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This is from the archives, built about 1992. May have been my first BMF effort and I think my first hard core polishing effort. I've been playing with my camera, the auto white balance vs. background color. May be old, but it's one I've always been proud of.

I spent tonight shaping and lowering the four separate wheel wells. Lots of interference in the front so the contouring was time consuming (cut, fit, cut, fit) but I have yet to encounter any problems that escalate into a domino effect of problems. In other words things so far have been going pleasantly well. There's no rush to finish but I only get a couple months. Modeling stops for summer around April and it's hard to recover the momentum in the fall.

My only concern would be if voters need to register and create an account for the free site in order to vote. That might ward off a lot of voters. Even if we had to stay within the confines of this forum, it could still be done with a "none of the above" tab on all questions, then just pick the one car and "none of the above" on all the rest. Either way, we're sitting okay for the final vote.

Delightfully sinister. Looks pretty freakin' fast too.

How embarrassing. I have a professional acquaintance named Bill Watts.. The confusion. This is my vote. Insufferably conservative. Put on your fedora, pack your pipe, don your tweed coat and get out the earth-tones.

Lots of great surprises. Chassis had long engraved ridges at the exact width I needed, just followed the lines for cutting. It's nice and flat so no troublesome protrusions. With the exception of the rear interior floor, the interior requires no further mods. Engine front comes right up to the console ash tray like it was meant to stop there.

I've kicked it around myself for my own project and after much thought I think glossy is fine and here's why... I believe we said there is no date restriction or timeline so you can claim it's, say, 1979. Would it be a shiny sleeper that year? Secondly, I remember clearly there was no fondness for Pacers then, no matter how shiny, it would not be looked upon with any particular admiring notice. I'm going shiny on mine because even in the snow belt I haven't seen hardly any dull PTs. I say the more it looks like a family wagon, the less it will look like a street threat to anyone at all. I don't think junker is the only form of stealth.

Oh well, that would still give you 40 more weeks to dabble. At the Cruiser lab it was agreed that when you have a wagon with a lift gate and a big fat engine as cargo, ya might as well show it off. Opened up the gate. Now I need to do my first hinge job. As Charlie Watts, drummer for the Rolling Stones said when he was asked about why he was playing at the famed NY jazz club The Blue Note... If you want to continue growing as a musician (modeler) then it's inevitable that you learn jazz (hinging doors) so you might as well stop fearing it and embrace it.

The '66 is easily my favorite Pontiac of all. Didn't know the 1/24 Hasagawa was compatible with 1/25. Good to know. Thanks for showing this nice example.

Does the cartoon sound effect sound like *Boeing* *Boeing* *Boeing*?

Don't listen to him. It's an evil ploy to get you to miss the deadline. It's Dec. 1st.

Looks like a real tundra machine. Love the scratch built boat.

Is there a name for these kinds of hot rods? Like, a genre or a searchable term?

They're buidling them upside down now?

Yeah, you hear that a lot in Utopia. Pretty common.

I found one. But you've got to go back about 140-pages to the date they were posted. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73369 I found it by going to my browsers search window and typing site:modelcarsmag.com buxxx69. All your posts come up and you can dig through and find the ones for your Under Glass entries.

Just looked it up... SSR has 116" wheelbase, 54 sedan delivery has 115" WB. Which means at 1:1 scale, that's only a half inch difference on each wheel. Is that sweet or what?

Priming on the sprue is a way to save time but you pay for in results. I don't prime every detail piece but large pieces prone to paint shrinkage get primed. The rest get pulled off the sprue, cleaned and superglued to toothpicks and bamboo skewers, usually at the glue points so they don't disrupt the paint. When they're done, scrape the glue and paint off the contact points and adhere. >>I've watched youtube videos and seen some very talented modellers put the glue onto the painted surfaces.<< Very chancy to superglue to painted surfaces since you then count on the paint to hold the pieces together. Styrene glue, of course, won't hold to paint at all.

I recommend looking for step by step airbrush lessons in your area which are usually offered by Community Ed, graphics supply businesses, art houses, outreach programs through your community art museum or even auditing classes at tech schools or colleges. When that fails, ask for a tutorial from a member of your local model club. The military guys are usually all over this for models, not so much for the fine arts.

It's a great idea for those long strips. That's kind of how the professional custom builders do it. But those little bits in the cups I would need to have in a container I can pick up, shake and poke through.

This was lacquer from a can on straight plastic, no primer. Too hot, same problem. The dark blue in the middle is a BMF mask, which did not react to the lacquer like the plastic does. Reshot with primer, problem solved. Not sure if I'm remembering correctly, but I think this happened when I shot it with clearcoat. Doesn't really matter, because the cause was the same, incorrect adhesion without the primer.

I don't get why someone would get very upset over what someone on the internet said. Generally, people are more compelled to compliment what excites them than criticize. If I get criticized, it's just an opinion that's part of the public conversation. I don't know the guy so why would I let it bug me? That's also why I don't participate in drama threads, because I'm not emotionally invested in them. On the other side, I don't necessarily embrace short compliments like puppy dogs either unless it comes from people I respect. I welcome compliments but, dialog means more. "Nice work" means less to me than, "What do you think caused that crinkling behind the headlight lens?"

Funny you should ask, I just had it out last night to reassess where I'm at. My momentum is on my Cannonball build at the moment but I really want to get back to this... if for no other reason than to stoke more interest among other creative builders. I love seeing "outside the box" modeling.