my66s55

Got em all. 48 of 48.

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I am neither a hoarder or collector. I am an investor. At 55 years of age in 2000, I started accumulating my investment. I located every plastic model kit, diecast and resin car model that I wanted for display in my home and purchased then. Now, I knew I wasn't going to work much longer and needed something to keep me busy. I don't play golf. Besides its very expensive. I don't watch a lot of tv and what I do watch if off an indoor rabbit ears. So modeling cars was to be a big factor in retirement. I amassed over three hundred kits, almost all pre-1972. Now, keep in mind that in that time period you could by kits from Hobby Heaven on closeout for about $5 a piece. E-bay was a decent place to buy and even my local hobby shop had kits for $7-$10. Now ,I have a choice of what I want to build, the money is already spent when I had it to spend and the same kit today, if I could find it, is much more money. I made an investment in my future retirement and if I pass on, there's money for my son.

My first car was a 1957 Triumph TR-3. I have the Minicraft 1958 TR-3A which is missing the grill. The grill appears to be the only difference in the two. I plan on scratch building the 57 grill and modifying the 58 to fit it.

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I have the same one Terry does. Had it for about 8 years and it works great. I painted a 65 Dodge 2 weeks ago with Testers little bottle enamel, put it in the Nesco @ about 110 degrees for 12 hours, let it sit out for 12 more hours and then color sanded it.

According to my source, the 292 was carried through 1962 in full size Fords and Mercurys carried the 312 through 1960 and the 292 in 1961 & 62. The FE was also available starting 1958 through 1976.

I have the 53 Stude Double Whammy. It appears to be the same tooling and may be part of the cause. It may be that way to get the front end up enough for the dragster. Just a thought. It's a 2 in 1 kit that can also be built stock.

I saw just over the last couple of days a guy showed how he used a car taillight bulb element for carb linkage. It looked like an 1157 bulb. Cant't remember now where I saw it.

Some people even dip the parts in it. A guy on the SA board did a tutorial how to.

There is an Olds motor in the 39/40 Ford sedan and also the 29 Ford roadster pickup.

the chrome doesn't look right - model

I saw a tutorial on using these type of elastic about 6 years ago and bought a bag. Never did try it. The masking tape idea that Lee mentions appears on the Italian Horses website of Alex Kustov: http://www.italianhorses.net/Tutorials/Drivebelt/dbelts.htm

I just started attempting to foil. Like everything else, I do my research. One trick I picked up on one of the boards is the use of low sticking tape like painters tape. I have used this for foiling the metal in pickup beds. Tape up to the edge of where you want to foil. Apply the foil and burnish it down to where it meets the tape. A nice edge to follow will be created at the cut line. When you'r done, peal the tape and the trimmed foil comes up with it leaving a nice surface with no glue residue to clean up. Works real well for me.

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I found the link for the mold shrinking. Check this out http://www.scihighmodels.com/howto_shrink.html

Pretty good likeness. I'd buy a couple because I want to try and scratch built a 37 Terraplane. I saw somewhere over the weekend where a guy shrank a mold by adding a liquid like naptha to the mix at 50-50 with Smooth-on omoo. Maybe that could be done with this piece.

Jim, Alsa sells a clear for it but I didn't buy it yet. I wanted to try it out first. So far it hasn't lost any shine or rubbed off.

I received my order of Alsa Mirrachrome and tried it about 2 weeks ago. Keep in mind that I have never sprayed any type of chrome paint before. The prep work was followed as directed. First I sprayed a gloss black. In this case it was Testers one coat metallic black. After that dried, I sprayed a coat of Minwax fast drying polyurethane. Last, I used my Passche H with a #3 needle and misted on the Mirrachrome. Here is the result I got first try.

I ordered one for a 200 from the local Hobby Town and had it within 2-3 days last fall.

Move here in 90. Grew up in Michigan. I wear a light jacket in the low 50's, especially if the sun's not shinning. I had nightmares for years about having to move back up north. You guys in Chicago-the Readers Digest wrote, I believe it was in the 50's, that Chicago has three seasons. July, August and winter. I hate snow.

I can do it easily and I didn't have to shell out the bucks to be able to. No Windoz for me. Running Linix based Ubuntu version 10.10 64 bit flawlessly on AMD 64. I can take a snapshot of anything from full size down to a thumbnail. Most Linix based software is open source which means free. My current desktop.

Modelhause has one http://www.modelhaus.com/index.php?c=4041&p=69910 if you want one.

see if this helps. http://www.smcars.net/forums/blueprints/