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Great looking model John, and the color is cool too.

Cool... Guess I'll be picking some up at NNL East in April..... if I can wait that long.

Yeah Donn, flipping baseball cards, pitching coins against a wall, stickball & hitting a 3 sewer shot with a brand new "Spaldeen" (Spaulding hard pink rubber ball), building a soapbox scooter with 2 X 4's & roller skate wheels, 10 cent comic books and nickel candy bars, ... Shoveling sidewalks and driveways after a snowfall to make some money, Chocolate sodas (pop) and real, fresh-made Black Raspberry ice cream cones on Saturday afternoon after shopping with Mom. One of my best memories as a kid is an old Italian guy who would push a Hot Dog cart around the neighborhood..... Mom would throw me down a quarter from our 4th floor apartment window in upper Manhattan, NY, and for that quarter I'd get 2 Hot Dogs with mustard and onions in a red sauce and an orange drink.... gourmet food for a 9 year old kid..!!

Thank you Dave and Stan. Dave, I painted the passenger side top of the dash in a duller aluminum finish than chrome would be. I saw one done like that in a reference picture I found and liked the look of it. It's snowy and chilly here today. Maybe when the model is finished I'll try for some outdoor pictures. Half of the BMF work is done on the body so far today. I'm hoping to finish that up tonight.

Yeah Harry, I remember those old tube TV's. Man were they big and HEAVY. They were huge "pieces of furniture" with real wood cabinets in the living rooms.

Thanks a lot Carl.

That's a nice looking car John. I've also got an old built-up of this car that I'll get around to redoing one of these months.

Here's some stuff to remember............ If you're old enough... Black and White (under age 40? You won't understand.) You could hardly see for all the snow, Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. Pull a chair up to the TV set, 'Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.' My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning. My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system. We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option.... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then... Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and th en Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive? LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!

Thank you Donald, it took a bit of mixing to get the "right" color.

Yeah Tom...... start on this year's Christmas amnesty project.

Today I finished up the interior for this car. After soaking in Westley's Bleche White and a thorough cleaning and drying I sprayed it with Tamiya White Primer. Then I put some BMF on the door panel trim and then painted parts of the seats and door panels with a water-based, flat, Maroon Model Railroad paint. The carpet was flocked with my own mix of Black, Gray and Red flocking to make a Maroon color which was glued down with thinned down Elmer's glue. The dashboard was painted body color, clearcoated, then detailed with BMF, chrome silver paint and some aluminum paint on the passenger side. I flowed some clear epoxy over the dash gauge panel for a lens cover. Holes were drilled for resin window cranks and door handles which were painted chrome silver. The steering wheel was painted White and a piece of shirt pin was used for a turn signal lever. Tomorrow I'll start on the BMF work on the body. The taillights were detailed with Tamiya clear Red and some off-white acrylic. The grille was given a blackwash with The Detailer and the rear bumper reflectors were given a coat of Tamiya clear Red. At the risk of jinxing myself, I'll say that this model is coming along nicely. Approaching final assembly is always a "tricky time" so we'll see how things go. I've got my fingers crossed. Thanks for looking in on this update. All comments welcomed as usual. More updates to come as they happen.

Nice job Stephen.

The most I've ever paid for a plastic kit was around $25 for the Galaxie '48 Chevy. The most I've paid for a resin kit was around $125 for Modelhaus' '58 Ford convertible kit with all accessories. The most I've ever paid for a promo was $73 on EBAY for a '58 Dodge.

Nice job Frank.

Oooohhhh...... I want some.

Zelkam, that really looks great.

Thanks Stan. I hope I won't disappoint you.

BMF is, IMHO, the best stuff available to modelers for replicating chrome trim on models. Some people use other, cheaper products, and then some also use Alclad with an airbrush or in a spray can. If you do a search on this topic in the Forum you'll find plenty of information and tips and techniques on using it, along with other suggestions.

Another beauty Harry. Great job as usual.

And the very same wishes to you too Al, Greg, Joe and Richard.

Welcome to our plastic playground Robert. Not a lot of us here are "young whippersnappers" anymore so a lot of us have similar eyesight troubles among other things.

Welcome to our plastic playground Raymond.

Thank you Carl and Tom. Tom, it's coming along. I'll hopefully be finishing up the work on the interior in a day or so and then can do the BMF work on the body. This one should be done well before Christmas.

Glad that I could hopefully help you Ronnie. Don't be scared away by the prices as they are well worth the money for the quality of the castings.and the selections available.

Great job Tom. I prefer, and have good results, with either the wet, flat paints for the glue, or, thinned down (with water) Elmer's Glue. For me this avoids having to tape off the rest of the interior. Whatever works for you is good to use.