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Stellar!!

The Kobalt compressor will work fine. Get a quality regulator designed to work at pressures for airbrushing. And yes, there is a Badger to 1/4 npt adaptor available. Any shop that sells Badger should have it, or any online airbrush dealer.

Nice tidy work. It's going to be cool.

Bill, have you given any more thought on FWD vs RWD? My 2 cents? This thing has just got to be FWD. A hot rodded Cord with FWD will have serious cool factor, anti cookie-cutter, and would be a fun project to engineer and build. And of course, being a Cord, it just seems right. I also thought your early comment about a quick change poking out the front was right on the money. That would look wicked. Of course, it's easy for me to spend your time. 😉

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Very cool! I like.

How hard were they to remove, Bob? Did they peel or flake off easily, or were they well stuck?

Cheers Bill. The best part is the prices. In Canadian dollars, the Aoshima kits were $21 and most of the Hasegawa kits were $28. The most expensive kit of the lot is under $35. Spreading the shipping costs over the entire order comes to about $8 per unit, and customs & duty fees are another $3.60 per unit. Anyone who knows what this stuff costs in a Canadian LHS can see that these are pretty good prices, some of them roughly half of local costs.

To be honest, I don't know. I was contacted because I had indicated interest in the thread that I linked in my last post. You have a PM.

I got it from Missing Link. It's a recent drop. This thread has some info

So, here's what happened... I was attending an 8 hour online trade conference for work. My mind soon drifted towards model cars (as it is apt to do), so I opened up a second tab and cruised over to HobbyLink Japan to check availability of a kit. Slipping into the rabbit hole of HJL's catalogue, I cruised 400 of the 572 pages that pop up when you search "1/24 scale cars", looking for bargains. At the end of the 8 hr conference I checked my shopping cart, to find it overflowing with 27 kits. Sanity (somewhat) prevailed, some got tossed back, and I hit 'ENTER'. This is what arrived my door today. And, the '72 Montego from Missing Link arrived just the day before.

Good looking Shelby.

My reply would be the same as Dave's, pretty much to the word.

Nice Demon, Mario. Perfect colour. Well done.

Beautiful little Alfa. Lovely work on such a lovely little car. Love it!

Nice pair of Darts. Hard to pick a favourite.

Simply beautiful. So clean, and such a lovely finish. Inspired colour, too.

Many car dealerships, etc, sell paint tough-up pens for their car lines. Lots of colour choices there.

Welcome to the forum, Wayne.

Welcome Ingo. That is some lovely work. Looking forward to seeing more on the forum, especially the MFH builds.

I don't know it's monetary value, but as builder, it's not worth much.

Very creative. The concept is quite effective. I like it. Nicely done.

Huge Pinto fan, here. You did a wonderful job on the Cruising Wagon. Looks great in red. Looking forward to your Pinto hatchback.

Welcome to the forum, Jeff. It's a great place to get back into the hobby. Lots of Mopar guys here, so you're in good company. Cheer.

By the time I was 10 or 11 I had built a lot of cars, and thought they were pretty darn good (well, my mom said they were), but none of my buddies built so I had nothing to compare to. Then a young fellow moved in up the street, and he was a builder, mostly trucks and planes. We became friends and built together, and it was a humbling experience. He was a year younger than me, and building these complex truck models, and his work was considerably tidier than mine. I learned a lot from that. I was also quite intrigued by the truck kits. It wouldn't be until I was 16 before I attempted my first truck, the AMT Louisville race car hauler (Budweiser edition with the Mustang funny car). I was excited to finally build a truck kit. I painted and built the chassis and engine, which went well. Then I cut the doors out of the cab (for hinging later) and painted it candy blue and candy red, along with a '79 Mustang Pro/Stock to match, but hated to the look. This was long before I learned about paint strippers. Unhappy with the way things were going, I moved on to other projects and the truck was never finished, its bits still swishing around in my parts box. To date, this is the only truck I have attempted, but I have fifteen or so in the stash, and still looking forward to the day I build and finish one. The truck building I see on this forum is truly inspiring.