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Totally new tools of: 1/12 Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing 1/12 Ferrari 275 GTB Nothing of the earlier issues is worth saving.

I did ask and got a good response, but I thought I'd get a broad range of experienced opinions by posting here.

I have a metal kit body that I want to have copied in resin. It has a number of holes in the body that have to be filled in. Should I fill the holes before casting, or would it be easier to fill them afterward in resin? Will the Bondo work well with resin?

Well, that's about as good as it gets. I'm virtually speechless.

This is going to be great. It would also look good with a '53 Studebaker front body forward of the windshield.

I vote for hubless wheels.

Should be good for about 5-6 openings before it cracks

Here's a scale conversion from Grandt Line, which sells lots of model railroad stuff (www.grandtline.com) Seems to me that train horns in 1/24 scale would be way too big for a 1/24 car, though.

You're correct that almost all Ford depot hacks were Model Ts, but depot hacks were common among almost all manufacturers during the teens, twenties and very early 30s, including Rolls-Royce. You can choose almost any car of the era and be correct. All were custom.

Anybody want to try it? A little more detail worth reading... "THE 1910 Brooke Swan Car was the brainchild of a wealthy British engineer, Robert Nicholl "Scotty" Matthewson, who lived at Swan Park, Calcutta, then the capital of British India. In 1909, Matthewson travelled to England to commission a truly eccentric motor car from the Brooke company of Lowestoft, Suffolk. Its wooden body was apparently built by Savage of Kings Lynn, Britain's most famous maker of steam-powered fairground rides. The swan's head and body, carved to create the effect of feathers, concealed the radiator and bonnet. Matthewson's car arrived in Calcutta in April 1910. It had amber eyes that glowed eerily in the dark, a multi-note Gabriel exhaust horn with a keyboard in the rear of the car so that Scotty could play chords and bugle calls, and a hot water spray in the swan's beak that enabled the chauffeur to clear a passage through Calcutta's crowded streets. It was in the fashionable Maidan Park, where Calcutta's elite promenaded in their carriages and cars every afternoon, that Scotty displayed the Swan Car's most outrageous feature. A dump valve inside the car dropped splats of whitewash on to the road from the Swan's rear end - just to make it more lifelike."

Very, very nice. So what's your spraying technique for the top?

Absolutely spectacular. Looks like you replaced the kit glass, which makes a big difference.

Alex Kustov has a good tutorial on using surgical tape for headliners, and I suppose the same techniques apply to seats. He also mentions textured paper from Model Factory Hiro, but I can't find them. If you need patterns, you can create them on your computer and print them out on inkjet cloth available at craft stores. http://www.italianhorses.net/Tutorials/Headliners/hliner.htm

This time, a video demo from Jay Leno's Garage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvzcGdZsTc&feature=player_embedded

I get interesting e-mail stuff like that all the time via my registration at http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/ If you haven't already registered there, give it a shot. It's mostly free, but offers certain bells and whistles like complete photo downloads for a fee (which I don't do. It's very easy to take a screen shot or drag a photo to the desktop).

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/gallery/23831/Welcome-to-Retromobile.html

Looks like you're going to need to pay special attention to the hood fit.

Looks good, but can't really tell much about it without bigger pictures.

That's what I was alluding to above. If the contestants and organizers don't like repeated entries of the same model, make rules, and make the entrants officially agree to it on the entry forms.

Maybe entry forms should have boxes for something like the following: Has this model been entered in this contest before? Yes__ No__ If so, when? Year:___ Did it win an award? If so, please state what award. (Previous winners are not eligible)__________ PREVIOUS WINNERS ARE INELIGIBLE FOR COMPETITION

Beats me. I was just passing along some news I thought might be of interest, with some nice Ferrari video. But you know how things go here – you can't say anything without some kind of opinion coming back at you. For example, I mentioned something about Walmart shutting down local mom-and-pop operations, then I get a response that talks about people who are into franchises with major corporations like Ace hardware and Tru-Valu, which aren't mom-and-pop in the way they work. Oh, well.

Where are the pictures?

VERY cool!

Well, so am I and I'd be interested.

The outsourcing of product manufacturing isn't the real issue with Walmart; that's mostly the responsibility of the manufacturers. Walmart's greatest impact has been to shut down the local independent, mom-and-pop retailers who couldn't compete with their selection and prices. How many home-grown hardware stores are left in your town? But Walmart isn't the only big-box store responsible for that. But I agree with Harry that they've been a game-changer in making products more affordable for the non-rich among us, and that's a good thing.