torinobradley

Well, all I can say about it is that my opinion of these hackers, cyber terrorist or whatever explative I use to describe them is only going down. I'm sure my opinion mirrors a lot of the public as each of us is affected by these jerks who are "fighting the big guys for us"... I don't know who's side they are on but it ain't corporate and it ain't the public... They are only costing us money as the losses incurred by the corporations they attack are rolled into the costs of the products we consumers purchase... I do own a PS3 and will probably never own an red ring generator, er, x-box. I will wait patiently while they fix what these self-serving, egotistical, chicken-poop, non-vigilanty (vigilanties fight for the people, they don't make it worse for them) terroristic bad people messed up.

I do like to help my friends, so if you need a place to send them, I could help you out... I'm sure I can make some room for a few. I have one project on the drawing board that uses the roadster cab but it needs the whole kit and I have a couple of those. But if you need the help...

How do you make or what do you use for the main shaft and upper mounting boss? Looks a lot stronger than another piece of tubing glued to the top... I assume that shaft goes all the way through the unit?

Now, I gotta say, considering the last few builds I got myself into, I truly admire being able to control oneself and not try to fix anything (or everything) wrong with a kit or not put wires and other details into a build. I keep telling myself my next build will be a simple, box stock build but noooooooooo.... I got do the details. And I can't just paint it any color blue, I got to get the right colors and the right parts and all that other static that drags builds out to years instead of weeks or months. Like my signature says, "Box stock? Tried it once - Didn't work out..." Never regret not doing more, just go further on the next one. At least that's my opinion... BTW, show us yours. I would love to see what you did with it. Build on, my friends!

Nice looking collection of stuff there! I will let you know the next time more than one of us get together to talk plastic, though we are in the Sea World area. Maybe we can figure out a more central area.

Sorry about that. I forget that everyone else doesn't know what I know sometimes... Yea, even the air cleaner wing nut has a retaining wire. Would be interesting to see if that was just a team thing or actual regulations regarding anything that could come loose. Still working out how I'm going to do it. I may end up drilling really little holes next to the bolts and 'sewing' the wires in & out. That would give it the look without the glue concerns. Just got to remember not to glue on some of the parts yet... Oh, and yes, I am a glutton for punishment.

There was an "oh, wow" moment in this little tale. Turns out I lived right behind John a few years ago. Now, if we'd only had that big sign on the house that said "a modeler lives here", we would have been set... Small world...

That's a pretty pony...

ACK! Raid my Grand Sport? I might have to look into that unless there's some kind soul who didn't use the headlights when they built theirs... Anybody?

Thank you sir. I sent it on over. Let me know if your looking for anything.

Would I be able to throw something at you for some or do I need to go find a Grand Am to raid? Most bolts and nuts in the engine bay seem to have the wire on them. Gonna be interesting to say the least, but if I can pull it off...

Where can I find that?

Many thanks to all of your kind words! Trying to keep the momentum and while not going full detail on this one, making it interesting enough and doing some experementing along the way. Those safety wires are going to be a bear to get done. Anyone know of a source for such fine wire? I can't tell you how valuable your album is, especially on this car. I think the owner of the car took down his pictures so these are the best I've been able to find concerning the chassis. The one for VRM is a good one too, especially concerning Grand Sports. You have several of the cars slated to cross my bench in your album, along with some others I am considering now that I've seen them...

The colors and materials are based on the restoration of the chassis. Here's a pic of the restored chassis: http://public.fotki.com/JCole/11_chevy__gmc/11_corvette_race_i/corvette_1966_roger-4.html Maybe when they were raced, they were white. I don't know the rules and how far back in years they go. I will have to look that up though. Thanks for the tidbit and interesting story.

Thank you sir. That just means I need to find both my sets...lol I need four of the lights for my Penske Sunoco.

