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Coming along very nicely. The new tires and wheels are a great improvement.

Coming along nicely. the exhaust looks good. Bet that thing makes some noise at full song.

Cool stuff, Bruce. It's going to look wicked in black.

Cool project. Excellent attention to detail and skillfully executed.

Very well done, Andy. That is one fine looking Cadillac. You sure wrestled this ancient kit to the ground. I enjoyed your build thread. Very brave taking on those double doors. Great work.

There was a thread on this topic a while back, and some people reported an apparent short shelf-life. I have found my own Molotow pens exhibited the grainy silver look after a year or so. The paint in my refill bottle fares better, but still not as 'solid' a surface finish as when new. That bottle is three years old however. The consensus was the refill bottles last longer than the pens, but neither seem to tolerate time well.

Nice looking mill. Cool to wire up the Flame Thrower.

I was thinking the same. It's a pretty little car, but the front end looks unfinished.

I hope the Lambo felt suitably honoured to park next to a Mach 1.

Well, it is a Lotus. As successful as Lotus was in the 60s and 70s, I wonder just how great their record would have been if they didn't break with such frequency. ...or run out of fuel. Which also makes me wonder just how many Lotus victories can be directly attributed to the 'mechanic's gallon'.

It's great to see Canuck Pontiacs getting some love. Very nice work going on here. Good attention to the details. I'm digging the six.

If I were to be brutally honest, it looks to me like a Cougar upon which someone with a baseball bat unleashed their anger and frustration.

Very nice TR7, Steve. Looks very well preserved.

How many kits have you seen with instructions on how to make your own glue pot?

I use the Tamiya bottled lacquers quite a bit lately. I find they airbrush very nicely. The paint covers well and lays down very well. I have much less experience spraying lacquers than enamels, though I shoot lacquer much more these days. I have been a life-long Testors (enamel) user, and still quite like them, but the new Tamiya bottled lacquers are much more user friendly once you make the adjustment to lacquers. I find I shoot them at less pressure, slower passes, and closer to the model. I am still a bit on the learning curve, but find them predictable and forgiving. I have thinned them with standard hardware store lacquer thinner, though now use Mr Colour Levelling Thinner almost exclusively (the same things I thin Testors with, actually). I have not experienced the dry tip and spitting that I found when spraying many decanted lacquers, but much of that problem is the result of shooting decanted paint. When it comes to brush painting Tamiya lacquers, I have done this very little, just some occasional small details. It covers as well as Testors, perhaps better. The quicker drying time can be useful for small detail painting, but will likely require an adjustment of technique when hand painting larger parts. You may find that they are sensitive to quick drying relative to the handling of Testors enamels. If Gunze Sangyo Mr Colour paints were available locally, I would definitely give them a try, too. And then there is Tamiya's new bottled enamel paints. I have bought a few to try, but have yet to give them a go.

Nice rebuilder. Curious fender damage.

Very cool old kits. Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing.

Welcome to the forum, Bryan. There will be a huge size disparity between the 1/25 truck and the 1/32 trailer. The truck will be almost 25% larger in scale than the trailer.

As Dave says, clean the bottle top and inside of lid after use to maintain the seal, keeping the paint fresh. If there is crusty paint already dried there, use lacquer thinner and a rag/tissue to do this.. If brushes are stiff after cleaning, then they are either not fully clean, or you are using the wrong cleaner. Give them a double cleaning, making sure to wick the cleaner out of the brush with a tissue. For enamel and lacquer paints, I clean with lacquer thinner. For Acrylic paints, I clean with 91 or 99% isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol. Many builders use lacquer thinner for cleaning acrylic, too, with good success. I have brushes that have been in regular service for over 25 years without issue.

Welcome to the forum, David, and welcome back to the hobby. Looking forward to seeing your work. I am really digging the Stan Motts Cyclops. I loved that little thing when I was young, reading old (then current) issues of R&T. I hope we get to see your build of this amazing machine. Cheers. edit: I hadn't thought about Cyclops for many years. Inspired by your post, I just did some googling on Stan Mott. He was quite the fellow, and I found his cartoons as entertaining as I did in the 70s. Stan Mott’s Autobiography – Dean’s Garage (deansgarage.com)

Cool project. I just bought an original issue of this kit last week.

Andy Oldenburg has '57 Cadillac Brougham build going on in the WIP section where he has done a similar job.

Great colour for a '69 Shelby.

Looking good. Interesting conversion project.

Cool classic Caddy. Really digging the colours, Lee. Looking good so far.