Lunajammer

Glad to see the wide shots. It's much smaller than I thought, which means this project is even more insane than I already thought. I hope you're sharing this on therpf.com.

Missing headlight bezels. Nice touch.

I don't know if this helps, but when my tube glue gets old and stringy, I glob it into the (overly thin) Testors liquid cement and stir till I get a consistency similar to the MM glue, which works as a great glue (with brush) that falls in between the excellent Tamiya liquid cement and Testors tube glue. The consistency helps control the work time. (Thinner, less. Thicker, more). It helps if you have an almost empty liquid bottle that you can combine the two into. +

My fiancé operates in the purebred dog world, it's her passion, her life and her expertise, so she talks about it A LOT. What she tells me daily about the gossip, back stabbing and drama makes me believe some of these people are incapable of human friendship. Which is probably why their only relationship success is with captive animals.

If the paint is still soft you can sometimes carefully, lightly, scrape it off with an Xacto blade. Just not sure in this case if it will leave a shadow on that white.

It's funny, I did a forum search of his name and the result is pages of posts thanking him for tidbits of help or referencing his builds or emulating his style or acknowledging his sharing. What a hole he's left in this forum.

Researching whether I wanted to try and model one of these, there were many things I didn't understand because none of the photos I find ever get into the construction. Mystery solved.

You may be referring to NNL North in May? If table price vs. transactions is a concern, maybe you could split table cost/space with another modeler and see what kind of a response you get without paying the full price. The extra body would also free you up to still get time to wander through the show.

Your retail $30 kit loses almost half its value when you walk out the door. It would be a lot of years before you would get $30+ for that kit second-hand resale.

I don't recall FM ever being commercial free intentionally, however... Besides the above mentioned public radio stations or others supported by education systems or endowments, the first FM stations had no commercials briefly for couple reasons; 1. As new frequencies, all the listeners were still on the AM stations and sponsors were slow to move their money to FM until it was more proven and listenership was more abundant. 2. All the newly launched FM stations I recall played no commercials as an enticement to draw listeners to the new quality sound and formats, purely as an awareness campaign, but they were temporary. 3. Prior to the FCC abolishment of the fairness doctrine in 1987, there were strict limits to the number radio and TV stations one owner could keep, so FM stations were often an offshoot of existing AM stations so the AMs could briefly financially carry FMs while they got established. 4. It's possible the Chrysler radios could tune to a low wattage (with limited community range) station with taped programming that emanated from the dealership, but I've never heard of that from that era. So this is pretty much a verbose non-answer to your question. I dunno what the ad is referring to.

Hmm. Very interesting indeed. Certainly gets the old noggin thinking about how to rod something like this. Bookmarked.

Wow, that's crazy. Not sure I've seen one.

Spectacular build. Clearly you're a pro. I enjoyed the video; well shot, well lighted, well paced and I loved the product call outs with links so we can explore your resources. A masterpiece model.

For this reason I strongly recommend looking to your local social service agency for help. They are an incredible resource to start you on a path toward help, knowledge and assistance for a disease that is so common that whole programs are devoted to assist people like you and your dad. They can help find people who can fairly specifically diagnose your dad's disorder, answer the questions you're asking and point you toward other resources that can improve both his life and yours. Even hospitals have counselors who can get you started. Don't wait until you're desperate. All the best.

My neighbor had one. ? ?

Re: the op's question, these are places I've used in the past... 1. Asked a year round R/C dirt track to let me spray. Being hobbyists, they had no problem. 2. Use the shop/garage at work. 3. If moderate winter temps and calm winds and depending on the part being sprayed, step outside to spray and go back in. 4. Apt. bathroom with fan on and lots of newspapers (not recommended).

I concur. Maybe explore another one or two to give it life, even if they were just gawking like the dudes in the photos watching the other guy work.

I would consider experimenting with this or something like it. Available at most hardware stores. It's oil based, but I've not tried adding it to model enamels. I've used it straight as a sealer for metal objects and it's streak free. It's intended to cut brush marks. It also may slow the drying time, which is good because it give the paint a chance to level. I would definitely test first but it could be helpful.

Any thoughts of tilting the radiator cover over the front cross beam? Might make it look faster and the curves look sympathetic to the brow of the C cab. Cool to see your vision mocked up.

So imaginative and so much detail. That 1/24 post apocalyptic flame thrower is a kick.

Hopefully your participation here won't end overnight, so stop in when you can and be that point of light that helps keep this forum grounded. You wear your heart and faith on your sleeve and I find that refreshing. All the best bud.

Praying for you. ?

I just wanted to say Simon that this is such an epic piece that you owe it to yourself to see it through, not to the bitter end but to the reward of your vision being fully realized. I'm the worst offender for running out of gas on projects for which I've invested a lot of time and talent so I totally relate to your desire to explore greener pastures. Even though you have much to be satisfied with now, I hope you will come back to this fresh at some later time and rediscover how close you are to that grand, jaw dropping, convention stopping finale.