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Looking very nice ... great work on the axle!

Lots of very interesting builds there ... thanks for this! I especially liked the car being spray painted ... maybe was an old cop car.

Checking your work takes time and time is money. This mistake is more irritating in this instance, but this way of saving money has entered many industries ... the scary thing for me is my personal experience in seeing it enter the engineering profession.

Nice job on that!

This is a popular subject here so I did a google search of this forum to get a few links for you, but even better, here's how to search yourself and get tangible results. It's pretty simple .. into Google type: site:modelcarsmag.com open door tutorial. Notice the structure .. the site and after that what you want to search for. Just do it and save th ebookmark. Clich it and change to your new search. The first link has an excellent comment by Mr Obsessive!

... as Anne's guitar gently weeps .... (forgive me, I couldn't resist!)

Yeah! Good to see this in the showroom! A spectacular job you did, Geoff!

You're doing a very complete job, Pat. Everything has been clear as day.

This has been a pleasure seeing carbs that look like carbs!

Like Tom says, R&R Resin has one and the '50 is a bit down the page. I'm assuming it's now a collectible you want as a collectible but this may have been taken from one. I had a '51 Plymouth as my first car and bought this to turn into one. It hasn't really advanced much but I put some larger images in the wip I started here.

I like those puppies!

That has to be super light!

I was car guy (kid) all my life. At about 5 my Dad had to run and pull me out from under a bus at the bus stop across the street. Must have been my first exposure to suspension! By 7 I could name every car on the road .. one of our games on long trips. At 8, I got a Revell kit of 3 ships .. a tug, freighter and a ocean liner I believe. My Dad built one as I gooped paint on another. It was a good lesson and I learned how good my Dad was with a paint brush . it was his first model too. I spent the next 4 years building ships, armor and hanging planes from my ceiling. Then, in 1958, a company named AMT showed up on at the hobby store with CAR KITS! My destiny was fulfilled! After a '58 T-Bird and every AMT kit I could get later, I made it to 16 with a '40 Ford Sedan that was chopped, channeled and sectioned to a scale 48" tall that won first in the Custom class at the LHS.Then girls and other things appeared ...

I have trouble recommending any "beginner" anything unless you're 12 years old cutting grass. They do work .. my first was Testers first try at airbrushes and it painted ok. The Badger ones are a good start. I haven't used a lot of them so I can't get specific. I'm sure the recommended ones will add up here.

I'm a toothpick user too, but, being a diabetic, my old insulin syringes with 29 gauge needles make good applicators also.

That looks REALLY GOOD!

That sure looks good in that color!

Welcome back to building. I'm extremely fortunate for living in a remote area but still having a well stocked hobby store close by that supplies most of my needs and emergencies. As said, the internet is a vast hobby center ... EVERYTHING is available! As far as photos, 800 pixels wide is an internet friendly size and is detailed enough for good viewing of models. There's no limit here as far as I know as large images will scale up as you view them.

You really got the front going good. The headlights look like some Plymouth units. The tail lights look like the Packard ones that were used on a lot of customs. Replica & Minatures makes a couple different Packard tail lights.. This page shows the '56 Packard lights. Click the photo and you'll see the '54 tail lights.

Cool .. and did she get to display it in her room?

This is a good question .. it goes along with an old post of mine .. The most unrealistic part on every model car I've had is ...

I'll be waiting to see your drawing (and probably go back on what I'm going to say) but it would come down to buying the closest thing available in a kit and modifying it to match your drawing. When we see you drawing they're be many suggestions I'm sure.

This is surely different!

Welcome to the forum .. and we do have some cops here, but I think they just build cars they've ticketed. Be sure to post some of your builds!

Didn't realize you were so young, Geoff!