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Here's mine. It's based off the Revell Tomb Raider Rubicon and is my first attempt at weathering.

You never cease to amaze with how clean your builds are.

That's a cool street concept

I'd love to see an "other" models section. Working for an aerospace supplier, I've got a long list of planes that I'd like to build someday that we make parts for. On the commercial side, everything from the Boeing 737 to the 787. On the military side, we cover the A-10, C-17, F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22, the new 767-based KCx tanker along with the Chinook, Apache and Bell helicopters.

Wow, you'd never lose that one in a parking lot. My 3 year old daughter is hanging out around the computer and keeps wanting me to go back and look at the pink one.

Great looking Mustang. My wife loves the '65-66 fastbacks.

That's a great looking Mopar, keep em coming

You could also BMF the door locks and other trim just prior to your last color coat. Trim the BMF as close as you possibly can then lay down the final coat. When that coat is dry and before you clear take a Q-tip and some 91% isopropyl alcohol and/or some fine sandpaper and remove the color from the BMF. Trapping the edge of the BMF will help hold it down for the long term. Almost all the chrome trim on my Nova interior was done this way.

I have a soft spot for Novas and I'm glad I got to see this one up close at Heartland.

That pewter color makes that 'Bird sinister.

Lookin good, I like the blue on tan interior and how you tied the black inserts in the interior with the wheels.

Love the idea of flat black on black. I've got a pro-touring '69 Camaro in the works that I was planning on using that scheme with.

Man, you are just nailing this. I loved the illustration and you're definitely on target with the body mods, stance, wheels, everything.

Unbelievable scratch building you got going on here. Love the orange and maroon paint scheme.

I'm really digging the silver and black treatment with just enough chrome to pull it all together. Great eye as always Marc.

I have to admit in the past I was guilty of pretty much everything Mark's posted here. Recently though through life changes, a move to a new place, soul searching, you name it I've actually gone the opposite direction and done a massive purge of the majority of my collection. I've narrowed down my current to-do list to about 6-12 projects and the accompanying wares from my kitbashing stash to complete those. I've never had a stash numbering in the hundreds like some here but I've had enough to make my wife uncomfortable. Most of the kits that I've sold recently have been to guys from work and/or their kids in an effort to get them interested in the hobby. This weekend a couple of them that I convinced to go to the Heartland Nats are coming over to dig through the 30-40 kits worth of parts that I've got in totes. If I can catch them while they're amped up from the show and introduce them to the joys of kitbashing I think I'll get them hooked. I've also got a few kits set back for my oldest boys to get their feet wet with now that they're coming of age and interested. As far as future acquistions go, at some point I came to the realization that time was a more valuable commodity than money. I'm at a place where I can, within reason, invest the financial means necessary into a project. However, I've really got to love the subject to be willing to part with the time that it would incur to bring that project to frutition. That being said, if Revell would finally get around to tooling up a new '67 Camaro or '67-72 Chevy pickup I'd be beating down the doors to the nearest hobby shop.

I step away from the hobby periodically when work and family need more of my attention. With four kids and a stay at home wife, I've been working 50-70 hours a week for the majority of my adult life. When we moved earlier this year, to stay within budget and get the bedrooms that we needed, we had to give up quite a bit in the way of "play" space for Sarah and I's hobbies. Facing the prospect of not having a consistent work space and a serious lack of time to build I did contemplate walking away. In the end, however, we found a solution that worked. I did go to Heartland and met up with a couple of guys from work that I've been trying to get to take an interest in modeling.

I picked up some stuff called interfacing by Pellon while I was in Hobby Lobby with the wife the other day. I got an 1/8th of a yard of the thinnest non-fusible fabric for $0.25 and it should be enough material to do dozens of cars.

Just to prove I still build sometimes, I've made some progress on the Nova. I blacked out the grille and the rubber between the taillights. I also blacked out the B-pillar so that at a glance it has more of a coupe look. I was really pushing to get this one done take down to the Heartland Nats this weekend. Some last minute fit problems with the exhaust put the kibosh on that idea. I'm going to have to fab up some headers instead of using the exhaust manifolds from the Revell '99 Silverado and the pipes from the Nova kit. A younger version of myself probably would have tried to slam something together to make the show (and more than likely screwed something up in the process). Other than that, all the subassemblies are ready so I just have to polish out the body, foil the headlight and taillight buckets and slap it all together. Wow, I just noticed looking at the pic that the headlight bucket didn't get good coverage. It's not at all noticeable to the naked eye but the camera sure picked it up.

Gorgeous work as always, Lyle. That black looks a mile deep.

Been waiting on the ZR1 a long time, hopefully they'll stick to the August date.

Both the Tamiya and Testors lacquers aren't very "hot" chemically. They were developed specifically for the hobby market and can be sprayed directly over bare styrene. Duplicolor paints by contrast were formulated for the automotive market and are much "hotter" chemically. If you got the Duplicolor on with no problems, spraying the Testors stuff won't present any problems as long as the Duplicolor has had a chance to properly gas out. You can always spray a "cooler" paint over a "warmer" paint as long as that condition is met. For future reference, from hottest to coolest: Automotive paints (Duplicolor) Hobby lacquers (Testors One Coat/Automotive and Tamiya sprays) Hobby enamels (Testors bottles) Hobby acrylics (Testors Acryl/Tamiya jars)

This is Tamiya Clear Orange lacquer over Model Masters Dark Bronze lacquer. It's pretty close to Sunburst Orange.

It's worth checking the paint racks too. I was just in today and they had all the bottled Model Master lacquers on clearance.

Revell has both the '67 Chevelle and the '66 El Camino. When the Revell '66 Chevelle wagon was the hottest deal around there were several modelers who did this conversion. The '66 Chevelle wagon and El Camino share the majority of their tooling. The taillights from the '67 Chevelle were used to complete the conversion.