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aye, 84, that it has beened. I weren't gonna post no mo here, but........figgered I'd be askin yinz all whatta ya thinks bout these here dechromed, then sprayed wit DupiColor 'chrome' wheels what I splashed a thin wash of black on to pop the nuts ( ) a bit. An whatta ya guys think o the black top? I probly am just gonna finish it up as it sits here and then fire it up and truck on over to 'UnderGlass' vrooommm vroooommm shruummmshrooommshroommmsvroom

aye aye, Nick! I'm in total agreement. Tanks for the link, btw. I gots a 65 Ponyack 2+2 and a 66 Merky Marky that I was gonna do up sorta stock for my diorama, but methinks they're gonna be Death Racers now ! Love 'PAINKILLER' and the wip pix, ###### Cranky! I figgered you'd have something along these lines! Didn't you post up a 57Chevy kinda desert-stormin kinda beast before?

Hey Eric, count me in. right up my alley, but I only got one problem--how come no 1:1s?

Oakly doakly Georgie (I you too ) Since you be aslkin so nicely likes, I'll post sumpin up, mebbe da rims & bugglass? coz I aint ssuress bout da rims & how thy'll look so's mabbee I could use some vice from yinz guys

Hey Flow, Dude, that sounds like it's gonna look like a big, fat, sparkly GRAPE!! and I can't waits to see it!! Man, where d'you find time fer all these builds?

I'm with Bernard, Dirk-- awesome potential here!! Lookin fine in all respects, but whatta ya think about a little chop? I 'chopped' it up a bit for ya. I think if ya dropped the front of the roof a bit it would really enhance the stance which is ###### near prefect now as is. As we all can see, you aint afeard to cut

Don't be knowin ifn I be postin anymore pics here on d bench. putted the plugm wires in today--30 gauge wire from Boombox Shak, which were white an I hadta paint em yellow. Me & the chicken were shakin purty bads , but didn't get no yellows anywhereres else. bout all tha's left to do is the interior and windowshielsd and pops the outer wheels halves in. aint so sure I gonna put a top on it--aint lookin right with a white top. anyfries, thankx to all fer all yer continued suppport and encouragemssnts . seez ya'll 'under Glass'. I thinks I be ######'n Blaque and I approves this messauge

Hey guys, tanks fer poiintin tha out bout the differnt colors George--I keeps fergettin ya gots some kinda fiber optick cable hooked up to my workdbenchs keepin yer eyeball on me. funny thing bout this here paintem up job. I got DupliColor 'Chrome' and DupliColor 'Anodized Purple' to spray over the 'chrome'. Looked awesome when the purple was wet, but when it dried, it got a light colored powder on it which I wound up basically just polishing off with some really fine sandpaper and then finished up with a drier fabric softener sheet, (a used one). the color in pic 2 is close to what she looks like in persona, but may be just a tad blue-er makin it look mo purplie. Not sure why pic 3 lookems so reddish, but I do try to change the white balance on my camera when I takes the pics, setting it on 'incadescent' for pics on the workmbench, and I don't always member to change it to 'sunshine' when I be shooting pics in the sunshine. Just yer typical ######'n ######. Don't be scarin me with yer talkin bout them Caddaracks, George !! I cants afford dem thaings! Hope yer grandsons have some fun with them onethutties, Gramps. As fer them headers, next time I do dat, I'm gonna find some softer wire, or do the solder thing. Just got some styrene tubing to try too. One thing this here Li'l T has been teachin me is patience, but I been skippin class a lot.....

Nice lookin vinyl roof dere, Rob! --rest of the car aint lookin too shabby either, at all!! Love the color, the wheels, everthing Keepm up the good work

dued, ya must gots espn coz I weres thinkin o dat myownself, stickin this here Li'l T next to my BIG T (inna bout 6 years ) anywohs, finally got to squirts some purps on it, then slid some flameys on, and slapped some clears on it ahh.......sumshine got the little brush out and started slidin somo dat MM brushm paints on the chasssis & Caddy Weez gittin there boyz & girlz

Holy McMoly Gramps!! either yer gettin mo lazeier buildin dioramamamas, or this am a real cowinkadince!! Looks jest like a junkemyard in mines necka da woods likem ya said, you gonna be busy

Real nice trucks, Ed --real diorama stuff! Didja ever hook one of yer wrecks up to one of 'em? That'a be a cool scene, specially wit yer eye fer all the litle detalils. Love all th little details on the Ford tow

Good for you Harry, just using a few tools very well and not relying on the filters doing your work. I finally had to un-install my PS7 coz I got addicted to that--seeing what the filters would do. End of last year, doing a couple pieces for a show, I literally lived in PS7 for 2 weeks. As you mentioned previously, there's like 20 ways you can do just about anything there, and I would apply a filter, then go to 'fade filter' and I just had to see what fading each and every aspect of the filter looked like. Sometimes it was a good thing-it improved the art, but more often than not I would wind up removing the effect completely and try another filter, going thru the same long drawn out process. It is nice that PS has all that it has, and sometimes I wish, and probably some others too, that we could just hit the 'undo' button on our builds and start over, but......back to the basics, and stickin with them, leads to experience, and fewer times reaching for that 'undo' button. I'd say you've mastered your tools, and thanks so much for sharing your builds here and in the mag with us.

