DanielG

Alrighty then, I think that I have the hood sorted this time!

Beauty polish job.

Yeah, but this time the clear coat goes on BEFORE the decal!

Clear coat screw up, it all comes off! (sigh)

Nice detailing. Are you going to have to fabricate the rad as well?

Thanks again for your comments. After two failed attempts I finally got a decal job that I can live with. Have to spray the hood clear to anchor everything down once it is THOROUGHLY dry! I figure with all the photopaper and decal sheets (two types) and ink that I used making this bird it probably cost about fifty bucks! (I still have two decals that I can try if I screw this up somehow later) It is a good thing that I am taking so long to do this, it is like buying it on time!

I would have been happy to supply you all with paint but even if I could have gotten it through US customs the shipping would have been prohibitive.

Bill, I think that you nailed the red but maybe not so much the blue.

'Floating' was the key word, wiseacre!

Yeah, what they all said!

Here in the Great White North I seem to recall that a standard 1/24 was two bucks and the Deuce was twelve, a sum that was way out of reach, had to hope for a christmas present. Actualy, it never came!

As above. I am presently hashing the TransAm Kammbach, the die-cast has very weak detailing under the hood. Do I leave it as manufactured or add some detail? I have put a lot of work into the body but have I gone to the point where the added detail is 'manditory' or have I only gone as far as blending it all together? I don't yet know but I bet if I don't at least add plug wires I will hear about it! The decision will be mine and anybody who thinks that more detail should have been added is welcome to take that step and I will applaud their efforts. Some people can only see the forest and others get hung up on the trees, such is life and we should not get bent out of shape about other's perceptions about what looks good.

For me it is the floating generator/alternators.

Opened up two facets, how many more to go? I am taking these home to drill the pilot holes on the drill-press and will complete them later.

Great job! I have a buddy that would kill for that in 1:1

I am liking that metallic paint.

At first glance I didn't like this but it is starting to grow on me! White-walls?

Since I joined the digital-age I have been photographing the subjects and posting them on various sites through photobucket.

I try to remove it as soon as possible.

Imagination! Doing a cartoon or car-toon or a custom means using your imagination. Building an exact scale model or painting a portrait means slogging through until all the details are correct and calling it done (and then having some critic come along and say you missed a rivet or there is something wrong with the nose!). I am not saying that people that do 'exact' replicas don't have imagination just that it doesn't take any, just skill. What I call being a good mechanic when it comes to art. People should build what/how they enjoy, differences are what makes this an interesting life.

Outstanding!

Thanks guys. I am hoping to keep at this now and get it finished before the busy summer months.

C'mon, you're not fooling anybody! You can't take pictures of your heap and pass them off as a model build.

I have not seen this kit in the flesh as yet. Good job on this, looks like it will be great for the super-detail fans among us! (interesting, sometimes I get this bold face and other times not, without me consciously making a change)

Well, I finally got the courage to tackle the back-end of this bird. It has only been a few MONTHS or so! I made the bumper out of four chunks of wood, sanded sealed etc. I made up some red styrene and printed the tail-lights on photo-paper. I painted the bumper and added BMF and then glued it all on ready for the 'grill'. The back-end, minus a few small details and glazing.