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    '60 Valiant

    in Model Cars

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    12 hours ago, rsmodels said:

    Hugh, nice job on the Valiant. That shift lever is great! I love unusual looking cars and 4 doors so you got me on this one!

    Thanks, Rich!

     

    10 hours ago, satterwhite78 said:

    That pair of Vice Grips might have been the first car theft prevention device Invention, only second to removing the ignition key...lol!  Great build, Love it!

    Thanks, Chuck! I'm not sure a lot of folks would want to steal this car anyway, it's not exactly Eleanor.?

     

    10 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

    Really cool. Love the shifter, and the story behind it.  :D

    Thanks, Bill!

     

    9 hours ago, bbowser said:

    Buddy of mine had one of those in high school he painted with a brush, looked great!  Nice model.

    Thanks, Bruce!

    '60 Valiant

    in Model Cars

    Posted · Edited by Kit Basher

    4 hours ago, espo said:

    I think the guy's last name was Tolerton or something that sounded like that. We were spending summers in northern Wisconsin, but he was from somewhere in the south, but I just don't remember where since this was the summer of 1960. 

    Wow! Two different guys with red '60 Valiant 3 speeds. That resin kit looks exactly like the one I built, except for the RHD, and mine was plastic. FWIW, I found it on the 'bay for way less than 100 bucks, in pretty good shape. Never painted, glass in pretty good shape, no parts missing. It did need re-chroming (SpazStix). If you keep looking, there may be another one.

    '60 Valiant

    in Model Cars

    Posted

    10 hours ago, ChrisR said:

    COOL!!

    Thanks, Chris!

     

    8 hours ago, espo said:

    Great looking Valiant. This is a kit that I would like to see come back. I had a friend who had a red 1960 with the three-speed floor shift way back when. The chrome lug nuts would only last one winter I would think. 

    Thanks, David! This is just a basic screw bottom kit, but I think it came out OK. Your friend and my buddy, are you sure we're not talking about the same guy? How many can there be??

    '60 Valiant

    in Model Cars

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Kah puts said:

    Kowabunga Shazam and push button automatics, fantastic. I did see the the hybrid floor shift, neat-oh. 

    Thanks Glen, you've got the early '60s lingo down.?

     

    7 hours ago, Scott8950 said:

    I like these cars, nice job

    Thanks, Scott!

    '60 Valiant

    in Model Cars

    Posted · Edited by Kit Basher

    This one is for a buddy for Christmas. His story is that he took a date to the drag races in this car. As he was getting ready to leave after the races, the shifter broke off. Fortunately, he had some buddies who were racing, and one loaned him some vise grips so he could get home. He says he never dated that girl again. He also said the chrome lug nuts made him really cool in Iowa in the early '60s.

    Many thanks to "MisterNNL" who provided the vise grips. Thanks, Tom! Is this a great forum or what?

    P.S. Sorry about the six lug wheels, they were the only ones I had that fit the tires. They came from the Revell '64 Fairlane kit. What's up with that?

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    Well it’s finally announced.?

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    6 hours ago, stitchdup said:

    There's an even bigger problem with the ev switchover that seems to have been forgotten. Farmers use their tractors every possible hour, and the same tractor powers the machines they are pulling around.

    Farmers! PFFFFT! They're just a drag on the economy. All they do is pollute the air with all that diesel they burn! Everybody knows that food comes from the grocery store.

    (Sarcasm)

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    Airbrush fur?

    in Model Building Questions and Answers

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    23 minutes ago, JollySipper said:

    Do you shoot a lot of metallics? Is it possible that the particles from the paint are adhered somehow to the barrel inside?

    This is sort of my general purpose brush, so it shoots most everything. Flats, solids, metallics, whatever. Mostly enamels and some lacquers tho. I have another brush I use for water based stuff. I'm getting a lot of old paint out of it. Hopefully, when I'm done scrubbing, I'll give it a shot of compressed air and that will get rid of the fur too.

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    Airbrush fur?

    in Model Building Questions and Answers

    Posted · Edited by Kit Basher

    51 minutes ago, Bainford said:

    I've had my Badger 200 apart many times, and found to be completely free of fur every time. My guess is whatever you found shouldn't be there.

    Where did you see this stuff? Is it in the paint passages from the bottle to the tip, or in the air passages, or...?

    It's in the air passage, in the main body of the brush. I can see it where I took out the trigger and the air valve.

     

    32 minutes ago, NOBLNG said:

    Have you been using cheap pipe cleaners in it….they lose “fur” quite easily.

    I don't think it's from pipe cleaners. It looks like cat fur. The cat is not allowed in the hobby room, but his fur seems to be everywhere, so I suppose it's possible.

    Thanks for your responses, guys.

    B-52 BUFF

    in All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures

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    16 hours ago, TNT said:

    Awesome. That is one of the great planes. What did you use to mask the camo? And which paint manufacture did you use?

    I am working on a A10,my first plane in a long,long time.  Thanks for any info.

    Thanks, Anthony! Actually, the only masking I did for the camo was to separate it from the black. I used Tamiya "tape for curves" for that. For the camo itself, I used my airbrush, set to a fine line, to separate the colors. It was just done freehand, taking care to point the airbrush into the color I was applying. Then I could open up the airbrush and fill in the large areas. The camo paint is all Model Master.

    B-52 BUFF

    in All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures

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    12 hours ago, dragin70s said:

    Like a lot of others obviously, I saw a lot of these. I was born on Blytheville AFB, a SAC base, and also had my first job there working as a laborer on the cruise missile facilities project. I grew up to the sound of B-52s and KC-135s warming up on the alert pad. I just recently visited the old base (it is in sad shape) and toured the new Cold War Museum. It is a nice project and still growing, but definitely worth stopping by if you are ever rolling up or down I-55 in Arkansas. It has inspired me to build a B-52, so yours is especially interesting and looks great. Thanks for sharing.

    Thanks, Rob!

     

    11 hours ago, TransAmMike said:

    Well Hugh, cool to see a great build of my favorite big bird.  Great work on the SEA camo too!!

    Thanks, MIke!

     

    9 hours ago, Goose1957 said:

    Great looking BUFF. I too built alot of airplane kits when I was a kid.  I hung them all up from my bedroom ceiling with fishing line. I must have had at least 20, all 1/48 scale. My biggest was a Testors AC-130 gunship. Thing was huge! One day, I came home to find a pile of parts on the floor that used to be the AC-130. Apparently the fishing line gave way. Well, my mom got mad that I left the pile on the floor for a couple of days and threw it out. I'm still sore about that one even after 35 years, lol. I still have most of them in boxes on the attic. Hmmm, now I'm gonna hafta go digging around upstairs, for old times sake. 

    Can't wait to see your other planes built.

    Jeff

    Thanks, Jeff!

    B-52 BUFF

    in All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Pete J. said:

    1,000 hours in the KC-135.   Took this photo back in 1979 of early morning heavy weight take off out of Fairchild.  In the lower right you can just make out the Tanker ready to go. 

    Cool photo, Pete. Thanks for what you did!

    1 hour ago, TarheelRick said:

    You might could consider an aircraft hangar, those are some big birds.

    Sounds like a plan. BTW, it's nice to hear someone speak proper Southern. Folks from other places might wonder why you said "might could".  I would have said it exactly the same way. ?

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