Harry P.

Check out his web site. Fantastic in-progress build photos. It's all in German, but the photos speak for themselves. Looks like he scratchbuilds the wheels.

Dang, that's nice! And your foil work on those tricky, thin window moldings looks great. That is not easy to do! PS: Does it have a hood?

And Woodfield is just the tip of the iceberg. Add in all the retailers, restaurants and movie theaters in the surrounding malls, all the car dealerships along Golf Road, all the high-rise office buildings east of Woodfield... yeah, it's no wonder that the Schaumburg Public Library can afford a 3-D printer!

Uh... yeah! Can yo say "Woodfield?"

Haven't been there, but I should check it out. Schaumburg is the next town over from me, a lot closer than the loop.

It's human nature to cling to what one knows, and to distrust or write off what one doesn't know. Thank God there are those relative few, like Galileo, for instance, that had the nerve and the drive to expand his knowledge base. Without people like that we'd all still be living in caves and shaking our fists at the sky at every flash of lightning...

A very astute observation. Exactly right... many people who condemn the "evils" of the internet, ebay, etc. are actually doing so to mask their own fear or lack of knowledge. Much easier to act indignant and write off something as "evil" than to try and learn how to use it.

I wonder if you would have felt the same way if you lived back in the days when printed books first began to become commonplace. People no longer had to rely on "lore" or information passed down from generation to generation; they now could find information, entertainment and enlightenment in books. Books facilitated the spread of knowledge, and yes, some books contained false information and outright lies... but books revolutionized civilization. Oral/person-to-person transmission of information... books. Books... internet.

Of course!

Story in the local paper today: In April, "The 3-D Experience," a retail shop that offers 3-D printing to the public, opened in downtown Chicago at 316 N. Clark Street. My guess is it's the first of many to come. Sort of like the first McDonald's or the first Kinko's... somewhat of a novelty at first, but look what happened in a few short years. It's no longer "coming"... it's here. Cheap home printers and downloadable, printable objects via 3-D software are inevitable. The only question is how soon?

As of June 2012... percentage of people who are internet connected: Africa: 16% Asia: 28% Europe: 62% Middle East: 40% North America: 79% Latin America: 43% Australia: 68% Worldwide: 34%

If you're happy without internet, more power to ya. But I can't imagine a world without ebay!

Wow!!! Beautiful! Fantastic! Almost impossible to tell that it's not a real car i that last photo!

That's really cool!

You're not the only one with a dictionary... To me, camaraderie can be had without the clock ticking.

You need to get together with Skip and compare notes...

Too cool! I love it! However... I will never get the whole "build a model as fast as you can" thing. To me, I just don't see how putting an arbitrary time limit on yourself is "fun." I know that clubs love that sort of gimmick, but I just don't get it. Yeah, sure, you can throw a model together in 24 hours... but so what? Oh well...

You'll generally get more paint on the part and less overspray lost into the air with an AB. Now if only someone would invent a self-cleaning airbrush!

Agreed. An AB gives you more control over the air/paint ratio, but great results can be had with a can. There's more than one way to skin a cat...

Save yourself the aggravation of trying to bend tubing, and use rod instead... I like aluminum rod because it's softer than brass, so it's easier to cut and bend, yet still holds its shape. Easier yet, and better for making small, intricate bends (like making your own headers or for exhaust systems with a lot of bends), try solid-core solder, which is even softer and easier to bend than aluminum rod, yet will still hold its shape once glued into place. And of course, with solid rod you never have to worry about it collapsing when you bend it. Much easier to deal with than tubing, IMO. The only place you really need tubing is at the ends (or if you want to make funny car "zoomie" type headers). For a typical street exhaust, to make the tips, just get some aluminum tubing the next size up from the aluminum rod you used for the pipes themselves, cut the tips to length and slip them onto the ends of the exhaust pipe rods. A dab of CA will hold them in place.

The basic difference is this: A single-action airbrush works like a spray can. You press the trigger and it sprays. The air/paint ratio can't be changed as you spray. A double-action airbrush works differently. If you press the trigger, all you get is air. As you pull the trigger back, you get paint, too... the further you pull the trigger, the more paint is mixed with the air. Because you can literally alter the air/paint ratio on the fly, a double-action airbrush gives you the ultimate control. However... for painting a model car, 99% of the time a simple single-action AB is all you need. If the paint is thinned correctly and the tip is clean and the needle tip is straight and not bent, you'll be fine. Where the double-action AB comes in handy is when you get into more advanced, fancy stuff like flames, fades, that sort of thing. The fact that you can control the paint volume from zero to full tilt as you spray really comes in handy when you're doing advanced work. However Part II: That's not to say that you necessarily need a double-action AB. For the vast majority of what we need an AB for, a single-action will do the job just fine.

The biggest advantage, IMO, is the absolute control an AB gives you. The biggest disadvantage: everything else! The thinning of the paint, the cleaning of the AB, dragging out the compressor, etc. I don't have the kind of work space where I can keep an AB and compressor out all the time, ready to go. So I tend to get lazy and just grab a spray can. Shake and spray... no thinning, no cleanup afterwards.

I use both... airbrushes and spray cans. You just can't beat the convenience of a spray can.

Remember... do not post hints or answers here! PM me with specific year, make and model. The answer: 1958 International A100

So then it was a personal challenge. And you did it. Nice work.