I got the urge to start this one. At first, I figured it was going to be an easy build as the model kit appeared to be acceptably accurate with only a few mods. The more research I did and the more I looked at the kit, the more I found that I decided to change. I have about 10 hours invested in it so far. The base kit Where the chassis is at. I removed the foot well plates, relocated the battery to the passenger side, removed the spare tire well and replaced frame supports. Last pic is the center trans support modded to look more like the original. In this one, you can see the main driveshaft with the center section replaced with polished aluminum, pulleys devoid of the molded in belts, two prototype taillight trim pieces, the grill surround with the center section cut out (super thin...) and a piece of masking tape. Here is the grill surround in the body and here is the taillight trim in the body Lots of other plans for this one. Removed the cast in fuel pump, replacing the half shafts with polished aluminum, and trying my hand at those beautiful headers, replacing those undersized, ugly and incorrectly routed headers on the car. Also radiusing the rear wheel wells, adding the metal skirting on the fenders, trimming the lower rockers, serial numbering the chassis, chain mounts for the headers, creating the headlight area and lucas lights, open grill, etc... The decal sheet, along with the VRM Grand Sport set have all the decals needed (Traco engine decals, Sebring inspection decal) and have the MCG detail set on the way for the correct Corvette scripts and steering wheel. Will also order the Sunoco paints from MCW. Will also be adding those things not included in the kit like the power brake booster and specific to the 1966 427 L88 master cylinder (the real master cylinders go for over 1k!), steering box, fuel filler and the like. So far, this is a fun project. Comments and feedback welcome and encouraged.

Just a quick question: Anyone know/remember how many Lucas style lights are included in the AMT Blueprinter Parts Pack on the Grilles & Bumpers tree? I'm talking about the regular Lucas ones, not the tri-bars. Mine are in an offsite storage so I can't readily check them out. I don't remember any lenses either. Any suggestions on those? Thanks in advance!

Though not economically feasable, I would love to see some of the parts packs of yesterday show up as well as new ones with modern components. Alas, it will never be.

A few of mine: 1/24ths 1/18ths 1/43rds

Wider car = wider tires... So what if the tires are a scale 3' wide...

Depending on the level of detail you are looking for, the old Revell tri-fives as well as the early 50s Chevy have a pretty nice block with crank detail, block deck where you can see the pistons and the heads are fairly decent as well. Those were pretty nice because the underside of the parts looked like the underside of the real thing. In other words, the intake looked like the real one from whatever point of view you used. Also, the '66 Nova has a nice extra block & heads to be displayed separately. I started trying to fit the white metal crank available some time back into that to see if I could get a rotating assembly.

How about... Southern Plastic Auto Modelers??? SPAM for short? No??? I don't care too much what we're called as long as we can get together and share some food, fun and plastic... And I'm not too hell-bent about the food either...

Me too. I would love a kit of that Masaratti & Ferrari killin' junkyard dog.... Sorry, not meaning to hijack. Please return to the Lil' Yeller discussion.

OOOH! Another SA modeler!!! You/we are not alone, there are plenty of us. It's just that there are not many that appear to be on this site. I think there's about four or five here and only a couple of us are fairly active. Welcome anyway! There are plenty of others here but there is no real or formal club or group. More like a loose knit association that meet and chat every year at the ModelFiesta. What side of town are you on?

Before I started using clear coats and polishing kits, I used to spray this right over the bare plastic. I'd use several good coats and then polish it out with regular polishing compound. My only issues, as I recollect, were seam lines that would ghost. Oh, and I noticed that the hood on my '74 Charger done in duplicolor medium brown metalic now would not fit the body from the paint shrinking the surface. The corners of the hood were drawn up slightly. But at the time, I was getting nice, shiny, glass smooth finishes. Now, I use duplicolor laquer over cheap primer, giving it a couple of coats and then coat that with cheap-o walmart FreshLook clear. It has low solids so it doesn't build up over several coats. After about 6 coats of clear, let it dry and then polish it with a polishing cloth system. Glass smooth and the panel lines don't have much build-up at all.