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Decades ago my banker uncle, while at a large family gathering, was verbosely lecturing his political financial guidance to us 20-somethings before my cousin (his son) turned to my brother and just said "plastics." I about died laughing. I still laugh.

Not on smart phone but on Mac laptop and Mac desktop and at different ip addresses. Twice a square ad appeared small, then on another page or a few minutes later the same ad appears wall to wall and so over sized that it's blurry. I think my browsers are updated, but I'll have to check that (Chrome and Safari).

The reason I don't save them is you can't see into them and they're a little clunky. At our office, we buy roasted peanuts in the square, clear containers. I've saved a couple dozen of those in my garage and keep spares. They stack snuggly on the shelf, are easy to grab and I can see into them. Even if stripping parts I can look up the bottom to see what's going on.

Whoa, super job. Looks like you got the stance right on too.

You can probably open your pdf in your computers default photo viewing program. On Mac it's the Preview ap. You can then save it or export it as a jpeg.

...Or 2500s. PM me what's going on with your sci fi backgrounds. My inner replica prop nerd wants to know.

I always like seeing your stuff Dominik.

When I hear talk of dumpsters I get chills. Hopefully, people liquidating your estate will consider estate auctions or sales, if they appreciate money. Anytime I've attended an auction with models listed, they go in lots for nearly market value. Once an auctioneer posts a list, buyers come out of the woodwork.

I'm pretty jazzed to get some door panel details today from Art Laski over at Scale Pro Shop. You can see the obvious problem with the dated interior bucket of the '61 Ranchero. I'm guessing the lack of hard edge, protruding door detail has more do with the state of molding in the early 60s than it does about anything else. Regardless, I'll build these old dinosaurs any day.

Today. Just wow! ?

I've had some Scale Motorsports decals for a few years and decided to give them a try. First order is to tame that flat tan with gloss so the decals will stick better. To create my pattern I taped over the seats and tried to get rubbings of the piping. Then cut out the pattern and lightly laid them over the sheet to cut the decals. I used painters tape. If you use this rather than light tack tape, I recommend rubbing it over your pants first to decrease the stick. Yikes! While it's not my intention for this to be looking so "Town-'n'-Country," it certainly looks like adding a tent and fishing rods ought to be next.

I've had these Scale Motorsport upholstery decals for a few years and decided to try them out. I painted the flat panels gloss first so the decals will stick. Man, I don't know Anthony, maybe you know something I don't because if this doesn't look even more Town-'n'-Country then I don't know what. Maybe I need to just throw in a tent and a dog, head for the mountains and let you speed freaks duke it out.

My mockup pics have mostly become a gallery of shame for all the cool projects I'm neglecting for no good reason.

So when I saw him here in Fargo just three or so years ago, the opening part of his set was very regional/local and he really made the audience feel like it was personal, just for us. Did a whole segment just on his winter drive from Duluth to here. Really very funny!

Totally not the direction I'm going on this, but I really like the idea. I even have a resin canvas topper that would work pretty well (not so much the Town & Country siding) ?. If I ever did one like that it would have to be 4WD to complete the vision. I've already explored doing this with a '59 El Camino and Revell GMC chassis and it looks kinda neat.

Primed and sanded. Got some paint. It's a Krylon color called Celery. Discontinued, I bought it on sale some years ago and have been waiting for a project to use it on, wasn't even sure if it's still any good. Also, I'm still undecided about the five slot mag wheels, so I did a mock up with some deep dish, six lug steelies that I cast a few years ago. Still undecided, but I'm getting the picture of where this is going. After priming, the interior bucket was shot with camouflage tan from the big box hardware store. It's a fairly dark tan and is very flat. It has a micro fine texture, almost powdery.

I'm considering some five slot deep dish wheels from my vast parts box inherited from many over the years, but one rim is broken, so I tried to fix it with a spare ring. Broken rim is ground off and the ring is prepped. All four after repair and awaiting paint. Still undecided if these are what I really want to go with but that's where I'm at for now.

While I intended to use the spare Thunderbird 390 engine from the Lindberg '34 Ford pickup, I decided to keep it simple by sticking with the kit-provided engine, which is a 427 big block Chevy... ya know, the one with the hole through it. So that's the first thing to patch. I bought the kit at a swap and the engine halves and heads were glued on with no particular care. I'll live.

This is my entry into the 2022 Cannonball Run CBP. I wanted a searchable record for this build so future curiosity seekers won't have to pool through 29-pages of Community Build. Also I'll be adding slightly more info that gets into stuff that might just hog space over there. The CBP theme is "year of birth." I was inspired by revisiting a kit I built in my tweens sometime in the mid 70's. This was the first model I used spray paint on. I didn't love the kit so I never prized it, but I'm more nostalgic now and it's like visiting an old friend. My starting point. Talk about a timeless kit. Since this is supposed to be for a hypothetical cross country, outlaw race, I'm doing it as a street machine. First task, I'm hogging out the wheel openings and adding flares. This is what I'm using for the flares.

So the 61 Ranchero got some paint. It's a Krylon color called Celery. Discontinued, I bought it on sale some years ago and have been waiting for a project to use it on, wasn't even sure if it's still any good. Also, I'm still undecided about the five slot mag wheels, so I did a mock up with some deep dish, six lug steelies that I cast a few years ago. Still undecided, but I'm getting the picture of where this is going. Interior was painted with some camouflage paint that is very flat, almost powdery and it's dark, as tan colors go.

Though I'd been shooting 35mm since 1980 (no color darkroom experience), my only occasional commercial photography has been digital in support of products for billboard ads. Here are a couple of the very few personal pics I have access to from this computer. Wild horses in late dusk in Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Park.

Hey MeatMan, I see lot of cool and interesting progress on your entry in another thread. No love for the CBR? ?

I really appreciate your presentations here. Your excellent, clean photos do a lot of talking.

Lots to like here. Certainly a good source of inspiration.

Or the opposite... One of our museums displays under glass a fair sized collection of common, poorly built, unpainted, busted, glue splotched airplanes. Probably belonged to a member or big financial supporter, but it bothers me that this is what's supposed to represent museum worthy scale replicas. If they want to honor the donor, hang a picture of the person. They probably didn't want to tell the widow they wouldn't display them. Meanwhile one of the best aircraft/military modelers in our area for decades passed away. I found his airbrushed and accurately detailed aircraft piled up and broken in a rummage box on the floor at the thrift store. Broke my heart.