Howdy, and Welcome! C-man! always nice to have fellow model car kit hoarders stop in and say "How do", slap some pics of their builds down and talk a bit. Liked your intro--musta been tuff lettin go of them 200+ kits beffore , but now ya gots 'em back, and ya gots plans for em all, right? Could give ya some inspiration fer a sermon on Jeremiah 29:11--"I know the plans I have for you...." Hope you enjoy yerself here, lots o good friends, good builds, and lots o inspiration (sometimes too much ) Peeps what aint know me might think this aint right, my tellin a preachr to checkem out "Pure Hell", but seein yer interestss I think you'lll like this here build--here's the clinker to the finished dragster--awesome build of an awesome car, and lots of ifno on it tooo. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.p...mp;hl=Pure+Hell checkem it out and enjoyu

Cool explanation Harry. Really neat how you work on one 'part', getting 'it' done, then moving on to another one, a lot like working with the styrene parts. I can relate to your merging layers as I would lose track of them all. Again, kind of like working with the styrene parts, sanding, painting, etc--'merging' the part with the paint. I'm part of a band, 'Persephone's Dream'-- http://www.persephonesdream.com/music.html , and the artist, 'Audre', who does our artwork does fantastic computer artwork. The last album, 'Pyre of Dreams', we couldn't get in touch with her and deadlines were looming. Time was a very critical factor because when Audre does her artwork, she keeps all her many, many layers seperate until the whole image is 'done'. When she does finally 'merge' all the layers, it literally takes days to flatten the image http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png' alt=':lol:'> ! If you're interested here's a tutorial she did for an illustration for the song 'Stormchaser' by PD--http://www.scribd.com/doc/2826986/Making-Stormchaser-by-audre-weirdart-com I and another artist were recruited to come up with an alternate album art package while waiting to hear from Audre. She had family problems at the time, but finally got her version to us and thus we have 2 versions of 'Pyre of Dreams'. Looking forward to whatever you post. Nice to have you and Jairus, and yer way kool rods, with us

Nice lookin Fords, dude! Zat 53F like yer 1:1? Nice lookin scene Ed--the freakin 'good old days'

Lookin forwarsd to seein it Eric.

freakin yung punks--jest wait til yer so frfereakin old ya gits yer rox off shakin a can of sprayem paint ........an jet hope dat when ya does start shakin dat can o plaint that ya rememembers what the hell you was doin !! OK, my fine young frends, fixd up the broked winnder post best as it's goona git and sanded the primer down--man dat's one small body! What a suprise , (yeah Gomer) when I strated sprayin the DupliColor Chrome-- Wow! excellent coverage and the shine jets dont' be quuitttin!!! Plan is (was) to squirt DupliColor 'anodized purple' over this 'chrome'. Probly start doin some brushin of the wee bits wit the teeny weeny brush I got. Hopein ta git it dones soon coz I gots anutter little monster in the works alrady

Nice NovA Jairus One of these days I gotta scratchbuild some of these kinda rods

muchos danka

Well, 84, I can't seems ta do too goodly with them wimmen, can't jump out of aeroplanes, and I definitly can't control myslelf !!! Dude, ever hear of heaphones?? slap em on and crank all ya can stand, just be carfull, I done did that one time while I was workin out wit weights listenin to the Nuge' and popped a nut I were offd work for 6 weeks and builded my bud a 1/48 C-130, alomost popped t'other nut tryin ta carry it out to the 1:1 to deliver it. 'Pilfer' away, my friend. Got no takers for the dude at the show, so I painted over him, and I always says "aint art until & unless ya share it", so enjoy. Nice to know it's there. Tanks

think badk a wee bits Harry, in this here forum, AA ( ) were some souls seeking some PS guidemance. The whole place reeks of inspiration, so....... slipknot, I mean, why not? aint like any of us're gonna take yer job none of us could write yer name like ya do

I just knowed there were sumpin kool bout you 84 . I dont beweave there be many peeps what would know a Peter Max painting and not like it! I be a huge fan of Pete's work, well his earlier stuffs moreso, but this here's one of mine, called 'Bass Player'. tooked first place in a show back in 07 at an art gallery where I be a member and volunteers sometime. Aint doin much paintin nowdays, since I got back into buildin li'l Ts

that's sweet, Harry. totally drawn & brushed eh? any chance we could ever see some WIP images fer one of yer 'builds'? pwetty please?

no wonder it's takin me solong ta get thee li'l T done---I be havin way too mucho fujn wit yinz guys