oldcarfan

I'm building a rally/touring car with white wheels. I'll be doing the lug nuts but do they need anything else? Trying to get some ideas or opinions.

Got an order in from Texas 3D. The 57 ford F100 conversion set for the AMT 60 Ford and an off road set with driving lights and winch. The price is good, they were well packaged, and they arrived quickly and with no damage.

This was in the mail last night. All parts look great and they were very well packaged. Many thanks to Texas 3D

Had to drive into Austin Texas to drop off my wife at the airport. On the way back I saw a Dodge Ram 700 with Coahuila license plates. My picture sucked, but this is what it looked like. I think I heard Ram may import them as a Maverick competitor if things work out. Then a couple of miles later, I passed a Chevy BrightDrop. It's an electric delivery van. This one had manufacturer plates so maybe they were testing it. No picture, but it looked like this one.

I just ordered a 57 conversion kit from Texas 3D last week. I'll try to get a picture when it arrives.

I think these were designed for specific kits, does anyone know which kits they fit? I've put them on the watch list several times and decided to wait. Also, those square top flares might work on a pickup truck of some kind .

There are some washi tapes that have a good grain patter. I bought a roll of light wood and one of an oak color and they work pretty well. There are some woodgrain shelf papers that can work too. The grain is large, but if you cut it in strips it looks accurate. It's not too expensive, and a roll is 9 feet long so you could do a couple thousand pickup bed with one roll.

I've been in a multitask (A.K.A. easily distracted) mood for a while now. Today I worked all morning on the Tamiya Nissan Sylvia, the Toyota Celica GT4, and an ESCI Gelandewagen, going from one to the other. After lunch I went back out to do more on them and decided to clean up the bench for a few minutes which turned into three hours. It doesn't look a lot better, but I did find a bunch of parts and pieces that had gotten buried.

I wondered if someone might recognize the description stickers. Maybe from someone they knew or something. I saw the one on the bottom of the cars was when I got them in the mail. I disassembled them because the paint was worn and found the other tags. I was just curious because if someone was going to leave a tag inside it usually has their name and date on it.

Does anyone recognize these markings? Last year I ordered a couple of builtups on eBay. One is a Nissan Sylvia and the other Is this Toyota Celica. arrived and I set them aside and forgot about them. Today I found them and took a look. They were pretty well built and painted different shades of light green but looked a bit shop worn. I decided to disassemble them for a purple bath. I found these markings on them. I assume they came out of a collection and wondered if someone on here had built them.

Mold lines usually are raised and actual body lines are indented. It helps me to lightly go over the mold lines with the side of a #2 pencil to highlight them. Then I know just where to sand.

Here in central Texas we've been lucky this summer. Gas is currently around $2.47 per gallon and the most it's been is $2.79 whenever a new 'crisis' hits.

There are several decal sheets I meant to buy from China and now I'm hesitant. They usually run less than $10 US each but I don't want to order something only to have it get held up or have a big fee tacked on.

Love to see these old trucks still working.

On our road trip last month, we passed miles of train cars out in west Texas and my wife looked it up. The general online consensus is that the rail companies don't encourage it but will usually leave the work alone as long as the needed markings aren't covered. Some of the stuff is pretty artistic.

This shows the changes from 57-60. to me it looks like the 57 and 58 could be done with just a hood, grille, and emblem change. I'm not sure about the interiors, but I'd be happy with just the front end parts. Also, the old AMT 53 F100 step bed fits the 60 kit dimension-wise. You do have to shorten the frame but the bed works better than the Revell 56 F100's bed.

So true, they were laying there with In The Arms Of The Angels playing in the background. It was very touching. At least that's what I told my wife.

I wonder if this kit will be compatible with the older mid 2000s Chrysler 300 kit? I can see some interesting kit bash possibilities!

I have three of those kits myself waiting for the mood to strike. A hobby store had them marked down and they looked so sad I had to take them home.

Take this for what it's worth, but I asked a friend who had one back in the day and he said his had the bumps. He called them helmet bumps so if you were racing it had extra clearance. Apparently if you ordered it with the sunroof it had a flat roof. I have the Tamiya kit and it shows the bumps but my Aoshima kit has a flat roof.

For what it's worth I follow USCP on Facebook so I messaged them to double check and they say they are indeed shipping to the US with 10% added to the item's price. They have several things I'd like to have.

My Lexus RX has an eight speed trans and being a Toyota product it should last a long time, however, it never feels right somehow. Definitely not as good as my older 5 speed model. The new one always seems unsure what gear it wants to be in and sometimes you have to floorboard it to get it to down shift when you need it to. I've asked on the forums and the consensus is that's just the way it is. If they still made them and my knees were in better condition, I would rather have a manual or at least another 5 speed automatic.

I still have a few models I built in the 90s and the only one that has tire melt is the Revell Acura NSX. The Monogram and MPC kits seem to have fared well.

I've used it twice and applied it with a 1 inch disposable foam brush. It worked really well, but don't make a second pass over the paint once it starts drying.

When I was a kid, Testor's made a non-sniffable glue that smelled like citrus. I remember it sort of worked, but not as well as the red tube. I've never tried the blue tube stuff, but could it be the same one?