crazyjim

Alright Greg. Way to go. Been too cold to paint here but I'll get there. Your Buick looks pretty good.

Best of luck to you Jim. I started in 1969 after I experienced my first rocket attack just west of DaNang. Been at it ever since although I did quit for a couple of years - I was laser beamed at several acupuncture points and it rerally worked. It was worth the $125. The guy hit some other points so I wouldn't gain weight after quitting. That worked too. But then I was stupid and started again. Not smoking much now because I have to go outside to smoke and it's too cold.

SNOW FLURRIES!!! We moved from Chicago to west central Florida and this morning we had snow flurries and 24 degrees. Supposed to get to the mid teens on Sunday and Monday night. I might have to call a realtor to sell the house and everything in it and move to South America. I do not want cold weather.

Love the color and everything looks so real. How did you duplicate the car? Is somebody leaving?

Those are scratch built? I thought you modified a kit. WOW!! My amazement just went up several factors. Just amazing what you've done. Beautiful.

Got the video and have watched it several times - just haven't dug out the airbrush yet. Other posts rave about the video and that Donn's suggestions work very well.

Kevin, Maybe you should try to post just the pics of your builds - no words.

In case you folks didn't see or hear about it - this weekend, January 9 & 10, 2010, Michael's is having a sale. 20% off everything including sale items.

I have the med tape but haven't used it yet. Somebody posted using a white paper towel and soaking it down with diluted Elmer's glue. After drying pull it out, trim to fit, install and paint. It looked pretty good.

Looking good. Engine detail and bed floor are excellent touches.

I don't build big trucks like that but yours are gorgeous.

Got an early birthday present - bottle of Ambroid and a touch-n-flow kit. If it ever warms up around here I'll be able to try it out.

I may have the solution for you Marcos. Don't keep it and don't give it to your club member - send it to me! Don't you love the tires from that kit? I'd love to get a bunch of them.

How many bottle of nailpolish to paint one car? Thin it with lacquer thinner?

Real nice. Where'd you source those wheels?

Three cheers for you Cruz. Made my heart feel good. And best of luck to you Alex. Keep on buildin'.

I have my old air compressor - no tank - just sitting around doing nothing. If aanybody would be interested, we could probably work out a trade for 2 or 3 unbuilt kits.

I tried some other foils and nothing beats BMF. There're a few people here that use cheap tin foil and some kind of glue and seem to get excellent results. I'll stick with BMF.

Wish my first kit looked that good.

Why spend all that money on pre-wired distributors? Get some ignition wire, wire looms (I order from Scale Dreams) and some 1/8" and 3/32" aluminum tubing. Polish the tubing. Cut the 1/8 tubing about 1/4" and a piece of 3/32 tubing about 3/8". Super gue the 3/32 into the 1/8 about 1/8". While that's drying you can cut 8 pieces of ignition wire about 2" long. Put a little super glue into tubing and stick the wires in. Bingo bango done!

Lots of teeny little parts there. Wow. Fantastic details.

I'd be glad I was finished too. I can't imagine the time you spent on that thing, but it looks really neat.

Martha Stewart flocking?? Is that something new? Is it better than Ken's Fuzzi Fur? The suede paint looks interesting - are more colors available? Did it all come from Hobby Lobby or Michael's?

Hi Rick, I use just the telephone wire cover for the spark plug boots and gas line connectors. I pull the copper wire out of the cover. I get all my ignition wire from Scale Dreams. Rick over there has a nice selection of colos. I also get wire looms from Scale Dreams that are PE parts from Model Car Garage. The telephone wire is too heavy a gauge for realistic ignition wire.

I bought some PE carb linkage aand gave up on them. Too small. I've been using the covers from telephone wire (red, green, yellow, black)as spark plug boots on the engine side - distributor side just gets glued. A months ago I started using the same telephone wire as receptacles for fuel lines. It looks better to me. The biggest problem I have is the limited number of colors. I have this thing about ignition wires being in the same color family as the body color. I haven't ordered Donn's 2nd DVD yet but didn't he cover engine detailing in a detailing DVD?