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I love Floquil paints also, my favorite is their primer, it goes on smoother than any primer I have ever seen. About the scale color, I don't think there is such a thing unless you are talking about the size of the flakes in metallic paints. Bright or dark, if you use the right color on any model it will look great. You also have to remember that the orange peel that is formed after painting will always be out of scale on a 1/25 scale kit or smaller, it is always important to rub out the finish to be able to get a more realistic look. The use of an airbrush reduces the chances of getting orange peel but the model still has to be wet-sanded nevertheless. What I have noticed is that it is also important to darken your panel lines. I have seen a lot of great paint jobs out there but I have also seen panel lines full of paint giving the model a very toyish appearance.

I'm w/ Harry on this, it will be tedious w/ the Xacto blade but it will also be more accurate!!

Hey, patent this thing and you will be swimming in money!!!!

Like every work you do this is gonna look cool man!!! Good to see you here again.

Thanks guys! Abe, just look back into the project and all your questions will be answered. It's an old Monogram kit.... Hosted on Fotki

Very cool Randy, I absolutely love it!! Are you going to the picnic this Saturday to show it off? I hope so man, I want to see it up close. Hope to see you Saturday!!!!

Wow!!! I like the fact that it's just ready to use. Looks like you can cover dozens of models with that amount too, I will definitely look into it!! Thanks for your quick response and hope to see your project finished soon, I am a big Mopar fan so this is one I will be following!!

Good to see you posting your work again, definitely one of my favorite builders here in the forum. This thing looks gorgeous man!! Question, do you thin that clear? First time I hear about it. Care to share how you use it, what you use for thinning it and where is it available? Looks like a great clear!!

Completed a bit of the interior, used embossing powder for the carpet and some other details like a P/E CD and a Detail Master shifter knob and gauge set. Painted everything w/ Testor's semi gloss black enamel paint. The bucket seats are from a '69 Revell Camaro that I had in my parts box, the ones from the Vega kit were molded in place and I wasn't too crazy about them.... Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki I think the shifter knob is slightly out of scale but my excuse is that this is Bill Geary's Vega and he needs that big knob for those huge hands of his when at the track!!! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

Very cool, while I'm not crazy about your choice of wheels I think you did a fantastic job on the kit!!!!

Great job overall specially on your weathering, it's something I am also practicing and learning how to do, you pretty much have it mastered!!!

My question is which type of rattle cam paint do i use is it Acylic paint, which is the one i use. Okay, can you somehow ask this question again? Is it a question?

Very cool Rodney, I have to someday do something like that to transport some of my finished models!!!

Take off the emblem and put a nice big rainbow sticker on that sucker!!!!

Wouldn't you get better responses to your question if you go to an RC website? I am not being rude or anything and I am sure you have a handful of guys that like RC here but the question just doesn't fit quite right in this forum.....

Would a "slack-jawed yokel" now be known as a "mandibularly challenged ruralist?" That was a good one Harry!!!!

I will install the headers at the point where the engine meets the bay, I will need the flexibility of the moving headers when accomodating the engine block at that point. Here is more or less how it will look at the end..... Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Still have to do a little bending here and there but that's at least an idea of what I want to achieve. Thanks for looking!!!

Thanks Jay, I too am happy I opted for the Rotary engine! For the headers, I was going to use solder like a lot of the guys do here to make them out of scratch but I prefer using Wire Form, it is slightly harder to bend than solder but soft enough to be easily bent. It's sold @ Michael's just in case someone wants to know. Hosted on Fotki This one is actually thicker than the one I use, it's just that it still has the brand name stuck to it just in case you guys need the info. I also had some K&S brand tubing for the installation of the header collector at the end. Also, it's cool if you have a tube cutter, you want these cuts to be clean! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Took me several tries before I was able to make the correct bends. I have another Rotary engine in my stash so I used it for mock-up purposes, didn't want to take any risks and mess the other one up specially after Alclading some parts on it. Found out that it is better to do your bends with the wire form installed on the engine first, from that point I was able to be more easily creative. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

You guys are reta...ummmm....mentally challenged

The best way to grow is through critisism, as you guys know I post a lot of my WIP stuff when it comes to my builds here in the forum and I look at it as a way to sometimes take a different and sometimes better aproach to complete my builds specially when I hear suggestions and ideas from people here. If there is critisism I will welcome it also, I know for a fact that I am no Bill Geary or David Thibodeau but I am happy where I am, I really enjoy sharing the little bit of stuff I know and I have FUN doing it!!

Didn't think that color would work on that car but I was wrong, very cool man!!!

I have taken advantage of the little bit of time I had this weekend and Acladed several parts and put together others around the engine! Hosted on Fotki This is the front bumper and scraped grill, I am happy with the results!! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki This is the intake manifold and the small velocity stacks, was gonna go with the previously shown Holley carb set-up but thought it was a bit out of scale. Hosted on Fotki Here I added the oil filter, oil filler tube and did a mockup/install on the engine bay to have an idea how it will look sitting in the engine bay. I also installed the intake manifold and stacks!! Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki

Beautiful as always my brother!!!! Can't wait to see it in person!

I do not know the number bro! Your spanish is better than my chinese!!!

He is saying to check out the old scale auto magazines, his P.O. address is there, I just don't know how much each sheet is....