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Actually all the hot rods I brought to the show were completed last year and some way back. The only models started and completed this year were the three Mustangs I made specially for this show.

Thank you. I had a blast building it. Unfortunately a lot of people actually frown upon the Ferrari engine in it. Like they find it borderline offensive. LOL. I don’t get it, but I don’t have to either. It took a lot of work and it makes me happy.

Thank you. Honestly once the hood is put on, even when opened, most of that detail is gone.

Yayks…! That’s a bummer. Well, I hope you get well faster. There is plenty of fun to be had with cutting plastic. Or you can always buy something like a 1:18 scale “die cast” CMC model of one of their Ferraris and stay entertained exploring it for days on end. Anyway, when you’re ready the offer stands for any of the Ferrari/Lamborghini colors I have on hand.

Thank you both guys. It's greatly appreciated

What do you mean by "this"? I had a full fendered blue Phantom Vicky "Tricky Vicky" A red traditional fenderless Vicky A green open top B400 "Stepchild" A mint '32 Tudor Sedan (Good Guys Hot Rod of the Year) A blueish '32 Phantom Pickup A '32 Hearse "Last Ride" A teal '29 Roadster with IFS and IRS A box stock blue '30 Coupe A chopped blue T-Touring And the UPS "Special Delivery" These are all the hot rods I brought to the show.

Thank you Anton. I just have to find the time to take some pictures.

Thank you Bob. I started four Mustangs for the ACME show. This one got started last, but was the first one to get completed. Another one with similar but way over the top body, which was affectionately nicknamed "STICKERS", was the second one to get started and end up not being finished on time.

Not that I know of. I used original Ferrari PPG paint. It's Argento Nurburgring. If you tell me where I can get a safe to ship 2oz bottle, I can send you some.

Very nice. I like the color and I am pretty sure I have a can, altho I have not used it yet. Now that the ACME show is behind me, I can concentrate on finishing my long roof Deuce, trying to keep up with the fantastic models on display in this thread.

Hi Kit. I saw it at the show and some of your other models which were on display. My kid really loved your '29 truck hauling the lakester. I really was looking forward meeting you and saw you at one point talking with someone about this here '32 and I didn't want to interrupt. And then I went somewhere and when I came back I couldn't find you. Anyway...next year perhaps, unless you decide to come to the Mid Tennessee Modelcon in Murfreesboro on the 9th. It's a decent show and only about couple of hours north of where the ACME show was.

This model was also done prior to the weekend, so if you were at the ACME show you probably saw it. If not, it is coming to the "Under Glass" section pretty soon.

Thank you Carl.

Thank you Racine. The interior color was not part of the original plan. It is Tamiya LP-51 Pure Orange. Thank you Brian. Humor is life.

These are the last of the WIP pictures I have on the TROOPER, as I pushed to have it done for the show yesterday and didn't bother to take photos as I was pressed for time. If you ever wonder what makes the most realistic Ferrari shifter and knob in 1:24/5 scale, all you need is to make a trip to the nearest Michael's or Hobby Lobby. The brakes got painted to represent carbon ceramics. For some reason there is gold reflection on the rotors and they are most definitely only black and grey, except for the hats which are indeed gold. I wanted to carry the Star Wars theme throughout the car, so I wanted to use these modern LED lights, which were painted to look very much like Tie-fighters from the movie. Also some photoetched octagonal mesh from MCG was cut to size and painted black. Actually there are two of them for the lower and upper grilles, which I had cut open, but only one is on the picture. Modern lights like that need nice clean domed lenses. I scratched my head a little with that, but then I was at Walmart and saw a bag of assorted goggly eyes. I used the smallest ones and cut out their backing and then cut them to size. That's one mean face now, very reminiscent to storm trooper. That's it with the WIP on the TROOPER. If you attended the ACME show this weekend perhaps you've seen the completed model. For everyone else, it's coming to the "Under Glass" section pretty soon.

This baby was finished before the weekend. Some of you maybe say it at the ACME show if you were there. Soon to make its way to the "Under Glass" section.

