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The 60 Cor-Vex is in final primer, sanded and tonight will get masked for the beginning of color coats. Here's the 283. I tried weathering with Tamiya Smoke. First time I've used acrylic for weathering and as far as I'm concerned it's a fail. I think I'll go back to tube oils until I get more education. There's no kit carb, just a plug to mount the air cleaner. There's no way you'd see it anyway. Pretty simple engine, all the upper engine except the valve covers is one piece, including coil & distributer, so I may still add a couple touches.

That super deep blue REALLY does it for me. Nice work, beautiful car.

Wow, I wasn't expecting that. The stock Fairlane is a dead ringer for the one my neighbor had when I was tyke in the mid 60's. Something about that car fascinated my 5-year old brain. Beautiful work on both. Edit: Oh stop it now the with the B&W photos. Now you're really throwing me back to my happy childhood.

Extra points for exploring the creative, but the (distracting) dirt pile does nothing for me. The car however... may be one of the most believable weathered vehicles I've ever seen here. Really exquisite.

I like it.

Ditto. Please follow up with good pics.

Threw together... riiiiiigghht. Super classy, hits all the right marks.

Likewise, if you rearrange your photos in your albums or make certain kinds of edits. You don't have to delete a photo to mess up it's link. Basically once the link is set, leave the photo alone if you want it to remain posted somewhere.

Very much so. For that reason I'd recommend having the display go beyond crafting by showing how modeling is an avenue of discovery to other interest areas. When our club set up in our public library's lobby display windows with books and other material, the resource administrators said it was the most popular display they'd had. So we did it a couple more years. Of course it was a tad self serving because it promoted our annual contest but I admit it certainly brought to life a connection between reading, modeling and the interest areas that modeling represents... across all modeling subjects. The models are what get people looking but the research, regardless of how casual, is an aspect that may not occur to non-modelers until a light goes off and suddenly modeling seems more valid.

Excellent piece Nick. Nice work.

Agreed. It's still bug-eyed but I don't find it as troubling with the radical section than when it's trying to conform to the original.

Sorry I missed this Manuel, I'd sort of been waiting for it. It turned out wonderful and some really exciting choices.

Congratulations Jim. It looks like your time and effort paid off, it looks nice. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing one more photo that shows us more of the car as a whole to get a sense of its character. Maybe a side 3/4 from a few inches farther back.

At least now I know how to recreate the cracked vinyl of an old, sun baked beater. Yeah Zen I considered leaving them if the cracks were smaller and more textured like toward the front. Even while it was happening I poured more lacquer onto it trying to intensify the cracks but this is where it stayed. They've already been stripped, look undamaged and are ready to start over. I did some resurfacing of the body tonight so I can put to rest some annoying imperfections and be satisfied with the more tolerable imperfections.

Nothing says low buck, high enthusiasm than a sedan at the drag strip. It's all heart and willpower! Monaco.

Yeah, this is the first kit I did when I returned to modeling as a serious grown-up and had joined the local club. Good kit for that because I don't recall any memorable fit issues so I could put my growing knowledge to use on basic clean details. Besides, what wagon guy can resist following these builds. I like what you've got going. Bring it on home now.

Or is it a Bloom Energy solid oxide fuel cell providing precious, combustionless, mobile electrical power to it's band of nomadic citizens?

The frustrating reason I never order this stuff is you can never get a size comparison. Online, many sites show a picture but don't tell you how big the sheet is. As mentioned above, scale can almost be irrelevant if the pattern size is what you want, but unless there's a ruler or object for comparison then all you have is a picture of a pattern (macro close up or 2ft away?). And from what I've seen, only the most affluent (scarce) hobby shops carry any for you to evaluate first hand.

I think it looks pretty sassy. But those seats, yeesh. Just doesn't have "long enjoyable road trip" written all over it.

That's a beauty, like the suicide doors.

That is one nutty rod. Flawless restoration, beautiful work.

A couple weeks ago I sprayed some interior pieces ivory for the '60 Cor-Vex. I masked with (old) Bare Metal and tonight I added the second color. Looks blue but it's turquoise. Pretty nice. Seats need some touch up but it's manageable. BUT..... What the HORK happened to the door panels!!!??? Simple. Haste makes waste. The ivory color was Krylon enamel. The turquoise was Duplicolor lacquer. The lacquer melted the enamel and shrunk it. But wait, why didn't it happen to the seats? The seats were primered first so the enamel had a better grip. The door panels had no primer and just slid at the whim of the lacquer. That's my best guess. This may be the first time I've ever had to repaint over a foolish mistake. It's all night swim at the purple pond.

Yeah, things are a little abuzz here. His wife's family is from town here and I worked with his brother-in-law in radio and TV for three or four years. One day I walked into the college station where we both worked at one time and everyone looked like they were in shock. "Mike, you just missed Dick Clark." My friend Rob was married here and the Clark's attended. The lingering memory is Dick draping a towel over his arm and serving everyone champaign, then working in the kitchen later. Most folks around here don't know that the Clarks frequently spent Christmas here. Needless to say, Rob said he gave pretty good gifts. It always warmed my heart that Kari would appear for a moment on every New Years Rockin' Eve to give Dick a kiss at midnight. We all knew he was feeble but I never minded his courage to still go on TV, slurred speech and all, to share his warm New Year's greeting. If there's a rock and roll heaven you know they've got a helluva band.

Yeah, it's pretty rough but I sure like your ideas, especially some of the shaping you've done on the back. I like the wheel treatment and kind of a cool "NASCAR" stance. Take your time, keep boning up on the modeling basics and avoid getting ahead of yourself. Looks like a pretty fun build. Grab another one and keep going. Let's see where you go from here.

This reminds me of a chop I started 20-years ago and forgot about. I'm sure it's somewhere in the catacombs.