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Like them all! My favorite is that Ford project, and specially its hood! It looks like real sheet metal. Nice work with all of them, now I mean those other chapters too. Great work, I can't wait to see 2011 builds from you.

They all are very nice. That '55 Chevy is my favorite. That Challenger looks very good, I mean that yellow one. Is that last one Challenger too? I don't know these new cars, doesn't matter, are they American, European or japanese cars...

That first Firebird is just good looking. Like Outlaw 10,5. Nice work with them, that Camaro doesn't really fit to my eye, but that Willys looks very good too. Paintjobs are very great as always. It's very important to get great paintjob when there are no detailing like it is in "normal" plastic model kits.

Nice ones! What is the last one? Looks rare model... Nice builds these are yeah, it's just so nice to see that there are still builders to traditional great looking nostalgic drag cars... Nice cars!

Wow, that detailing on the Deuce looks very good! Paintjobs are very cool too, I like them all. That Hot Rod is my favorite from these ones. Cool!

WOW, awesome, all of them. That first one (Gremlin?) is very nice and rare car, that's great to see one built, doesn't matter if it's slot car. That Studebaker looks very good too, paintjobs are looking good. Camaro is very nice, it looks just nice too.

They all are nice, but that Chevy '51 is my favorite. That Challenger looks very good too, and I can't say any negative things from that Jeep either. Very cool ones, all of them. Slot Racing must be fun!

That is just perfect. I think, it's stupid to waste any time for trying to find mistakes from it. I'm pretty sure that it's impossible to find any. But that paintjob looks very good as always, si shiny and smooth. Foiling looks very good too, always when I'm foiling, BMF doesn't fit smoothly, it always looks bad. But your looks very good... That white stripe matches nicely to that color. Engine detailing looks super, as always. Chassis is very great too, I can't say any negative from it... And yes, maybe I just post my Dart there, later today...

I have about 50 projects going on, and there are coming models faster than I get them finished... So that doesn't really matter... That's very nice looking Pickup so far, like your idea. Must get this kit, that's so great start for a custom. I should maybe chop the top, but that looks good too. Like it, keep pictures coming.

Merry X-Mas, you all! I'm bit late, but that doesn't matter at all, I think... Here is one picture of the house, where I live. Bit of snow here and it's freezing cold, when door is open and I'm going to outside... But anyways here you go:

Can you tell, how do you make them? It's just too hard to buy something from USA... I would like to try my hand out there... Impala looks very good so far, keep us posted.

Thank you, Oldschool! Yes, that feeling when you are building outside is really different than if you are building inside. That's great. But if I go building outside, I get some bad, or not so interesting kit with me, so it doesn't matter if it looks bad when finished.

That's nice and clean, as always. Your talents are awesome, I can't really find any mistakes of your builds. Thsi paintjob looks very good and engine detailing is very nice too. I like those tires and wheels on it and stance is just perfect. That real thing looks very good too, of course and this model. I like it very much, thank you for sharing it, keep these amazing Hot Rods coming!

Yes, I have test fitted those doors... Maybe I'm going to glue them shut, I simply hate opening doors, if they are not working correctly. I had opening doors years back in '57 Fairlane and they were awfull. So I maybe glue them shut, but lets have a see, if I can get some "easy" solution to that problem...

Yeah, that looks amazing, as always! I can't wait to see more. Looks just so great. I got this kit for a christmas present yesterday. I meant now Revell Special Edition Hemi Dart. I think it is the basis of this build too? It was very great model kit and I'm building it to Super Stock Drag Racer, but I think that you guys have seen enough these so I'm not going to post a topic, I think. But your project looks very good, can't wait to see the next update.

Truck is waiting some parts to dry, but I started to build that long flatbed trailer to this one. I painted those beds (?) by silver spray few weeks ago. I let them dry very well, because I don't want that paint leaves from the part, when I'm masking it. So second this was that I masked that part so, that I can paint those wooden panels. I painted them with Hubroll flat brown. It went pretty good. Then some "Clear Orange" on that brown paint and now it looks like real wood. After that I removed those masking tapes and I'm very happy from the score. Now just another bed is painted, other one needs still paint. That's very easy way to get real looking wood panels to car. I like that. And when you paint that Clear Orange on the brown, it's not smooth so it looks like real wood. That orange clear is like "must". Here one picture for you:

Oh, that looks very good to me! I like to see truck models, which are not Volvo or Scania. That's very good looking truck... Paintjob looks very good and it's very clean build, I can't find any big mistakes on it. Trailer looks very good too, where is it from. I'm building '66 Dodge L700 truck, there is a topic in On The Workbench section, but I think, that it's not in first pages... Anyways, your truck and trailer combo looks very good to me, keep it going!

