build-up at the mask edge. Makes for a much tidier appearance.

If you can, place the window in position after you have applied the mask, to ensure the mask is properly lined up with the window opening.

I don't know what one would cost, but they are not made from styrene (cycolac, perhaps?) Anyway, the plastic is unstable and almost any Hubley 60 Ford available today will be significantly warped, some terribly so. I would go with a good resin version.

Gorgeous old Ford. I dig the six. Very cool.

Neat, old stocker, and very cool story.

I don't know how I missed this one earlier. Very cool Lotus. I love the 23, one of my favourite Lotus race cars, and your rendition looks great. It really seems to capture the lines and the vibe well. I have noticed the similarities between the Scarab and the 23, and wondered if a conversion was doable. You have done a nice job on this conversion. Also, I was not aware that Revell produced a Lotus 23 slot car back in the day, so thanks for that, too. I like the newspaper photo above. I shows well the diminutive size of the Lotus.

Cool Bug! Excellent weathering technique, and great eye for proper patina. I love the tire/wheel combo, too.

It is indeed helpful. Thank you for the detailed explanation, Francis. Cheers.

Excellent work on a difficult kit. Top notch detailing and finishing throughout. Very well done.

There is some very impressive work, here. I am interested to know more about the gauge faces. How were they done? The image looks much more crisp than a decal or photo..

Well, that was super interesting. It gets a fellow thinking about the possibilities and uses for such a tool. I'm off to ebay to see what I can find.

Revell made a Bullit Mustang as a diecast bodied kit. Their current '68 Mustang plastic kit is pretty much from the same tool. The wheels are straight American Racing Torque Thrust D. Very common in many kits. Monogram 65 Shelby kits and 66 Penski Corvette have them, and the AMT 62 Impala has a nice set of unpainted ones. Many others available.

I appreciate the quandary. I frequently leave decals off so to enjoy the natural lines of the car. Yet I love the look of well done full livery. Count me, on the fence. Gorgeous Scarab, by the way.

I find if you to represent open space, gloss black is the way to go. It disappears better. Some applications better than others, I suppose. YMMV

I just stumbled across this thread. I like what you have done with the glass. I have the same kit on the bench, and the bubble-like glass is the most disappointing part of the kit. I figured it was unworkable, and set about making a new windscreen out of .010" clear plastic. But the kit body is designed to use the deeply relieved glass, and therefore my new windscreen was too deep-set into the body. It wasn't a good look. It never occurred to me to try to sand the back of the kit glass. It's a much better solution. Cheers.

Coincidentally, just last night I was looking through some old SAE magazines and came across the coverage on Mr Booth's Mustang. This is the first I've heard of the one piece windscreen trim. That sounds interesting.

That's a good looking tool. I just went and ordered one up.

Good looking Torino. It has a real period thing going on. Very cool!

Nice clean wagon. Excellent colour choice. It has a great period vibe. Nicely done.

Revell produced a really horrible Firebird street machine kit in the late 80s that I think had separate vent pieces.