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That looks really great Curt. Nice work.

I use a 5 drawer, wheeled storage unit right next to my workbench. Each drawer is labeled for what it contains; Wheels & Tires Engine & Chassis parts Interior parts Clear and clear red parts Body parts

I hear on the news that Buffalo got socked with a total of almost 8 feet of snow so far over the last few days with more coming because Lake Erie hasn't frozen over yet. Sure glad I don't live up there.

Completed successful trades with Zaina (Andy Lesiak), and VW93 (Frank Costantino).

Oh yeah. Here he goes again...... off and running.

Brush painting will usually leave brush stroke marks in the paint and will also give you a thicker coat which might cover scripts and/or emblems. Using a cloth to apply paint will give you uneven, blotchy paint coverage. As Al suggested above, spray your models outside when it's not windy, rainy or humid. Depending on what paint you are using, be sure to first spray on a good primer coat after you have prepped the body and other parts to be painted. You can brush paint smaller parts like engine or chassis parts. Good luck with your project.

Great job on Christine Tulio. Sometimes it's fun to step out of your "comfort zone".

You can also try putting some BMF in the headlight bucket for the "chrome" backing to the lens. I've had great success using clear enamel paint as the glue to attach the clear headlight lenses. If you've ever fought with the stuck-on lid of a jar of paint then you know that dried paint makes an excellent glue. I'll usually run a bead of clear enamel around the bezel where the lens sits using a toothpick. Let the clear enamel dry overnight and you're all set.

Hey Tom. I sort of did the same "amnesty" thing with the '54 Dodge and '51 Chevy Fleetline Custom models that I recently finished up, but I did them a little earlier than you do your amnesty build completions. I wanted to get those done before I started any other projects. It really feels great to have finally gotten both of them finished.

Geeze Al, 3 days is a long build for you...??? HA HA HA HA HA HA.... It sometimes takes me 3 days just to prep all the parts...!!! You're a madman! As usual, you did a great job on the Edsel. I'll eventually get around to working on the original AMT, unassembled, unpainted '59 Edsel kit that I scored on EBAY last year. I hope I can do it justice like you did with yours.

That came out great Steve. The colors are beautiful. Yeah it looks like it's pretty chilly where you are.... Stay warm man.

Beautiful job as usual Harry.

Congratulations on the new arrival Daniel. Man you are severely outnumbered by women in your house, just like I was .

Your creative scratchbuilding is a joy to see Harry.

As the cold winter months approach we'll all (or most of us) will be hunkering down at our workbenches to work on our next "works of art". My plan is to add several more cars to my 1950's car collection as follows (in no particular order); 1958 Chrysler Imperial - I'll be using a builtup gluebomb that I got at a local model show last year. The planned color is Duplicolor Bright Aqua Metallic. 1958 Lincoln Continental convertible - I'm using a resin Modelhaus kit that I got at the NNL East show back in April. The planned color is a dark Midnight Blue. 1958 Mercury Parklane convertible - I'm also using a resin Modelhaus kit that I got at the NNL East in April. The color will be an almost Dark Cherry Metallic by Duplicolor. 1955 DeSoto - I'll be using a promo that I got on EBAY in October of last year. I haven't yet picked a color(s) for it yet. 1952 Chevrolet convertible - I'll be using a '51 Chevy convertible kit with '52 Chevy grille and bumpers from Modelhaus. No colors picked out for it yet. 1951 Ford convertible - I'll be using a '50 Ford convertible kit with '51 Ford conversion parts from Modelhaus. No colors picked out for it yet. I have many more cars in my TO DO pile, and if I finish all of the above cars I may pick some more out of the pile to work on. So, what cars do YOU have in mind to work on while the weather is frosty...???

Ron, I love your Edsels.

Thank you Richard.

Thank you very much Jarkko. Yes, now I hopefully know about, and will be prepared for those challenges, when I build the convertible kit "down the road".

First of all, I can't believe how this thread is going... As far as being a "famous modeler" exactly what qualifies a person to wear that "title"? I started back into this hobby in 1992. From 1996 until the present I have had almost 2 dozen of my models pictured in various magazines (Model Cars, Scale Auto, Custom Rodder, Street Rodder, Rod & Custom and a Finnish Car Magazine that had NNL East show coverage). In 1999 I had 2 feature articles in Scale Auto, one about 2 cars I built (a '55 Chevy Custom and a '40 Ford Pickup Street Rod), and the second was a How-To on my interior flocking technique. Does that qualify me as a "famous modeler"? Not in my eyes really..... and I would never even presume to preach to anyone that my way of building and/or detailing is "the way to go" in this hobby. I build what I like, the way I like, and if people like it ...fine.....if they don't, that's fine too. Of course we all love the kudos, attaboys and pats on the back, but that's not what makes me do what I do to my models. I build for me and me only. I have yet to build a perfect model and seriously doubt that I ever will. In theory at least, each one is a little bit better in some way than the last one was, and hopefully that will continue.

I don't think it's a matter of someone getting so popular in the hobby that they feel that they have to stop building for themselves to take it to the next level, it's just that some people in the hobby, like myself, just want to push their envelope as their building skills improve over time. I build every one of my models for myself and always will.

Gary, thank you so very much for your very kind words. Yes I wound up putting a LOT of extra time in on this model especially with all of the disassembling and reassembling several times in order to finally get it together properly. Coming back to it after several months with a fresh outlook and renewed interest and patience was the key to my eventual success.

I won a builtup AMT '57 Mercury on EBAT for $13.

Thanks again Tom. I try to do the best that I can on all of my models. Some come out better than others.

Just be prepared to do some scratchbuilding to make the inner door panels for this truck as the details that are molded to the inside of the cab sides are so faint that they're almost not there.

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