['Six Days On The Road']

Jimmy Martin

 

[59 Cadillac]

Very nice! Great colors.

[What Model or Diecast Did You Give As A Gift?]

I gave this to my sister a few years ago for Christmas. It represents the car she drove in college. She called it the "Blue Fluke" (I don't know why). I tried to make it dirty and worn, the way it usually was. I added a few details, like converting it to "three on the tree", and the armrest her dog chewed up on a long trip. She loves it and displays it proudly.

[Lotus Europa Special]

That's a great kit of a cool car. I like the color you chose. I hope you have better luck with the metal transfers for the scripts than I did. Mine stuck to the transfer paper much better than they did to the model.

[Charles Town, WV LHS]

3 hours ago, Snake45 said:

I thought so, too. And quite a few Tamiya paints, which I don't think anyone else in the area has now. 

The Hobby Hutt in Winchester has a good selection of Tamiya paint. The Hobbies Shop has a small rack of Tamiya, a lot of Humbrol and Testors, and some Mission, Vallejo, and Spaztix.

[Charles Town, WV LHS]

Went to Loco Joe's today. Nice guy with a good selection of kits at reasonable prices.

[Charles Town, WV LHS]

4 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

Loco Joe's is heavy on RR but not exclusively.

Thanks, Snake. Turns out it is about a half hour from my house. I will definitely check it out sometime.

[Charles Town, WV LHS]

 

11 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Thanks for the heads-up. There are a couple other hobby joints in that general area, too--Loco Joe's Hobbies in Inwood, the Rite-Aid drugstore in Inwood usually has some cool $10 Welly 1/24 diecasts, and there's a Hobby Lobby in Martinsburg. 

Thank you back, Snake. I did not know about Loco Joe's. Sounds like a railroad place? I am closer to the HL in Leesburg, VA, but I may check out the M-burg one sometime. While I'm on the subject, I should mention the Hobby Hutt in Winchester, VA. Another nice little LHS.

[Charles Town, WV LHS]

If you're in the Charles Town, WV area, (or going to the casino, LOL), check out the Hobbies Shop. Really nice folks with a good selection of kits at reasonable prices. They have some paints and supplies and are expanding their offerings as they can. They're worth supporting.

https://the-hobbies-shop.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral

[Recommend a good, moderately priced set of rasps you use. I need some to augment my hobby files.]

In general, the larger the file, the coarser the teeth. So maybe take a look at regular files (as opposed to hobby files). Chain saw files come as small as 1/8 inch diameter, and a 6 inch triangular, flat, or half round would be more aggressive than hobby files, without the rough surface left by a rasp.

[Need a Good Printer for Decals]

7 hours ago, Miatatom said:

I know everyone is saying laser but the prices for anything that isn't monochrome are high. Any suggestions for inkjet printers and associated materials?

Do not get an Epson inkjet, they will not print on decal paper. At least, that's been my experience. I had an HP inkjet printer that worked fine with inkjet decal paper. There is still the problem with the inks being translucent, so the decals printed on clear paper have to go over white, or the color of the decal will be changed by the color under it. White decal paper solves that problem, but the decals must be trimmed very closely, and have a white edge. The white paper seems a bit thicker than the clear as well. There are ways around some of these issues, and I have made some decent decals with an inkjet printer, but the ones on white paper are not as nice as kit decals. Hope that helps.

['59 Cadillac Eldorado]

Thanks, Carl!

Thanks, Curtis!

['59 Cadillac Eldorado]

Thanks, Peter!

['59 Cadillac Eldorado]

Thanks, Dominik!

Thanks, Thomas!

[What Irked You Today?]

48 minutes ago, Jim N said:

According to Forbes, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam dump more plastic in the oceans than everyone else combined!   Their article was dated April 21, 2018.  The Ocean Conservancy was cited as the source and this was based on 2017 data.

While we can do a better job of recycling, we are not the problem.  Personally, it gets more than a little tiresome that the environmentalists will not point out the real culprits of the problem.  I get it that they have their agenda to push, but if they are not going to go after the real polluters, then what good are they really doing?

Certainly the countries you mention do not have adequate, if any, trash disposal systems. So their trash, including plastic, gets dumped all over the place. Since they are coastal/island nations, a lot of that trash ends up in the ocean.

However, some of those countries have been importing huge amounts of plastic from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia and others, supposedly to recycle it, since it is not cost effective to do it here. I suspect that some percentage of their "recycling" consists of just dumping it.

Recently, China and Malaysia are no longer accepting foreign plastic for recycling. In fact, Malaysia is returning hundreds of tons of plastic to the countries of origin. We will see what happens then.

 

[1959 Caddy El Dorado Convertible]

Gorgeous! Excellent job!

[Testors Automotive Paints]

15 minutes ago, Richard Bartrop said:

If we're talking about the Testors brant paint in the square glass bottles, no great loss.

Oh, I don't know, it's not so bad.....

['59 Cadillac Eldorado]

Thanks, Chris!

[Pete Brock / Bobby Allison BRE Datsun’s]

Great job! They all look excellent. I saw some 510s and Zs racing at the Vintage Races a couple of weeks ago. A Daytona was there, but didn't race, just led a couple of fast pace laps.

['59 Cadillac Eldorado]

15 hours ago, Dragonhawk1066 said:

Well done! That had to be a BMF nightmare. The Ecto-1 was enough BMF for me, I can't imagine how much was needed for this one.

Thanks, Craig! The BMF wasn't particularly difficult, but there definitely was a lot of it.

9 hours ago, Tyler62990 said:

Extremely well done Caddy. I had to pick one of these up today after seeing this one. Definitely one of Revell's better kits in terms of underhood detail, that's for sure.

Thanks, Tyler! I think you will enjoy this kit.

Thanks, Matthew!

[some corny jokes]

4 hours ago, iamsuperdan said:

My teacher told me I'd never be good at poetry because I'm dyslexic.

But so far I've made three jugs and a vase and they're lovely.

That one took me a second to figure out, but I like it.

[1969 charger]

Very cool. Nice job on the paint.

['59 Cadillac Eldorado]

7 hours ago, 72 Charger said:

Still looks ok as for the rest of the car it looks great. I have built 3 of these caddis . I think that they are one of Revells best kits

 

Thanks, Dave. I agree it is a very nice kit.

[What Irked You Today?]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I'm a little beyond "irked". Somebody is killing my cats. I found one by the side of the house obviously shot in the throat. Small entrance wound, exit wound tore half its jaw out. Cat was trying to get home and bled out. Now two more are MIA.

Killing pets is aggravated cruelty to animals here, a felony.

I hope that moron spends a lot of time in a jail where they have aggravated cruelty to inmates.

['59 Cadillac Eldorado]

Thanks, Jim!

Thanks, Bill!

8 minutes ago, 72 Charger said:

Fantastic work  just to let you know that the part of the hood you have made chrome is actually on upside down

 

Thanks, Dave!  You're right. Plus it's not supposed to be chrome. Since it was a separate part, I just ASSumed it was meant to be chrome, and didn't attach it until after the hood was painted. When I went to attach it, I realized my mistake. I wasn't going to repaint the hood, so upside down and chrome it is.