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Henry Made a Lady Out Of Lizzie.

Four weeks to the Motor City NNL ! 350+ tables this year and we're going to widen out the aisles in the NNL show area for easier access and movement. If you've never been to our show you need to experience it. Once you come the first time you'll want to keep coming back to both our Spring and Fall shows. The positive word keeps spreading about our show. See for yourself and you'll understand why attendees are enthusiastic about what we're doing!

A small haul this time from the final Sylvania/ Toledo show. A Hasegawa Nissan R89C, a Fujimi 300ZX and Koenig Testarossa coupe. Our show is next month ( Motor City NNL and toy show) so I'll probably buy more there.

Be careful using Tamiya TS-13. It's known to cause havoc with decals. Try Testor Ultra High Gloss clear; it's much milder.

I went to my closest Ollies last night. They hadn't put out all of their stock yet but one of the employees went to the back and brought out the boxes of what they got. All they got car related was the MPC/AMT '72 GTO and the Lindberg '96 Crown Vic cop car. No thanks. The other night they had a couple of the MPC/AMT Dodge Daytonas and a some of the MPC '50 Mercury snap cop cars but they were all gone last night. Some people must have been desperate, I think. I'm sure they'll be on eBay or the Facebook model pages soon at inflated prices to snag the unwary.

Any Packard.

Tamiya putty is the best. No comparison.

I and other members of D.A.A.M. plan on attending.

There's the one in Taylor.

I stopped at one of the local Hobby Lobby stores today and scored an unexpected deal. I picked up a Corvette C7R kit marked at $26.99 and with my 40% off coupon I figured it would be $16.19 plus tax. The cashier scanned it and it came up as $16.99 ( and not as a mark down.) so with the tax and my coupon it came to $10.80. My lucky day!

Save yourself the time of getting the pink primer if you don't already have it. I tried Tamiya TS-49 over both their white and pink primer and it made no difference in appearance at all! I then tried their clear red over the pink primer and it came out just like TS-49.

I was told that PPG has bought the Testor paint line from Rustoleum. Anyone else hear about this?

With all this revenue rolling in from these Coke issue kits, you'd think that there would be money to tool up a new kit or two.

I got an AMT 3 in 1 Customizing boat and 5 cans of paint at Hobby Lobby and a Tamiya Toyota Group C racer at a local hobby shop. Tamiya really missed the boat with this kit. It's labeled as an 88C LeMans car but it's really an 89 C-V that ran at several places ( but not LeMans) with the style of rear bodywork that's in the kit.

TS-56 is really Repsol orange but it's so close to correct that if you weren't told it was different you wouldn't know it.

Today I went to the two closest Hobby Lobby stores to me. One store had a few kits marked down( '23 T Coke truck, Prowler, and old tool stock version '57 Chevy) and may have more earlier for there were a few empty spots on the shelves. The other store had no kits marked down.

At the Downriver Club meeting last Friday one of the members told us about a product that he found. it's called Crud Cutter Graffiti Remover (gel) and judging by the bodies he brought it works great and even takes off flat black! He found his bottle at Ollies. I found a non gel version at Home Depot for about $8 for 22 ounces.

It's based on the new tool '70 Barracuda/ Sox & Martin kit. I got one last Friday (6-14-19). The Hemi valve covers and dual carbs are left in the AAR kit from the earlier releases but the 4 tires are still all of equal size (unlike the real car's staggered sizes). Maybe the AMT parts pack tires will work (?).

No Porsche tractors at the two closest Hobby Lobby stores to me. No space indicated on the shelves for them either.

The Dino Spyder in Regular series uses a different body mold than the one in the Enthusiast series. It has a separate front lower body that has to be installed after the chassis and body are mated due to the way the underbody is molded. That makes for a problem as it leaves a seam where the pieces mate that isn't on the real car.

Enamels dry by oxygen intake so if you can increase that then an enamel should dry faster. Or am I wrong in my thinking on this?

Depending on the sheen and / or shade of white you want you can: 1) Spray Tamiya TS-65 pearl clear or TS-45 pearl white for a slight pearl effect. 2) Spray Tamiya TS-7 for a creamy off white then use a semi gloss or flat as necessary for the desired sheen. 3) Use flat white or white primer and then buff with your finger. Your skin oil will impart a slight gloss. 4) Spray flat or semi gloss clear over the kit white plastic.

Greg, the Tamiya '66 Beetle would be the best one. Try to find one of those. The only version of the Polar Lights kit that has the sunroof provision is the Love Bug version; but it's just a wrinkled insert over a solid roof with two locating holes. The later versions have a solid roof without the two holes. And to my old eyes the side windows look like the larger 1965 versions ( I have a Spiderman version and a Love Bug).

Looks like a 1965. All the versions are nice kits: multiple choice of wheels, seats, and bumpers. Only downside I see is that the tail lights are way too large.

I got the kit at a hobby store in metro Detroit.