DanielG

A couple of pics of the get together. The truck under the ladder is the town's first 'modern' truck that the then volunteer firemen mortgaged their houses for!

Good job!

I want to know how you managed to get the interior out of your car on to the garage floor and photograph it to pass it off as a model?

Excellent. I like the way it looks like it was driven in off the street on to the show room floor, given a wax job but they forgot to Armor-All the tires! That to my mind is what sets off that profile shot. Beauty!

Pretty cool looking, but, I liked the early picture you put up showing it as a 'short box pick-up' before you did the roof. May have to steal that idea! (of course that would be like an El Camino of some kind but I think Chev did theirs a little differently)

Thanks John and Ken. The F88 will probably be my next car project but it could still be a while getting started!

Beauty! Love El Caminos.

Great job on this, Ken. It (almost) inspires me to get to work on the F88 project that I have been toying with.

There is more to it than that for the riveters. I saw a pic of a brand new B-17 straight out of assembly and the O.D. shades were different depending on wether it was a paint or a dope or a laquer, all three being used for different parts. I hold to the truism, if it looks, sounds and walks like a duck then it is a duck! So if your chevy looks like a chevy that's good enough for me.

Is it new product or have they found a batch of previous production?

Very interesting, turned out pretty good.

Good job, that tangy really pops!

For me it has to be when I decided to open my shop and 'buy' all this stuff!

I use PrintArtist. I use photopaper for things like gauges and plates.

Yes My mother (and then my uncle) sent for a model jet, cost two margarine box flaps. Built anything I could get my hands on Mother was... a mother (and my uncle worked at a pulp mill) Four or five !953/4ish!

Anne, I am still learning to do a perfect paint job but when it comes to detail and crud then I am your man. PM me with any questions along those lines and I will be glad to help. Sample:

Some cases will craze in direct sunlight, just a word of warning if you have windows nearby.

Looks like they have bonded to the paper. I would play around with the branding portion of the sheet to see if I could find some way of releasing them. If all else fails photograph or copy it and make a new sheet (if a replacement is unavailable).

If you have to make a spring that works, to a very specific size/strength then the answer is K&S piano wire, it comes in many thicknesses.

After paint and wash. Not subtle enough so sanded down some more, realized that the paste soaks up the paint so for the most part it retains the colour. Still not happy so took it down even more. Left it fairly thick to cover the printing and will add more 'mud to this area and other corners and nooks. This will eventualy be washed and dusted again to blend it all together.

To add some rust I am experimenting with an acrylic medium called Light Molding Paste. It is kind of spiky when first applied so I tamped it down after it dried a little and then scaped off any high spots that I thought stood out too much. Next will be painting and washing.

I think that their best value was the 240Z and their 1/43 scale were very good and priced so that they were reasonable for use as toys sort of like Dinky was when I was a kid.

Yeah, dried on mud and chunks of rust flaking off (hope Pajeroes have a steel bottom!).

The underneath, pretty good for a highway car but not nearly cruddy enough for our purposes yet. Will have to try some extreme techniques on it.

Thanks Doc, high praise indeed from the 'Doyen of Dilapidation'!