Thank you, Brett! It's bad that I really can't paint right now. I'm afraid that it doesn't go well, if I paint in -20 celsiusdegrees... Must wait when it's warmer, but I must get something new finished to model car shows at spring 2011... When it's like -5 or something like that, then I might get something painted. But thank you for the comment! And yes, I got more cars ready in 2010 than I got 2009, that's very, very great.

Thank you all for the replies! It's great t know that there are some good places to buy model kits. I must save some money to the vacation! I'm coming there in winter 2011, but there may be little warmer than here, it's freezing in outside...

I have removed decals with warm water. Not hot! It works fine, if the decal haven't been long time at its place, but if it's old decal, then that's not pssible. But anyways, I removed decals from my '58 Impala like that, before I painted it blue. Maybe I'm supid or my enghlish is just s bad, but if I understood correctly, Plowboy meant that put tape on decal and pull it off from the body? And when decals leaves from the body, how do you get it off from that tape...? Do you use water for it? This is little problem to mee too right now. I have Mis Deal Funny Car, which is built once. There are very nice decals and I want to save them. Just can't get them off from the body. I think, there is no clearcoat on decals, but never can be sure.

The 10th one was '57 Chevrolet Nomad Gasser, lots of modifications I did to this one. The 11th one and the last one of the year was '32 Ford "Ruster". Lots of scratchbuilding and modifications to it. Here are some of them: Scratchmade frame, sectioned, panel lines filled, trunk lid built longer, bullet taillights, scrachmade propeller shaft, modified floor, new seats, scratchmade firewall, scratchmade windshield and windshield frame, steering wheel from '58 Impala to '60 Impala, scratchmade front axle system and so on... Here they are, all eleven. It would be nice to hear some comments.!

The 7th one was The little diorama: First thing, I did to this one was that I built those cyinder heads better: Finished product: The 8th one was Lamborghini Countach. I built it in three days. This was my place, where I built it. Finished product, there are lots and lots of mistakes, but it was very fun build. The 9th one was Mercury Cougar, "Custom HotWheels". Here is the basis of my build: Finished product. More on the next post.

The fourth one was '49 Ford. It's 1/32 scale too. I finished this one just a few hours after that '55 Chevy. Lindberg's kit, and it was very bad. The fift one was '66 Chevrolet Nova Pro Street. It's a rebuild, here you can see the basis: Finished Product: The sixth one was '55 Pro Sportsman Chevy More on the next post.

Here are my builds, finished 2010. I'm sure that I'm not going to get anything finished anymore this year... The First one was '64 Dodge 330 "Ramchargers" The Second one was '29 Ford Rat Rod The Third one was '55 Chevy Bel Air 1/32 scale. It's a rebuild. Here in the first picture you can see the basis of this project. And here you can see finished product More on the next post.

I got some more work done with this one... Front seat is painted and glued to interior floor. Also painted the dashboard by red, but it still needs some silver and black paint before I can glue it to place. I made also ignition wires to the engine. I made them from Detail Master's wire. Here is a little tip, how I make them. I drilled one big hole to center of distributor. Normally is just glue nine spark plug caps (?)to distributor. Then I glue ignition wires to them and other spark plug caps to cylinder head. And just put those wires to place. But this time distributor was so small, that only way to get those wires to fit was to drill one big hole and glue those wires there. Also this car is on four wheels. It was easy to get those tires fit, and stance looks very good I think. Nothing special to get that thing on four wheels, and it's great that all four tires are on the ground. I mean that for example left front tire isn't in air. Just a few mockup pictures for you, As you can see, hood still needs paint. Ignition wires: Chassis is almost finished. Still needs some Coil Over shocks etc... Comments are very welcome!