Harry P.

That guy is a real master craftsman, no doubt about it. And the finished product looks phenomenal!

There's no such language as "Israeli"...

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Finland???!!!! They're not even in the NHL!!!

For dioramas the best paint to use is acrylic craft paint. It comes in hundreds of colors or you can mix your own custom color. They come in 2 oz. plastic squeeze bottles, thin with water to airbrush or paint with a brush right from the bottle. There are several brands, they all cost less than $2 a bottle, some as little as 99¢ each. Waaaay cheaper than "model paints" sold at hobby shops. They're at Michaels and Hobby Lobby, or you can get them online from a ton of places like this one... http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp?CATID=cat1772&PRODID=prd5147

If you can scratchbuild scale walls, you can scratchbuild scale windows and doors... they're nothing but smaller versions of the real thing. Look at a real wooden door, a real window, recreate them with scale wood pieces... then paint them (and weather them if you want). Use clear acetate sheet for the window "glass" (comes in pads in the art-supply aisle of Hobby Lobby)... or cut pieces from clear product packaging. You can even make your windows really open up, and you can hinge doors with tiny brass hinges (in the dollhouse section of craft stores). A garage door can be made with either pieces of sheet styrene or sheets of thin basswood, the track can be made from Plastruct or Evergreen channel and painted silver. Not only is building stuff like that from scratch a lot of fun, but it's pretty cheap. A lot cheaper than buying pre-made doors and windows (that is, if you can find them at all in the scale you need!).

It depends on how realistic you want your walls to be. To duplicate a wood-framed building, you can recreate the full-scale elements exactly (studs, sheathing) with basswood or balsawood strips and sheets scaled to size, and built up just like a full-scale building (floor plates, vertical studs, top plates and outer sheathing. The inside can be left bare, like you would have in a typical residential garage, or covered with cardboard or sheet styrene "drywall." (of course, if you're going to cover the walls on the inside there's no point in building the detailed stud walls, as they won't be seen). If the look you want is brick, there are scale brick-patterned styrene sheets available from Plastruct and/or Evergreen. Check out their websites for more info. "Brick" walls can also be made by scribing your "mortar" joints into thin foam sheets, then painting the wall to look like brick. Tedious and labor intensive, but pretty realistic if you do it right. If you're near a Hobby Lobby, check out the display of hobby woods they have... it comes in a ton of different sizes, and you'll almost surely find what you need.

That guy reeeeally needs to learn how to spell...

Wait until you see what Jairus has done with the new Moebius Chrysler 300... BTW... my favorite Sketchpad Hudson is the woody. I think I'll build that one!

Interior is beautiful!

This model has 3-4 airbrushed coats of Future sprayed straight from the bottle over Duplicolor paints. No wetsanding or polishing of any kind.

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Almost any well-stocked hobby shop will carry K&S brass rod. Hobby Lobby and Hobbytown USA also carry it, but might not have the diameter you're looking for. You can order K&S brass rod online. Just google "K&S brass rod" and you'll find a ton of suppliers.

Nice and understated, I like it. And you just can't go wrong with Duplicolor paints. Minor suggestion: A black wash on the grille will really add a lot of realism to the front end.

It is available as a model from AutoArt: But the one I posted is REAL! Final vote was overwhelming: 50 REAL, only 5 for MODEL!

All I know is that you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish...

It doesn't get more "cab forward" than that!

Yes.

Looks dang cool to me!

How so? It's the classic Jag straight six, same engine that was in the "American" Jaguar XKE model that was sold here in the states during the '60s and early '70s. It's about as classic and iconic an engine as any.

While both models look very good, Ferraris are pretty common in the scale model world... to me, your Jaguar is the far more interesting model. Not to imply that the Ferrari isn't beautifully done, it is... but the Jag makes for a much cooler model, in my opinion.

What's your source for the circuit board, the bottle handles/knobs, and the colored "electrical" wiring?

Not only are you saving gas trying to track it down... you're saving money on every issue, because the subscription price is cheaper (on a per copy basis) than buying the mag one issue at a time.

A better way to go is to post any given WIP in just one place, either "On the Workbench" or in a topic-specific area (Drag, trucks, NASCAR, etc.). Then post the finished model "Under Glass," with a link to the original WIP for those interested in seeing more.