Lunajammer

LAND HO! Great looking Caddy.

Having worked as TV news producer and reporter, I've never understood or appreciated the "rush" to be the first with information when the facts are still unclear, especially in radio and internet where news is more immediate. Who cares? By tomorrow, when so many more facts are in, nobody will care if your station was first with thin and speculative preliminary info. It's one thing to break a story to inform the public that something happened (Kobe's helicopter crashed, he's dead). It's another to fill dead space with gossip.

I'm slowly and quietly tapping along with the Road House 65 Riv. Chrome parts detailed. Chassis was primed with rust colored primer then given a liberal wash straight from the bottle with a thick brush. I'll do more touch up on that. I started using the wrong wash product at the back of the chassis, that's why it's pretty dense. Using reference pics from the net, I used Adobe Illustrator to help make detail decals for the dash. Rather than redraw appliances, I just cut and pasted photos of the faces. The gauges are vector. Not accurate but I made them bold so when shrunk down you can still make the out a little. Side trim panels are redrawn and vector. I've applied most of them to the interior. I'll explain the headaches when I get pics.

I wish I could help more of you guys out with parts, but I can't identify most of my loose parts.

Two summers ago I bought 15 boxes of glue bombs, parts and incomplete kits for $50 from a closeout sale at an antique store. The boxes filled the bed of my Ford Ranger longbed. Tons of junk, but a few gems to easily cover my cost. These pics represent the worst of worst. Anything less than this I write off as parts. How about this '55 Panel? That's model glue and dirt.

Thanks for the specific info. I've not been satisfied with the various home enamel based slurries or store bought products over the years.

This looks great Steve. Your washes are almost perfect.

That's okay Snake, you're not famous, so..... ?

Way to go Tom! Talk about creating something out of nothing.

One of my side hobbies is restoring lamps that interest me and I use Super Clean A LOT to clean up grody things. This is a mid-century mushroom/UFO lamp that someone "refurbished" using the most disgusting texture paint under silver that was unbelievably inappropriate for the lamp. In Super Clean, the paint literally peeled off in sheets leaving the bare metal with all its minor imperfections clean as a whistle. I love this thing, it's so dieselpunk.

This is why I love TCM. You never know what you're going to get (unedited and with scholarly context provided). My fiancee has Firestick and she chides me, "If you want to watch a movie, just call it up." To which I tell her that this is how I discover new things. I'd never in a million years look up half the interesting movies I discover on TCM, and this might be one of them.

Wow, some impressive details there Vi.

Great work on this Jay. A lot of hard work and time paid off. I especially like the interior, but all of it turned out wonderful. Yes, I acquired this one back in the 90's too at the end of a show. It was in a box of glue bombs the vendor was literally throwing away. As a saver, I couldn't bear to see plastic go to the dumpster. I didn't start taking pics of the Toronado until after I'd cleaned up a lot of the glue splotches across the body, so it was worse than the pics show.

Bravo! Looks like it could drive away. Great subject.

You might be right. Rarely find these Revells done stock, that's why I like it. Came out real well Gary.

Wow, everything looks, overall, so good it almost looks like a 3D illustration. Definitely something to be proud of and worth the push to finish it.

Johan '70 Toronado. The glue was unbelievably bombed, but no paint. At the time (early 90's) the '70 Caddy Eldorado was still available so it donated the chassis, engine, rims and a modified seat.

Bill is right about getting what you pay for. For that reason I went to Fotki and am paying $40/yr. for my plan. I would have been all on board to do the same at PBucket, if that's what they requested. But it wasn't an option at the time. The option was $400 or beat it. So I went to the open arms of Fotki who smartly exploited PBs foolishness by sending out a welcome to all pissed off PB users. Though I still have existing pics on PB it's tiresome to hear now, a couple years later, that I'm suddenly over my limit, when I didn't have that many pics on there to begin with and $40 a month of slow loads, pop ups, failed links still isn't an option. That bridge has burned and they did me a favor.

Excellent collection. The Nomad is great and I'm sure was a challenge.

Neat. Glad to see one of these built up. I haven't seen how they actually come out.

Wow. Some very sophisticated choices my good man.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a built one. Truly a unique model and you did a great job on it.

Whatever Edmonton and Saskatoon gets, Fargo gets. My heated seat burned out and the PT Cruiser gets obstinate colder than -15F. Not looking forward to the continuing drop in temps.

I think there are, but officials know all the tricks and know where to look. Another really cool racer Bruce. I love how you bring out all of what the original kit has to offer.

Fantastic work, and the photo are excellent.