Bainford

Welcome to the forum, Shaun. You have found the right place. some friendly builders here always ready to offer advice. Cheers.

It's hard to say without knowing more about your regulator. A photo or model number would help. However, I get the feeling you may have a regulator that is not designed to work at the low pressures used when airbrushing. Regulators used for shop tools, etc, do not regulate pressure accurately (if at all) down to airbrushing pressure. What is the range of pressure on your regulator gauge? Look for a regulator designed specifically for airbrushing. It will regulate pressure accurately within a range of 10-40 psi or so (and will often have gauges that max out at 60-70 psi). Don't buy it at Harbor Freight, etc. Good, accurate regulators are available from the online airbrush shops and can be had at a decent price. If you are diving into airbrushing, you can save yourself a lot of headaches by ensuring you have the right gear. With airbrushing, there are plenty of variables to get your head wrapped around, and when trying to sort painting issues (and there will be some) it is a huge help to know your equipment is not one of them. When buying an airbrush regulator, be sure that the inlet pressure rating of the regulator is at least as high as the output of your compressor. If it isn't, you may have to retain your current regulator to regulate the pressure to around 60 psi or so, then install the airbrush regulator downstream from that.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

A rare one, that. It seems almost universal that early glue bombs have the skirts welded on along with every body ornament in the box. Good luck with the glass.

As Bill says, it depends greatly on the kit and how it was built. When things get real gluey and two parts are really welded together, you may have to sacrifice one part to save another. Which one you sacrifice depends on which one is easiest to replace (with a another available part) or scratch build. Glass is often a difficult one, brittle plastic that is welded to the roof. If the glass is available from another kit or not too difficult a shape to make your own, you may have to grind it out of the body.

Thanks for the link. Never heard of that place, but they have a lot of cool decals. Some real unusual stuff.

Scott, it looks like this project is quickly getting out of hand.

Goody. Looking forward to this kit more then most. I picked up a Boss 351, but it is the Mach 1 I really want.

Cheers Steve. That's very helpful. Clearly they are quite simple kits. Would look great on a shelf from half way across the room, but not bear close inspection. Some of them are indeed pricey, might scoop one up if an exceptional deal pops up. Would be a fun quick-build for the right price. Thanks much.

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Col! This will be a wild project. And yes, that trailer needs to be built, too. I wonder what he hauled it with.

Very cool project. AMT offered a very nice Allison engine as a stand-along kit, but hard to find now. It was also made available in two different Competition Parts Packs, and these are readily available ebay, etc. Prices are a bit high on the current offerings, around $40-$60, but good deals do come up from time to time. The engine was also available in a Thunderbird funny car called Allison Thunderland, and was reissued a number of years ago, but they go for more money than the Parts Packs.

That is some serious box-art porn!

Very interesting, Pat. I have not seen one of these before. Cool DD.

Welcome back to the hobby, Chris, and to the forum.

A simply stunning Pontiac, Steve. That is one gorgeous model. Excellent!

That's looking really good.

Good looking Buick. Nice work.

Cool. I love me some'55.

Fujimi does a Pantera with a nice stock body and nice tires/wheels, but zero engine and chassis detail. The interior is weak and has non-stock seats and steering wheel. It may have originally been designed as one of those motorised kits. The worst part of the kit is the glass has seriously bad optical distortion. It's weirdly designed, very thick at the edges and thin in the middle. The windshield doesn't have much curve though, so not too difficult to make a replacement from clear sheet. It has a great looking body, and makes a fine shelf model if the glass is replaced. Gunze Sangyo does a good looking Pantera also, equally simple as the Fujimi kit, and also an old motorised kit . This one has the wide flares and air dam of the race cars. Not sure what other options are out there, but in 1/24 scale, I think these are the primary choices.

Brilliant! This is looking great. The belts may have been a pain, but they look very nice.

Some very nice work there.

Cool. I'd like to pick up one of the Bugatti Royales.

Another potential solution; One of the best hobby shops in this area is the gift shop at an aviation museum just outside of town. They have a good selection of car kits and supplies, but their selection of aircraft kits must one of the best in the country. A few aircraft builders with huge stashes have donated their kits to the museum as they passed on. This way their stash of kits gets in the hands of other builders/collectors with minimum fuss for the surviving family members while at the same time their hard-won stashes are supporting the museum and the restoration work done there on the display aircraft, a subject close to the heart of any aircraft builder. I have thought of doing the same, either finding a suitable car museum, or just donating to the aircraft museum, as a small-time museum doing restoration work on any vintage machinery is something I can get behind.