Harry P.

BTW Joe... how is mom doing?

Hey! That might just work! Thanks, man... I have to check out the vertical dimension of the louvers on the kit hood, but I think this may just do the trick.

I hope he sees this thread. If not, I'll shoot him a PM. Thanks for the heads up, Greg.

Hold on, now, Joe! You aren't going to come ring my doorbell and try to talk me into joining the Jehovah's Witnesses, are you?

That's exactly the honest and correct answer I was hoping to avoid! I'm looking for the easy way out, man!

I like the change!

From what I can see, it looks very good. But if you had the time to shoot one photo, you had the time to shoot two or three.

Yum! Those guys sell some good stuff!

Yes, real, open louvers. If there is such a thing available somewhere.

Pretty nice! I also like the partially rolled-down windows... nice touch. A couple small nits to pick... you need to paint the inside of the exhaust tip flat black, and you need to add a rear license plate to cover those two holes on the back panel.

Same here. What the heck does Daytona Beach have to do with this car?

Hey, that's what cats do! What do they know that we don't?

Agreed. No way anybody could make a profit designing, engineering, tooling, and manufacturing either of those two cars. They might sell a couple thousand of them, maybe... but that wouldn't be enough to cover the investment necessary. Very little interest in DeLoreans, even less so for Bricklins. Like Chris said, Bricklins look like a cheesy kit car.

But isn't there a Back to the Future kit out there already?

Tried google, but came up empty. Anyone know of a source for 1/12 scale louvers? Either molded plastc, photoetched, whatever... but they must be "real," open louvers.

Heavy duty gray sewing thread. http://www.joann.com/coats-andamp-clark-dual-duty-plus-button-andamp-carpet-thread-50yds/xprd840936.html#sz=90&start=1

The trick is to only spray on a little bit. Spray on too much and the chrome effect is lost, and it just winds up looking like silver paint. Practice on some scrap parts until you get the hang of it. The secret is to lay down only a light coat.

Thanks, Jim. I read that review and several others, too.

There's no need to buff it, either. All the examples I posted here are straight out of the can and nothing else done.

No clear needed over Spaz Stix. That will just mess up the effect.

Try Spaz Stix. It comes in a spray can, so no messing around with an airbrush needed. The results are very close to chrome, IMO. The chrome on the Bentley and the RR grille shell, the RR headlights, and the wheels on the Mercedes were done with Spaz Stix.

I think you need to add a front spreader bar, and some coolant hoses.

Looks like you need to do some modifying up front to get the front tires within the wheelwells and not sticking out like they do.

So why don't they?

1/40 sale? That's odd...