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I loved his cars when I was a kid. Got to meet him and his son and see the Beatnik Bandit II at a car show around 1997. He signed a bunch of books and kits. He was a very nice guy, Generous with his time and conversation. I recently built three of the kits, stalled on the Surfite and Beatnik Bandit...still works in progress.

Looks very good so far...Love the Roth stuff.

My two local Hobby Town posted the discontinued notice before the Holidays. One store just recently removed the Testors Model Master rack altogether, and replaced it with Humbrol bottle and rattle can racks. The other store has the rack but a diminished supply as of this afternoon. The regular Testors rack remains and I heard him say it was only the Model Master line being discontinued. You might check Hobby Lobby as well...they appear to still have the basic Testors line as of two weeks ago.

Darn, and I was just at Hobby Town. Their Testors Model Masters rack is near empty and the Model Master line is discontinued. First bottle hard to read...looks like Flat Hunter Green ? Looks nice.

I'm waiting on exhaust headers since January 27, delivery was due February 10. I ordered from him as he had a positive rating, and he has some nice stuff. Not here to bash anyone, and I'm fully aware the mails have been slow...and given the COVID situation affecting both families and sellers and the problems with USPS these days, I'd figure I would wait before criticizing. I did send him message thru Contact seller and have not heard anything. What I'm concerned about now is the seller has no further products in his other items for sale link on Ebay, nor does his webstore link look active. Is he ok...? Will post an update if I hear anything. www.ebay.com/str/Resinmodelparts68?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 Resinmodelparts68 | eBay Stores

Good question...not sure yet. The overall scheme so far is basic black with grey interior.....with Alclad chrome parts...wasn't sure if I should deviate from that. What say you all?

While waiting to resolve the paint issue on the body shell, I returned to the engine question. I went over my recent flathead parts stash and new arrivals, and looked over my resource file for interesting flathead engines.I think I found an interesting picture in Dain Gingerelli's "Ford Hot Rods" that will match my Replicas and Miniatures resin flathead engine block and trans, dual carb intake and vintage resin bell air cleaners, along with the detailed resin Stromberg 97s from Model Car Garage.I tack glued it all together to see if it will tuck under the hood...looks like it will fit.The second flathead picture is from Dain Gingerellis "Idea Book : Hot Rods, Roadsters, Coupes and Customs" which is an excellent collection of hundreds of color photos of everything from engines chasis tailights and interiors. I'll use resin Offy flathead valve covers from Model Car Garage, unless I dig up some Navarros.

This was the toughest component of the whole build...the PE GRILLE PIECES. Tried my patience...gluing on top of the paint job ...trying not to break the grille bars which are like the width of a human hair. A you can see...need to decide if I can realign them or ditch it altogether.

Downtime on the other projects, so I grabbed the LMG kit and started working on all the orange peel on the paint job. Here's is the status as of today. Got my aftermarket parts delivery, so now to think about the top end of the flathead.....

That's a really good looking 27 T you built there. I see you placed it on a 32 frame and it sits well. I debated using a '32 frame but wanted to try a Z'd model A frame and was following some tips I had read in Plastic Fanatic at the time (Dan Harrison's excellent five part series "A Tale of Two Roadsters - a great read). On the curved interior...I should have taken more pictures back when I started. The curved seat back is held temporarily in place when inserted into the cockpit, and I think I glued the edges of that to each R & L door side panels . What I would call the coaming (for lack of a better term) that runs along the top/rear is also curved and the helps hold the curved seat back. I put dabs of Milliput epoxy putty on each corner underneath (see picture) and after it set up, it held the shape pretty good permanently for future trial fitting, sanding etc.. The windshield, yeah, I think looking for that and headlight brackets is where I got sidetracked and set this project aside. My brother builds and posts here (and TRAK) he just sent me a windshield frame that fits well, (not sure where he got it) but it looks a little tall, even after I trimmed the top a bit ( like in this picture from Dain Gingerelli's nice "Ford Hot Rods") Debating what to do with it....where did you source yours?

Fantastic work guys.

Mock up with floor carpet and seats

Working the exhaust system, aluminum tube joints and trial fitting muffler

Thank you, it has been a challenge, but fun!

This time I used bottle Tamiya gloss black thinned 50 % and shot with a paasche airbrush...Tamiya clear yellow over both the wood panels and frames to blend together....still have some flaws ...dust here and there...mask leaks, but think those can be fixed.

Did a clear coat on the woodgrain and then masked the panels and shot black gloss on body shell. Need to make new door hinges and finish interior window glass. Trial fit and and mock up of work to date on body shell.

Looks good to me....I know how difficult the chop is....plus a lot of roof trim lines to cut through and match up. My B pillar challenged me. Forge ahead!

Decided to look at an alternative to hanging the exhaust pipes and mufflers under the axle. Did not want to figure out how to put the necessary sharp bends in aluminum tubing to route it thru the leaf spring and rear axle.....the exhaust train from the Revell Model A roadster looks like it will fit. I got a set of headers from Replicas and Miniatures , applied Alclad to these.

EXCELLENT....THANKS FOR THE UPDATE!

Let me rephrase the question...if I paid (via Paypal) for a subscription on Dec 26, 2020.....when will I get my first issue and which issue is it?

Before the Holidays I got onboard and subscribed.............but I haven't heard anything since. What's up with this?

Looking good! Love the 5 W....watching with interest.

I've considered masking off and spray painting the darker wood panels. or trying cutting out and inserting a wood grain paper product in each. Thought first - I'd give hand painting with Tamiya bottle paint washes and see how it looks. Wet on wet washes with a detail brush using Desert Yellow, NATO Brown, Red Brown and Lemon Yellow, with flat white and flat black as tints and shades. After this base dries. I'll go back with a detail brush to add some grain, then overcoat with clear yellow.

Nice. You got the R&M SCOT blower.....and the Ardun heads. Excellent.

I bought this kit, several actually....just for the Chrysler Firepower engine and Torqueflite transmission. Looking forward to seeing this build.