Dr. Cranky

That's a great find, CD (by the way your initials spell DOCTOR CRANKY backward!) Chuck M. I wonder if this is the kind of project where you might have a bit of fun scratch-building the whole thing. Bill Borgen might be of help too.

FANTASTIC photographs. The scene is developing nicely.

Looking good, B, keep it going. Your weathering is excellent.

I use some of their products, but more for my art projects than for my models, although I like their airbrush flow medium, etc . . . .

Nice, and I like the paper weight idea.

Beautiful, Mr. W. Nice work, again.

I love it. Nice paint, and wonderful model.

Skip, that's exactly I do mine. They work very well indeed.

I find that a little HOK surface cleaner will take care of most of the tip spatter. Also, if you vary your angles and size of the templates, you will get more variety into the flames. I like it.

The Lab-RAT-ory CREW MUSCLE makes this guy look like a baby: :lol:

No worries, yet, Danno. No lawyers or agents yet. But then you would not want to upset the Lab-RAT-ory CREW MUSCLE . . . :lol:

Bite of the GREEN DOG! I love it. Great weathering there, Bryan.

This is precisely the reason why it's a good idea to archive all the threads so that people can find them and enjoy them, but also let them know what has come before and been discussed, etc . . .

You can easily build a great diorama around this vehicle. It's a great model, and one I am sure is going to win lots of recognition at all the shows.

What a beauty. You hit a homerun with this one. Great details and touches throughout. Congrats.

EYEGORE smells the styrene or diecast on this one! LOL.

I LOVE IT. For a minute I panicked because I would not be able to see without my goggles. LOL, I love it. I think these will make a great dynamic duo for car scenes on show tables all over the WORLD. Keep 'em coming. Great work, D.

I like these techniques, but what I do often is simply airbrush a dark line all around the panel lines which serves as a way to preshade and color in the lines. Then again I mostly do this when I am doing my weathered vehicles. When I am doing shiny, I tend to use Donn Yost RAPIDOGRAPH pen trick. It works. Marco's tip is wonderful.

Great stuff, my friends. I will add these photos to the next UPDATE VIDEO. Thank you.

Doctor Cranky (and EYEGORE) love it! Watch out, you know what they say, once you build one, you'll build ten. Might as well, the apocalypse is bound to come and you don't want to get caught without a cool vehicle. LOL. Great job, Chuck.

Nice going, Walt, looking forward to seeing it done.

Ira, you did it again, another fun model. The shell with the eyes on it is the crowning touch on this one. You keep building 'em and feedin' 'em to us. Love it. Congrats. Oh, and when you run out of shelf space remember you can send them my way.

Rob, that happens to all of us every once in a while. Hope to see you get back to the styrene. Good luck.

It only has happened to with the Revell Hummer kit, and that's about it. I think Future clear works very well for sealing. I use it mostly on acrylic based builds and to seal in decals.

Bob, here it is again: