my66s55

I know what you mean Mike. There is an IPMS meeting, but it is worthless for car guys. People are here in the area, it's just getting someone to put forth the effort to organize a club. Between this forum and the scale auto forum, there has to be 6 or more modelers within a reasonable distance . One lives in Sanford, less than five miles from me. There are others in Orlando, Oveido, Port Orange and Daytona. By the way, you have a very popular name. A Bell South people search came up with 15 persons with your first and last name who are in the greater Orlando area

One other thing that I use in interior detailing is a Pilot brand silver marker. The extra fine point one. Its great for door handles, dash nobs and chrome dash pieces. Its also very handy at covering chrome sprue chips

Looks real to me.

I just tried it and it took less than 10 seconds.

I am 65 and use a light with a magnifier on it. In addition, I look through trifocals with the equivalent of having my right eye closed. This makes for a lot of challenges as I not only have to see the parts, I also try and figure out how far away from each other they are so I can glue or brush paint them.

I use a free program called IrfanView that lets a user re-size a picture either smaller or larger. Just google it and you can get a download site. I have used it for years. What I would like to know is how to get a picture in the avatar.

This is my daily driver. I am retired and don't drive more than a few hundred miles a month. It is 1 of 669 1966 full size Mercury S55 convertibles built that year. I am the second owner. The S55's came with a 428, c-6 trans, bucket seats and center console with shifter. It's options include power windows, power brakes, am-fm radio and front fender marker lights The only things that are not stock are a Summet cam to help gas mileage, American racing Torque Thrust II wheels and 1972 Montego front disk brakes to help stop this beast.

These are a pair of the models I have built in the last year and a half. There was a 49 year span between these and the last model I built at age 16. The 1927 roadster is painted with gloss acrylic and Future and the 1928 phaeton with Testers spray can enamel. 1927 roadster 1928 phaeton

What a beautiful car. Some of the Minicraft/Entex kits have a large amount of parts to them. The 37 Packard I'm currently working on has approximately 300 pieces. I hope it comes out as near as nice as this Cadillac.

Model Let's see if I can be right this time.

I'm curious as to how the Testers painted kits are viewed by members of the forum. I've heard comments on another board that they are not really models.

I couldn't agree more. Also, some of us have physical handicaps which limit our abilities.

There is a 1:1 I see every once and awhile that is the exact same color. Both the 1:1 and yours are beautiful cars.

Nicely done. Looks great in the pics. I hate it when something like a glue or finger mark screw up a build.

Beautiful build. I'm with you Dennis. I'd love to see more of the stock build of the 20's and 30's cars.

I'm finishing up my 1936 Entex 1936 Mercedes 540K roadster.

This subject has come up before. Check out the following thread. Art Anderson has a post in it. For the record, I've been casting all sizes of resin parts from small to bodies for over 7 years and find that Smooth-on works best for me. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15637&st=0&p=133294&#entry133294

The first model I built was a wood & balsa destroyer. That was in 1951. The first car model I built was a Gowland & Gowland when they first came out and showed up in the local hobby shop. I think that was 1951 or 52.

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Looking good. I like your color combo choices.

These are the kind of cars I like to see posted. Nice work. Keep them coming if you have more.

I build basically factory stock. About the only exception would be a t-bucket rod.

I really like this car. Well done. Is it a modelhause? To me, the ugliest mopar is the 62 Dart.

I like it, I like it. I have both the convertible models of the Phoenix & Polara. Seeing this beauty just moved them up on my to do list.

This one is a real tough one. I went with the majority and voted model.