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I go by "Mouthful of Awesome".

Naw, man. The last time I did that was summer 2000.

Non-descriptive thread title. Non-descriptive thread title. Non-descriptive thread title. My favorite are ads in the "wanted" section, titled "Wanted".

Sometimes people just get bored and want to have some fun. When I was in the Army, a buddy introduced me to Yahoo Chat. I didn't care for it but he lived for it. He was always trying to meet women in the military room. We were in Germany so I registered a Yahoo screen name as a 21-year old German girl named Anneliese. I went into the military chat room and hooked my buddy the first time. I really had him going in PM. Misspelling all the right words, putting an apostrophe on anything that ended in S, my "accent" was great. After 45 minutes I finally sent him a picture of the real me. Boy was he upset...but he fell for it again, under another screen name. I wish I could tell you the screen name I used, but I'd get in trouble. Send a PM if you want to know.

Better yet, find a kit with the engine you like and buy it. Buying a few resin items + shipping will cost as much as a kit, and a kit will give you lots of cool spare parts for your stash.

Jairus- It looks fascinating. What is it?

I have used artist's acrylic paints in tubes. I've used white and also mixed in tiny bits of brown and yellow for replicating yellowed whitewalls, such as the shoe polish markings on funny car and dragster tires.

Have you seen these photos? http://www.jockeyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2483&page=2 1/8 scale Triumph m/c: ebay item # 120544719543 Hey check out these resto pics: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Mega_Cycle

It's very lightweight fiberglass cloth. Try an auto parts store or r/c hobby shop. For the resin, use plain old fiberglass (polyester) resin or better yet, get some 15 or 30minute epoxy from the same r/c hobby shop. The long working time will let you work the bubbles out before it sets up. I laminated sheets of blue foam together with a spray adhesive from a hobby shop. Cut the fiberglass cloth into small, manageable strips. Hey- since it's all scratchbuilt, go bananas and do it in 1/8

Tamiya's Jaguar Mk II Saloon and Fujimi's Ferrari Daytona both have very nice wire wheels in plastic. I suspect that the Daytona wheels and tires would be too wide for a 3500GT. The Jaguar parts would probably look a lot better on it.

The fiberglass over foam idea works. I tried it a few years ago to make a Ferrari 308 funny car body. The body in this photo is rough, but that's what putty and sandpaper are for. Get a smooth general shape, then add detail.

The Jo-Han kit was a '66. I've got 7 or 8 of them

I wonder if someone out there knows the answer, but isn't into BMWs enough to know what an E28 is? I wonder if that person would go do the research? I mean, I know if I had a question, I wouldn't want to make it easy to answer.

Good thing he doesn't post here. He'd get lynched for not using his real name

Wanna sell another copy of that cowl??? I'd love to have a couple of those.

Your project inspired me to buy a '66 Galaxie 500 off ebay.

Sounds like a cool model...but wow...that interior BTW- have you seen this 1964 Cadillac? Leopard skin paint in the flames!

Come on, man. With a short piece of plastic strip and stretched sprue, you've got a clutch pedal.

This was a Hot Rod feature car months ago. Why is it news now?

Sounds like a silly idea anyway. How many production engines were 500ci or larger?

Wow. Those seats are "loud". Not my cup of tea, either. Having said that, the '66 Galaxie 500 is one of my all-time favorites. I can't wait to see the finished result.

Well gee, it might have turned out better if you had used a descriptive thread title. If it said something about posting model photos, it would be opened by people who want to look or post. Your thread title is incredibly vague. It blows my mind when people post a thread with a title like "Looking for" and then get huffy when no one offers them a transaxle for their Tamiya 1/12 Lola T70.

Just an idea: carve a solid master from foam and cover it in fiberglass. Smooth the fiberglass into shape, make the cutouts, then pour acetone in it to dissolve the foam. It's sort of what Ed did, but adapted to a smaller scale (it would be tough to use plaster in that scale and then get it all out of the shell)

Well I'm glad I didn't have to resort to comparisons with elephant parts.