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Excellent work Grzegorz. Are you building and casting these cars for sale..?? One of the best cars I've ever owned was a 1974 Chrysler Newport Custom. Please let me know by PM if you will be offering them for sale, and if so, how much it will be. Dziekujebardzo.

I clearcoated the '57 Desoto I've worked on and now wait for that to fully dry so I can polish it out. In the meantime I've started work on a '41 Plymouth kit. The chassis parts and interior are painted. The straight six flathead engine has been ready and waiting for a couple of years...!!! I'm planning on making it sort of a stock / restomod car.

Welcome to our plastic playground Andrew.

You did a great job Jim. I'm sure your friend was thrilled to receive this model.

I've been working on a Modelhaus resin '57 Desoto kit. The interior & chassis are done, but I had to strip the paint from the body twice so far as the 2-Tone black & gold paint job didn't come out right due to my masking errors... After repainting the gold portion last week, I carefully masked it all off yesterday and sprayed the black portions... Today I anxiously unmasked it all and found it all to be in perfect shape, with no runs, drips or errors... I'm a very happy camper. Now I just have to give it all a clearcoat and then apply all the BMF... Happy, happy, joy, joy...

I love the Molotow pens. You can easily touch up the sprue attachment points for chrome parts (after sanding those points smooth)... Use them to chrome steering wheel horn rings, vent window posts, interior door handles & window cranks, dashboard details, etc... I've even used them to touch up sanded off mold lines on bumpers (can't notice a difference between the kit chrome & Molotow touch ups)... I've also used them to chrome a resin bumper/grille and was very satisfied with the result.

That's an absolutely gorgeous truck Yuri...... Great job.

Welcome to our plastic playground Anton.

Thanks so much for your very kind comments Steve.

Thank you all for your great comments. Dann, the whitewall tires on the purple '32 Ford Coupe are resin tires from my parts stash. Richard, the Smart Car was a sort of "slump buster" project that I did for "something different".

I'll play along with this... I finished more models than I originally thought I did... My list goes as follows; 1959 Nash Metropolitan modified Diecast by Xonex. 1956 Dodge resin kit by Modelhaus. Smart Car. '32 Ford 5 Window Coupe. 1950 Oldsmobile mild Custom. 1957 Oldsmobile Johan promo. 1950 Nash resin kit by Modelhaus.

I agree... Mix a small batch of 2 part clear epoxy and apply a drop to the gauge bezel with a toothpick enough to have a dome-like effect... It also sort of "magnifies" the gauge face a bit.

I would like to wish all of my fellow modelers and friends a very Happy, Healthy, Peaceful, Prosperous and Safe New Year for 2020.

Welcome to our plastic playground Joe.

Yeah Tom...... "I can go a hundred miles an hour as long as I've got the Almighty Power glued up there by my pair of fuzzy dice".

That's looking good Paul. Great job.

Thanks again for your kind comments guys. David, no I unfortunately didn't take any "before" pictures, and I regret not doing that.

Welcome to our plastic playground Adalberto.

Thanks again for all of your positive comments guys. They are very much appreciated.

Great looking Vettes Bill.

Thank you all very much for your very kind comments. This was a fun little side project. These "little" cars are fun to work on. It'll look nice next to the little Smart Car that I built not too long ago.

Here’s something that I’ve been working on for the last couple of days while waiting for paint to fully dry on a ‘56 Studebaker. This is a 1959 Nash Metropolitan 1/24 scale diecast by Xonex that I got on EBAY a couple of weeks ago. It’s a cute little car, but it desperately needed some added details to improve it. So I took it apart and did the following; Gave the grille a blackwash. Put some clear yellow on the front turn signals. Used Bare Metal Foil around all of the window trim, but used Molotow Chrome on the vent window frames. Added an outside mirror and an antenna from my parts stash. Put some clear red on the taillight lenses. Put Molotow Chrome on the trunk lock and on the passenger side rear gas filler cap. Added a small piece of clear plastic round sprue for a backup light on the driver’s side rear. For the interior I did the following; Added a rearview mirror to the headliner. Painted the seats and dashboard flat black. Added chrome trim pieces to the door panels. Used black embossing powder for carpeting. Added brake, clutch & gas pedals. Added a short length of shirt pin as a shifter lever. Used Molotow Chrome to detail the dashboard gauge, buttons, knobs and steering wheel center. Filled in the dashboard gauge with clear epoxy to make a lens cover. This now makes a fine addition to my growing “Class of ‘59” group of cars. Now back to the Studebaker. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah & Happy New Year to you all. Rich

Great work Jean-Philippe.

Great models Al...... I love that red Studebaker.

Very nice Rod Michi.