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Did everyone forget about this??? This is why I'd like to see a Community Build section here, I almost didn't find the thread to post my update, I started looking in the "On the Workbench" section for it! Anyway, enough complaining and time for my long overdue update. I have been working on and off on my Spitfire, and here is where it stands at the moment. It's ready for primer, and hopefully paint in the next day or two. I have a color scheme picked out, but I'm going to hold off on saying what it is until I see if I can scan and reduce some decals for it first from a NASCAR. It will also be a two tone, something I have not done to a model in forever. I also hope I didn't make a mistake with hoping to mask the interior and installing it prior to paint. I'm not that much into aircraft, but I think that usually the builds I see in magazines such as Finescale usually do it that way. I hope to have it primed tomorrow, and if I can finish this one up soon, I have a P-51D to hopefully finish before the deadline also.

Yep, and I don't think I want to know what it is!!

Nice work, Scott. Did you use the subframe from the AMT tanker for this subframe?

OH MY EYES!!!! I just almost lost my dinner!

What are you planning the third tank for? If you're adding for a wet line for hydraulics, first I would suggest putting it behind your fuel tank, not in place of the battery box like you show it in the pic. It looks to me that you should have the room between the tank and chain holder to do that or just mount it on the passenger side of the frame opposite the chain hanger. Also if it's for a wet line, those tanks are usually added by the dealer, so slight differences would be prototypical for that. Hope this helps!

First off, Dave, welcome to the forum. Now, as for your question on paints, I would never give up my Testors enamels or their Model Master enamels for anything, well except for Tamiya's acrylic paints. In my opinion, the Testors Acrylics are junk and I never had any luck with the couple I tried, they quickly found their way into the garbage can. I have tried and started using Testors new lacquer paints and found they are very nice and easy to paint. Tamiya's acrylics are the best I have ever tried, and I have also used Polly Scale railroad acrylics with nice results, too. Overall, I use my Testors Model Master and Tamiya paints on everything, and the Testor lacquer is used mainly right now for interiors, since I only have the interior colors right now, and the Polly Scale is mostly weathering colors.

I know, I've seen "Parking Wars"!!

That looks like it turned out very nice, Mike.

You're welcome, Mick.

I bet keeping PPA "love notes" off the windshilds fall in there somewhere, too!!

It might be my eye, but the passenger area looks like to resembles the early 90s Caprice like this one. Thanks Brandon, I knew the new GTOs were more or less the Holden Monaro, but the earlier ones I never even know of. It's just like I just said to Mick above, in my eyes it appears like the Caprice in the midsection, but I've been lied to by my eyes before!

This forum can get addicting, can't it Don? I've got 8 projects for 5 different community builds and three of the CBP's I've entered two projects in, and I spend more time on the forum than working. Of course, with the community builds, I have a due date to finish them by, so I have to work on them sometime, and here's my 12 step program when I do sit at the model desk. 1. Get the kit off the shelf and open it. 2. Turn on the laptop on the model desk. 3. While the laptop is starting up, I get the instructions out of the kit and figure out either which step I'm on or which one I'm going to work on, engine, interior, etc. 4. Check my email notifications from the forum. 5. Go to the forum and check my watched threads and the new content. 6. After I'm finished with my new stuff, I'll get the glue and parts out and either glue sub assembies like engines or seat halves, anything that will be the same color, together and prepare them for paint. 7. Check forum. 8. Paint parts. 9. While the paint is drying, yep, you guessed it, back to the forum. 10. Glue the parts I painted where they need to go. 11. Put the model back in the box and on the shelf again. 12. Check the forum again one last time before I shut off the laptop. That's my 12 step program, whether it helps or hurts, I don't know! Sometimes there is even a 13th step, go back to the main computer and, you guessed it again, BACK TO THE FORUM!!!!!!

See, I knew you'd know what I was talking about, no matter what color you changed it to!

I don't know, Mick, but that looks more like our Chevy Caprice up here in the states.

