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I guess I'm going to find out how I like it sooner rather than later. I told my wife yesterday that I'd been shopping around again and about 10 minutes later she handed me the shipping confirmation slip. I was prepared to hold out until my b-day in June but I suppose this week will do .

If you're going to build one at home, do it right. I'll post these instructions again on this thread to build a properly ventilated booth. It's not my write-up, it was posted years ago by Klaus Raddatz. I've built several booths using these instructions and have never had any issues of any kind. The only reason I've built several was to improve materials and/or change the design to fit my personal preferences. See attached file Paint Booth Design.rtf

I'm looking at picking up a Grex Tritium TG in the near future and was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on it. This is the top-mounted gravity-feed model with the pistol-grip trigger. There's a couple of needle options (hairline to 3/4", to 1" or to 2") but I think the hairline to 1" should cover most car modeling applications. I taught my sons to rattle can with an add-on pistol-grip attachment so a pistol-grip airbrush would seem to be the most logical step up. I see a whole lot of guys talking about their Paasches, Badgers and Iwatas but not so much on the Grex so if anyone is using one (the TG or any of there models) out there I'd sure like to hear your opinions on it.

I guess I'm pretty lucky because there's a lot of subjects I'm interested in that have been done recently and done well by Revell. However, if Revell would tool these up I'd go broke stocking up. Modern tool '67-'68 Camaro Modern tool '67-'72 GM pickups Late model GM, Ford and Dodge pickups/duallies

Looks like I'll have to get a couple now as some of the new parts (insert with the dry sump, tires) will make it a lot easier to do a proper Z06 also.

The rear glass in the Escalade comes pre-tinted.

Xara is a vector based software and only runs about $90. It's similiar to CorelDraw and Illustrator with a pretty easy learning curve. XARA

Great color choice Darin. I'm not usually a big fan of blue but it looks just right on the Vette.

Here ya go. It's not a kit but the "ingredients" are easy enough to source. I got several sheets of the PnP Blue off Ebay several years ago and everything else from Radio Shack. http://www.starshipmodeler.com/tech/fh_pe.htm

I know and those aren't the lines of a '66 Chevelle. The leading edge where the grille mounts on the front fender on the '66 cuts down and back sharply. The leading edge on the front fender on the '65 on the cuts forward before cutting backwards. The other giveaway is the round gauges in his dash picture. The gauges in the '66-67 El Caminos/Chevelles were long, narrow and rectangular in shape.

Great looking Elky, though I'm pretty sure it's a '64 or '65.

Killer job on the fish. I'm not really all that versed in Mopar history so I didn't even know that a notchback existed. Definitely prefer the notch versus the fastback.

I've seen these guys at the Heartland Nats they always have an awesome selection with them.

This is awesome Marc. I actually contacted Aoshima about this "problem" of the rear tires not being wide enough only to find that we weren't assembling them correctly. I posted my correspondence with them in the Wanted section awhile back.

This is pretty much the way that I do it too. The only exceptions being that I'll do as much assembly as possible with mating parts that will be the same color so that I can remove any mismatches or seams that may occur before paint and I make a loop of my tape so that I have a sticky side up for holding parts and a sticky side down to hold the tape down to whatever base I'm using.

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.