Lunajammer

In brief, he's exploring only coverage of brush-on or spray can products. Nothing that requires an airbrush. I was glad to see side by side comparisons of finished pieces. I'd like him to have taken it one more step to see how durable they are. His subject is urethane hood ornament replicas, so I'm wondering how some of the paints stand up to handling or the environment.

In BlackSheep’s defense, I do also do this. If I want an item and the buy it now price is fair, why wait to mess around? Amazon wannabe? Sure.

If you don't mind repainting, do that. Your painting technique on your old build is pretty good. Does it mark such progress in your development that you'd like to preserve it? My point is, I keep my crappy old youth builds for nostalgia and to reflect on my modeling growth. My later, better developed stuff is nothing I need to preserve as a growth marker. The clear coat yellowing would annoy me too. Of course, I would then ask myself, "then why not just build a new one?" So I guess this is a pretty wishy-washy answer.

In my droll opinion, all eBay auctions should last ten seconds. Everybody throws in their bid at once and the top bid gets it. You show me an early bidder and I'll show you someone who paid too much. Sniping is the only way to go. If at the last second I enter the price I'm willing to pay and I lose, then I have nothing to cry about. But if I win, there's a good chance I get it for less than my maximum price. Why give others the time and opportunity to drive up your early price?

That was probably me. I’ve advocated for that several times. Yes I still have my other glues but I like to have one where I can manage a viscosity that falls in between the others. It’s part of my tool arsenal.

We'd done this topic before. I just didn't think it's been more than ten years already. YEESH! I guess we're due for a refresh.

For $50 I filled a Ranger pickup bed with boxes of glue bombs from a collectibles garage sale. Lots of garbage but a bashers paradise. Most enjoyable and long lasting $50 I ever spent.

It's just another facet of car culture and understanding that part of it that excites us and invites us to learn more about our interest area. For many, if not most, artistic expression deepens the dimension. Your wife could ask that question of anybody, including her friends, about the interests that fill their pastimes.

While doing a Nerf gun sci fi blaster conversion, I wanted a REALLY flat black, so I used Rustoleum 2X ULTRA MATT. It was ultra-not-very-matt at all. Semi gloss at best. In this case everything worked out fine, but buyer beware.

Which to me begs the question, "If you can't see it, why go looking for it?"

Wow, wonderful piece you have there. Nice work! I even learned something today, a Mercury pickup in '66?

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I don't see anything about it that really sounds my alarms other than it doesn't seem like a very big operation and has limited supplies, heavy on military and aircraft. Then again, you don't get to see what your shipping price is until after you enter all your shipping, email and contact info.

Cool. I spent way too much time thumbing through almost all of it. Certainly an optimistic view of wagon life.

Whoa! I REALLY like that color. Great choice.

That's what I'm talkin' about! Get it on!

Yep. Lacquer over enamels. Happens every time and it's seldom if ever forgiving. It tells you immediately when it's angry. It should strip off pretty easy so give it a swim and jump right back in before you let the bad mojo kill your momentum.

Thanks guys, means a lot! Yes, it's liberating to do a build like this because mistakes and flaws, within context, may not be mistakes at all. So I won't point them out now but a keen eye can find a few that are not within context of the subject matter ?. Paint flaws, BMF, buffing burn through, splotchy dash details, CA glue fogging, etc; all things that are laboriously managed on clean models don't much apply on builds like this. Plus, the kit's pretty simple so it leaves time to play around with fun ideas.

Love the last photo. I'm not sure I've seen a pic of one in use as a field plow. That's how I could see it used to its greatest value to a strapped farmer advancing from a two horse team.

Thanks Mike!

A WIP thread helps keep me motivated. I feel more obliged to finish telling the story once I've committed to the project. For that reason, I start taking pictures before I post anything. Once I feel like it's a project that I'm pretty serious about, I'll start telling the story. The feedback helps keep me interested too, particularly when I hit snags that I don't want to deal with but I push on through to keep the thread from dying. Makes me feel like I'm not modeling all alone.

Looks to me like "Paint by Mike Shields."

I mean... why, yes... that's what I meant to do. I mounted it upside down. In fact it actually steers.

Much appreciated Alan! Kind of looks like an upside down steering wheel, but it's actually a parts box find. The kit wheel was a turd, so this was what I had that I thought was at least period appropriate to the 30s or 40s.