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That's money right there. Fantastic choices and a beautiful end result. The GTX wears this look very well.

Beautiful Brian. Some sophisticated color choices there. The '69 rims are perfect.

Fuel screens are a great readily available source of fine mesh too, if you don't mind cutting your own. Prices vary from $3.50 to $20 depending on coarseness(sp.) and material.

My dad was an architect with a firm and when I was a kid I LOVED going into the model room where there were stacks of scale buildings under plexi covers, some of which were torn apart and scavenged for other builds. Precision cut matte board pieces all over the place and the smell of stale cigarette smoke. We could sit at drafting tables and play with pens and markers but we weren't allowed to touch a single thing in the model room.

Trade with SCRWDRVR was quick, easy and friendly. I'll work with Brian anytime.

Boy, there are some honeys in there. Thanks for sharing the pics.

Looks to me like it wouldn't be a stretch to convert a '66 Impala to an acceptable Caprice by using the roof of a '70 Monte. No? Of course, the devil is always in the details.

I have this paper model in my office at work as a daily reminder. Printed on card stock (1" = 147'). Kind of a fun little build and really helps me understand three dimensionally how much property was lost on 9/11. Free download with instructions is HERE.

Glue coated engine halves, broken rims, melted rims, every form of single part with chunks missing. Want ‘em? ? I guess I could make a sculpture. Honestly, I watch the wanted section closely and just mail stuff out when I can. I’ve already gotten my fifty bucks worth.

These are great pics Cale. I see a couple familiar vehicles in there. Thanks for posting.

Saw this in lakes country of Minnesota (Frazee). Never seen anything like it. Based on Opel GT.

Whoa, looking forward to seeing that up close Dennis.

Glue bombs seem to find me. Most from model shows, swap meets, friends unloading junk and rummage sales. My biggest grab was from an antique and collectibles store near me that wanted to unload vast boxes of them. $50 filled my pickup bed. Lots of garbage in there though.

YES!

Not so fast. ? I love these kits. Granted, I consider them more a canvas for customizing rather than rep stock. Its lack of fiddly details and a platform chassis frees my mind to focus on modifying just body and interior without worrying how to make it fit a fussy chassis. A plastic shredder's delight. (FWIW those hideous headrests are NOT part of this project.)

Correct. Modeling at that time was in the middle of a very strong resurgence, the momentum of which lingers today. Adventures in Scale Modeling was a response to that growth. As you suggest Mark, I don't think the idea could be mass marketed today with so many other interest specific venues available.

I too remember it. I always got such a kick out of the name, "Adventures In Scale Modeling," like right up there with cliff diving and swimming with sharks. I was working in television and very shortly prior to this show airing I had pitched a similar idea to our local PBS affiliate and got a positive reception. I patterned my idea off a format similar to "Motorweek" where three features would be profiled in each half hour episode along with brief fillers to tie them together. It would depict all forms of plastic modeling. Features would include not only specific modeling subjects like techniques, build projects, modeler profiles, conventions, industry news, etc., but would also feature stories that supported modeling, like walk arounds of celebrated autos, fighter planes and ships, film studio model shop tours, injection molding, sci-fi trends, etc. The more we explored the concept the more engaging the idea became. Once the outline had been laid all we needed to do was create a pilot and get backing. I actually shot and edited one segment on an IPMS convention to get things started. Unfortunately, Adventures in Scale Modeling was dry as dirt, much too slow and subject specific for general TV viewers. Heck even I found it boring and I was the target audience. For that reason, Adventures pretty much killed any further interest in my idea proposal.

Erring on the side of safety and caution is most recommended and always best. That said, a lot of aging members here have been painting models for decades of their lives with few or no protections. Some of them, you can probably tell ?.

...the one starring Jeff Bridges. ^ Greased Lightning - Story of Wendell Scott starring Richard Pryor. Bobby Deerfield - Starring Al Pacino as a Formula One racer and directed by Sydney Pollack The Love Bug - Disney Red Line 7000 - James Caan And I very much recommend this one. Superbly well done documentary.

Yeah, the enamel was airbrushed a day or two earlier and I think there was metal flake in it too, which BTW further allows pathways for the lacquer to really get down in there. Happy mistake because the choice of color and paint was all wrong for that project anyway. To clarify, "it" is the product op shows in first post.

The conversation has sorta moved past this already, but here's what happened to me when I didn't engage my brain before spraying it over enamel.

My best friend has a stainless polishing business and he was tasked to repair and polish all the stainless trim on a '59 Impala. He said there was more than 200-feet of trim on that car. I have to believe the Elky has at least that much. Nice work laying down 200 scale feet of BMF.

And a real, genuine, salt of the earth guy. I had the pleasure to hang with him a little while when he visited Fargo for the showing of Billy Crystal's Roger Maris movie "61*." Crystal, Bob Costas and several cast members presented the film a few years ago. After the movie, a few celebs hung out to meet and greet. By late in the evening, only a handful of people remained in the theatre and Barry Pepper was one of them. With nothing left to do and no place to go, he just sat around visiting til whenever because he enjoyed the company. And it was not all about him. He was curious and inquisitive about the rest of the gathered folks. He was quick to laugh and comfortable with strangers.

I disagree. Squashed into what, nothing? At 66-percent water, the human body will be be compressed, distorted, etc. but there's no reason they should be in a million pieces, with the exception of implosion damage and any parts containing air, fat or non water based tissue. Not sure what kind of remnant they might be but there should some identifiable forms.