Lunajammer

I hear ya on the delaminating wood finish. In this case the chipping doesn't bother me much. This is the paint I used. Slow to dry, but in a can, this was the closest I could find. The movie was on AMC recently and the spray can color looks more accurate than the screenshots imply.

The Riv interior is mostly done. The movie clearly shows a filthy dusty interior, so I grunged it up with pastels. Printing wood paneling on white decal paper is troublesome as the printing always chips at the edges. The way to go is decal printed on clear over a painted light surface. Clear epoxy was added to the gauge faces

The Road House Riv has paint. I'd like to see a tick more brown but despite the lighting here, this Rustoleum color is pretty close. I added the dent in the front fender

Really Kurt, that's one of the snazziest Ferraris I've seen in plastic in years.

Bean used to be one of my favorite Johnny Carson guests because he was so smart and an interesting conversationalist.

Nice work on concept and weathering. An interesting take on a familiar kit.

That's quite a tank. Someone could have a lot of fun steampunking the dickens out it. Great choice on the paint, I'll have to look into that.

I haven't seen all his work, but roles I like him in were playing twin brothers in "The Man From Snowy River" and also the quiet strength in Kubrick's "Paths of Glory." He was an amazing man. RIP.

Awesome model. That dash is unbelievable. I can hardly wrap my head around how you got such precise detail out of that little bit of plastic.

I like this a lot. A very savvy choice in color.

Nicely done Chris.

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.