Erik Smith

Great looking model. Excellent work and cool choice on the color.

It’s also very acceptable for millions of adults to sit for hours and stare and yell and cheer at other adults playing games on fields dressed in matching uniforms, or to sit for hours and listen to other adults talk for hours about those other adults playing games. Additionally, it’s imperative that those same adults spend millions of dollars on paraphernalia to indicate to others the uniforms of the adults they think are somehow superior to all others. But we’re weird for gluing plastic together... A lot of the time people are confused about exactly what model cars are - they think I have a collection of die casts or something - even after I tell them I made them. They also ask “can they drive or anything?”. I say yes, but I’m too big to get in the doors. In other news, this short article on NPR about how important an “art habit” can be - building model cars is an art: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/792439555/making-art-is-good-for-your-health-heres-how-to-start-a-habit

For those loving all of Hasegawa’s recent kits...the quality is improving as they go along as well, adding the basically non-existent interior side panel details to the latest releases.

Great looking models. I like the ATS wheels.

Excellent work. Great looking model.

Looks like a great kit. I wasn’t too familiar with this particular car, but it was kind of a little hot rod sleeper - AWD and 175 hp. Cool. I have ordered one. I am also glad it’s not molded in color.

Nice. Here was my 1999 ( we didn’t get 98s in the states). Yes, I regret selling it... What do you tow with it?

Yeah, if you can find the OLD detail master stuff (yellow was actually yellow) you get more feet...I think it was 5, then 3, and now it’s down to 2...so I don’t buy the new stuff.

Fourth, how does it stay up there? Look at those little tie down straps. Looks like North Dakota plates too...hope he wasn’t hauling it far...

I use Future. It does not make the powder glossy. I like the Future because it dries slow and levels off very well. Paint the part same or similar color below or, as I have done, do two layers of powder (apply one, let dry, pour/blow off excess, reapply Future and powder). I did the whole back area of my Revell Bronco in one swoop - no need to do smaller sections with slow drying medium...

I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure no, you cannot spray lacquer over enamel.

This has been mentioned before, but I ignored the advice and found out for myself (what’s the saying, idiots learn from their own mistakes, wise people from other’s..) Duplicolor Sandable primer, my go to for many years, is too hot for new Revell and Hasegawa models (probably others, all I’ve, uh, tested) I had some very funky outcomes recently on both brands with different cans of Duplicolor Sandable primer. Lots of etching (I guess?) on unnoticeable seems - like very faint swirls in he plastic and odd color changing, plastic changing things. I just bought 4 cans of Tamiya...

Nice looking model. I like the addition of the strips for the bed, kind of wish Revell would have molded the passenger area as the steel instead of carpet. Great choice of color! Oh, better get your brake system finished - no master cylinder.

Wondering about that too...Italeri didn’t have that previously, did they? (The Fiat?) A Fujimi share?

It's a great place to visit. I was in Helsinki in the summer of 2017 and found a great mix of older cars all over...not many full size trucks though...even saw a 90s Impala decked out like a US police cruiser, lowered, piloted by a guy holding a bottle of vodka out the window (in Tampere).

Those are neat little kits. I have one that may someday be built like the moving “truck” from Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” movie...

Fantastic work. Great looking model.

“Ok” is a slight understatement. That is a beautiful model. The color seems to “match” the flow of the car’s design brilliantly.

“What I built in 2018” Might be quicker to list kits you didn’t build. Hehe. Great collection Jonathan. Nice work through the year.

“California Pickup”???? Not sure stars and bars were ever real popular there...

Any idea what’s happening here? Dude in short cut offs flipping a chubby mechanic a coin...makes me want to buy it.

So you’re building box art version of the Monogram kits but using the Revell kit? That’s a cool idea The old Monogram kit makes me nauseous...so if I’m wrong and you’re actually building the Monogram kits...

That turned out very nice. Great work. Excellent work on the peeps too.

I would like to join in the race. I have been obsessively watching videos of the races and can't get enough. I didn't realize the race was still really going on, I guess. I love seeing the racers bouncing all those cars across the dirt roads and rivers and... I will be using Revell's 1948 Ford. I still have parts left over from my half attempt at the Cannonball run a few years ago... Number 71. Thanks for putting this together Rob.

Surprising, considering I thought they all were pretty great!