Ben

The new owner is a young guy that owns his own trucking company and restores trucks for fun. You should see the Smokey and the Bandit Kenworth they did about a year ago. It's by far, the most accurate replica ever built!

I remember that article, it was done as an April Fools gag.

Thanks again guy's! I'm sold! I'll be buying from them here real soon.

Thanks guys, I had a feeling they were good to deal with. Just wanted to be sure as I have have had other casters that are on this forum, burn me so i'm being more careful when dealing with companies for the first time.

By the way, outstanding work on the Camaro so far!!!!!!

I too am an amature machinest and fully understand what's involved in making something like that! As they say, if you wanna play, you gotta pay! He has to be set up with full CNC i'm guessing?

Hello all, I am wanting to place an order with Motor City Resin for a couple kits (The Torino and Ranchero) and was just wondering about them as a company. I've never dealt with them before and i've not read anything negative but i'm just wondering about the quality of the castings, (campared to, lets say, the Modelhaus) turn around time for shipping and general service overall. Thanks

WOW!!!!!!! Those wheels are Sawweeeeeeeet! How much for the set? I want some!!!!!!

Another little tip when masking compound curves is that you can use a very narrow "fine line" tape that auto painters use to tape off the initial line and then tape the rest of the areas with regular masking tape. The fine line tape is made of vinyl and with it being very thin (narrow in width) it will easily follow curves. Again, as Tim stated spray your primary color first over and tape work to seal the edge of the tape and prevent "bleed under" of any other colors.

Your right! It didn't turn out good at all! You should (carefully) box it up and throw it at the mail man (after you put my address on it!!!!!!!!!!) That snorkle scoop should be available in resin. I'm 99% sure i've seen it but I can't remember where?

Thanks George!

You can view my Cummins as it was being plumbed at: www.public.fotki.com/lotso Look in the "Snowman's Kenworth" folder.

Does anyone offer copies of the Multi Maverick/Ramchargers slicks in rubber resin? I am looking for the same type of tires to use on my Snake and Mongoose rails.

One of the best clear coats out there right now is Future Floor polish. It can be sprayed through an airbrush or brushed on as it is self leveling. Look on the internet for "The Complete Future". It's an article explaining all the neat things you can do with it. It works great on sealing decals!

That's great news! I always had to go looking for him on Ebay when I thought of things I wanted him to make for me. Robert's a great guy!

I think someone posted pictures of old cabover paint schemes in the "truck reference" section of this forum. There might be some Freightliner paint schemes in there to give you more choices.

Those are actually "crush ferrules" that are put on the end of wires when inserting them into terminal strips. I use them every day. They will work for models but they are aluminum, not stainless. The plastic line inserts are stainless and much more shiny.

All I can see are boxes saying the images were deleted?

The parts being described in these replies are called "compression fittings" and can be used on copper or plastic tubing. The velocity stacks on that Cobra were made using plastic line inserts. This is a tiny stainsless "tube" with a flaired end that you push into the end of a plastic air/water/etc. line so that the brass ferrule of the compression fitting is able to squeeze down on the plastic line without collapsing it. Plastic line inserts can be found at hardware stores, auto parts stores, etc. You can buy them in little packs by themselves and they are very cheap. There are many companies that make them, not just Swedgelock. All you have to do is find a sales person that knows about plastic air or water lines and tell them your looking for plastic line inserts.

Are you just trying to clean the bare resin and remove the mold release? If so, I only soak my resin parts over night and i've never had any problems. It is a good idea to scrub the body with a light abrasive cleaner after soaking and then a good long heavy rinse with warm water.

That is a "first issue" era Athearn Freightliner. They could be bought as a kit or already assembled. You could buy them in many different liveries as a tractor with a trailer or two identical tractors in one box. The cabs were the same but one had a single axle chassis and the other was a dual drive like the one you have. Athearn recently upgraded these Freightliners to where they now have full interiors, chrome parts, better wheels, factory paint schemes and I think rubber tires. I believe the model designation of the real truck would be a late 60's, early 70's FLA.

Awesome build! I just bought a few of the HotWheels Drag Strip Demons version of this car. I've never seen the real car before though? What's the story behind the real black Snake?

Thank you Kostas!

LOL, that was built by Klaus Clever. Jamie bought that kit and it didn't have the CD with all those pictures on it which are essentially the instructions on how to build it. I don't have a way to make a CD for him so I made that album for him to use.

Thanks Ray!