Chad Shapiro

That is a 1940 Merc

One thing you may want to know, the drag car on the R&K magazine is a business coupe, and the model kit is a club coupe. The business coupe was a 2 seater car, with shorter doors (used the same door as a 4 door sedans front doors), and the club coupe had linger doors (same as a 2 door sedans doors). If you want, I have a spare 1:1 business coupe door here I can measure the length of, if you wish to go through moving the pillar, and relocating the pannel line. But really, its a completely different roofline all together. Perry's resin does sell a nice (at least it looks nice on their site) business coupe based on the R-M convertable kit. But if you need any reference photo's or measurement, i have a 47 business coupe (its at the interior shop now, but i can measure stuff when I go to visit it), Im happy to help give you reference material.

No fun if you can't sniff the paint coming from the air brush!

I was brought up on Buddy Holly, Elvis, Carl Perkins, The Beatles, and in my 22 years, I have never really left that. I guess I never have been very trendy.

Is it laquer or Urethane Cruz? I was at my paint jobber last week buying some supplies for my 1:1 project, and I found out that it is still legal to buy and sell laquer in Maryland! But Nyquist near me doesnt stock it, so they cant do custom mixes of small ammounts in house.

Hey Cruz, you know where you can always get those complimentary aluminum parts dont you? I do expect to see you at the next meeting! egg nog!

You may want to read through this thread before ordering from Arrowhead. http://www.scaleautomag.com/sca/community/...?TOPIC_ID=42174 The Arrowhead parts are just okay IMO. They are somewhat simpistic and elemtary, but moderately priced, that is, if you ever recieve your order. Model Car Garage sells a lot of turned aluminum parts, they are more money than Arrowhead, but much nicer parts, with better detail and scale accuracy. Parts By Parks does nice stuff too, and if Scale Repro's plus is still around, their work has always been pretty nice.

I have always loved Leon's work, and I know his product line and business practices were very well respected, but him going out of business is not the end of the world. There are still companies out there who sell similar products. Model Car World, and Rainbow products still make laquer paints in factory colors for modelers. If they dont have what you need, you can go to any paint jobber, and they can mix you small quantities of any factory paint code you want. Finding a shop that sells laquer may be hard, But Sherwin Williams and Dupont may have lapuer, depending on your location. Also Urethanes happen to be really nice to work with, but will cost more. You do need to buy a hardener, but a $35 2 quart bottle will last for MANY bottles (but does have a shelf life, but I have used it for about a year after it was oppened). Any paint shop can mix any factory color you desire in this urethane, and they are used to doing small quantities for shops doing touch up work on 1:1 cars. Enough paint to do a few cars should run about $30. You can apply urethanes over lauqer primer if you want, but urethane primers are not too expensive. The best part of this type of paint, is that it cures very fast, as it is a catylised resin based paint. You can color sand it a day after its painted, and it will be like color sanding Laquer that you had to wait weeks to fully cure. Again, its a shame to see Leon have to close his doors, but there are other alternatives out there.

Has Larry Booth been selling his left over brown paint again?

Am I old enough yet?

www.edeuce.com Now I dont want to start any waves (imagine that coming from me!), but I do know that the bodies he is casting are from molds made from George Z's bodies, with no permission recieved to do so. Im sure several comapies out there have 1/8th scale parts, but Replicas & Miniatures Co. of MD does have some neat 1/8th parts in their line.

Just to clarify guys, this is Irv Arters build, not mine, I just offered to make a part for his project.

Absolutely. Perhaps some dont get my sarcasm (sp?), but as you said, its all in good fun. I sent you an email about the gas tank.

Im gonna keep my mouth shut (and hold my breath, for a REALLY long time) No seriousely, nice work on the steering. You want me to run you off a tank like that from aluminum?

You're right, and I understand, someone will like them, they just seem pretty hokey to me.

That exhaust tip is one of the most rediculous things I have ever seen, I'll have to put them on my donk! Oh my......... But knowing Bob's attention to detail and variety, Im sure there will plenty of new good parts that are actually useful!

No Website? Are you kidding me? You've never seen it Lyle? I'll email you the link....

That statement is, in a few cases, disturbingly true!

Dan, Im in no way trying to be a smart alec or anything. I think Harold Bradford is a definate for the list. If your not framiliar with him or his company (Historic Racing Miniatures), he is a phenominal modeler of historic race cars, specificaly european cars from the 60's. He works in both 1/24-1/25th scale, as well as 1/43 scale. Some of the detail on his 43rd scale models will boggle your mind. I havnt seen any of his completed 43rd scale work for a few years, as he has been working on a lot of scratchbuilt 1/25th scale historic race cars. He has been well respected in the Maryland area for many years, but is very modest and reserved, and may not be as well known as he should be around the country. Kelvin Brown was always a big influence when I was building "street rod", modern style hot rods when I was a bit younger. He has been a highly respected builder in Maryland for 15+ years now, but is seldom seen nowadays. He has been working on a 32 ford for over 10 years now. Last I heard a few months ago from a friend of his, he is coming very close to finishing it. He is a talented craftsmen, and a perfectionist, hence the 10+ year build! When the model emerges, it WILL be a sight to see. Jeff Sauber has been an up and coming pro street modeler in the field lately, especialy on the east coast. He has been sweeping up peoples choice awards like a tornado on the east coast for the past few years. He equaly deserves a chance at the competition.

Wow, I see some important names missing

It will be all resin, but the quality of the resin parts will be high, so that they can be sent right to the chromer with no prep work.

RMCoM doesnt have a website yet. The best way to get parts is to call him. The number is 410-768-3648. I dont remember his business email, but if you call him, you will get immediate answers, and plus Norman is one of the nicest, most knwledgable people in the business, its definately worth the phone call.

They were patterned to fit that whitewall, which is based off of an AMT tire I think. The wheel should be easily made to work with most any tire by either taking some material ut of the inside of a smaller tire, or adding some material to the inside of the tire for nug fit. You could also use just the wheelcover part, but the supplied wheel will of course make a system that assembles with no headaches. I think the RM tires have a slightly smaller opening, so a quick pass with an exact knife to shave off some material would do the job.

Here is a little project that me and Jeff Sauber have been working on. He needed a better detailed Dodge Lancer style wheelcover than the aftermarket or kits offer, so I offered to do the machine work for it. I drew the plans and scaled them down from an actual wheel cover, and turned them from aluminum, and the bars were done in plastic by Jeff. The photoetch center screen is a detail master speaker cover that I glued to a piece of brass stock, and cut down to diameter and drilled the center. Jeff also did a stock style center bar piece, without the bullet in the center. The wheel is a 2 piece unit that snaps together, with a recess in the front to accept the wheel cover, but shows the detail of the outer wheel rim normaly seen in 1:1. its very hard to see the detail of the rim, as its turned in acrylic, but it is very delicate and true to scale. This item will soon be available from a highly regarded resin caster (as of now unamed, but if you know who the best in the business is, you know who it is). The kit will included the wheel cover, both the Kustom bullet center cross bar, as well as the stock cross bar, and the 2 piece wheel rims (which have rim detail on both halves, and work with the Relicas & Miniatures finned buick drum brkes). The wheels are sized to fit the new wide white wall bias ply tires that I recently patterned for RMCoM, and are available now.