mr moto

Not many comments on this one. There must be a lot of head scratching going on out there! Me? I got it figured out! No further comment.

OMG! Look at the purple plastic! You know it's from the psych-O-delic era. That's a really cool project. It looks like a factory concept vehicle. I'll definitely be looking forward to seeing your progress.

This pic didn't come out too bad. You can see the magnets side by side at the left hinge. The mag on the left is attached to the body. The one on the right is attached to the hinge. BTW, on this model the hood is only held shut by magnets but has to be propped open. Hoods are harder to do than trunks. Because the hinges have to pass thru narrow slots in the firewall as the hood opens I couldn't find room to attach a magnet to the hinge.

These magnets won't be slowed down by a few layers of paint! I'll try to get a picture of the magnets holding the trunk but they might be too well hidden and my camera doesn't do very good close-ups anyway.

A question came up in On the Workbench about using magnets to hold doors tightly closed. I've never done it for doors but I've done hoods and trunks. Here's a '64 Plymouth moonshine runner that I did a couple of years ago. That little silver-gray rectangle that you can see sticking up just above the license plate is a rare earth magnet. It works great and the trunk closes with a satisfying "click" sound. What you can't see is that the trunk is also being held open by magnets. There is one superglued to one of the hinges and it mates to another magnet glued under the body when the trunk lid is raised so it doesn't need to be propped open. The magnets I used are 1/8"x1/8"x1/16" rare earth magnets from a place called Amazing Magnets. These things are STRONG! http://www.amazingmagnets.com/ This is fun to play with and you can probably think of more uses for them.

I've used magnets to hold things closed or open before. Rather than hijack this discussion, I'll post something about it in Tips and Tricks.

Duplicolor works fine over Krylon primer. I've done it many times over the years and the Krylon will protect the plastic BUT if you stick to same brand primers and paints the adhesion is better. This will only matter if you're doing some masking. You might get some lift-off at the tape edge when removing the tape if you've mixed brands. So it works but it's safer to stick with one brand.

Very cooool! I can't wait to see that finished! What's the paint?

Amazing! So what you're saying is that it's a Buchevmerczillablaster!

That's a beauty!! Where did he get a '51 Buick?

That is a KOOL looking rat!!

There's a thread just down the page from here about a company called Resilient Resins. They have 1/32 and 1/24 bodies that look really good. They don't have a '66 GTO but you might like some of their offerings.

Here's a pretty cool reference. The 1958 Mercury brochure on the the Old Car Manual Project website. This stuff is great entertainment in addition to reference! http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/Mercury/1958/index.htm I agree with Mr Obsessive that the top photo is a '57 and it's definitely a Turnpike Cruiser (the rear window is a dead giveaway). I believe there were a few '58 Cruisers made but I don't know much about them. It was just about a '57 only model and was also available as a convertible that had a continental kit as standard! I couldn't resist adding this pic of the '57 Cruiser from the Owner's Manual. Check out the antennas!

A good source of info is the Studebaker Drivers Club forum: http://www.studebakerdriversclub.com/sdc_forum/default.asp These guys are interested in models as well as 1:1 and will gladly answer questions to help out a model builder. They've posted great reference photos for me in the past. Like, have you ever seen an Avanti's gas tank? Me either until I posted a question on the SDC forum. It's hidden between the back seat and the trunk. One of the members posted pics of the gas tank exposed during his Avanti's restoration.

Thanks for a really good tip. This sounds like something I could use. I'll have to look for some!

Finished it!! More photos are posted in "Under Glass".

Bad sign! I'm the only one so far who thinks it's real!

I just listen to those voices that the aliens beam into my brain. You have those don't you?

Extremely cool! That shifter cracks me up! :)

This was a fun project. I hope you enjoy looking at it.

Great subject! I'm somewhat familiar with Rex White's similar '59 Chevy but I've never seen the '60 version before. How did you make the instrument panel and gauge faces? Are they home-made or purchased? Looks like this will be a great build!

If you're up to the job you know where you can find one customer!

Cool tutorial! I'll have to try that. When I built AMT's '63 Avanti the narrow whites that came with it looked so bad that I just painted them flat black even though I really wanted narrow whites. I just didn't know how to do it. So thanks for a good tip!

Who cares if it's real or model? I want it!