Lunajammer

My plan had always been to fabricate a grill. Though tube grills were popular, I've never liked them and never considered it. I really was leaving room to put bullets in the corners. But the more I explored a fancy grill, the more it just seemed to clutter an already busy design. A mocked up tube grill just sang, so off we go. A piece of plastic strip helped keep them spaced evenly. The last two nights have been airbrush nights (a big production for me) and this is the final piece. Here's the rest of the Alclad family. The room was dark behind me so it's reflecting a lot of dark.

That's wonderful. A fine nostalgic piece. I think that's the first one I've ever seen built and you did a great job.

I'd love to see some of your favorites in the Auto Art section.

X2. Background is also too contemporary.

:lol: Among the reasons we're not all under one roof yet.

Who would have guessed primer would be a color base coat for anything. The color subtleties might be hard to make out in photos but you can see the pearlescent sheen. Looks like a beauty. I've been off the bench the last three weeks while I help the GF whelp two litters of puppies. She's a nationally respected breeder and gives laborious care to their health and socialization and that often takes two people.

The quality of your photos alone might be enough to hold my interest. Looks like you've got a good grip on where this needs to go.

...And it's delicious!

Rich & Ron, those things are amazing! Ron, looks like you haven't missed a thing. That's about as much of the kit supplied stuff as you could expect to find over the course of pooling through kits and vendor tables. Great variety, those are classic! Rich, you're showing stuff I never even knew existed and the finished items look fantastic. Now I know who to contact for leads on where to get G scale items. I'm glad you showed those, I had no idea. Cute little 12-pack too.

I hope now they don't get an avalanche of "box complaints."

Oh wow, I love that. Wish I'd known that before I built a different release of that vette. Thanks for the info Bruce, now I'm gonna keep my eye out.

When I started this thread I intended to post photos of these, then I couldn't find them. I accidentally came across them this weekend. A TV set. It's not easy to make out but showing in relief in the upper left corner is AMT, then HOT ROD, and you can just make out Hot Rod Cat driving a speedster. Brief case. There was no weathering done to this gas can, this is just how it looks after getting kicked around in the parts box for a few decades. I love this. You can make out an early vintage Sgt. Snorkel on the TV screen. Yet another different TV along with a reel to reel tape deck. (What's a cassette? What's an 8 track?) And someone really threw them together for a complete surveillance control station, at least that's what it makes me think of.

BOY that sits nice. The wheels and ride height look perfect. Of course the wash helps, but the whole thing looks great. Nice subject too. (Apologies to my comp teacher who said find more descriptive words than "nice.")

Any judged event is subjective, whether it's dogs, cars, models, quilts or ??? Make all the rules you want, but a human element influences a judge's ruling regardless of how impartial he tries to be and all things being equal, I think a judge is more likely to respect the most human effort if it's identical to a mechanical effort.

Different is always good. Still undecided about the appeal, but the engineering is fantastic. Not an easy combo but you put it together like it was meant to be.

I'd been following it last week during the aborted attempts so I was thrilled to see Discovery cover it live. I watched all of it. Made for two hours of dull TV with ten minutes of action, but for air & space nerds like me I was riveted through the whole thing. Yeah, I watch NASA TV too on public service channels which is dry as toast but I love it. Congratulations Felix! (glad I didn't watch you die on live TV).

Better test shoot them first. I've bought discounted Duplicolor paints and sometimes the colors don't match the name indicated. Of those, they appear to be a shade off or a bad batch. But for .59-cents, sometimes it doesn't matter that much.

Ohh, you think your sales tax is high... when I was kid, paint was so cheap we paid with napkin scraps. (Enter Monty Python)... MP: We were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, 'Money doesn't buy you happiness.' EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof. GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING! TJ: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor! MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph. EI: Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US. GC: We were evicted from our hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake! TJ: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road. MP: Cardboard box? TJ: Aye. MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY! TJ: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife. EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of suphuric acid, work 29-hours a day down mill and pay mill owner for permission to come to work. And when we got home our dad and our mother would kill us and dance about our graves singing 'Hallelujah' MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about. Add me to the list of folks rethinking this kit now.

Another beautiful example of "less is more." I'm not sure after market detailing would have improved this any. Instead we can appreciate the thought and care you put into what the kit gives you. Well done my friend.

I'm catching a slight whiff of Insane Clown Posse. Speaking of insane, how about that airbrush work and SHINE?

Last time I went to SMS my girlfriend was with me and agreed to let me hit a hobby shop. Upon entering the place she realized she'd made a big mistake and in a disgruntled puff, went back to the car knowing she'd have plenty of time to take a nap.

X2. Really beautiful work. Sectioning does so much for the Monogram '53 and all your styling cues seem exactly right for the period. Smooth body work and pleasantly creative.

Where I live, I don't think I've ever heard that in my life. You ought to read how Lewis and Clark described them. :lol: