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You brush them on with a small, stiff brush. Tamiya makes them, and they work very well from report- haven't used them, but I have spoken to people that have and they swear by them. What I've usually done if I want something like this is thinned black paint for a little grime. Takes a little practice, but that can look very convincing, too. Charlie Larkin

Hit the floors with a little bit of weathering pastel to dirty it up a little. Not a lot, but enough to make it look like it's been used. Might want to get the very lower edge of the wall, too. Set the engine on a couple of hollow tires; you'd never set it on the concrete floor like that. I agree- add some tools and similar objects. Very good start that can finish very nicely. Charlie Larkin

What a nice job overall. I would tend to go more with some wood/plastic doors and windows, but the general effect is good. I like it. Charlie Larkin

Honestly, this is a good idea, and by doing so, it might help to highlight exactly what went wrong. I've met Ed Sexton a couple of times. He's a very nice guy and will listen to what's said, but a lot of what happens beyond the conceptual stage is, unfortunately, out of his control. Charlie Larkin

Oh, wait...I remember it now. I remember seeing that panel van. Time to keep an eye open at various places on/off-line. Charlie Larkin

Very nice. I like the blue. Charlie Larkin

I didn't even know they made the wagon. I'll have to look for one of those. I like stock, generally, but this is cool. Charlie Larkin

Light and dark rose. Nice pick. Charlie Larkin

I've had cars that refuse to be painted, too. I'm dealing with one now. After stripping, give it a thorough cleaning in soapy water. There might be something on the plastic that even the stripper isn't getting off. I'd also recommend one of the Little Motor Kar Ko. paint stands. About $10 U.S., and they work nicely. They really grip the body and it won't fall off. Charlie Larkin

I like your color choice. The differences really are noticeable when it's painted and corrected. I mean, really, even OOB, it doesn't look all that bad, but how much extra effort would it have taken to get basic contours correct? I'm sure some pinhead in accounting made a good business case, and like most of the major car companies now, design by the Treasurer's staff will yield problems. Andy, you're to be congratulated on this. And I agree with Bill, if you can scare up an inexpensive used digital camera, anything about 3MP and up, you'll be in good shape. Charlie Larkin

Those reds are spot-on for many of the 1960s Big 3-1/2 interior vinyls. I will definitely remember that for the future. Dull/SG/Gloss as appropriate. Great work so far. Charlie Larkin

I need to finish restoring my '61. The paint got goobered, along with some of the body repair. I also decided on a different color, so back to the drawing board... Charlie Larkin

Very nice work. Charlie Larkin

That looks very good. Charlie Larkin

I'm still pretty much a 35mm holdout, but I do have a digital camera for stuff like this, primarily. I use a Fuji Finepix AX690, and it's a nice camera, and they're not overly expensive. The only thing I've found with it is that it's very sensitive to ambient light and color registration. Charlie Larkin

Cool! Can we talk you into sending this to D.R.A.G. to get it cast? I'm up for one. Charlie Larkin

I think a lot of it is because they had real, art-trained designers who also had good engineers who used their brains, not electronic ones, to back it up. Some kits, as we've found, have had their own accuracy issues from the days of yore, but they do seem, in most cases, to be much less glaring. Charlie Larkin

You'd be very surprised. It might not be as tossable as your Mini, but B-bodies do very nicely on back roads driven intelligently. With that same car, I ended up going down Adams Rd. in Savoy. That was one of my LEAST fun experiences! I had to stop three or four times to rest the brakes, and when I finally got back to Adams on Rt. 8, I pulled into McAndrew and King Buick-GMC and let the brakes cool for a solid 45 minutes and looked at the cars. I could literally see a red glow on parts of the wheel assembly. Didn't know he worked there. Haven't been back since, waiting for another exhibit of interest, but I would like to go back sometime. It's a very nice museum. Charlie Larkin

This is a good thing. Charlie Larkin

Riding in a 1916 Hudson Super Six around the parking lot at the Hudson-Essex-Terreplane Club's national meet in 2008 is right up there. Same family since new. What a remarkable automobile. Traveling down to Front Royal, Virginia in 1999 for the H-E-T's Eastern Regional while I was in college and doing research for my thesis centered around the Hudson Jet and how it sunk Hudson was another great memory. Nice scenery, the AACA Winchester meet nearby and a great group of people, and a flawless trip in the 1994 LeSabre I bought for myself as an early college graduation present. My 2004 visit to the Saratoga Auto Museum for the Bulgari collection and Buick Centennial exhibit, going out the back roads of Massachusetts, Vermont and New York. I ended up with my first 1991-96 B wagon, a '93 Roadmaster, and that was a nice, pleasant ride. The B-bodies are king of the road cars as far as I'm concerned. Charlie Larkin

Now THAT is customer service. Charlie Larkin

Very nice job on this. Then again, all your work is first-rate. Charlie Larkin

Someday, I will have the bravery (or foolhardiness,) to do mine. Great job. What did you use for the colors? Charlie Larkin

Some very nice stuff there. Loved that '59 Dodge. Charlie Larkin

One of my closest friends- really, the guy that's closest to a brother to me (and we are brothers via DeMolay, anyway,) lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, now. When I go down to visit Rob, and I usually do so after LIARS, parking around there is horrifying. To make sure I understand, there is literally no on-street parking where you are now? Charlie Larkin