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Welcome to the forum, Carlo. This is a great place for model cars. Enjoy.

Welcome to the forum, Josh. Some fine looking projects there. Cheers.

Welcome back Miles. I like where you are heading with the Vega modified.

Welcome to the forum, Joe. Nice Galaxie. Perfect colours.

Yes, mentally he is a five year old.

Sometimes when the lug nut is not too closely shrouded, a blade can be modified to do the trick. I took an Excell rounded blade and clamped the pointed end in a vice, heated it with a pen torch, and bent the blade at an angle. Then I ground away the cutting edge to make the blade less bulky and provide clearance, leaving just about 3/32" of cutting edge at the tip. This allows me to get the blade down into the wheel while keeping the cutting edge level with the surface on which the lug nut is molded. Be sure to clamp the cutting end of the blade in the vice when heating so the jaws can sink the heat and prevent the blade from losing its temper ( no one wants a blade with a bad temper ?). This modified blade has since been extremely handy around the bench, perfect for many hard to access trimming and scraping jobs.

Great! Looking forward to it. Lots of good stuff there. Intriguing kits, I've been interested in the Fords, and if they ever do the 6cyl Charger, I'd be all over that.

Very cool. Nice conversion.

Cool Nomad. I dig the vibe. One of my all time favourite kits, but you're right, the headers are no bueno.

Great looking stock car. Nice work.

The Starliner is looking wicked. That's a lot of foiling.

If you build it, please post some photos. I've been curious about these kits.

Super awesome! Great looking Vette. Well done Pap. Fun times. If she has a little free time, get her to put together a short tutorial on clear coating for the forum.

Sold $9600

Nice score Daniel. A few years ago I bought this same kit from the local online classifieds. Have you tried using the side-feed cup? On mine, the cup doesn't seem to fit properly as it interferes with the airbrush body/hose fitting. It also seems to fit at an odd angle.

Another cool project, David. Looking forward to seeing this old kit come together.

Good looking Cuda, Keith. I always thought the Jo-Han Cuda would make a great street machine, and clearly, it does.

Holding very small parts while working on them is probably the biggest issue I have to deal with when building. Each instance often requires its own solution. I have a couple of hand vises that are quite handy for this, provided there is an area to grab the part without damaging it. I have also used pins or tacks into the end-grain of a piece of wood to secure the part. Sometimes it is simply a matter of holding the part down against the bench surface with a finger nail, and magnification helps. The hole in the part into which the pin will be glued is usually quite shallow, especially when drilling into a door handle or thin mirror stalk. This is where good quality drill bits shine; they will make a clean, straight hole in thin material without wandering, and with little feed force. I don't think there is a catch-all solution, but I am interested to see what others may be doing.

I don't agree with the comment at all. I think nickynicky is likely way off base. His comments don't reflect the reality of a builder with a larger stash of kits. I have almost 600 kits (moderate by some standards), and I build regularly, spending lots of time at the bench. But I know at least 90% of the kits will not be built by me. And, I still buy kits occasionally (in fact, I am wondering what it will cost to ship this collection to Canada). Every builder with a large stash of kits understands this. This hoard of kits is not the result of a builder who bought his whole life then couldn't get life sorted enough to build them, this could very well be a builder who built religiously and died at 95 with a bottle of CA in his hand. Looking at the collection, it is clear this fellow never intended to get to all of them. There is a huge lot of resin bodies, a good number of MFH and Fernando Pinto kits, each of which is a solid project unto itself. Decades of building there alone. This could very well be (I think, likely is) a fellow who built for much of his life, then died or went to a home, and this is just what is left. If, in fact, he was a builder at all. If he was merely a collector, then it is what it is. They were enjoyed for what they are, and now he's done.

Welcome back to the forum, Erik. Looking forward to seeing some of your builds. Cheers.

Cool project. Very impressive work here. My mind boggles at this process.

Welcome to the forum, Doug. A great place here to pick up a few tips and show off your stuff.

Yup, pinning is the way to go. I pin pretty much everything that is attached to a painted body (mirrors, door handles, hood scoops, wings, air dams, spoilers, roof racks, etc). One thing I didn't see mentioned above, I always apply the CA glue to the inside of the body after the pin is inserted. This keeps the glue well away from the paint, eliminating the potential for any glue to show at the joint. Also, when drilling a small hole in a precise location, I heat the tip of a needle with a lighter. I have a sewing needle that I keep chucked in a cheap pin vise for that purpose. The hot tip allows me to make the starting mark without applying a lot of pressure to a fragile part. Only a tiny spot is needed. And if I screw up the hole location a little bit, the hot tip allows me to adjust the location of the mark.

Huge improvement! I really like what you did with the quarter windows. Nice work.

There is nothing more gloriously tempting to a little fellow than a shelf of cool models. Build a cheap snap-together with him and let him play with it until it falls apart. (Or, maybe that's just encouraging trouble)