My 1:1 daily driver and baby/moneypit is my 1990 Ford F350 Diesel 4x4. I bought her about 8 years ago from a towing company I used to work for, and she's sort of a one off custom built truck. The original rolled out of the Norfolk truck plant as just a chassis cab and was originally a tow truck. The owner of the towing company took the wrecker off her and put the stock truck bed on and also all the chrome and stainless steel goodies. Of course, I've got plans to put dual stacks in the gap between the bed and the cab caused due to the slightly larger chassis cab frame. I would also like to put Alcoa aluminum wheels like you would see on a semi, but the 16 inch wheels for this truck, not semi wheels! I'm also thinking of maybe a slightly larger tire size to lift it a slight bit. First on the list before winter is some brake work front and rear and new replacement 4x4 hubs, along with wheel bearings, etc. I'll probably get new glow plugs too so it will start this winter! Speaking of starting, here's the old greasy 7.3 Liter under the hood. Yeah, it's dirty and greasy, but hey, you would be too if you were 20 years old and never had a bath and leaked oil out of almost every seal! It mainly leaks because after its life as a wrecker and it became the boss's toy, she sat for long periods of time, so all the seals dried up. Whenever the clutch finally needs replaced, I'll take care of the main seals and oil pan gasket and all the other bottom end stuff, then I'll get the top end. For being 20 years old and having 182,000+ miles on the odometer, she still gets about 15 miles per gallon and doesn't run bad. It's just a pain trying to park at Walmart, or any parking lot for that matter!

You guys do know a box of doughnuts under your scale log book goes a LONG way with the DOT, don't you? The only thing they found wrong was I didn't have the tape on it, that's why I had to add some!! Seriously though, it was a nice prebuilt I had gotten from a member of our former club, and it was even set up with a sideboard kit he made, but this was what happened during 3 different moves in the span of about a year and a half. I might just use it as a junk load for the reissue kit.

Don't worry about them, Jim, most of those whiners probably wouldn't even know how to find the trucks section, if they even know we have one! I haven't noticed any of your little brother truckers complaining!

You're welcome!

That's sad to hear, and it would not surprise me if the driver who killed him was either talking on the phone or texting while driving. If that was the case, it's just one more reason to outlaw using cell phones while driving! My prayers to his family and his extended law enforcement family.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

I don't know, Jim, but this one works fine, I clicked it and right to it!

The Line-O-Tape sounds great and is reflective, too. Of course, I wish I had known of them before I got the remainder of a roll of the real tape! The real tape doesn't do bad, either, if you have the patience to cut the individual squares, that is. This is an old flatbed I decided to try the real tape on.

The link doesn't work!

Don't worry Johnny, I didn't! I've downloaded many of those good old trucking music on Limewire. I even have the theme for "Movin On"!

Chucky, I would love to see that beautiful Great Dane trailer in kit form!! I know I would have a fleet of those on the shelf if Moebius would kit something like that! I like the spread axle in your pic, but maybe Moebius could have an option of the spread axle for owner operator style trucks or a regular air ride tandem for fleet style rigs. As for the Cornbinder, it would make a nice fleet truck and should be able to use most of the Lonestar kit's parts, and would also be nice with the reefer behind it with the regular tandem option I mentioned. I can see a vision of a two tone blue Wenie wagon with the reefer from their TCU fleet in my head! Of course, while I was cruising through Hank's Truck Pictures looking for that picture, I found these on one of their forum threads as well. This one the poster said was taken (and it is) going into the TA just a couple miles from my house. I also found this one for inspiration for the Lonestar kit, and I'm sure this is either an owner operator or special deal for a million mile driver. I used to run a two tone blue Wenie Wagon, and that was usually the case for trucks like this! EDIT: I just noticed after posting the pic of the Lonestar the huge lack of chrome goodies and side mounted stacks, so I zoomed in on the truck number and guess what! IT IS A COMPANY TRUCK!!! Werner has a very specific numbering system and compared to the Prostar dry van, the number reflects a company truck number. If it was an owner operator, it would have a number starting with a 7 or 8.