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Zowie! .. that's quite a trip! I assume you had other business here. Welcome to the forum.

This sounds good .. nicely flared

I'm taking the bite on the the hex bolts, Steve. I have a project I need to get some representation for engine bolts down. I do have some P-E heads and they do look great in plan. The problem I had is they are way too thin .. a problem that doesn't occur very much in our hobby! A typical P-E fret is around .006 or 1/8" at 1/25 scale. A general rule of thumb with nuts is they are close to the bolt size in thickness. So a 1/2" nut would be 1/2" thick. I'm sure there are instances where these P-E shapes would look good, but they seem just too thin to be a flange bolt or something on an engine. I did attempt slicing some small plastic hex rod ... .02 and .03 ... the right scale size but was so small the hex shape wasn't even visible. Maybe this is a case where appearance over scale is correct and a larger size is warranted.

I've been leaving it too cause my degreaser doesn't remove it, thou the chrome disappears completely in 5 minutes.

Everyone already took all my words ... this is one tasteful build.. so subtle it jumps out at you and you don't know why. Just gorgeous!

I'm probably near the same point and of the same mind as you. I find it extremely difficult to build anything without jumping on the details.. adding all this stuff that isn't there. I keep saying I'll just do a strictly kit build for fun, but keep finding my fun is always with the scratch built added details. I've been going nutso recently on an old Plymouth 6 engine build. Been fabing a lot of the components. I've been finding my best friend is the pieces of wire I've been using as handles and, in the end, as connecting pins. I first glue them in at a long enough length that it becomes a handle. The carpet monster has been on a diet since I started this. The parts also feel like that they went up a scale as far as handling goes. This is a pretty simple thing, but it's my trick to handle these parts. The long wires also mane nic epaint stands as can be seen below. eheh Now I have to figure how I'm gonna glue this jar of .02 and .03 hex rod sliced bolts..

That's a great looking cop car and cool video! now, THAT'S the way to show off a cop car! The paint scheme looks cool...

The "look" of this build is nothing short of fantastic. Shows what paying attention to details does.

I ALWAYS park my 1:1 with trans in gear AND emergency brake on. I used to fret about keeping the wheels turning on my models in all directions, but after a few hard rolls and turns as mentioned by everyone here I just glue em tight in the position I want , and walk away from hills without looking back!

This is looking great! ..and true to your build goals for a early rod. I especially like the DUAL carb setup on the flat head. Following your build has been a pleasure.

I WAS assuming you meant some kit boxes at 1/25 scale for a display or diorama. Guess your question CAN be taken two ways. eheh

You HAVE to be an engineer, Peter ... KISS! Just flipping the hinges is awesome! I haven't tried it, but can see it in my head. Was a pleasure to meet you at NNL East ... (paint questions and my wife never stopped talking about your sunroof. )

Not sure if there is anything out there, but if you strike out they would not be too difficult to make, depending on your computer skills and what equipment you have. My guess is you probably have a box or 2 socked away. I'm going to give a method I used long ago to make scale license plates from one on my 1:1 cars I was modeling. This was before digital cameras were available. I spent some time calculating how far from the plate to stand so the 3x5 printed photo came out to 1/25 scale. This was something like 15 feet from the plate, but you can try different distances and see what works. I peeled the thick photo paper apart to give me just a thin sheet with the plate photo on it and glued it to a thin sheet of plastic. With digital cameras this becomes much easier. Just print at a size to match the plate at 1/25th scale and use a good photo paper when printing. If you can unfold the model box and photograph that you can print and refold at proper size. Cut it out with some small tabs to fold in when gluing back together.

oh, nice build! .. and an older Legacy Sedan! I'm on my 2nd Legacy Wagon .. 2 that my wife had ... 92 and 95's converted from the Japanese GT versions. Front of yours looks like the 92 version. What would we do without Hasegawa!

Nice build.. I LOVE this engine shot!!!!!

Heck YES! I have a 51 Plymouth engine I'm super-detailing On The Workbench that will be Under Glass long before the car is done.. and it will be displayed separate in the end.. not in the engine bay! and that is a cool addition to our engine arsenal, Ken. Great build . hope you sell a ton of them.

Wednesday .... and the mail box is bare .... NOW I'm getting cranky!! .. no wait, I haven't seen that article by Cranky. I want my, I want my, I want my MCM!!

Thanks guys! I knew it was simple, but my mind seemed to be in a overly-complex mode today..

I see some here edit the Topic Description to reflect additions to their posts.. especially in the workbench section. Can't for the life of me find how to edit these lines. Can someone graciously fill me in? Thanks ahead of time..

Looks fantastic! I really like those wheels .. on the car .. are those the kit wheels or from elsewhere. I'd like those on a rod on my bench...

I'll second the congrats! That was an awesome Civic, Charles ... !

I love that Buick waterfall.. Looked fantastic in person this past weekend!

didn't anyone ever tell you that its IMPOSSIBLE to do all those mods in 1/43??????? !!!!! they look Fantastic!

Very Nice!! Looks fantastic.. and thanks for the ride along the way

a full scale WoW on that build!!