This year was my first time at this show. All I can say is that even with all the car trouble I end up having in both directions, it was absolutely 100% worth it. Great show, with impeccable organization and some really really nice people. I am horrible with names, so I am not going to try to mention people I met, so I don't mess it up. There were some familiar faces I've seen before and many new ones. There were photo booths for three different magazines. Model Car Garage were present. Norm and some of his incredible resin part from Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland was there. Out of all the vendors there he was the only one who could supply me with a Revell VW Rabbit, go figure. Slixx/STS decals were on location and about the greatest selection of resin bodies you could find anywhere. My kid almost convinced me to buy a 1/12 Model Factory Hero Porsche, which at $700 was roughly half the going price for those. And the models...well, it was not just about the quantity that was present but the quality of the models. Some truly stunning pieces both from names that most have heard and from totally new (to me) people. Literally everything and anything was on display, from mega detailed projects to some glass art sculpture tingy that was just as cool. You could see some amazing paintjobs, from super realistic rusted bodies to immaculate decal work, to glass smooth graphics on lowriders. I mean, there was literally something for every taste and fancy. Pretty much everyone got the early bird pass and tables filled up pretty quick. But the most amazing part was, that it felt like people were still bringing models and putting them on display to the very end of the show. Every time we went my kid from one end of the display area to the other, he would go : " Dad, did you see what someone just put on the table?". Now the really bad part was, that for the first time in my life at a model show, somehow I forgot and did not take a single photo. I had my camera with me and even brought my charger and an extra battery. And somehow did not take any pictures. In a way it is a testament how great of a show it was if I didn't even have time to take pictures. I hope someone else could provide plenty of them, as there was definitely plentiful of eye candy all over the tables. I am definitely going next year and I would highly recommend it to anyone else.

Nice and shiny, but very traditional. Stunning model!

Let me guess. Dupli-color hot rod black primer?

Ahhh…. But see… that’s subjective. Specially when we’re talking about hot rods and customs. Because in this century, that’s such a huge grey area, that it’s actually bigger than what’s on either one its sides. For the last 25 years I’ve seen parts put together that have no business working together. Major award winning rods with LS motors made to look like Fords, fuel injected systems loaded with electronics disguised as individual carburetors, fake generators and magnetos, wheels made to look like white walls, motors from rear engined Ferraris used in frontengined Fords, vintage pickup trucks with carbon fiber F1 suspension etc., etc…. In our damn age you can slap any vallve cover on any engine out there on your model and be realistically 100% doable in real life. They make ultra modern lightweight forged wheels looking like 50’s stamped steelies for Chris’sake.

Ahhh, you’re building what I’ve been “about to start” for the last two years. LOL

As I promised - more foxy stuff... The kit comes with two complete exhaust systems. One stock and one drag The drag one ends at the end of some muffler looking tips. It has no cats, but no mufflers and does not go past the rear axle. The stock one has cool mufflers and goes all the way back, but it has all the cats and nonsense at the front. So I chopped both and used the front section from the drag option with the rear section of the stock car, connecting the two with brass pins. Now the SILVER FOX has nice exhaust consisting of Coyote headers going into straight X-pipe/resonator (with the help of some aluminum tubing) to two nice sport mufflers and out the back. While I was under there, I made a new driveshaft from aluminum tubing with the y-joints from the kit's part. I left the rear bumper and everything under it pretty much stock when I was planning my bodywork. I did that on purpose, because I wanted it to have sort of high rear, looking "opened up". I felt like it needed something cool under there. So my mufflers/exhaust tips are going to look like Gatling guns. Because 'Merica! ? And now my chassis is officially complete. The barrels which I drilled out need to get black inside them, but still it looks kicka$$. I wanted the body to be as silver as possible and was planning on fogging up the taillights and keeping them pretty much silver-while. Until I realized they are molded in red. Great effort by Revell on two part taillight lenses in clear red and clear white. Just not that great for my purposes. I could not bare them in red with the clear back up lights, so blacked out they are! You can still see the red and through them if you shine a light. Needs a license plate tho. At the front I needed an emblem. I did not like the blue decal and since I managed keeping the entire headlight assemblies silver, I needed a "silver oval" instead of a blue one. It was sourced from the Model Car Garage photoetched set for Revell's '32 Ford. I added some grey wash to it to give it a little more contrast. Just what the doctor ordered. I may drop a tiny droplet of 5 min epoxy to create the domed emblem effect. Now the really scary part -windows. They need masking from inside. Normally I'll put a Tamiya masking film (it's super thin)and trace the edge of the molded lines of the shaded area. And then follow the resulting ridge with an Exacto blade. No such mold line present here to trace. But I could see it. So What I do in cases like this is actually run Tamiya 2mm vinyl masking tape. This stuff is super flexy and curves beautifully. Then I apply my masking film and trace the edge of the masking strip underneath, which is now very pronounced. The cool thing is that once I trace it with a blade, I can just pul on the masking strip and it lifts up the excess masking film off. Very foxy! LOL At this point I have the windshield wipers, some weathering under and around the car, license plate and a good clean up and polish left to finish it. Oh, a front lip also. I traced the bottom of the nose on a piece of paper. Folded it in half touching the two rear corners and cut it out away from the traced line, so it is absolutely perfectly symmetrical. The resulting shape was transferred to a thin sheet styrene, primered, followed by matt black and then some gloss black. It is currently drying. If someone is thinking "is it going to be carbon", you would be absolutely right. Almost there...

Yup. And this trooper is putting up a fight. Everything on this build is fighting me.

Daaaamn… your model looks really, really nice. ‘Cause the real car is just fugly.