crazyjim

Welcome Dave. Estate or cottage, at least you have a place to build.

You once again did a fabulous job, Sam. The diner looks great!

A grille from me - no wonder the truck looks so good.

Very nice looking build. Isn't it mandatory to have flowers & peace symbols on it?

FedEx just dropped a package from TCP Global. The box contained a 4 oz bottle of Solar Gold, 4 oz Orion Silver (I use for basecoats) and 2 oz bottles of Magenta Candy, Wild Cherry Candy, Burgundy Candy, Persimmon Candy, and Teal Candy. My stock on paints has increased. I can't get into them today because I need to trim, edge, and cut the grass. Maybe pull some weeds too.

The Tamiya clear TS65 has some metallic flake in it.

School out, Nick? You've been busy building and getting better. This one looks good.

Love the weathering you did on the farm truck - especially the rag in the gas hole.

You must have used a whole sheet of BMF on that puppy. Looks terrific.

Looks pretty darn good to me.

Looks like your paint jobs are progressing nicely. The vinyl roof looks splendid. What happened to the chrome trim? Did you paint it on or not trim BMF? The Mustang front side marker light should be amber (looks red to me).

I've used Tamiya T13 clear and TS65 clear pearl several times over the Model Master paints without a problem.

It's looking good. Great stance.

You could cut the rearend off the leaf springs and re-attach on the other side. Does that make sense? Instead of the rearend being on top of the leaf springs, put on the bottom of the springs. That what I did to Green & Mean in the "under Glass" section.

Yo Wayne - been there, done that about 50 years ago. It was fun except for getting on & off.

What's the deal with Alpha Abrasives? My LHS didn't have issue #149 when I went there last week so I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

Good looking Catalina, Bob. Like the color choice(s). Those wheels like the ones I put on my "Purple Passion". They from an S10 kit?

Looking very good at this stage. Can't wait to see more.

The paint is HOK Organic Green Kandy over HOK Orion Silver. No clear, just rubbed it with Novus #2 and then Model Wax. I reveresed the axle on the leaf springs for the rear. Cut off the springs and relocate the axle under the springs. On the front I just cranked up the torsion bars. Really, I cut the kit wheel spindles and reglued in a lower position (lower as in towards the ground).

Howdy Paul. Welcome to the best model car forum around.

I'm told by the MCM experts that you need an air compressor that has an air tank. So I went to Lowe's and bought one with a 6 gallon tank and a regulator. It came to about $60 and had a nail gun with it. I added a water trap and later bought quick disconnect fittings.

I hear ya, Wayne. I like your idea for the small block. Stck to the KISS principle and leave the blowers & fuelie stuff off the street.

Actually, Harry, I'm from Berwyn but we did our racing out at Ogden & Kostner. There was a little hot dog stand on a corner and we used to set up in there. Going west on Ogden you' hit the interchange at Cicero Avenue and it was uphill. Great for slowing the cars down. Some big names got started on the street - Gary Dyer who ran some big funny car later. The guy from Stepul's Dyno (Lyons, IL) did some big stuff. I believe the people who put Chi-Town Hustler were there. I have another fond memory from there. Some kid came in with his brandy new '66 SS 396 Chevelle in Marina Blue, black vinyl top, redline tires. He set up a title for title race against a guy who said he had a '65 Goat. Nobody had seen the Goat. Next week the Goat shows up - the altered wheelbase '64 Goat with a Hilborn injected (I don't remember which engine). The Goat was black lacquer with "The John" in gold leaf letters across the doors with various sponsor stickers along the bottom. Needless to say, the dumb kid lost his Chevelle that night. So yeah, grew up in Berwyn and after the military kept going west - Westmont, Downers Grove, Warrenville, Wheaton, Winfield, West Chicago, and left Aurora for Citrus Springs, FLA. (Sounds like I had a "W" thing going for a few years, huh?).

I've had 3 '69 Camaro's. The first had a 327, the 2nd was a 350, and I finally got the of dreams - a '69 Z28 with the 302 & 4 speed. What a machine!

Thanks Foxer. Back then we didn't need to prove anything during the week because we had our runs on Saturday night. Run the car pretty empty during the week and make sure the tank was full of Sunoco fuel for Saturday night.