Lunajammer

Well that seems pretty unanimous and encouraging. My only hesitation is I recall putting dull on chrome (though not airbrushed) as a kid and it just turned everything silver like bottle paint.

What a cool project. Glad you brought this back.

I want to use some custom rims for a project, they look great, but i think the chrome is just too bright. Yes, I can strip them and Alclad them, but I'd rather not unnecessarily complicate things. My question is, can you tone down kit chrome by clear coating with gloss or will clear coat do nothing? My line of thinking is the clear coat may not be as brilliant as the chrome, thusly softening the chrome's intensity. Thoughts?

What a fantastic looking vehicle. Boy, that resin body looks exactly right and you did a superb job.

Thom, I think you're referring to an article I wrote for Car Modeler 14-years ago. Wow, what a flashback, thanks for remembering. The kit was the Lindberg Dodge 330. The sprue sheet was not provided in the kit with the intention of making the trailer and the fender patterns are not in the kit but I provided drawings in the article to assist interested builders. But one look at that sprue sheet and it just has trailer written all over it. I'll see if I can dig that out and post photos...

YES. A fine color choice. I like the placement of the gas tank. That's a lot of weight back there though. I expect you won't need much luggage up front.

Sorry I've got nothing to show in a month folks. It looks like Jacen may be out for a long while if not for good, so if someone has an overwhelming urge to take a stab at the Lincoln Futura I'd still love to see one here, as well as any cars of flight or fancy. All are welcome in Utopia.

If you can do that with rattle cans, you'll do just fine with a single action airbrush like a Badger 350 for starts. Affordable, durable and forgiving, pretty simple to use, clean and maintain. Well done on the 55.

Excellent job Rich and thanks for showing us this. Certainly fills a person's head with ideas. P.S. Minnesotans are very forgiving people. Keep it for a coupla weeks.

Excellent work. Clearly a labor of love. Conspicuously absent from this conversation... CorvairJim. Ohhhh Jiiiiiimmm?

To the last detail of course. I love it.

Fantastic. Can't even tell what scale it is. Paint and decals excellent.

X2. And you do it with such ease.

Evenings have been spent restoring and modifying the Cormaro body. I've fitted a parts box firewall and filled the cowl gap that formerly exposed the blower of the Camaro funny car engine and restored the lower windshield trim. The front clip has been quite time consuming. Getting into such tight little areas with the thinnest edge of sandpaper tests my threshold of patience. Still the results, when painted, may be marginal. Includes filling & smoothing the engine blower hole and blending the gaudy extensions I've added to the front, while trying to preserve the molded in detail like bumpers and turn signals. The rear end includes holes for custom taillights and restoration from glue damage, damage from disassembly and warps.

I have a sheet that's got to be 20-years old and plenty of cracks. While I my new stuff is better, the glue still seems decent enough to serve as an excellent masking material and I wouldn't be afraid to use it covering a broad area. Just not so sure about fine details. I don't think I've ever had trouble with 5-year old stuff the way you've stored it.

#16. Liquid glue will shoot down every crack and low spot to glue everything else on your piece and leave your target spot high and dry.

X3. What did you use for a wash?

Not sure where this is going yet, but the suspense is killing me.

1-in-64 chance of getting it right, I like those odds. Hmm, something cops would avoid... nuclear waste? TNT? Biohazard? Chief of Police? Ohhhhhh wait. Would said vehicle be, perhaps, all black?

Looks to me like the Speed Racer could help give you a huge start.

Barbara Stanwyck. That's what that is right there. Great work Richard.

Sorry I saw this a little late and I'm sure you've already chosen your rear end treatment, but I love this taillight assembly the way you show it. Asymmetric styling is risky but courageous and not often attempted, yet there was an era that it was popular and this car fits right in.

As a kid, when given the choice to buy any of the Hawk streamliners, I chose this one because it looked more real, what did I know about salt flat racing. I liked playing with it for a while, then didn't like it. Now, as an adult, I've wondered what I could do with it for fun again.

No problem Curt. I didn't know that, but now that you mention it, it makes sense. I'm pretty open about not being a gear head so I just learn as I go. I can't shoot for 100% accuracy because I've already made a different, grievous error on the engine that I covered by trying to make it look like it's supposed to be that way (creating doubt is a great get-out-of-jail-free tool). And I don't mean the floating pulleys Harry. I won't divulge the answer until the end when everyone could care less.

There was a time we had a club member who, to my best guess, had Aspergers. Mentally challenged, but mostly self reliant adult and vigorous about building models. They were disasters. But he found people to whom he could show his models and who would be friends with him. Any constructive advice we gave him would be lost but he loved being part of something. I suspect such a person might suffer on this forum. Not because so many are rude but because we're not always careful to consider who is posting the pics.